Need some advice on new hw

the omen

I dont know if this is the right board for this but ill post it anyway. Ive just bought and installed a g force 2 ultra.Ive downloaded the right drivers but still im not gettin the full potential of the card anyone have any ideas what to do.

b4k4^2

Give us more details man. Hardware specs. In an ol' pII machine? Mudderboard make/model? PCI or AGP GF2? Latest drivers installed for mudderboard as well? DX8 installed? What OS? How do you know it's not running at full potential?
-Jam

Saruman

what are your expectations? I mean the card will only run as fast as your slowest component.. you may only have an agp 1 or 2 x mbd... etc etc

po0k

[ASS EDIT]This is not the Tech baords.
Please refrain from posting such stuff here.[/ASS EDIT]
Coulda sworn this was on the HW Tweaking boards........
Ah well, such is life

In answer to your post m8, try 21.83 dets.
If you have a VIA motherboard get the latest 4-in-1 drivers.
No matter what board you posted on (or whole Bullitin Board site) you are still going to be asked for more specifics.
Leave your PC plugged in, wall switch off (so just the earth is connected - no live wires to fry you ). Whip out a philips-(cross-)head screwdriver and open the case.
Don't touch anything.
Take a good luck around. Take some pictures/notes/diagrams of anything that looks interesting.
Anything that looks like a model numeber/brand name, write it down.
Then post up on the tech boards.

Gerry

Originally posted by Saruman
what are your expectations? I mean the card will only run as fast as your slowest component.. you may only have an agp 1 or 2 x mbd... etc etc

Agp 4x still offers very little benefit over agp2x, though there is a bit of an improvement from 1x to 2x. Its not usually enough to regard agp as the bottleneck in your machine though.

EvilGeorge

Yeah and if you have a **** pc 400 - 700 Mhz the card cant do magic - you machine is a bottleneck.