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"Ching Chong China Man" <no@spam.com> wrote in message
news:406cccad$0$20085$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au...
> Yeah, I have the exact problem after upgrading from w2k to wxp, downgrade
to
> w2k if you can, it's faster. Otherwise, try upgrading to directx9b,
> downgrading ur nvidia drivers if u already updated them to the newest
> version, and turn off ur flashy gui for wxp and that should give u some
> extra fps.
>
> Is that PCI Express? if so, wow, I want one!!
>
> HTH

1. If you consider downgrading to 2000, don't do anything until you have run
the hardware compatibility check beforehand. I considered upping from 98 to
2000 rather than XP, discounted the results of the compatibility check and
the upgrade completely and utterly destroyed my machine at the operating
system level, as most of the hardware was incompatible with 2000 (no drivers
usually). I got XP an installed it, and XP had drivers for everything, and
was sweet.

2. I must admit the spec of the machine sounds okay apart from a PCI
graphics card. Sure it was Generals whose blurb said that PCI cards were NOT
appropriate (might have been Call of Cuty, but I don't think so as CoD has
never given me any impression of struggling with graphics). However, since
then I read an article which states that improvements to PCI graphics means
that upcoming new PCI graphics cards will in their turn blow away AGP
graphics cards away for performance as PCI technology has rocketed ahead of
AGP.

3. When I upgraded my machine, I moved from a GeForce 2 MX4 64MB graphics
card to a GeForce 4 ATI 64MB(IIRC). That alone made all the difference as
the MX chipset is hopelessly out of date. Better mobo, doubling the RAM from
256 to 512MB and upping the processor from AMD1200 to 2000+ gave me a
machine more than capable of handling Generals and ZH (though I recently
discovered, while revisiting the campaigns whilst awaiting a replacement for
a router with fried EEPROM that on the final mission of each campaign, the
extra work is just about at the limit).

Hope it helps.

Neil A