The only answer I could think of is your motherboard might be one of the older 1.0 complient motherboards. So even if you put 2.0 video card in a 1.0 motherboard you simple won't have the bandwidth to operate the 2.0 drivers.
PCI-E cards started out with a narrow bandwidth which was designated 1.0.
They still had twice the bandwidth of AGPx8. You can load all the 2.0 drivers you want but if you don't have the machine for it they just won't work.
I think.
Guess what I've been doing for the last 35 minutes. :confused:
Reviewing said scenario.
So I would like to applogize for my previous entry.
yup removeing shellholes, landlables, smoke and anythingelse you can disable
would help cure your situation.
Unless you would like to buy a new i7 computer.
Sounds like to me your system could use a tune-up.
Running your providers antivirus and other tune-up apps (example Norton or McAfee) may help cure your problem.
Defraging harddrive helps.
Down loading motherboard and video card drivers from manufacturers website to upgrade your drivers may help.
To help your computer compute max out your memory to the fastest your motherboard can handle.
There is no reason you sould have to wait 10-15 minutes for your sytem to compute per turn.
There may some files missing in your operating system.
What ever operating system you are using go to website and have them run a scan to insure proper functioning. (Like windows XP)
I've had the same problem just can't remember what I did to cure the problem
but these are some of procedetures I used.
I to have a slow system and mine computes faster than that now.
AMD Athlon XP 2500 (fsb of 333) 1.8 Mhz
e-GeForce 6200
3 Gigs of DDR that runs at 400 Mhz