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Gp3 caching....?

3 posts by 3 people · 19 Jul 2001 21:53 UTC - 20 Jul 2001 00:03 UTC

The Driver 19 Jul 2001 21:53 UTC#172446
I`ve just upgraded from a PIII550Mhz to a AMD thunderbird 1.4Ghz...... and my computer seems tobe very buggy... at Germany it spins the Hard drive very much after about 3/4 laps of running..it do`es it at other track but at Germany the frame rate chops...? Any ideas... I`ve a GeForce 2 GTS, 64mb ddr-ram, S/Blaster Live, 300+megs of PC133.....
You don't say which operating system you have, but if it's windows ME, turn off system restore. -- Ian P <email invalid due to spammers> "The Driver" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9j7kt7$m5v$[email hidden]... > I`ve just upgraded from a PIII550Mhz to a AMD thunderbird 1.4Ghz...... and > my computer seems tobe very buggy... at Germany it spins the Hard drive very > much after about 3/4 laps of running..it do`es it at other track but at > Germany the frame rate chops...? > > Any ideas... > I`ve a GeForce 2 GTS, 64mb ddr-ram, > S/Blaster Live, > 300+megs of PC133..... > > > > >
"The Driver" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9j7kt7$m5v$[email hidden]... > I`ve just upgraded from a PIII550Mhz to a AMD thunderbird 1.4Ghz...... and > my computer seems tobe very buggy... at Germany it spins the Hard drivevery
Quoted text (7 lines)> much after about 3/4 laps of running..it do`es it at other track but at > Germany the frame rate chops...? > > Any ideas... > I`ve a GeForce 2 GTS, 64mb ddr-ram, > S/Blaster Live, > 300+megs of PC133.....
Check if dma is enabled for your hard drive in the device manager. (Also won't hurt on cd rom drives) For other tips see http://www.geforcefaq.com/faq.cgi Bart Westra

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