Topic: podium lagging?

@hitman8081 wrote:

where can i find these drivers. i did do a full reinstall/reformat. i hope things are beter when i install podium again.

At the video card manufacturers web site. Depends on your video card.

@Zynewave wrote:

where can i find these drivers

If you have a premade PC from Dell or any of the other major brands, they have an online support section where you can download all drivers for your system. If you have a custom built PC you need to seek out the websites for the individual components. You mentioned you had an onboard Intel graphic chip, so either look at the website for the motherboard manufacturer or intel.com.

Don’t many built in video cards tend to use shared memory?
That sure wouldn’t help performance. Separate graphics cards such as ATI, NVidia, etc are quite cheap and well worth getting.

@Zynewave wrote:

Don’t many built in video cards tend to use shared memory?

I think all onboard video cards use shared memory, and that is one of the main reasons why they are slower than even the cheapest separate video cards. Many soundcard manufacturers, such as RME, also recommends against using PC systems where the video card uses shared memory, because this can affect the performance of the soundcard as well.

I can see that-extra use of system resources would indeed tend to drag everything down. The price of decent video cards now leaves little excuse for not having one. I’m using an ATI Radeon 9000 Pro 128MB running 2 x 19″ monitors at 1280 x1024 and there is next to no slowdown on any program.

I know in Canada a Radeon 9600 card goes for $74 Cdn .

And I’m sure there are cheaper cards and sales.