hey is there a program that will tell you whats slowing a game down for e.g. the sound

card is slowing the game down becasue its crap is there a program that will tell

me this

and please tell me any other usefull programs for games

I don't think there is a program that can tell you that.

You can use FRAPS to show framerates and record demos.

says only for win 98/me

Well you did ask in the 9x, ME forum section....

Did you expect answers for say, Vista?

lawl

says only for win 98/me

so which operating system are you running?

Edited September 28, 200817 yr by bikerbrom

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i mean it only for xp/vista lol my mistakei posted it like at 4.00am in australia time so i was half asleep. i think it was 4.00 am lol

Belarc can help identify any limitations you might have then. http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html

And this will help find drivers and hardware id's. http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

As for benchmarking\other type of apps then I dunno of any others that might help you and are free.

Older win9x compatible and still free version:

http://www.321download.com/LastFreeware/page35.html#Fraps

Is this the old question of "my old game doesn't run right" on new Windows? Most reasons are that older games are using a depreciated method of doing something, like sound being choppy, or not working at all, etc. You can fix these things with the Windows Application Compatibility Toolkit. I can't tell you exactly how to do it, as I've only used it once. And that was to get the sound to work properly when running Destruction Derby for DOS. I wish I knew how to use it properly or else I would use it all the time.