EB Performance

[Tellos Athenaios]

I have a Intel celeron 3.20 ghz and it says

As already noted: its a Celeron so 3.2Ghz looks splendid on paper but doesn't add up to quite the same 3.2Ghz you'd get from other processor lines. Still, 3.2Ghz of not-that-impressive-per-cycle-performance still should add up to more than sufficient processing power for _doing things_ in EB. Waiting times is another matter, though...

1.87 GHZ of ram

You probably meant 1.87GB. You've got the "manufacturers' gigabyte" playing up here; I'll explain it in a moment...

but I know there is more than that, I have never had a game run this slow, I will go a head and try some of this out and see what happens...

Well, it was sold to you as 2GB wasn't it? Here's the deal: by SI standards, 1KB would've been exactly equal to 1.000B, because Kilo means a factor of 1000. Similarly, 1MB would've been (1K)KB or 1.000.000B; and 1GB would've been 1.000.000.000B.

But no. In memory management, kilobyte is defined differently, namely as (2^10)B or 1024B. Similarly 1MB is defined as ((2^10)^2)B or 2^20B or 1024*1024B; and 1GB is defined as 2^30B or 1024*1024*1024B. And that is how your manufacturer can advertise with 2GB when in fact he's selling ~1,87GB: those 24*1024*1024B are about enough to run an entire fully functioning Desktop system with.

Even so, that 0.23GB or thereabouts of RAM is probably not the reason why you experience such poor performance either.

So, I guess your problem arises from a combination of the 8400GS+drivers and resolution.