27-11-2012, 07:48 PM
Col - you said "My current monitor is set at 1024 x 768 and colour at highest 32bit."
I take that to mean that those setting are the max. settings that your video card will support. If that is the case, then that implies that your monitor card (at least) is much too old and needs to be replaced. Even video cards which are quite old now will do a good deal more than that. The one in this PC is quite an old one: it is an AGP NVidia GeForce 6200, set to 1152 x 864 x 32, but I know it will do a lot more (as a product: a x b x c). The only reason I chose those particular settings is that it suited my 21" glass monitor - and the resolution of my eye-sight! (Incidentally, these days I never use anything else other than AGP. If I have a mo-bo that doesn't support AGP - it goes into the bin!)
The point I am trying to make is that it sounds like your video card is too old - and that, in turn, raises a question as to the entire capability of the mother-board to meet the performance you now require.
HTH.
Al.
I take that to mean that those setting are the max. settings that your video card will support. If that is the case, then that implies that your monitor card (at least) is much too old and needs to be replaced. Even video cards which are quite old now will do a good deal more than that. The one in this PC is quite an old one: it is an AGP NVidia GeForce 6200, set to 1152 x 864 x 32, but I know it will do a lot more (as a product: a x b x c). The only reason I chose those particular settings is that it suited my 21" glass monitor - and the resolution of my eye-sight! (Incidentally, these days I never use anything else other than AGP. If I have a mo-bo that doesn't support AGP - it goes into the bin!)
The point I am trying to make is that it sounds like your video card is too old - and that, in turn, raises a question as to the entire capability of the mother-board to meet the performance you now require.
HTH.
Al.
