Problems running game on LOW settings and Sound issues?!

Okay,

So I just installed the game the other night. I had not upgraded my PC in years, but I still installed this game as I assumed it would run decent. I played the Starcraft Beta and the game played smooth on low settings.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the full game. I experienced some lag on single-player (did not even touch multi-player) and got the occasional message saying I ran out of pool memory page (sp?).

So I went out, bought a whole new videocard and upgraded my ram memory (from 525 mb (something like that) to 2 GB). I assumed this would mean I would be able to at least run the game at a decent level on medium graphic settings. I was wrong. The game now runs worse than it did with my old outdated video card, it lags and feels very choppy on LOW settings! How is this possible? Usually common logic says that something more powerful and superior should do a better job than something that was worse before...

To add to this problem my sound also got fu@$%ed up. My sounds works perfectly fine when not ingame, but ingame I keep hear a strange echo and some "glitchy" sounding computer sounds... weird! I would hear this from the background music, along with each Unit responses... how did a brand new videocard manage to %*#@* up my gameplay, and at the same time the sound/music? I am speechless.

Since I am not very computer savy, I have just copy/pasted my PC info from CPU-Z to illustrate.



I also tried canyourunit.com and it told me I should be able to run it at minimal settings. It's a shame the actual game can't see this!



I'm not trying to run the game on Ultra settings here or anything... all I want is to be able to play the game smoothly on either Low/Medium settings without the lag/choppyness and sound issues. I am able to play Warcraft 3 perfectly!

Any help here would be very much appreciated! Thank you!

Edit: If it would help, I run my PC on a Windows XP Pro on 32 bit.

 

I think you may need to upgrade your computer. What year did you buy it. If you have too many programs running then it will lag up the game and the audio on the game will affect the game-play put everything to the lowest setting if that doesn't work try buying a new computer with a better processor and open up the disk cleanup and windows maintenance stuff i have trouble running Starcraft II on my computer as well so if that doesn't work then i dont know what else to tell you hope it works for you

 

According to Blizzard, your computer isn't great but is better than minimum and you should be able to run it.

Try upgrading drivers and then google around, there's a bunch of variables.txt lines you can add, things like a memory pool cap that might help. If your soundcard is onboard, asus might have a driver upgrade for that.

 

What type of video card is this? Radeon HD 4670? This should be fine.
One big issue is you hopelessly outdated Pentium 4 single core CPU, but you won't be able to upgrade this anyways without buying ann new components... so this cannot be changed.

What video card did you have installed before your new Radeon HD? If it was Nvidia, did you properly de-install the Detonator driver?


Btw: Warcarft 3 running smoothly says nothing about SC2. There are 8 years between those 2 games.

 

Go here for information on gathering additional information on your machine. While we get quiet a bit from CPUz (I would run GPUz too for more info on the video card), dxdiag might provide us with information on your sound card.

Once we know what you are running for sound, perhaps we can track down a new sound driver for you.

Also, do you know your motherboards make and model? We could look into whether you can upgrade to a coreDuo or the like for the CPU. Sounds like the sound is the thing to try addressing first though.

 

Here you go... and about the Motherboard, I know it isn't anything special and have been told its old. I'll have to back to you on the name of it though.

 

Use Internet Explorer and load the Creative Software Auto Update Page. Hopefully this will let you download a non Windows built-in driver for your Sound Blaster card. Also, your ATI 4600 series card is AGP? lol Where did you get that? lol

 

I tried that website in Internet Explorer, but it only brought me here... http://support.creative.com/welcome.aspx

About the video card, I got it at Tiger Direct. http://www.tigerdirect.ca/

 

Damn Creative and their ****ty driver support. From what I can tell on their cryptic driver downloads page, this is the newest driver that you can get. Its dated 2003-June-03 which is much newer then what is listed in your dxdiag shots.

I don't know if any custom drivers for this card still exist. Creative just loves people who try to help. I would wonder if this card would run better with out-of-the-box drivers in a newer OS.. but.. your configuration would probably be best left in XP.

If those drivers don't work, let me know... I'm trying to track down that Device ID: listed in your sound tab, but I don't think I'm typing it right (card could be some misc OEM card that needs a particular driver GAH I hate Creative... sorry).

 

Can you tell me the name of the driver, so I can look for it manually on their website? Your link only brings me to a general page of all their products. Thanks.

 

WTF I hate creatives website. Look up under the support section, software/drivers for Sound Blaster Live. Get the driver package dated 2003-June-03. Its hard to tell its a driver, because of creatives poor use of the English language.

This link should be a list of software for the card.

 

Might as well stop posting the Creative links since they all go the same "Welcome" page all the time lol

Yeah, I'm a little confused here. So I click on "Sound Blaster" on the Support page, than it shows me a bunch of images of Sound Blaster cards... which one do I click on? Thanks.