Fps Sucks

g0t_w00tg0t_w00t Join Date: 2004-07-29 Member: 30233Members, Constellation
edited October 2004 in Tech Support
yeah, i read the guides and they havent helped at all

i just got a PowerColor 9800 Pro (i checked mem chips and its a proper pro)

i get 40-50 fps and it sucks. i can put my tnt2 back in and get 90 fer christs sake.

does ANYONE know what the prob could be? are there gfx card diagnostic progs out there to see if the pipelines on my card are fooked? like if i got a bad one?

pc specs are as follows:

AMD XP 2000+
Gigabyte GA-7VA MoBo
512MB DDR Ram (Kingston Value RAM)
40GB Seagate drive (C:\)
200GB Western Digital 7200 RPM with 8MB Cache (D:\)
Windows 2000 Pro

all my games are on D:\ so i dont lose em if windows screws up and i gotta reformat
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  • DragonMechDragonMech Join Date: 2003-09-19 Member: 21023Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
    What is the clock speed on your processor? You could be 'starving' your GPU if it's not fast enough.

    Also, have you tried disabling truform? Type:
    ati_npatch "0.0"
    ati_subdiv "0.0"

    Into your console and see if that helps.
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  • g0t_w00tg0t_w00t Join Date: 2004-07-29 Member: 30233Members, Constellation
    got both at 0.

    cpu is 1.674 GHz
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  • chaochao Join Date: 2004-01-30 Member: 25739Members, Constellation
    Have the same problem with a radeon 9600 pro...
    Tried lots of drivers and guides, nothing worked though =/
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  • DistortedDistorted Join Date: 2004-08-20 Member: 30737Members, Constellation
    for ati DEFF. USE OMEGA DRIVERS. Theres no doubt to it. They have better fps and it eats less at you cpu. Also if your going to use omega drivers you might have to use the older version of them because something is wrong with the newer ones for ns. If you are like gestating or anything and you hit your console button at the same time your whole comp freezes and you have to restart. Well happens for me anyway.

    www.omegadrivers.net

    They also have geforce. Check it out.
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  • ThelightsoldierThelightsoldier Join Date: 2004-09-24 Member: 31904Members
    well that video card is definitely overkill on the system, but none the less you should get better frame rates. not sure how, some of the suggestions given might work.
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  • theclamtheclam Join Date: 2004-08-01 Member: 30290Members
    I second the omega drivers idea.

    Also, make sure you installed your mobo chipset drivers.

    When you install the omega drivers, make sure you use Driver Cleaner to remove your old drivers.
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  • exileSoulexileSoul Join Date: 2004-07-04 Member: 29716Members
    omega got me crap fps <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> i had to reinstall my drivers that came in a box
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  • spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
    dsx.. Before you install omega, UNINSTALL the old drivers then run DRIVER CLEANER, read the instructions and clean it. Then install OMEGA drivers and use the SPECIAL OGL drivers if you only wanna play HL, if not install the normal ones for less FPS in HL.
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