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Hi Folks,
I am playing NFS Most wanted using a AIW9600XT on a P4 3.0Ghz and 1Gig of ram, the mobo is an ASUS P4P800SE. It is painfully slow, even on the lowest detail and 640x480 it takes just under 2secs for the clock to advance 1 sec. I have a fresh install of WinXP Pro and the latest ATI drivers. Sorry, I haven't got any more specifics I am just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction to start with troubleshooting. Thank you in advance, Ian |
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Did you install the motherboard chipset drivers etc. after installing Pro
and best if before anything else? "Ian D. Weatherall" wrote in message .. . Hi Folks, I am playing NFS Most wanted using a AIW9600XT on a P4 3.0Ghz and 1Gig of ram, the mobo is an ASUS P4P800SE. It is painfully slow, even on the lowest detail and 640x480 it takes just under 2secs for the clock to advance 1 sec. I have a fresh install of WinXP Pro and the latest ATI drivers. Sorry, I haven't got any more specifics I am just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction to start with troubleshooting. Thank you in advance, Ian |
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Hi,
Thank you for the reply, yes I did, before anything else as the nic drivers are on the same cd I installed them all at the same time. I have moved on a step since posting the question, i installed the drivers without the control centre and it has definately made an improvement. Is it worth having the control centre installed? Regards, Ian "pjp" wrote in message ... Did you install the motherboard chipset drivers etc. after installing Pro and best if before anything else? "Ian D. Weatherall" wrote in message .. . Hi Folks, I am playing NFS Most wanted using a AIW9600XT on a P4 3.0Ghz and 1Gig of ram, the mobo is an ASUS P4P800SE. It is painfully slow, even on the lowest detail and 640x480 it takes just under 2secs for the clock to advance 1 sec. I have a fresh install of WinXP Pro and the latest ATI drivers. Sorry, I haven't got any more specifics I am just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction to start with troubleshooting. Thank you in advance, Ian |
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No idea. I'm using an older Radeon 7200 VIVO so I've left the drivers get
very outdated as it all works as is. Newest setup has a nVidia card in it. Of the two, nVidia's been a lot less hassle but most problems revolve around Radeon's VIVO. Never again, I'll get a separate tuner card from now on. "Ian D. Weatherall" wrote in message .. . Hi, Thank you for the reply, yes I did, before anything else as the nic drivers are on the same cd I installed them all at the same time. I have moved on a step since posting the question, i installed the drivers without the control centre and it has definately made an improvement. Is it worth having the control centre installed? Regards, Ian "pjp" wrote in message ... Did you install the motherboard chipset drivers etc. after installing Pro and best if before anything else? "Ian D. Weatherall" wrote in message .. . Hi Folks, I am playing NFS Most wanted using a AIW9600XT on a P4 3.0Ghz and 1Gig of ram, the mobo is an ASUS P4P800SE. It is painfully slow, even on the lowest detail and 640x480 it takes just under 2secs for the clock to advance 1 sec. I have a fresh install of WinXP Pro and the latest ATI drivers. Sorry, I haven't got any more specifics I am just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction to start with troubleshooting. Thank you in advance, Ian |
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"Ian D. Weatherall" wrote in message .. . Hi Folks, I am playing NFS Most wanted using a AIW9600XT on a P4 3.0Ghz and 1Gig of ram, the mobo is an ASUS P4P800SE. It is painfully slow, even on the lowest detail and 640x480 it takes just under 2secs for the clock to advance 1 sec. I have a fresh install of WinXP Pro and the latest ATI drivers. Sorry, I haven't got any more specifics I am just hoping somebody can point me in the right direction to start with troubleshooting. Thank you in advance, Ian install the drivers properly |
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On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:21:59 +0100, Ian D. Weatherall
wrote: Hi, Thank you for the reply, yes I did, before anything else as the nic drivers are on the same cd I installed them all at the same time. I have moved on a step since posting the question, i installed the drivers without the control centre and it has definately made an improvement. Is it worth having the control centre installed? Regards, Ian Control Centre won't affect the performance of your game. It sounds like you need to either address the motherboard drivers again or look hard at your system BIOS. Performance that bad points to a nasty in one of those areas. try to (in this order) remove ATI drivers, re-install board drivers, reboot, re-install ATI drivers. Oh and check that DirectX is in good order for the hell of it. Quickest way to get the latest 9.0c is to SP2 your Windows XP. In dxdiag, do you pass the D3D tests and is acceleration showing as enabled? Finally look in BIOS and see what's happening, make sure you have a sensible AGP aperture at least equal to the memory of the 9600, and that the BIOS is enabling 8xAGP, 4X at least. When all this is done, look at the Control Centre and see that all is well in the SmartGart display. If FastWrites will work for you then enable them in BIOS and see that SmartGart shows this. Start with all this and see how you get on! Best, Ian. --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0615-0, 08/04/2006 Tested on: 09/04/2006 01:04:51 avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2005 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com |
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