OT: gpu / UT3 help please !

June 1, 2008

Here's hoping there's a knowledgable gamer in here !

....after lots of tweaking, to retain a minimum 15-20 fps, so as to keep a

darned game - UT3/patched to 1.2, and to have at least the beginnings of a

semblance of "responsiveness," (on this old "was" a Celeron 2.6 256mb

ddr266

with shared graphics" ! ..."now" just a little better - P4 2.5ghz, 768mb

ddr266

and agp nVidia 6200 ...and annoyingly slow 5,400 rpm Samsung "spin*something

or other hd that Packard Bell ought to be ashamed of themselves for ever

having sold - even at that time - iXtreme 6052 !!!

....so now with the minimum spec. agp 350mhz gpu, and texture and rendering

etc

set as high as it can go without degrading fps to less that 15 to 20 fps,

the

game is sort of playable, and looks just a little better than DOS based

DOOM from

decades ago !!!

I tried nTune, (not knowing much at all about overclocking), and increased

the gpu core speed a little, the "test" showed okay but, after a reboot, I

got a scrambled picture - had to reboot in Safe mode, and uninstall nTune,

and reinstall nVidia drivers (latest Forceware that supports 6200's), ...AND

manually get rid of a couple of nTune entries left in registry "run"

....anyhow, ...if anyone could throw a few tips about gpu overclocking I

would be grateful. The default frequencies for this 6200 are gpu 350mhz

and memory 600mhz. Is there a relationship between the two inasmuch as does

the memory mhz have to be increased in some sort of proportion to an

increase in gpu mhz ?

I've glanced through some sites to try and pick up some tips, ..already

spotted that the 6200's aren't really suited to overclocking.

....ps already fitted a copper Zalman VF-900cu to it.

regards, Richard

ps motherboard is an old Gigabyte GA-8SIML (Rev 2.0)

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