I was using a Radeon 9600 pro with moderate results (a fair bit of stutter from time to time) but recently replaced it with my son's 6600 GT. The first thing I had to do was to upgrade my power from 350 watts to 400 watts as it kept cutting out on me. It doesn't cut out any more but the results do not look particularly better than with the Radeon. In one session which I have run five times I have yet to finish it because somewhere along the way the programme just seizes up and I have to Ctrl-alt-del to recover my PC! Although this problem seems to have occurred since the change-over it is possible that something else is causing it. It's possible that the CPU is now so maxed out that it is choking when there is a swag of Trainz type data being processed. My son certainly thinks the 6600 GT is way better than the Radeon 9600 pro and also has a very low opinion of the Trainz software and graphics. He wants me to try a game that shows off the 6600 GT to good effect but I'm not wildly into PC games like he is.
I am running this under an AMD Athlon 3000+ with 2 Gb RAM.
Any suggestions whatsoever would be gratefully received as I am not particularly PC literate and have a very limited understanding of what to do about this. If I can't get good results with the 6600 GT I'd just as soon go back to the Radeon stutter...
Cheers
Nix
PS On reflection I've just realised that this session involves the UP Gas Turbine which I know is very poly heavy. Could it be that this is the source of my problems? I should try the 6600 GT with some less demanding sessions and see how it shapes up.
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I am running this under an AMD Athlon 3000+ with 2 Gb RAM.
Any suggestions whatsoever would be gratefully received as I am not particularly PC literate and have a very limited understanding of what to do about this. If I can't get good results with the 6600 GT I'd just as soon go back to the Radeon stutter...
Cheers
Nix
PS On reflection I've just realised that this session involves the UP Gas Turbine which I know is very poly heavy. Could it be that this is the source of my problems? I should try the 6600 GT with some less demanding sessions and see how it shapes up.
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