Playing Grand Theft Auto IV I was having the issue of images vanishing after just minutes of gameplay. The more the stuff I had going on, the worse it got. I looked online for the capacities of my motherboard. I found that the native memory I was using, What the manufacture says on the box that my motherboard came with is 667mhz. No where on the box did it signify that I could go any further. So I Googled my motherboard. What I found was lots of people like myself did what I did. We all bough what we thought was the max memory for the board. 2 Gigs of 667mhz ddr2. but others experimented and found that it can handle greater than 800 mhz ddr. So I headed to the electronics store and bought 4 gigs of pc 6400 800 mhz ddr2 memory. Then when I got home, I tried to find teh forums that I saw earlier. By that time I found a handfull sites selling the same motherboard, the specs they had on those sites showed greater than 800 mhz..Dang. but I did the install.
You would not believe the speed increase I gained from this. The game has no lag issues. I stay at 30 fps min, and never have any stutter, never have any vanishing items. just that small step up and doubling my memory, the game plays like a gem.
The canned air in the heatsinks didn’t hurt me . So I think I am well on my way. See you online. I will be at gtaclans.com when I am not actually in game.
Category: mod
Doing some over clocking
Messing witha sempron I have.
Not really trying to break it, just don’t care much for it right now and really want motivation toevolve to the newest cpu and motherboard combo. Despite what everyone says should be issues right now, I have not had any issues and all games I play, play smooth fast and fine.. but the new stuff is so cheap right now.
Ok done trying to reasomn with you :-P
sempron 3400 cranked fsb from 200 to 205
changed from auto to 200
Nvidia 7600 512 mb agp from default 420/275 to 437/321
Bench scores are up by 500 on madonion and future mark .
http://truxtertech.com/talk/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=50
After benching, after playing in game.
I have to say, it plays a ton better without o/c
I played all the games I normally bench with
and saw that draw distance was greater while
in game, but detail was bland and there was stuttering.
What killed Tech Evolution
Ok I understand that if someone wants to sell their work.
They want to be the only person making money on it. And they do not want people to be able to get the software for free. I mean why buy the cow…..
But have you noticed, no one does anything anymore.
Everyone is scared of getting arrested for tweaking files and programs. I mean the past ten years have been amazing in software development. Now it’s just down to a trickle. We aren’t moving faster and faster every time we check, anymore. Those days are gone. Kids now are scared to mod psp software because those who do and show others, get silenced fast.
i mean the most I learned was when I was wanting to make my purchased items better. Like over clocking, there are no over clocking forums left but one or two . I mean back when everyone was tweaking and modding their Xbox, we where learning so much from each other. We where passing notes and moving faster and faster. People emulated machines. Sony killed that when they created psp addons and called them “Emulators” . If you did any searches on the net for “emulator tips” you would find stupid junk that showed you how to change your back ground on your psp. I mean they did that very well I have to give them props. But my god, if it wasn’t for people modding the psp… Sony would have no idea what firmware to add to the stupid battery chugger.
So now you just have to sit around and wait on sony to tell you what’s good.
We are getting dumber by the minute. Don’t bother asking any kids these days how to play a 360 game on a computer. They flip out and tell you you need a decompresser… blah blah blah.. It’s software.
“Encoded” means YOU think it’s unbreakable.
Where is the crowd of people who inspired others to get upset with the useless crap bundled in our gadgets?
What happened to everyone? I feel like it’s becoming a TiVo/Apple world. Where everyone just sits with their mouth open waiting to be given what ever there is to fill it.. And we like it.
Was it laziness? Did the really tech gen just get old and walk away?
Am I a dinosaur? Did everyone stop caring what it is inside their gadget that rattles when you shake it?
Is the new generation the fat gen?
Ps: Don’t share other people’s works. But share the mods you made to make them better.