so, like, I had an ATI Radeon 9200 (256mb) that was kinda getting old so I shelled $320 for a new AGP8x Geforce 6800GT
Now I am getting fuck shit framerates in everything, most notably anything running on the Half-Life 2 engine. Like, it drops below 20 fps sometimes and I am just displeased in general.
What to do?
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Anonymous2005-05-30 7:12
First of all try disabling antialiasing. If that doesn't solve it, try uninstalling all the drivers, getting the Omega drivers, making sure you have 3D acceleration (I think so, you'd have like 1 fps if you didn't), then play with the game and graphics options.
You got an amazing card. It should do HL2 without a sweat.
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Anonymous2005-05-30 22:45
meh, im getting the same problem as >>1 too.
im using rad9800pro and 6600gt
no matter what i do framerate wont ever stay over 50
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Anonymous2005-05-31 2:33
sounds like a driver issue, as that is a quality card. It might be a motherboard issue. Also, it might be the card itself has some sort of manufacturing defect, like a loose heatsink or unseated RAM. Get an RMA if other solutions do not work.
Well, that depends on your processor and options too; regardless what they say 50 fps is fairly high and not all of the most demanding games will do that in all hardware.
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same as !lnkYxlAbaw2005-06-01 1:00
well, it drops down to 1 sometimes and its almost not playable.
both of my pc uses p4 2.0, and both uses omega driver.
as for rad9800, i have it replaced once and same result.
do you think cpu is too slow?
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Anonymous2005-06-01 3:54
Is the hard disk active while that happens? I.e. is your HD led flashing or constantly on?
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GearheadX2005-06-02 12:44
>>7
Are you suggesting that 1 is suffering from insufficient RAM? It might be soemthing to look into. Also, since XP uses a bit of virutal memory no matter what, make sure that your disk is defragged and that your page file has been set to a single, consistant size. Dynamic pagefile allocation ranges, I've discoveredm tend to cause fragmentation.
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Anonymous2005-06-02 22:36
i hav 1g of ram
and 3g of virtual mem w/o any fragments on my disk
and my disk is not active when it happens too.
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Anonymous2005-06-03 22:42
Sounds like a driver issue.
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Anonymous2005-06-05 22:47
ive been using catalyst and omega thou.
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Anonymous2005-06-06 1:12
yes.. those are for your >>>AIT<<< card and will not work very well with your new >>>nVIDIA<<< card, lmao
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Anonymous2005-06-07 5:34
Uninstall all ATI stuff, then uninstall ani nVidia stuff, then uninstall Omega drivers and any videocard stuff ever, then install the Omega drivers for nVidia, then install the latest DirectX.