Rule 1 when building your PC: read the ****ing motherboard manual. The last thing you want is messing something up there.
Rule 2: store the boxes, invoices, receipts. Who knows, a component may fail after a couple of months and a lot of stores act like assholes when you don't have some of those. I have a drawer dedicated to receipts and it dates back to 2008. Worth it? Totally, recently had to get a component replaced when it failed after 14 months. I store the boxes away under my bed and under my second desk.
Does it also happen when you use your green settings, but leave the framerate limiter on? All it does is limiting your FPS, usually to a stable 60FPS if you go above that a lot. It saves up resources when you tend to go above that a lot.
Sounds like overheating, causing a system freeze. This is hardware related, which means you'll either have to get new stuff or, if you're lucky, you'll have to clean up the insides. I'd suggest a can of compressed air for that since it blows out the dust really easy, especially in parts you can't reach with an anti-static cloth.
Note that Sims 3 even runs choppy on powerful systems, my quadcore and HD6970 beat the **** out of games and Sims 3 still manages to hang every once in a while.
I use Knoppix daily, but I've used Ubuntu from 7.04 to 8.10. Tried 11.04 a week ago and its incredible how much they managed to bug it up. Gnome crashed 3 times on me so far and unity performs like ****. Sorry, I'll just switch back to 8.04 or something :I
11.04 is very new. Try out 10.10/10.04, these ones are VERY stable (compared to both 11.04 and 8.04).
If a new version comes out, I'm expecting it to at least run a bit workable, not crash every few minutes for no reason at all. You can't just tell me to use an older version then, that's just silly. Either way, I'll probably burn a disk tonight and see if I can get stuff working. I'm considering to give Fedora a try, it looks nice and I haven't used it before. (not that debian-based is a lot of difference, Knoppix works about the same as any other debian distro to me)
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oh, derp, looks like fedora is RPM based. Worth a try, haven't used that before :smile.gif:
I use Knoppix daily, but I've used Ubuntu from 7.04 to 8.10. Tried 11.04 a week ago and its incredible how much they managed to bug it up. Gnome crashed 3 times on me so far and unity performs like ****. Sorry, I'll just switch back to 8.04 or something :I
You can change this in the BIOS, somewhere at the PCI settings IIRC. Basically its telling the BIOS to **** off with the internal graphics (if present) and use the PCI(-e) instead.
However, now I think of it, internal graphics are supposed to use normal RAM. Yeah, your card is probably ****ed.
hmm strange because the benchmarks tell me that I'm getting the correct fps, but stats say otherwise, and that makes me think they're limiting the cards performance intentionally, but if there doing this, I'm never buying from ATI again >:[
never buying from MSI again*, fixed that for you. They are the guys who made you the card, AMD only gives them the chips. Chances are you just have a bad batch with broken memory on it. Try some more games and see if they give **** performance too, and if they do, return the card and ask for a replacement. Really, it happens all the time, both AMD and nVidia cards deal with this. See if a game such as Just Cause 2 runs good on its highest settings or some other game that requires fairly high specs.
the memory being reported sounds kind of weird, are you perhaps running on internal graphics by accident? It looks as if something is taking 256MB off your VRAM.
would you happen to know what to do?
You can change this in the BIOS, somewhere at the PCI settings IIRC. Basically its telling the BIOS to **** off with the internal graphics (if present) and use the PCI(-e) instead.
However, now I think of it, internal graphics are supposed to use normal RAM. Yeah, your card is probably ****ed.
the memory being reported sounds kind of weird, are you perhaps running on internal graphics by accident? It looks as if something is taking 256MB off your VRAM.
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Rule 2: store the boxes, invoices, receipts. Who knows, a component may fail after a couple of months and a lot of stores act like assholes when you don't have some of those. I have a drawer dedicated to receipts and it dates back to 2008. Worth it? Totally, recently had to get a component replaced when it failed after 14 months. I store the boxes away under my bed and under my second desk.
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You see, those stickers are just simple marketing things. They are useless and do nothing.
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If a new version comes out, I'm expecting it to at least run a bit workable, not crash every few minutes for no reason at all. You can't just tell me to use an older version then, that's just silly. Either way, I'll probably burn a disk tonight and see if I can get stuff working. I'm considering to give Fedora a try, it looks nice and I haven't used it before. (not that debian-based is a lot of difference, Knoppix works about the same as any other debian distro to me)
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oh, derp, looks like fedora is RPM based. Worth a try, haven't used that before :smile.gif:
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never buying from MSI again*, fixed that for you. They are the guys who made you the card, AMD only gives them the chips. Chances are you just have a bad batch with broken memory on it. Try some more games and see if they give **** performance too, and if they do, return the card and ask for a replacement. Really, it happens all the time, both AMD and nVidia cards deal with this. See if a game such as Just Cause 2 runs good on its highest settings or some other game that requires fairly high specs.
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You can change this in the BIOS, somewhere at the PCI settings IIRC. Basically its telling the BIOS to **** off with the internal graphics (if present) and use the PCI(-e) instead.
However, now I think of it, internal graphics are supposed to use normal RAM. Yeah, your card is probably ****ed.
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source: le google