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HTH

M.W.H

"Jon Atkinson" <jra505@totalise.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello all,
>
> My system.....
>
> 2.6GHz AthlonXP
> 512Mb RAM
> Geforce 5900XT
>
> and I get pretty decent frame rates on 1024x768 and medium settings,
however
> experience pretty
> severe slow downs when baddies start to appear (just when you want the
> motion to be quick and smooth!)
>
> does the fact that my computer seems to be able to cope with the graphics
> pretty well when I am just wandering around doing nothing, but slows down
a
> lot when any sort of action kicks off, mean that it is the CPU that is
> struggling, as opposed to the gfx card? I wouldn't actually say I have got
a
> weak CPU at 2.6GHz, so maybe it is the memory which is the limiting
factor?
> Could the drop in speed be due to the system using the paging file due to
> the amount of physical memory being insufficient?
>
> Any comments would be most welcome!
>
> Cheers
> Jon.
>
>