PC issues - is it PES of my PC flagging??

[Bunford]

My PC spec is:

CPU: Core 2 Duo @ 2.4GHz
RAM: 2GB DDR2 800MHz
GFX: 7900GS 256MB DDR3

In settings, my spec is all green and falls into being able to play on high quality. However, when I play PES2010 original, it is usually fine (though not always). As soon as I apply a patch, it's very hard to play.

My issues seem to be gameplay stutters lots throughout a whole match apart from spells of 5 or so seconds a couple of times during a match. Players/refs may have strange pixelated features, like hair gone and strange red/white/neon green/neon pink pixels replace feature, usually hair. I have strange large lines cutting or tearing across the screen coming from random players/refs/linesmens hands/heads.

Strange thing is, it only seems to happen in PES2010. PES2009 is fine, with patches. Though, in PES2010, it is unplayable with a patch, and tried SMPatch, PESEdit.com patch and All Nations Teams patch, all with same results.

Stranger still is when I then quit PES2010 and go to my desktop, I get strange pixelated lines going across the screen at random points and can only get rid of them by restarting my computer. All other games and applications etc are fine and PES is the only one that does this.

Does this mean my PC is flagging? If so, is it just my graphics card? What cheaper, but good graphics card can I play to play it all on highest quality?

 

[Sabatasso]

Geforce 260 or better, cheap and reliable.

 

[theman]

what psu you got, if you got 50-60quid to spare, buy an ati radeon 5450 like this one: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/193879, ive bought one and plays pes 2010 with no problems

 

[theman]

and upgrade your cpu to a quad and put in 3gb of ddr2 1066mhz, then you will have a high performance pc

 

[Sweey]

and upgrade your cpu to a quad and put in 3gb of ddr2 1066mhz, then you will have a high performance pc

Hardly necessary if he only plays games such as PES 2010 and not the likes of Crysis, Supreme Commander, Assassin's Creed 2, Mass Effect 2 etc.

Oh and anyone buying a quad core these days really ought to be getting DDR3 RAM with it - and at least 4GB of it to take advantage of a 64-bit OS.

 

[theman]

Oh and anyone buying a quad core these days really ought to be getting DDR3 RAM with it - and at least 4GB of it to take advantage of a 64-bit OS.

you seen how much ddr3 costs???
and his pc is most likely to be ddr2 since he has a c2d, so it would be much more cost effective if he got a c2q, 3gb ddr2 ram and a decent gfx card, also it depends which os he is using,

Also what are the full specs of your pc?

 

[Sweey]

you seen how much ddr3 costs???
and his pc is most likely to be ddr2 since he has a c2d, so it would be much more cost effective if he got a c2q, 3gb ddr2 ram and a decent gfx card, also it depends which os he is using,

Also what are the full specs of your pc?

But you told him to get a quad core which would mean a new motherboard and it'd be better to go the DDR3 route particularly as the newest range of processors and motherboards give you more for less but support DDR3 only.

I've seen the price of DDR3, got 6GB of it myself :> - but that's all why I'm wondering what sort of gaming he does. The graphics card in his existing setup is clearly the bottleneck.

My specs are here: http://www.pesgaming.com/showthread.php?t=5776&page=16

 

[Sabatasso]

a geforce 260 with his existing setup would be enough to play most games at a reasonable GFX setting.

Dual Core is not inferior to Quad Core on 99% of the games that release today, if a game actually take advantage of more than one processor it only use two, tops.

If he buy a geforce 260, a set of 4gb ram and toss the old ram out the window, he's gonna be a happy gamer for a while in my opinion, and at a reasonable price.

 

[Sweey]

a geforce 260 with his existing setup would be enough to play most games at a reasonable GFX setting.

Dual Core is not inferior to Quad Core on 99% of the games that release today, if a game actually take advantage of more than one processor it only use two, tops.

If he buy a geforce 260, a set of 4gb ram and toss the old ram out the window, he's gonna be a happy gamer for a while in my opinion, and at a reasonable price.

Depending on the PSU of course.

4GB RAM on a 32-bit OS is no better than 3GB - a 32-bit OS can only access a total of 4GB memory and if he's using a 1GB graphics card he'll be able to access a maximum of 3GB memory though more likely 2.75GB.

 

[Sabatasso]

Almost anyone using a dual core can use a 64bit OS, and take advantage of 4GB ram. None of the dual cores I've "fixed" have had any trouble installing win7 64 at least. Though I've only done it on 5 machines lately.

But you're probably more of a hardware wiz than me Don Sweey, I've only learned a few tricks mostly by helping my "always broke" brothers get their old computers to perform at a satisfactory level with as little money as possible.

Win7 64, 4gb ram and a geforce 260 has been key elements in accomplishing just that lately, in Norway the above hardware are quite cheap. Windows 7 is not cheap, but still worth it imho, Win Vista is crappy and XP is too old.

 

[Sweey]

Of course dual core machines can use a 64-bit OS. Theoretically single cores can too - I wasn't the one initially suggested a quad core, I actually went with you on this one but given prices these days, going that extra for two cores remains a viable option for future-proofing.

Windows 7 is indeed worth it. I anticipate XP support to be pulled in the coming months and Vista was clearly not ideal.

He definitely needs a new graphics card with the possible requirement of a new PSU. A bit more RAM would be a nice addition for him. The CPU will become the bottleneck but if he isn't playing high-end games, all will be fine.