When playing call of duty 2
thghost recon advanced war fighter

I have it on low as possible and still sticks non stop surely the card cant be that bad

i even wiped my harddrive and clean installed the x0p but it still the same

p4 3ghz
512 mb drr 3200 ram
160gb hard drive

just done a test for call of duty 2 and every thing seems good apart from this

Minimum: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP equivalent
You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz

i only have one proccesssor though and the other thing whats low is windows xp service pack on but all rest are full exept or one under

also windows xp sp 1 is just above minimum i need help

why are they all jerky but most games i have played on this pc b4 like doom 3 have been flawless

raMinimum Requirements

1, 4 GHz Prozessor (Celeron / Duron)

512 MB RAM

ATi Radeon 9200 / GeForce 4
Optimum Requirements

2, 5 GHz Prozessor (Athlon XP / Pentium 4)

1 GB RAM

ATi Radeon 9800XT / GeForce FX 5900

and this is off some online test thing for cod 2

CPU
Minimum: Pentium 4 or Athlon XP
You Have: 2 processors running - Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz PASS
CPU Speed
Minimum: 1.4 GHz (Pentium) or 1700+ (Athlon)
You Have: 3.0 GHz PASS
System RAM
Minimum: 256 MB
You Have: 511.2 MB PASS
Operating System
Minimum: English version of Windows 2000/XP
You Have: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 1 (Build 2600) PASS
Video Card
Minimum: 3D Hardware accelerated card required - 100% DirectX 9.0c compatible 64 MB (NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra+ /ATI Radeon 8500+)
You Have: RADEON 9800 PRO (RADEON 9800 PRO AGP (0x4E48)) PASS
Video Card Features - Minimum attributes of your Video Card Video RAM: Required - 64 MB , You have - 128.0 MB
Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required - Yes , You have - Yes
Vertex Shader Ver.: Required - 1.1 , You have - 2.0
Pixel Shader Ver.: Required - 1.1 , You have - 2.0

but i only have one procesocr why it say i have 2

ghost recons system requiremnts just found

System Requirements

Minimum:
Processor: Intel or AMD, 2 GHz
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Disk Space: 850 MB
Graphics Card: 128 MB DX9.0c compatible card,
GeForce 6200 or higher
Radeon 9600 or higher
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive : x2 read speed
DirectX Version: 9.0c
Network: High-speed modem with 64 Kbits of data transfer upload rate for a client, 512Kbits of data transfer upload rate for a server on a full game.

Recommended Configuration:
Processor: Intel or AMD 2.8 GHz
Operating System: Windows 2000/XP
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Disk Space: 850 MB
Graphics Card: 256 MB DX9.0c compatible card,
Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible
CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive : x2 read speed
DirectX Version: 9.0c
Network: High-Speed Modem with 128 Kbits of data transfer upload rate for a client, 512Kbits of data transfer upload rate for a server on a full game.

Graphics Cards Supported:
Radeon 9600
Radeon 9700
Radeon 9800
Radeon X300
Radeon X600
Radeon X800
Radeon X1600
Radeon X1800
Radeon X1900

GeForce 6200
GeForce 6600
GeForce 6800
GeForce 7800

but do you know why call of duty is lagging like hell and crashing even after formatting also ghost recon what is even worse.

is it graphics or memory or processor

I tryed them all does service pack two make a difference.

Some one said 512mb is not good enough to play newer games on xp is this true

230-280mb varys