Bad Proformance on a X1900XT

[quackerww]

I have been playing morrowind and fear and I get choppyness when looking left to right. Does not happen when moving forward.... Can any one help me, im useing the latest drivers...

My old x800 did this also on two diffrent computers, fresh reinstall. Im out of ideias. everything is working I get 6k+ in 3d marks..

Could it be my powersupply?

 

[dalearyous]

its possible you have a crappy monitor. also, is vsync enabled?

 

[Crescent13]

What settings? What drivers? What are your computer specs?

 

[aggressor]

I'd check vsync (enable it).

 

[quackerww]

Sorry,
Compaq MV740
4200X2
2gb OCZ Gold
X1900XT
Antec True 430W
Soundblaster 2

Drivers are 8.231

Settings are on all rez, no AA on at all highest preformance set.

 

[quackerww]

How do i turn vsync on? I am not a gamer tell now... Oblivion hehe...

 

[JPB]

In game setting's maybe

 

[VERTIGGO]

its under 3D settings. if you have CCC its under "3D" > "all settings", and ATI Tray tools its under 3D also.

 

[deadseasquirrel]

That 17" CRT can, in no way whatsoever, unleash the power of your XT. It sounds like your fps (frames per second) are going higher than your refresh rate for your monitor (which XP has probably set to 60 for you... though there are ways to change this). This will result in tearing of the image on the screen, typical of the "choppiness" you see.

You've spent a good deal on some very good components for your PC... but neglected the one component you stare at the entire time-- your display. With a better monitor, your gaming enjoyment will improve greatly, and your eyes will thank you.

 

[Tig Ol Bitties]

Go into you ATI control panel and check to see if there is some sort of antialiasing that has been checked and uncheck it. I forgot what its specifically called, but my cousin got a x1900xtx and by default, the drivers he installed had this antialiasing checked, which turned on vsync. I think it was transparency antialiasing or something that started with a "T". He was pretty pissed about the performance until he turned it off.

 

[quackerww]

its set at 85hertz im going to comp usa what should i look for?

 

[buzzsaw13]

Do you have overdrive turned on?

 

[quackerww]

whats overdrive? I might... hehe?

 

[5150Joker]

If you look left or right and there is a lot of texture heavy scenery, it could be that you just don't have enough physical ram in your system and you're getting HD swapping.

 

[LW07]

Originally posted by: Tig Ol Bitties
Go into you ATI control panel and check to see if there is some sort of antialiasing that has been checked and uncheck it. I forgot what its specifically called, but my cousin got a x1900xtx and by default, the drivers he installed had this antialiasing checked, which turned on vsync. I think it was transparency antialiasing or something that started with a "T". He was pretty pissed about the performance until he turned it off.

The antialiasing setting on his X1900XTX that begins with the T that you're talking about is called the Temporal Anti-Aliasing, where it tries to make 2xAA look like 4xAA, 4xAA look like 8xAA, and 6xAA look like 12xAA. Temporal AA is on the ATI X(Both the Xx00 and X1k) series and above.

 

[Tig Ol Bitties]

Originally posted by: LW07

Originally posted by: Tig Ol Bitties
Go into you ATI control panel and check to see if there is some sort of antialiasing that has been checked and uncheck it. I forgot what its specifically called, but my cousin got a x1900xtx and by default, the drivers he installed had this antialiasing checked, which turned on vsync. I think it was transparency antialiasing or something that started with a "T". He was pretty pissed about the performance until he turned it off.

The antialiasing setting on his X1900XTX that begins with the T that you're talking about is called the Temporal Anti-Aliasing, where it tries to make 2xAA look like 4xAA, 4xAA look like 8xAA, and 6xAA look like 12xAA. Temporal AA is on the ATI X(Both the Xx00 and X1k) series and above.

Thanks for the correction, I thought it was something along those lines

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: quackerww
How do i turn vsync on? I am not a gamer tell now... Oblivion hehe...

you have oblivion :? WHAT WHERE WHEN HOW :! I WANT THE GAME NOW

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: 5150Joker
If you look left or right and there is a lot of texture heavy scenery, it could be that you just don't have enough physical ram in your system and you're getting HD swapping.

With 2GB of RAM I'd find this to be highly unlikely.

 

[CP5670]

It's definitely the lack of vsync. That often causes exactly what the OP described.

 

[AliasX]

I get this also with Battlefield 2 and some other games on my computer with my 7800GT.

I don't have ATI drivers, DUH! so I don't ahve this vsync thing. I think it is my monitor, because I have a crappy old 17 inch CRT made by Dell. And I bought the monitor 4 years ago.

Any monitors around $200 that are 19inchers and are good for gaming? I would like to make the move to LCD if I can, but if that will affect gaming, I will stick with a CRT.

Sorry if I hijack your thread OP.

 

[dalearyous]

Originally posted by: quackerww
its set at 85hertz im going to comp usa what should i look for?

woah don't go to comp usa for monitor. if you looking to replace it you should read the LCD buyer's guide sticky...or if you are looking at CRTs i'd suggest picking one with good refresh rates and decent size. personally the NEC monitors are my favorite.