256 ram 64mb mx420 [Archive]

OiKiN

28th February 2006, 08:28

danowat

28th February 2006, 08:33

The Geforce 4MX was a poor card when it was released years ago, so now its a very poor card.
Maybe look at upgrading your card with something newer, but I would'nt expect steller performance from a 1.6Ghz CPU regardless of the card.

Dan,

OiKiN

28th February 2006, 08:51

I have this other card. It was a 32mb I had that in a amd board with like 800 mhz It seem to play lfs way better. I would love to use that card in my computer now but it does not fit. It needs a place for the platic thing that holds it down..

Im not sure about the name of that other card( because i dont feel like looking for it). But my uncle did say to me that it could be that card and that i should get a different one. You sayd it too.

Thanx now i know that i just need to change the card and not to buy more ram :D

AndroidXP

28th February 2006, 10:37

Yes, upgrading your card would help you the most. The GF440MX is a POS that doesn't support HVS (which helps removing load from your CPU, making the game run faster).

srdsprinter

28th February 2006, 12:05

I have a intel 4 1.6 gigs and 256 ram and a mx 420 geforce4 graficcard

I get VERY low fps. 6 fps with cars on the screen and maybe 15 fps top. I turned down every thing to low but still it is the same fps. The game does not need that much to run it. Maybe the mx 420 is a bad card?

Any ideas? Is it the ram or the card?

I have a very similar computer (1.8GHz, 64MB geforce 4 420mx). I too had low fps with multiple cars on track. Turns out that the mx420 is now really really outdated.

For just over $100 I doubled my system RAM (from 512 to 1gig) and got a new video card (128MB radeon 9600xt). The difference is unbelievable. Being able to race as many cars as you want with a lot more graphics options turned up.

Believe these guys as they will point you in the right direction.

http://www.lfsforum.net/showthread.php?t=4970

(my story, thanks again to all these guys for help)

NetDemon01

28th February 2006, 16:58

SparkyDave

28th February 2006, 18:45

I have a p4, 2.4ghz and the gf4 mx440 card. LFS runs fine, 50-70 fps. Just turn down some settings, lower the resolution. LFS isn't about eyecandy anyways(words straight from some of the sim purists on this forum)

The mx440 is quite a lot better than the mx420 as I found out some years ago building a buget pc for a friend :D also with an 800Mhz faster cpu I think this explains your better fps than OiKiN :)

OiKiN what OS are you running ? in my experience winxp runs faster with at least 512 mb ram ,
also you havn't said if your ram is DDR ot SDR, and the mx420 is this AGP or PCI version ?

SD.

xapexcivicx

28th February 2006, 19:37

I just added 256 ram to my system (Because I had it lying around) so I now have 768MB of DDRram. Made no difference in LFS. So I believe the video card would be a first bet, BUT you really really should get more ram. 256 must be horrible =/ When I upgraded my ram I noticed a difference in everything. Of course, RAM allows the computer to have more things open at the same time, if I'm right. So It won't exactly affect LFS that much, unless you have background programs running (Music programs, MSN, AIM, whatever.)

mr_spoon

28th February 2006, 19:38

I have this other card. It was a 32mb I had that in a amd board with like 800 mhz It seem to play lfs way better. I would love to use that card in my computer now but it does not fit. It needs a place for the platic thing that holds it down..

If your motherboard simply doesn't have the AGP lock device this does not stop you from plugging in an AGP card, it isnt just going to fall out... unless of course you have it sitting upside-down. :rolleyes2 I had an early AGP 1x slotted motherboard, and it didnt have a lock mechanism, and I had a GeForce 2MX with a hook thingy (to check this, I trawled through the PC bits drawers upstairs only to find it was behind me :doh: above my cupboard). It was probably AGP 1x though. If that other card fits otherwise, then simply give it a shot, but there is some issue between AGP versions to do with voltages I think, but possibly they have a different 'divider' within the slot making mistakes impossible, but possibly not...

:scratchch hmmm...

mr_spoon

filur

1st March 2006, 01:08

but there is some issue between AGP versions to do with voltages I think, but possibly they have a different 'divider' within the slot making mistakes impossible, but possibly not...

Different dividers do exist, no idea which versions.