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txdave34 · 11-03-2007, 04:06 AM

Hey Guys,

I completed building my new PC today, and gave it a test run by downloading the Supreme Commander demo and Sid Mierer's Railroads. My PC has these specs:

Consair 1 gig DDR 2 ram
ATI 520 MB video card
Intel Pentium D 2.66mhz processor

I was shocked to see the games performed very sluggish at 1024 resolution with medium settings.

My specs are well above the recommended ones on these game boxes so why does it perform piss poor? Should I upgrade to 2 gigs of ram, or is the Pentium D just a bad processor?

11-03-2007, 04:06 AM	#1 (permalink) Top
txdave34 Geek Trainee Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 4 Status: Offline	Why Am I Getting Bad Perfomance? Hey Guys, I completed building my new PC today, and gave it a test run by downloading the Supreme Commander demo and Sid Mierer's Railroads. My PC has these specs: Consair 1 gig DDR 2 ram ATI 520 MB video card Intel Pentium D 2.66mhz processor I was shocked to see the games performed very sluggish at 1024 resolution with medium settings. My specs are well above the recommended ones on these game boxes so why does it perform piss poor? Should I upgrade to 2 gigs of ram, or is the Pentium D just a bad processor?