Need Help

[funkb]

I'm going to check again for background stuff. Spyware i check for everyday. i'm gonna do some major tweaking too. i hope something corrects it. It's frustrating me.

[Tomcat]

funkb - I cannot help you re the new Dell case. You need to know whether it uses a standard ATX Form Factor if you want to try changing the motherboard. If it does not, and certainly Dell did not used to use a standard form factor, then you cannot change the MB apart from buying if direct from Dell if they sell them separately.

Re tuning. I suggest you visit PC Pitstop http://www.pcpitstop.com/ and carry out a free on-line tune-up check on your PC to see if that identifies any performance issues you may have.

Tomcat

[funkb]

Thanks for the help guys.

[camulos]

That PC should be powerful enough to handle it.

I'm running:
AMD Thunderbird 1.7 GHZ
512 MB DDR
Geforce 5900 XT

One suggestion I would make is to look at the video card drivers. I know with cards using the Nvidia chipset the newest version of the drivers can cause problems with gaming. I usually roll back to the previous version.

[Thrudvang]

Yeah, check drivers, stuff in the background and play with the game settings a bit.

I have 600mhz Pentium 3, GeForceFX5200 128MB, Soundblaster 16, and 512RAM and I can run the game with x4 AA and x8 AS totally flawlessly, with all the settings on atleast Medium.

If you havent, try turning off shadows/reflections (unless you really want them).