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Only works with NVIDIA & SoftR9700 cards

Before you go out to the stores and buy a new $$200-300 Graphics Card consider this.
Last night I downloaded a tweaking tool which lets you increase you ram up to 50%(depending on your system).

I only increase my core and memory ram to 40% and got amazing results. My NBA Live 2003 game works fine now, but I was also thinking of getting a new Graphic Card, but after downloading this program and increasing my ram, I DON'T NEED A NEW CARD.
Before, I played NBA Live 2003 on medium settings with no reflections, because my frame rate dropped dramasticlly, but now I have high shadows, high reflections and my game is even better.
Why you can increase Ram?????
You can increase ram because all manufactorers that make the card, used a medium setting and do not put your card to maximim. I also did not put it to maximum because of procations and you should also not to, but even if you don't, there will be a increase in preformance.
Now, because the makers of the card only have it to medium preformance, you have the ability to increase it 40-50% without harming your machine. I tryed setting mine to 70% more and my card did not damage but I have lines on the screen going back and forth. So I set it to lower and now I am getting clear picture with increased speed.
This method is saver the overclocking because you have a better program to work with that is settings are minimized so you cannot damage your card.

Before I start, this program cannot damage your card if you follow my steps.

1>First go download this tool: www.guru3d.com/files/ > select video utilities from the list > select overclocking and tweaking from the list> now select the RIVA TUNER2.0+SOFTR9700 FROM THE LIST AND GO DOWNLAODING IT. After downloading it, unzip it, after unzipping it, install it.

2>Open the progrgram called RiveTuner in you start>program file directory.

3>After oppening it, click on the stettings tab at the top of the program.
4>Now you will see check boxes and other things. Go down where it says RUN WINDOWS AT STARTUP AND CHECK THAT BOX. Then select APPLY at the bottom of the page.
5>Go back to the main settings by selecting the Main tab option at the top.
6>Now go down to where it says Driver settings and it is displayed in Blue Color. If you can find it, it is in the middle of the open program.
7>Look down a little bit and you can see that it says DETONATOR DETECTED. Now to the right of that name, there is a CUSTOMIZ BUTTON: CLICK ON IT.
8>After clicking on customiz, select the first option in the list: it is also called customize system settings.
9>After clicking on that, there will be uncheck box that says: ENABLE DRIVER LEVEL HARDWARE OVERCLOCKING: Click on it. Then a box should come up and click on dectect now.
10> Now you will see 2 items. 1 is Core clock and the other is Memory Clock. To be sure that you don't get any damage, only increase both by 5% at a time and then go test at the bottom of the page. After doing this click on the Apply overclocking at windows start up settings. Now click ock and leave the program and try playing your game. If you don't see much improvement, increase you core and memory clock 5%.
Note: You can increase you memory clock more then you can increase the core because there is more memory then core of graphic card drivers.
Do not increase you core more then your memory becaue it might damage and your picture quality will drop:
MY SETTINGS> Normal settings before overclocking Core was 175, memory was 334.
My SETTINGS NOW> core 205 and memory is 392 without any damage or loss of picture quality.

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Thanks for the heads up man, i'm a-download it right now .

Dont tell me this is the first time you people heard of overclocking?

Word to the wise....

GO slowly

lest you fry your hardware...

This will not burn you hardware and I personally am using this program for 3 days straight. At one point, I let the Computer play against the computer for a 12 quarter lenght game and i did not notice any smells that indicate burning. I alos oppeneed up my proccess from inside and check and it all cool.

how do u make the com play aainst the com?

To make the computer play against each other, before a game, put the select controller in the middel so that no user will be using it. If you do this, the comptuer will play against itself. I noticed that when they play each other, they get normal NBA scores and resutls, be we users get way high scores.

Overclocking ANY card is dangerous, the cards are optimized for safety and best performance. If the card could run 20% better safely why would the company not ship it like this, because it is running at its best now. Sure you could probably add 5% without a problem but overclocking is dumb. Unless you have extra cooling and fans you are asking for trouble, and BTW your warranty is void if you overclock the card. And you may not see the effects today but your cards life could be cut by 50% and once the card is fried you are screwed! And the card won't fry slowly so you can stop it, it will just die and then you have to buy a new one.

Just a warning for my fellow NBA gamers.

Your right, But I only increased my card to the safest point. You mentioned that increasing it 5% will not damage. I only increased it about 6% and my game results and preformance had increased about 29%. I am not trying to make people do this, but the once that know about overlocking, this is a good program and I consider it the best. This program will let increase your ram to 50%, BUT there is a twist in this program. It says you increased it 50% but in actuall you only increased it about 10%. The program is made that you could not possably increase it 25 the most and if you try, it will freeze and you have to restart you PC. Like I have sad before. If you increase it about 5-7%, it will not burn your card, it will give you a better game play with results depending on your card.

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This program also has options which allow you to check them off and get better game play because you can remove unimportant proccess while playing the game. In ALL, this program could increase your game by about 40% with all the overclocking and option. Using the options, it will not burn your card, this does not have anything to do with your card. It only concernts about proccesses and preformance

Wow you discovered overclocking!

Anyway, increasing the core does almost nothing but more chances of screwing your card, is the memory speed what makes the performance leap.

Try increasing 5%, and test it with 3dMark2001 SE, if it's ok there'll be no rubbish in the screen, increase it a 5% more and test it...

And overclocking cards is nothing dangerous, just try it and love it

Go here for nice tips and tricks http://www.overclockers.com . Newbies guides also.

Thanks for the Tip man. I have stopped overlocking because I have found a new option in the program. This option lets the Computer increase frame rates. For Example: All Computer have a 3 frames per second ahead time before the frame even comes out. But now, in this option, the frame can be increase and make the game run faster. Before, I had a 3 frame per second ahead time, now I have a 255 frame per second ahead time. This willl not burn your card or do anything. Its just a normal tool which makes your CPU more officent and increase games speeds only. All this is build in all computers but to customise it , you need to download this program and do it. Well, I think I am done overclockin, maybe I will try overclocking about 10% and then I will get even better results without any damage.

how do you increased the frame rates w/o overclocking??u said 3 fps then u made it 255.. how did you do it??i downloaded it and overclocked my card..what settings will i change??

Ok, here are the steps to increasing frames. This will not increase frames to 255, It will increase it probably only 5-10 max. I used to get 30 frames and now i get 34-41.

Open the Riva Tuner program.

1>Go to the customize option for the detenator.
2>Find the 2nd picture going from left to right and click on it.
3>Go to the tab option and select VSync
4>You will see a thing that says Prerender limit, set it to the hightest number that it can go to.
5>Select Apply

Now to set the other Prerender limit.
1>Go to the customize option for the detenator.
2>Find the 3rd picture going from left to rigtht and click on it.
3>Go to the tab option and selcet VSync
4>You will see a thing that says Prerender limit,set it to the highest number that it can go to.
5>Select Apply

By increasing the Prerender limit. Your NBA Live 2003 into video will be slow and you will notice low frames, but the game will run faster. Only the video will be slow.
For my opinion, I never even watch the video, I rather have faster gameplay then watch that shit.

If you do overclocking, your gameplay will increase more if you add more prerender limit. I only recomend you to increase your overclocking for core to 5-7% and for memory increase it 8-10%. It will never damage your card and you will have satisfied game play.

look people first of all this procedure is called overclocking and its very dangerous because I was in my friends house when he burned his card...
to tell you the truth... to all people with less then geforce3 ti 64mb it wont even matter... to people that are running in medium settings and want to have a change from medium to high dont count on it... but if you already have a strong card and running in high details and want to increase a bit something... then you can do it.

Yes this guy is right, but if you are gettting choppy picture, you can increase it just a little bit do at least the game runs a littel somother without choppynes and damage

If you guys are gonna overclock..i suggest you get an extra fan/heatsink for your card if you intend to push it anywhere near a range where you would see a nice performance gain (>25% factory). Even if you don't notice any problems after a day or two..it doesn't mean there aren't any problems at all with overheating. Seeing crap on your screen and random lockups are good signs you've pushed it too far and are sometimes subtle especially if you've let it run for a while and forgotten. Furthermore, I think it's only a good idea to overclock if you have a processor that's reasonably fast. There's no point fooling yourself by overclocking your geforce4 ti if you have a lowly PIII 700 paired with it since the bottleneck is your cpu..not your graphics card. The fast cards normally scale up as your cpu clockspeed increases. Just my $0.02.

hey emir45..just out of curiousity which nvidia card are you using?

I am using a navidia geforce 2 mx 100/200 and the overclocking did not brake my pc
I even check the inside and i found a extra fan that is directly blowing at the chip and i increase my overclocking to 14%, It is running for 4 datys and no problem. Sometimes i let a game run and i open the pc and look if it is overheating while the game is running. now sweat.

If you have a slow pc, do not overclock over 10%. I have a p4 1.6 ghz and a extra fan and it is ok. Do not use if you have no fan blowing at the card.

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well i don't really expect that to break your computer...but honestly..with a p4 1.6...if you could spare the money for a newer graphics card (even a low end geforce4 mx440 or a radeon 9000) it'd do wonders..around a 70-80% increase in my opinion..since the bottleneck to your rig is DEFINITELY your graphics card...but if you're able to squeeze a few more frames out of it..good stuff.

I know, but i dont know how much the graphic cards cost

Whats up. I am just posting it and to tell you people, i have been using the overlocking tool and overlocked my card for 15% in memory and core.
By now my pc is still fine and no trouble has occured. I am telling you, this shit works. Most people consider it the best program for tweaking cards.

I've tried emir's suggestion and downloaded the RiveTuner. I don't know if I'm just dumb or what but I barely notice any difference in the framerates.

My default clockspeeds (GPU and memory) are 175 and 400 (I think) in RivaTuner. As far as I know, its clockspeeds should be around 200+ and 500Mhz. (Correct me if I'm mistaken.) Anyway, like what emir has suggested, 5-10% max. I'm using a GeForce3 Ti200 64Mb DDR, by the way.

I haven't tried exceeding the clockspeed when an 'exclamation point' appears; this appears when I reach 220+ and 500+Mhz.

Since none of you supports the idea of overclocking, what about increasing the framerates using the VSync? Is this harmful or what?

Another thing, I always leave one side of my computer casing open. Don't you think it'd get a more proper ventilation rather than having another fan?

if your normall clockspeeds are 200 and 400, you should increase both by 15 percent. Also increase the pritender limit to 9 and 255 frames and it wil give you the restults. If you dont know what i am talking about go and read through this post and find it. I already have posted this