Since this is my first time having a computer so close to "top of the line", I assumed that it'd be able to play new games at high settings with hardly any lag.
It seems I was wrong.
After installing Oblivion and starting it up, the first thing I notice is how hard it is to move the cursor around and move the character creation sliders. Cursor movement slow, thought it was just some setting I overlooked.
Once I get into game, I realize that it wasn't the cursor speed, but lag. With most settings on max, the game is unplayable. Even after everything is turned down to near minimum, the lag persists. Should this be happening? What kind of PC is expected to play these games?
17" WUXGA+ (1920 x 1200) Active Matrix , Glare-Type Display
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (2.4Ghz; L2 Cache: 512KB x 2) "Manchester"
nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX PCI-Express 16x 512MB GDDR3
1024 MB DDR SDRAM (400 MHz, PC-3200) (1 x 1024)
80 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) SATA
My specs. The only reasons I could see for this to happen are the single gig or RAM (will newegg another soon) and my resolution setting (1920 x 1200, I really don't want to have to bring it down any.. <3 big resolutiuons). Is it either? Probably resolution.. but I'd rather not turn it down. Would rather suffer poor graphics with this reso then best graphics and a step down in reso.
It seems I was wrong.
After installing Oblivion and starting it up, the first thing I notice is how hard it is to move the cursor around and move the character creation sliders. Cursor movement slow, thought it was just some setting I overlooked.
Once I get into game, I realize that it wasn't the cursor speed, but lag. With most settings on max, the game is unplayable. Even after everything is turned down to near minimum, the lag persists. Should this be happening? What kind of PC is expected to play these games?
17" WUXGA+ (1920 x 1200) Active Matrix , Glare-Type Display
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (2.4Ghz; L2 Cache: 512KB x 2) "Manchester"
nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GTX PCI-Express 16x 512MB GDDR3
1024 MB DDR SDRAM (400 MHz, PC-3200) (1 x 1024)
80 GB Hard Drive (7200 RPM) SATA
My specs. The only reasons I could see for this to happen are the single gig or RAM (will newegg another soon) and my resolution setting (1920 x 1200, I really don't want to have to bring it down any.. <3 big resolutiuons). Is it either? Probably resolution.. but I'd rather not turn it down. Would rather suffer poor graphics with this reso then best graphics and a step down in reso.
