First post, by Tyrant
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- Newbie
I'm rather new to this whole world I've just dipped into so please forgive my noobness. My computer seems to be running a lot slower than it should. I'm on a 98Se setup with over 700mb of RAM and 256mb VRAM and yet I can hardly manage to get games running on their lowest graphics setting despite having more than enough system requirements to handle max graphics. Even Doom 1 and 2 (not DOS version) suffer frame rate drops. I haven't yet updated my BIOS because I don't know how to. Here are my specs to the best of my knowledge, I've installed the Unofficial Service Pack 2.1
- Geforce FX5500 PCI graphics card
- Pentium 4 1.5ghz
- SiS 961 chipset (3x PCI slots no AGP or PCI-e)
I've gone though a few of the optimization guides and done things such as limiting my virtual memory to 512mb and they may have made slight differences. Everything seems to be running quite stable so I feel like this is the last hurdle. I have a suspicion that it may be the hard drives being older than 20 years, on another note when I tried to clear the dust out of my fan the following format and reinstall of 98 attempt happened MUCH faster (the whole fdisk and 98 install was much quicker). Since it's been unused for a while and sitting maybe it just needs a really good clean? Those things aside any input would be greatly appreciated. If you need more info on the specs just ask and I'll find out for you.
(Edit) Why probably solved: I found out that the new cheap FX5500 cards have crappy GPU's so that's most likely the source of my woes. Going to get a new motherboard and card and get back to you.