Big problems with ATI Radeon card.....please help

[bullion416]

I have an ATI Radeon 64 mb ddr card, which I have had for a little under a year. I am running it on my ASUS A7M266 motherbord with a 1.4 athlon. I am having a ton of problems when trying to run 3-D games. Someone told me it seemed to be some sort of issue with my card's Open-GL. My problems deal with getting skewed pictures every now and then during game play. It DOES NOT run choppy, but the graphics aren't always fluid. I don't know how else to describe it, but I only get the problems with the following games: Medal of Honore, Soldier of Fortune, and Half-Life. My card on the other hand runs these games fine: Quake 3, Unreal tournament, and Return to Castle Wolfensein. ANY IDEAS? Does anyone else have these same problems? And yes, I have tried tons of different drivers ranging from the newest ATI official drivers to the unofficial ones. Thanks for your help.

 

[Wolfsraider]

what version of directx are you running?

i run 8.1 on mine



<< but I only get the problems with the following games: Medal of Honore, Soldier of Fortune, and Half-Life. My card on the other hand runs these games fine: Quake 3, Unreal tournament, and Return to Castle Wolfensein >>



mine runs these (all) fine

when you initially installed ati card did you do it from a standard video adapter or did you just delete the old card and install ati drivers?

with ati you really need to uninstall all old drivers then set it back to standard agp adapter reboot then load ati drivers i always format reinstall when adding or changing software because then i know i am limited to only the wanted drivers

the only reason i am suggesting these as cures is that this problem seems to be one from the start
no new drivers fix this
and it only affects some games

if ths isn't right sorry but this has fixed many an ati issue on my computers and ati is my main video cards

hope this helps

 

[bullion416]

I am not quite sure what you are saying, but if it helps at all, I am running Win XP Pro. Also, I didn't unistall any old video cards on my computer because I built my system this summer and this is the only card that has ever been on the system. Any other ideas?

 

[davidg]

You suggest that this is an OpenGL problem, yet you say Q3 and RTCW are fine...

Does it happen in particular areas of those games, or randomly?

I have all of those games except MoH, and they all run fine on my Radeon.

 

[The_Lurker]

I know what you mean.. i dont get this on many other games, but mostly CS. It's something like the FPS is high.. but the motion in the game is kinda slidy (like the top part gets redrawn before the bottom, or w/e) and it seems choppy, and doesn't flow too well together. With CS, i never really could fix it. I'm running the older WIn XP 3276 drivers (newer beta and newer officla dont do much for the older Radeons and wreck a few things for me). and oc'ed my card and it seems to be running smoother. Not sure why. Clean install might also help (recentlly formatted and it seems to run better).

 

[davidg]

<< I know what you mean.. i dont get this on many other games, but mostly CS. It's something like the FPS is high.. but the motion in the game is kinda slidy (like the top part gets redrawn before the bottom, or w/e) and it seems choppy, and doesn't flow too well together. With CS, i never really could fix it. I'm running the older WIn XP 3276 drivers (newer beta and newer officla dont do much for the older Radeons and wreck a few things for me). and oc'ed my card and it seems to be running smoother. Not sure why. Clean install might also help (recentlly formatted and it seems to run better). >>



Sounds like shearing from having VSync disabled!

 

[AA0]

I had this problem too, in RTCW soon as I switched to XP. The game plays smooth as hell, but there is a massive lag to it. My fps was well over 100 too.

I completely uninstalled the ATI drivers, reinstalled DX 8.1, then the VIA 4 in 1s (which I think was the key), then put the ATI drivers back in. Default 4 in 1s for winxp really sucked, IDE performance was awful, and same with the AGP.

 

[The_Lurker]

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<< I know what you mean.. i dont get this on many other games, but mostly CS. It's something like the FPS is high.. but the motion in the game is kinda slidy (like the top part gets redrawn before the bottom, or w/e) and it seems choppy, and doesn't flow too well together. With CS, i never really could fix it. I'm running the older WIn XP 3276 drivers (newer beta and newer officla dont do much for the older Radeons and wreck a few things for me). and oc'ed my card and it seems to be running smoother. Not sure why. Clean install might also help (recentlly formatted and it seems to run better). >>



Sounds like shearing from having VSync disabled! >>



That might be it... time to enable VSync?

 

[AA0]

I still leave v synch off, works fine.

 

[rogue1979]

Not the same compontents, but I had that problem with my Geforce 2 Ti 500 in Windows 98 on various games. It wasn't real noticable, but when I enabled v-synch the problem disappeared.