New game - choppy and rough play

[Gleyrie]

I recently purchased Lucinda Green's Equestrian Challenge, and I LOVE it, BUT, the game play is rough and choppy and skips and it makes it nearly impossible to play when you get to the higher levels. As far as I can tell, everything my computer has should run it, and I downloaded DirectX 9.0 and it seemed to help certain areas a wee bit, but I just want to play a smooth game.

Please get back to me asap.

[dai]

what are you running
video card
cpu
m/board
ram
power supply
brand
wattage

check the listings in the bios for voltages and temperatures and post them

[Mcninjaguy]

EDIT: you beat me Dai, you're FAST!

whats your PC specs?

RAM
CPU
Motherboard
PSU
Graphics Card

if you don't know that do this

start menu
click "run"
type "dxdiag"
and save it as a log file

check it if you want to but it doesn't save any personal info

[Gleyrie]

See, most of this is latin to me, so here's some info I could understand. lol.

I have Windows XP Home Edition
The processor is Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4.CPU 2.66 GHz
Memory is 630MG Ram

and I have no clue what a graphics card is.

[dai]

use this but only post the information requested not all it throws up

take the side off the case and look at the label on the side of the power supply

http://www.cpuid.com/pcwizard.php

[Gleyrie]

.....sorry I'm confused, dow hat?

[Mcninjaguy]

This is what a PSU is
(i need brand andwattage and series of the PSU


this is what I want from PC wizard 2008 (first thing you open)

[Gleyrie]

so what exactly do I install or whatever?

[Gleyrie]

Mainboard : Unspecified P4i65G
Chipset : Intel i865GV
Processor : Intel Pentium 4 @ 2666 MHz
Physical Memory : 640 MB
Video Card : Intel(R) 82865G Graphics Controller
Hard Disk : SAMSUNG (160 GB)
CD-Rom Drive : MITSUMI CD-ROM FX4830T!B
CD-Rom Drive : LG CD-RW CED-8120B
Monitor Type : SONY HMD-A440 - 18 inches
Network Card : Realtek Semiconductor RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter
Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition 5.01.2600 Service Pack 3
DirectX : Version 9.0c (September 2009)



There's what the page thing says after I downloaded it. lol.

[5NIPER_WOLF]

You have integrated graphics, that means there is a little chip in the motherboard (the huge thing everything is connected too) that runs 2-D and 3-D applications, but is not designed for games. If you want to run the game I suggest buying a dedicated graphics card, that means there is a card that is only for running games.

Try getting a Nvidia Geforce 8500
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...142&CatId=1603

It will run anything you want for a fairly small price. Everything else is okay.

[dai]

take the side off the case and look at the power supply label and post the
brand
wattage

[Mcninjaguy]

there should be label on the side of the PSU, its best if you can take a real nice close up pic of it so we can read it or just try posting name, brand and wattage of PSU like Dai said

[Gleyrie]

okay, so if I buy the chip thing, what exactly would I do with it then? I'm not looking to spend a TON of money. lol.

[Gleyrie]

75 dollars?! Geez, I paid less for the actual game. There's nothing cheaper that would work than that?

[Gleyrie]

something like this wouldn't work? http://cgi.ebay.com/IBM-Matrox-G4-MI...QQcmdZViewItem

I know you guys are trying to help me find the best thing lol, but I'm a teenager, I don't make a lot of money. lol.

[RockmasteR]

download CPUz from my sig
open it and go to "Mainboard" Tab
take a screenshot (by pressing the "Print Screen" button on your keyboard and open Windows Paint, paste the picture), save it and upload it here by pressing attachments (it's besides the smiley face in the menu when you write a new message).

and that card on ebay is very old

[5NIPER_WOLF]

Try not getting cards from eBay if you can, you have to expect to dish out money for a power supply and graphics card.

[Gleyrie]

Alright, then is there any other card brand new that would be cheaper than that? I can't afford that since I'm only ever going to have one game on my computer at a time anyway.

[5NIPER_WOLF]

I told you
Nvidia 8500 GT
http://jbrlsr.com/?aid=5336121828&bi...26CatId%3D1603
And for RAM
512 MB of DDR Ram
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...6829&CatId=147
And for PSU
OCZ Pro Stream 500W PSU
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...113&CatId=1079

[Gleyrie]

Alright I'm sorry, this is all brand new to me, your suggesting I choose from one from those, or buy them all? I'm confused, I don't mean to keep being so frustrating.