fresh winxp install

Hello, I am stuck. I just bought a used xp3800 dual core, an Asus A8N32 -
sli mobo, an EVGA 7800 gt sli videocard. 2 gigs of ddr 400 running in dual
core. I have 2 western digital 120 gig sata hard drives running in a raid 0
setup. Heres my problem I just did a fresh format and install winxp pro 32
bit edition. I didnt have a cd with the mobo so I went to Nvidia and
downloaded the chipset and videocard drivers. I also downloaded and
installed the AMD cpu driver. I then went to Asus and installed all the
devices. Whenever I try to run Battlefield 2 the system runs really slow,
the game is so choppy its unplayable. Did I forget to install a driver or
something ? I have avg free antivirus running, I did a check with
trendmicro free online scan and didnt find any viruses. My g15 keyboard
shows my cpu is 50% and the ram is 23 %. What did I forget ? or do I need
a 64 bit windows ? thanks

 

Look in hardware devices for any problems

 

Do you have two cpu diagrams when viewing the "performance" in taskmanager?
If the game uses 50% total cpu time, it probably uses one core only.
But then, one core of a 3800x2 gives just 1.8 GHz ... a single core
athlonxp3000 may beat that performance if only one core is used.
Yes, I didn't count memory and cache performance and other enhancements
here. Point is, a 6000x2 is not expensive either.

 

Agreed. Look in device manager, make sure there aren't any yellow
question marks.

Also try getting rid of the RAID 0 setup and see if it helps.

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