Author Topic: Need help getting AH2 to run on my computer (Read 1152 times)

ScorpCH · « **Reply #15 on:** May 02, 2007, 06:31:00 PM »

thanks for the reply guys, guess i have some decisions to make, question tho, is there anyway to upgrade from 991mhz to 2ghz? without having to completely replace the motherboard i mean

Monty405 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 02, 2007, 07:54:29 PM »

if you do indeed have a athelon 64 x2 dual core processor 4200+ i am not sure why its set so low. thats where the bios comes in. that proc should run at about 2.2ghz stock speed.

as far as replacing a cpu it would depend on your motherboards socket

TequilaChaser · « **Reply #17 on:** May 03, 2007, 06:23:45 AM »

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Originally posted by ScorpCH
thanks for the reply guys, guess i have some decisions to make, question tho, is there anyway to upgrade from 991mhz to 2ghz? without having to completely replace the motherboard i mean

Scorp,
check your PM's

ScorpCH · « **Reply #18 on:** May 03, 2007, 06:39:08 PM »

yeah once i get back in jax ill give you a ring, i am currently on leave for 10 days, my fiance and my 2 year anniversary >.<

Tigger29 · « **Reply #19 on:** May 03, 2007, 09:07:38 PM »

I used to play AH on an old XP2200 system... 1.8GHZ I think.. had an older GeForce5200 video card.. and still managed 25-30FPS at 512 texts. Might drop to 15 or so during high activity, but still was very playable.

Kev367th · « **Reply #20 on:** May 04, 2007, 01:39:17 AM »

Get CPU-Z from here -

http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php

Run it and post a screenshot, this will help us work things out and see if your multiplers bus speeds are correct

You should end up with a screenshot like this -

You might want to also post a screenshot of the information under the "Mainboard" and "Memory" tabs.

ScorpCH · « **Reply #21 on:** May 07, 2007, 07:53:28 PM »

ok i down loaded the program, how do i take a screenshot of it?

btw, under memory it reads frequency: 200.5 mhz..... im no computer wiz, but i know thats not good

ScorpCH · « **Reply #22 on:** May 07, 2007, 08:13:27 PM »

ok i figured out how to take the screen shot, but where do i find it!!

Brooke · « **Reply #23 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:54:10 AM »

I'm wondering if his machine is overheating and consequently the CPU is going to lower clock speed.

Kev367th · « **Reply #24 on:** May 08, 2007, 02:53:59 AM »

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Originally posted by ScorpCH
ok i down loaded the program, how do i take a screenshot of it?

btw, under memory it reads frequency: 200.5 mhz..... im no computer wiz, but i know thats not good

Depends I can't remember if it actually reads the a) frequency or b) automatically doubles it for DDR.

If (A) it should be right - 200.5 x 2 = 401 = DDR400
If (b) its wrong.

Press "print screen", to get screenshot.
Then use you paint prog select edit / paste and crop to size.

Krusty · « **Reply #25 on:** May 08, 2007, 09:03:22 AM »

I believe it reads the actual frequency, from memory it listed my DDR400 as "200".

airhog99 · « **Reply #26 on:** May 08, 2007, 11:03:02 AM »

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Originally posted by ScorpCH
i have a navidea geforce 6150.

how do i upgrade the motherboard bio's?

is there anyway to increase the speed from 991mhz to 2ghz?

thanks for replying so quick

6150 sounds like an on-board graphics solution to me.
The solution for you, if that's the case, is simply to purchase a decent second hand graphics cards, such as nVidia 6800 GT or 7600, or better if the budget will stretch. Here is a useful list of performance figures (note that some later cards are less good than some earlier more upmarket ones).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_NVIDIA_Graphics_Processing_Units

(The column to look at is "Fillrate")
Just make sure you computer has the room and slot for a graphics card! (PCI Express)

Your specs look good otherwise, assuming your CPU runs at correct speed. The 1GHz figure you specified sounds like AMD Cool and Quiet is active. If so, speed goes up as you use the CPU more heavily. Still, this must be disabled to get AH to run right.

Krusty · « **Reply #27 on:** May 08, 2007, 11:54:57 AM »

Doesn't matter, if his cpu is running at 900MHz. Need to fix that first.

airhog99 · « **Reply #28 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:24:32 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
Doesn't matter, if his cpu is running at 900MHz. Need to fix that first.

I use less than the equivalent of a 1 GHz dual core processor to run AH. Anyway, that is fixable, and just a configuration problem.

Krusty · « **Reply #29 on:** May 08, 2007, 12:46:19 PM »

We hope so. We need to wait and see.

You may use the equivelant of 1GHz for AH, but how do you know? How much other GHz are being used to run windows in the background?

I know for a fact that AH has a lower limit. I was below it for a while. Used to be I could just barely run AH1 on a PIII 650MHz, then AH2 came out and it just wasn't even remotely possible. I'm guessing 1.5-2.0 is the reasonable "above 15fps" point for the lower limit, now.