video card lag?

[joe_tucker]

Well, since i fried my other video card. i have a temporary 32mb video card in. ATI RAGE 128 PRO ULTRA
and im trying to play enemy territory on it, but it lags up whenever im around enemies or open places. but when im in enclosed buildings or caves, etc. it runs perfect. any way to reduce this lag of my video card?

[Flame]

How much RAM do you have?

Flame

[GX1_Man]

What are the requirements of the game? What are the specifications of your computer? Therein lies the answer.  

Just out of curiosity, how did you "fry" your card? Could other damage have been done?

[joe_tucker]

How much RAM do you have?

Flame

1.25GB

[joe_tucker]

What are the requirements of the game? What are the specifications of your computer? Therein lies the answer.  

Just out of curiosity, how did you "fry" your card? Could other damage have been done?

System Requirements
- Windows or Linux OS. NT not recommended.
- Pentium III 600 Mhz processor or equivalent.
- 128 MB RAM.
- 32 MB OpenGL compliant 3D video card.
- DirectX 8.1.
- 271 MB free hard disk space.
- 500 MB free hard disk space for swap files.
- 56.6k modem or better Internet connection. Broadband recommended for games with more than 8 players.

System:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0GHz core and FSB
1.25GB of RAM
temporary 32mb
40GB 7200RPM hd

i fried my ATI Radeon 9550 by overclocking it i guess, because when i put it in my AGP slot it doesnt get a signal on my monitor. and no i dont think any other damage was done because since then ive replaced my motherboard and processor.

[joe_tucker]

i have two better video cards:
-Radeon 9250
-Radeon 9550

The Radeon 9250 goes through everything but when it gets to windows login it just shows a blank black screen with my monitor at a green LED. Also works fine on a different computer.

The Radeon 9550, when I boot up my computer all fans boot up but LED stays orange on my monitor and it doesnt show anything. I'm guessing its fried.

Another thing... when I try to watch movies on my computer (with this video card) its very laggy. (the sound is like 10 seconds ahead of video, and the video is in slow motion.)

[sealbee]

What size is your power supply? I had a lot of trouble with my new video card (256 meg) being slow. I put in a Antec Sure Power 400 watt and now it's doing better. If your power supply is to small it can cause problems.

[joe_tucker]

300w
but all the video cards i have, have worked on my computer just fine.

[sealbee]

My computer is a lot like yours, amd64 3000+, 1 gig ram, 80 gig hd. I had a 320 watt ps and had trouble with a couple of games and a demo. Since I changed to the 400 watt, I only have trouble with the demo, that may be from not enough ram, I'm sure yet.
www.tigerdirect.com has a link when you check out their power supplys. If you follow it, it tells you how much power it takes to run your drives, ram, cards and whatnot. Figure out if your supply is big enough. If that's not the problem, I don't know what else to check....