His card is fast enough, the problem might be the memmory on the card, it is shared with rest of the system, and thus is not a dedicated set of ram-chips.
Because these chips are on the other side of the agp-bus, performance might take a hit if the textures are really big. Are you using a large (as in MB's) desktop wallpaper?
Try removing it, and just using an opaque background color. That might help a lot.
Offcourse testing with a speedier, card with onboard ram would also prove this.
His card is fast enough, the problem might be the memmory on the card, it is shared with rest of the system, and thus is not a dedicated set of ram-chips.
Because these chips are on the other side of the agp-bus, performance might take a hit if the textures are really big. Are you using a large (as in MB's) desktop wallpaper?
Try removing it, and just using an opaque background color. That might help a lot.
Offcourse testing with a speedier, card with onboard ram would also prove this.