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midget killer · 08-18-2002, 01:23 PM

The FPS changes sound like they're on par with what I get when I run around in the game. Your FPS will always be changing depending on the graphics the video card and your CPU have to render. The more complex, the fewer FPS you'll have. Just rotating can have a large impact on your FPS. I don't think you're having problems until you start lagging or crashing due to NIC/IRQ conflicts.

Monitor your ping, hit tab when you're in the game to see what your latencey is. If you had IRQ conflicts you'd be blue screening when you started to max out your video card and using the NIC at the same time.

IRQ conflicts are rare with NT5 (win2k/XP) because of the hardware abstraction layer takes care of everything, it doesn't rely on IRQ numbering like Win9x used to. If your NIC was installed by the DSL installer or you had to plug a card into your PC's PCI expansion slot, then it's no an "onboard" nic.

Tip:

Your Video occupies the AGP slot, and that shares resources with PCI slot #1 (direct memory access channels or DMA)- make sure that slot 1 is empty. Slot 1 is the PCI slot closest to your video card. A nic could slow down your Video card if installed, but not much. A sound card installed there will. Remember your NIC is able to push 100 times more data than your DSL will ever transmit or recieve, so the NIC isn't working hard at all.

If PCI slot #1 isn't empty, simply power down your computer and unplug it. (Press the power button once more to drain any residual voltage off the motherboard) Then open your case, unscrew the retaining screw on the offending PCI card and move it to another open PCI slot. You may have to remove a cover but then just move that cover to the opening left on PCI slot #1. It's simple - XP will know what you did and reconfigure itself without a problem. cool:

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midget killer is Offline Junior Member Posts: 29 Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: U.S. of A.	08-18-2002, 01:23 PM The FPS changes sound like they're on par with what I get when I run around in the game. Your FPS will always be changing depending on the graphics the video card and your CPU have to render. The more complex, the fewer FPS you'll have. Just rotating can have a large impact on your FPS. I don't think you're having problems until you start lagging or crashing due to NIC/IRQ conflicts. Monitor your ping, hit tab when you're in the game to see what your latencey is. If you had IRQ conflicts you'd be blue screening when you started to max out your video card and using the NIC at the same time. IRQ conflicts are rare with NT5 (win2k/XP) because of the hardware abstraction layer takes care of everything, it doesn't rely on IRQ numbering like Win9x used to. If your NIC was installed by the DSL installer or you had to plug a card into your PC's PCI expansion slot, then it's no an "onboard" nic. Tip: Your Video occupies the AGP slot, and that shares resources with PCI slot #1 (direct memory access channels or DMA)- make sure that slot 1 is empty. Slot 1 is the PCI slot closest to your video card. A nic could slow down your Video card if installed, but not much. A sound card installed there will. Remember your NIC is able to push 100 times more data than your DSL will ever transmit or recieve, so the NIC isn't working hard at all. If PCI slot #1 isn't empty, simply power down your computer and unplug it. (Press the power button once more to drain any residual voltage off the motherboard) Then open your case, unscrew the retaining screw on the offending PCI card and move it to another open PCI slot. You may have to remove a cover but then just move that cover to the opening left on PCI slot #1. It's simple - XP will know what you did and reconfigure itself without a problem. cool: