Wh1te Out
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I have Dell Dimension PC that is a couple of years old, specs are Pentium 4, 2.8 Ghz, with 1 GB of RAM. Awhile back I put a NVIDIA GeForce 7600 GT video card in it and have experienced gaming problems ever since. The best way I can describe it is texture popping or energy spiking. The screen will constantly be covered in flittering lines, making playing anything almost impossible. Sims 2 simply will not run, it's too laggy and the spiking is too severe. The issue is that World of Warcraft becomes very annoying when the background terrain is flashing at you constantly.
What I believe (guessing) is that the video card is overpowered for the CPU. I could be totally wrong, but before I put this card in the computer I believe I had a 6000 series and never experienced any problems. What I need to do is make the popping go away so that games will run correctly visually. So, if I need to go back and buy an older video card, which one is right for this PC? If anyone knows of this problem and a way to fix it, feel free to share that too... as always, thanks in advance.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
What I believe (guessing) is that the video card is overpowered for the CPU. I could be totally wrong, but before I put this card in the computer I believe I had a 6000 series and never experienced any problems. What I need to do is make the popping go away so that games will run correctly visually. So, if I need to go back and buy an older video card, which one is right for this PC? If anyone knows of this problem and a way to fix it, feel free to share that too... as always, thanks in advance.
Merry Christmas, everyone.