[QUOTE="lrgcjg"]I helped someone else with the same issue, uninstall your videocard drivers in device manager, reboot, and install the updated nvidia drivers, that should resolve the issue.:)Sireph

Thanks.

Is it likely an issue with the game or my pc? both?

Did that work for you?

Since you are not the first person I have seen with this issue, it's probably a vista/nvidia driver issue.

Yeah. That was actually what gave me such a problem. My computer rejected the new driver until I installed it in safe mode. Its what made Bioshock even playable in the first place.Sireph

What do you mean it rejected the driver? Did it say that you used the wrong version?

Even if I alternate slots they stay DDR200 :(Kavok

BIOS reset work?

Also when I uploaded my video to my computer, the computer screen in the video gets all wavy and pixely. Is there any way to edit this and have it not like this?guitarer1

That's not fixable, its an optical effect between the refresh rate of the monitor and the camera's image capture rate.

EDIT:Well I guess you could up the refresh rate but it's likely that you will still have issues.

Ircgjg (or whatever the fack) has no clue what he is talking about. There will be virtually no speed boost in anything except some multi-threaded apps and extreme multitasking. Clock speed matters more than number of cores when it comes to Core 2. Get an e6550 and upgrade when intel releases its real quad cores (these are just two dual cores on one die).imrlybord7

Um, yea, that is what I said. Read what I posted before you say I don't know what I'm talking about.

okay, and most/all futures games will? all new games will run faster, where as older games will run slower? Thanks for the help.

cheers

-D'artagnan

-Dartagnan-

You're welcome, just keep in mind that by a short list I mean I can think of six games and only 3 engines (and one of the engines is not released yet, and the other won't add multi-processing until October) that will take advantage of it right now.

Okay, so I SHOULD ge ta quad core, it IS worth it.

cheers

-D'artagnan

-Dartagnan-

It's worth it if you multi-task or play the very short list of games written to take advantage of the additional processors, yes.

Let me put it this way, in games that don't use multi-processing, the faster core 2 duo would be better because the program only uses one of the processors and just ignores the other core; in extremely cutting edge games like bioshock, half life 2 episode 2, and crysis, the quad core is better because it will actually use the other processors instead of just letting them sit there.

so you are saying it will go FASTER than a dual core processor, or slower?

cheers

-D'artagnan

-Dartagnan-

From a theoretical computer science perspective, 2x faster; but, in reality probably not up to the full 2x faster, I'd be willing to bet that other components like your GPU and RAM will cause slowdowns and bottlenecks, it will still be an improvement though.