I’ve just upgraded(?) to Vista x64 from a skt939 X2 4400 on XPx64. New specs are in my sig- all is new apart from the gfx card which I carried over from my old PC. This is 18 months old now but ran BF2 on highest specs on my XP machine.
I’ve updated drivers, ran all the hotfixes on offer, done all the normal tweaking of Vista, etc. but it still does not seem to run well.
As examples, my 3D Mark score has risen on my new machine (not by much as it is currently limited by the same gfx card as before), but my Steam benchmark score has gone down by about 10-15 fps, & I also get the 'Vista judder’ in BF2.
I have checked my memory usage when running the game, & it sometimes seems to run close to 100%, when my machine is idle it runs pretty close to 1GB.
My question is: would I benefit from going up to 4GB? I primarily use this machine for BF2 & have seen that increasing ram may in itself cause other problems.
I will upgrade my gfx card some point soon, but given the performance difference between machines using the same gfx card I don’t think that this is the answer.
I’ve updated drivers, ran all the hotfixes on offer, done all the normal tweaking of Vista, etc. but it still does not seem to run well.
As examples, my 3D Mark score has risen on my new machine (not by much as it is currently limited by the same gfx card as before), but my Steam benchmark score has gone down by about 10-15 fps, & I also get the 'Vista judder’ in BF2.
I have checked my memory usage when running the game, & it sometimes seems to run close to 100%, when my machine is idle it runs pretty close to 1GB.
My question is: would I benefit from going up to 4GB? I primarily use this machine for BF2 & have seen that increasing ram may in itself cause other problems.
I will upgrade my gfx card some point soon, but given the performance difference between machines using the same gfx card I don’t think that this is the answer.
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