Ok. About 7months Ago I bought a TNT2.. it ran great when i first bought it and my quake3 fps in 8x6 was about 27. which is pretty good for my k6-2-300. And Half-Life ran fairly smooth to.
But for some reason i've noticed that now im not sure how long its been this bad but, Im lucky to get 27fps in 640 in quake3 and half life gets 10fps in firefights in 640 with things turned off..
I was wondering if anyone would know why it would dramatically slow down this much? only things ive changed since the TNT2 was first installed is another 64meg of pc100 sdram(making 128), an sblive and a 15.3gb samsung hdd.
I don't see why any of this would of made a difference. The only other thing I can see is drivers but to play newer games i need to use the newer drivers..
The only other thing i can think of is a bios setting or.. i did something to the mobo which is also unlikley.. I have formatted several times since so its not that..
if anyone can help please..
Specs are:
k6-2-300 @ 333mhz
gigabyte 5591 mobo SiS chipset
Diamond viper 770 TNT2 non-U
128meg pc100 sdram
15.3gb samsung hdd, 3.2gb quantum fb hdd.
32x cdrom drive
sblive value snd card


thanks
-acid.

Same problem, slightly faster processor. Try tweaking sblive settings, chip seems to hog resources, now running almost as fast as 98se but NO crashes, yipeeeee.

Tell us how u tweaked your sblive




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Pioneer 6x dvd / 12 x cdrom SCSI Drive
3com 905b-cmb network card
Panasonic 4x scsi burner
IBM Deskstar 13.5g 7200rpm DMA/66
Western Digital 14g 5400rpm DMA/66
256m PC-100 CS2 ram


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