I have a crappy nVidia 6150se Integrated graphics card with 256MB shared memory. I tried upgrading my graphics to an PCI-e nVidia 8400GT, failure because it hated my board, and the only card that actually worked in my computer was an nVidia 9500GT...a great card....but why they made it a "PCI" card, who knows. PCI only has 133Mhtz so throwing a 450Mhtz Core, 800Mhtz 512MB memory, and a 1300Mht shader clock was USELESS!!!
There are PCIe 9500GTs. I have one in my old slim desktop at home. Great card indeed. Still odd that they made a PCI version when the 8-series PCI ones (have an 8400GS that is now in a 2001 system) are already more than enough...must be for those "multiple displays" types.
Though now you're better off with AMD cards overall unless you need PhysX (few games use it), SLI, better Linux support, or better
average framerates across games.
As for the 6150SE, maybe it's the low amount and speed of the memory that is causing the blurring and FPS stuttering....
Is there an add-on that shows how many FPS we are getting in game? At times I get really low frame rates while racing in SAMP. Its enough to cause me to wreck often when it happens cause I can barely steer. I would like to see if there is anything that is causing lower frame rates, in which I would go around different parts of the map to see if certain situations are causing the slow down, or if its random.
I use FRAPS to check FPS, take snapshots, and record videos. I keep the FPS counter on the bottom-right corner.
Lower FPS for me is caused by dynamic map shadows, heat haze, and motion blur (first one activates on any setting medium or higher), all of which I have turned off in my SALA limits file and Stream.ini.
EDIT: GAH 16 Sakuyas, 12 Remis, and 20 Flans to run through! At this rate I'll definitely hit over 256! D:
EDIT2: Quick note on the Udon cheat: although it enables infinite sprint while it's on, if you had this ability already (by completing the burglary missions) it will remove this once the spellcard is done. So either avoid its use or use a save editor to re-enable this after saving.
EDIT3: MASSIVE CARMAGEDDON SUCCESS!
Found a
Russian CLEO traffic mod, installed it, stuck Carmageddon handling...and they'll do it automatically without the aggressive cheat! It's not as crazy yet, so I may have to crank up the values again.