Jerky graphics causing severe stress! 1

[markbamford]

I am hoping against hope that someone can help me! As you may have guessed I am somewhat of a novice to this! I have a PIII550 xeon with 256 MB, ELSA erazor III pro (TNT2 pro) and lord only knows what mother board . I was running windows2000 and all the graphics worked just fine. I recently upgraded to xp. Since then even the serenescreen fishy screensaver is jerky. It moves ok for a few seconds then pauses for a brief second then continues. Sounds like nothing I know but it occurrs in every graphics app. All games (even space invaders on MAME - showing my age here I know) are unplayable! Same problem. I have downloaded the newest nvidia detonator drivers and installed them. no change. I have watched the task manager for rogue software but the only thing i can see is a system file blipping continually to 10 and back but I cannot close this down. Do I need more RAM or a new processor? Shall I just do a clean install of windows 2000? I would greatly appreciate any help you guys can offer. Please help me not chuck this computer out of the window) ww.histopath.co.uk mail@histopath.co.uk Thanks. Mark Bamford.

 

[Beer4meok]

I would add another 256 of ram to bring it to 512 MB
XP seems to operate better with 512mb.Everything else
seems to work smoother also. Ram is easy to install and
will not cost much.
as for your games check your combatability mode they
may be to old to run under XP ,you can change this in
properties , check box to run under windows 95
Hope this helps. bbmdave

 

[markbamford]

Beer4meok - cannot thank you enough for your help with this. I didn't even know there was a 'compatability mode' under properties! It has worked a treat for MAME space invaders and most other games. Run perfectly under windows 95. Think I will still take your advice about extra RAM though. Thanks again. Mark.