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  1. November 28th, 2009, 03:24 PM #1
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    Game jerky

    Wife and I love Bejewelled Twist. It played great on my 3.2 ghz (1gb ram) XP machine using a Radeon 7500 (128 ram) agp card but not so good on her 2.16 ghz (1 gb ram) XP machine using a Radeon 9000 agp.
    So, put the 9000 into daughters machine (low graphics user), she's happy. Put my 7500 into wife's machine and Twist plays great... she's happy.
    Bought an nVidea GeForce 6200 OC for my machine. Loaded it, upgraded software from their web site and did a Windows update for any DirectX upgrades.
    All works fine except Twist. It's jerky, freezing momentarily every 5 to 10 seconds. I've tried reinstalling everything (including the game and the card software), same thing.
    Only Twist is jerky, nothing else. Am I missing something?
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  2. November 28th, 2009, 05:14 PM #2
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    If you had the Radeon card in your computer. Did you uninstall the drivers for it when you removed that card?
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  3. November 28th, 2009, 06:25 PM #3
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    Yes, uninstalled old radeon software and ran CCleaner right after to remove any remnants.

    I have ran the other games I have (Flt Sim, Bejewelled 2). Flt Sim graphics seen a bit slow as well.

    Might it be a bad card or corrupt software? Like I said, all worked great with the other card.
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  4. November 28th, 2009, 06:31 PM #4
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    Could be a bad card. I never thought the 6200 to be that great for gaming. I had one but didn't game that much using that card. I upgraded to a 7600GS. Did you also check that the card isn't overheating?
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  5. November 28th, 2009, 06:37 PM #5
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    That 6200 is quite a bit below the others.

    Where i compare video cards.
    http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/g...s-cards,1.html

    I suggest you get something a lot better than that one.

    2006 is where the 6200 showed up I believe.
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    Also, if you're using the latest Nividia drivers that could part of your problem. I would try an archived driver which would be better for that card.

    But overall, I would swap that card for something better.
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  7. November 28th, 2009, 09:09 PM #7
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    I tried everything but all failed.

    Put another 9000 I had kicking around into it and Twist works great.

    I appreciate the heads up about the card. I'll take it back and see it I can upgrade to something better.

    Thanks for the advice.
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  8. November 28th, 2009, 10:37 PM #8
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    Glad to be of help!
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