can anyone explain this?

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by airman_slacker, Aug 20, 2004.

  1. airman_slacker

    airman_slacker Private E-2

    For troubleshooting purposes, I removed my Radeon 9000Pro and installed a good ol PCI VooDoo3 card to see if my video card is causing any conflicts and making my system do weird things (like the sound/vidoe hanging at random times). Now that I have the VooDoo installed, my computer is like twice as fast. What's the dilly yo? Anyone got any clues?
     
  2. Crimson_Wolf82

    Crimson_Wolf82 Private E-2

    Yeah,,, ATI makes crap, has always made crap, and always will make crap. I remember being a loyal customer of ATI mainly because I saw other graphics companies come and go and ATI has always been at their heels. This was back in the Rage Pro days, the main reason for my loyalty was because I was afraid that with other products, I would spend more money and get even more glitches and anomalies, then about a year ago I decided to upgrade and gave Nvidia a try. To my suprise, there were absolutely no graphics glitches, no Lock-ups (which I had come to expect from all games) and absolutely no choppiness/skipping. I could'nt believe it.
    So here's what you need to do.
    1) see if you can find some poor sucker to take that ATI of your hands for close to what you paid for it but dont be suprised if you have to go down to half price (As-Is).
    2) go to your local electronics store and buy an NVidia Ge-Force 4, trust me, it's worth the money if your a gamer.

    About the only thing ATI's ever come up with that I liked was that one Box for one of their cards with the Liquid-Metalic Cerberus, I actually bought that from a friend for $5, and hung it on my wall untill my little brother came and tore it off for some reason.

    Anyway, good luck with your piece of ATI.
     
  3. BeerMonkey

    BeerMonkey Master Sergeant

    Interesting...
     
  4. Adrynalyne

    Adrynalyne Guest


    A few thousand braincells died reading this drivel.
     
  5. Adrynalyne

    Adrynalyne Guest

    Are you running at the same resolution and color depth?



    Lower color depth and resolution gives the appearance of a performance increase.
     
  6. airman_slacker

    airman_slacker Private E-2

    same resolution and depth and everything...I had a Geforce 2 MX once, and then I upgraded to this. I may give another NVidia a try and if it doesn't work out, just take it back with the excuse of "combalibility issues". I'm not a hardcore gamer or anything, but I do like playing some C&C generals (which I have heard is designed to be played with NVidia), some MOA and NFS (Civilization 2, but who needs power for that?!). NFS and MOA run real great, but C&C can be a bit slow at times. It always seems to get really choppy when it's giving you the breifing of the mission you are about to play. With a Athalon (Atholon?) 2600 and 512 ddr ram, I would doubt it's that. But this ATI card has given me no problems otherwise except that I can enable AGP acceleration though. The Smartgart program for some reason won't let me do it. Damn I shouldn't drink coffee and write replies at the same time.
     
  7. chopinpl

    chopinpl Private E-2

    -I've had a few instances where outdated drivers were causing my NVIDIA card to run somewhat slow, it's a long shot but might be possible.

    -How about DirectX, maybe the latest version might help things?

    -This might also be relevant. In my bios there was an option for graphics card running either from AGP or PCI. For some reason mine was set to PCI by default. I changed it to AGP but I can't say there was any perfornamce increase. Check yours.

    -Do you use special features that Radeon provides? Like, fancy shmancy desktop stuff... if you are, just try turning it off and see what it does.

    G. Luck
     
  8. †T-Rex †

    †T-Rex † Specialist

    If you're referring to the GeForce4 MX 440, I would have to disagree. It doesn't even support pixel shading, and therefore cannot play some games like Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow. It also doesn't have much "beef" to it, for example, if you own and play Far Cry, you would have to put all graphic settings on LOW for it to even look good. If you try setting it any higher than this, your game will look like crap. I know this for a fact, because I have a GeForce4 MX 440 128MB and own Far Cry as well as Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, which, if I may add, I can't even play!
     
  9. airman_slacker

    airman_slacker Private E-2

    no, no fancy shmancy effects at all. And my bios is set for AGP (set to 4x in fact).
     
  10. Strogg

    Strogg 5-Star Freakin' Geek

    um... try this:

    go to start/run and type in dxdiag
    go to display. look at directx features. all 3 should be enabled.
    if they are not, go to the motherboard CHIPSET manufacturer website (eg intel, via, nvidia, etc) and download the latest drivers/ini files for your chipset (they should be universal drivers).
    install the drivers and reboot. agp should be reenabled.
    go back to dxdiag and reenable everything.
     
  11. airman_slacker

    airman_slacker Private E-2

    it says texture accelleration is not available...WTF?!
     
  12. airman_slacker

    airman_slacker Private E-2

    F*CK YEAH! IT WORKED! Many thanks!!! :)
     
  13. chopinpl

    chopinpl Private E-2

    Who takes credit for that one. LOL Anyway, we're "all" glad to help.
     

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