Computer is a Dell Optiplex GX620, 3.2 GHz P-D with 3 GB of RAM. Just put in a nVidia GeForce 6800 video card (256 mb of video ram). I got the card for free to replace the Dell Chipset graphics (aka on-board graphics). The only video card in the machine was a digital converter card. I removed that, popped the new card in, XP Pro saw the card, installed drivers, reboot and all was good. About 30 minutes into using it, all of the animation and video playback (mainly MOV's through Picasa) were really choppy and it won't improve. I'm talking about 1-2 frames per second for a low res MOV file.

According to nVidia, I have the latest drivers installed. Does this sound like an overheating problem? It doesn't get better after the machine sits turned off. It only ran good during that initial install. I've reinstalled the drivers and such as well. Any other ideas?

3/21/2010 9:53:30 PM

Well to rule out overheating download the nvidia system monitor software and check the temps. That doesn't necessarily sound like a card overheating though.

3/21/2010 10:20:27 PM

manually install the latest drivers from the nvidia website

3/21/2010 11:32:24 PM