Would Upgraded Graphics Card Help Lag?

Viper_girl - Heavens Tear
Viper_girl - Heavens Tear Posts: 541 Arc User
edited June 2009 in Support Desk
Here is a question for the Techies. I have a Gateway Hyperthreading P4 PC with a Nvidia 7800GTX graphics card driving an Apple 30inch monitor @ 2560x1600.

Gameplay is reasonably smooth except in really busy areas. I came across a great deal on a 9800GTX graphics card, which I think is about 4 times more powerful.

If I get it will the "lag" performance improve or is there another bottleneck? I don't think it is the PC or internet connection.
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  • RazerXD - Lost City
    RazerXD - Lost City Posts: 13 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    upgrading from a 7800 to a 9800 is good but what processor r u running?
  • Viper_girl - Heavens Tear
    Viper_girl - Heavens Tear Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    RazerXD - Lost City wrote: »
    upgrading from a 7800 to a 9800 is good but what processor r u running?

    Pentium P4 Hyperthreading, on Win XP, 2Gig Ram.

    The reason I don't think it is the processor is because things speed up if u turn down graphics quality.
  • Wolfgore - Heavens Tear
    Wolfgore - Heavens Tear Posts: 293 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Upgrade the Card, get 1 more Gig of ram. Everything should be better. b:victory
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  • Kar_rak - Sanctuary
    Kar_rak - Sanctuary Posts: 104 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Change the processor to a dual or quad core one and change the GFX Card. You don't need more RAM since you run Win XP ;)
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  • Viper_girl - Heavens Tear
    Viper_girl - Heavens Tear Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Well i can't afford to do anything other than change the graphics card, nor do i know how to change processors. So is it worth upgrading card?
  • Schism - Harshlands
    Schism - Harshlands Posts: 91 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Put it this way, i upgraded from my single core processor to a amd phenom triple core and i now get no lag whatsoever in Arc, i only have 2 gig of ram, changing your graphics card will not cure lag.
  • Viper_girl - Heavens Tear
    Viper_girl - Heavens Tear Posts: 541 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    Schism - Harshlands wrote: »
    Put it this way, i upgraded from my single core processor to a amd phenom triple core and i now get no lag whatsoever in Arc, i only have 2 gig of ram, changing your graphics card will not cure lag.

    Thanks for this info. Did you also upgrade the graphics card?

    Has anyone seen an improvement by just upgrading the graphics card?

    I wish I could simply upgrade my processor, but that isn't an option right now.
  • eatwithspoons
    eatwithspoons Posts: 54 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    to answer your question, you will probably experience some improvement in lag, but make sure that the card you get has at least 512Mb on it. Nowadays you can get cards with 1g but if you can't afford that one either should do in terms of being a substantial upgrade.
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  • CoffeePrince - Lost City
    CoffeePrince - Lost City Posts: 1 Arc User
    edited June 2009
    There are quite alot of cheap 1GB gpx cards on market too. ;)
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