Author Topic: What is the best way to make you games run smoother?  (Read 2979 times)

No, you could google "how to upgrade my computer" and find out loads of information about what each part does and their importance. You could then come back here with a list of selected parts asking for a review.
well yes but, like for valve games. The communtity here is very familiar with valve games (portal, tf2, hl, ect.) and I was hoping for some live responses from people here. So inv3rted, what do you think?

Sorry for double...computer lagged

Games are games. Valve games don't require the best hardware in the world to play, but they are still fairly demanding.

Revised search phrase: "how to upgrade my computer to play games"

biggest help is a better video card.
for even 40 bucks you could get any of several models of a 512m PCI video card that would be good enough for blockland.

more memory? even old computers have enough, and upgrading it anyways wouldnt really show much difference.
people are misled by how useful tons of memory is by stupid best buy commercials promising ram upgrades all the time.
more memory is great for multi tasking. but for simply running blockland on windows, your not going to need any kind of super computer ram count...
if your on vista and have 2g memory your fine as is.
xp, 1g is fine

play the game in full screen mode (try lower resolutions) instead of window mode.
i don't know if this is true for blockland, but as many other apps and games, windows usually gives priority memory to the active window. and when some games are put in window mode, the desktop still remains the active window instead of the game. this makes tons of slow.

lower draw distance all the way will help tons to
« Last Edit: October 21, 2009, 11:29:07 PM by Bisjac »

2gb of RAM just doesn't cut it for newer games, which I believe he is intending to play.

Why is the very best graphis card you can get at a local store? And how would I put it in my PC? Do I take It to a shop?

2gb of RAM just doesn't cut it for newer games, which I believe he is intending to play.
yeps.

you cant buy awesome parts at any store. only crap to good enough parts. and all good enough for budget computer gamers. (although they should still shop online lol)
computer places can install parts for you but its not hard to learn yourself.

Assembly is the easiest part out of building / upgrading. The hardest is knowing what does what and picking stuff that'll work. You've got a lot of research to do about your current hardware before you can upgrade anything, which is why I suggested you google these questions.

you cant buy awesome parts at any store. only crap to good enough parts. and all good enough for budget computer gamers. (although they should still shop online lol)
computer places can install parts for you but its not hard to learn yourself.
cause at bestbuy there's this 200$ geoforce thingy. I might get it for christmas.

cause at bestbuy there's this 200$ geoforce thingy. I might get it for christmas.

no!!!!!
i guarantee you that you can buy a 2-3x better card for that price online.

or buy that same one your looking at online for half the price.

best buy is not a place to go for computer gaming for any little thing.
its where people go that dont know anything about computers or being money savvy.

they dont have the models to pick from, nor anywhere decent prices

cause at bestbuy there's this 200$ geoforce thingy. I might get it for christmas.

You've got a lot of research to do about your current hardware before you can upgrade anything, which is why I suggested you google these questions.

Ok I'm back. So I'll start googling now but do you buy a specific graphic card for your computer.

Better yet buy a new computer.