Does Chankast have issues with an Intel Celeron D?

[greasyspoon]

I want to know if its my graphics card , or my processor that makes Chankast run slow. I just bought my video card about a month ago, and my computer is about 9 months old. Here is Specs:

Intel Celeron D
2.67 GHZ
Diamond Stealth With Radeon 9250 128 MB GFX card(It says gfx are by ATI, and my control panel says ATI)
512 RAM

 

[Whirlinurd]

I can only say that Chankast will run as fast as your processor will allow. Maybe your graphics card will lack some computational power because it's only supports up to directx 8.1. Chankast should be Directx 9 optimised so that difference could give a small performance drop. Maybe you can say how slow Chankast works and if it's with or without a game?

If you run a lot of software in the background it could impact the performance also. Also make sure you have the latest ATI Catalyst 5.4 driver installed with old control panel (recommended) or with Catalyst Control Center. As for the mainboard drivers like Intel Chipset Identification Utility for Intel or Via Hyperon 4in1 for Via chipsets. Check at you mainboard manufacturer. Also use WHQL certified audio drivers with a directx 9 audio card and hardware sound buffers. Software sound buffers will use CPU to process audio.

Also open up your Task manager and see if there aren't any processes that shouldn't be there or using too much cpu and if you can remove them without problems.

Finally you can run your Chankast on AboveNormal Priority through the Task Manager or through Chankast if you are using Chankast Utilities but this is generally not recommended. Also you can overclock/underclock Chankast with +/- on the keypad to get a bit more speed and a more stable framerate.

Hope this helps, (probably not)

 

[Clements]

Celeron's are generally very slow regardless of their "GHz rating". Slow speed is not entirely unexpected with these processors. Use the overclock/underclock as detailed above.

 

[Neospy]

I heard somewhere that Celerons are slow because of their incredibly small L1 and L2 caches. I think that may be you problem......


>neospy

 

[greasyspoon]

My L2 Cache is 256Kb's. I'll also try Disabling my sound drivers and playing to see if that works any better, because I dont think my sound card has hardware sound. Also my video card specs say, it supports DirectX 9.0, but it only supports DirectX 8.1 using Smartshader.

 

[Whirlinurd]

I've checked it again and my conclusion is that the radeon 9250 GPU has DirectX 8.1 hardware support and is DirectX 9 compliance or compatable as some other site says. Yes, it supports DirectX 9 but only to work with the software directX 9 itself. As for Smartshader I can only find that it's version 1.0 and offcourse it works with the DirectX 8.1 hardware.

http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=3&id=1238

And the Celeron D. I believe that all processors have 16kb L1 cache. The L2 cache is 256kb for Celeron D's. Normally a processor has 512kb L2 cache and the Xeon's have 1mb L2 cache. The newer Xeon's, the Pentium 4 Prescott and Pentium 4 Extreme also have 2mb L3 cache for speeding up the memory operations.

You can check if your card supports Hardware buffer with dxdiag. Go to sound and press the directsound button. My test only showed support for 16bit, 22khz maximum hardware buffered sound. Not that it is that important for normal operation.

But some gamers do mind and want quality sound and buy a Soundblaster audigy. Those dumb-asses. But it's the first soundblaster that has full hardware sound, that's true. It's only a shame that that fine 24bit, 96khz doesn't work, also true.

Does anyone know if the Soundblaster Live has stable drivers now? Maybe going to buy one but the drivers always were buggy as hell.

 

[photek]

I think the problem is you graphic card. The radeon 9250 is a low end budget card that is not intended for gaming. And most company underclock them so they won't have to use a fan.

The celeron D is not a bad cpu. If you have the 2.8 ghz version it can perform like a pentium 4 at 2.4 ghz. So I don't think the problem is there.

check this benchmark from tomshardware to see how well your cpu and graphic card performs.

tomshardware cpu benchmark

benchmark of a radeon 9250 by pcstats, you card may have even lower cpu and memory clocks

 

[greasyspoon]

It says Its intended for gaming right on the package

 

[Clements]

I don't think a graphics card upgrade would help at all since Chankast is CPU limited not GPU limited. I went from a FX 5600 to 6800 Ultra and my frame rate more or less stayed the same since I did not touch the CPU. Chankast is notorious for running slow on any Intel processor anyway, let alone a Celeron.