Choppy game graphics with Radeon 8500.

[themadmonk]

What would cause choppy game graphics with a Radeon 8500 using 3281 drivers?
You can view my system rig and tell me if anything on it maybe causing the problem.

 

[Forgiven]

Early drivers didn't work well with the older games. Go to Maxreboot.com and download the 7199?? Anyway the second to last beta driver and have fun gaming!! I am

 

[themadmonk]

I'm using Windows XP, so my drivers only go up to 3286.

 

[tazdevl]

First off you should be using the latest drivers... 3286, 3281's have some problems. Be sure you have vbios/shadowing disabled. Also turn off fastwrites... 8500 doesn't support it. Click on run and type dxdiag. Have a look and see what the story is with texture compression. If it's grayed out, you need to enable it. Also check on the size of the AGP aperature. Depending on the amount of RAM you have, you might need to either increase it or decrease it. I have 768MB, mine is set @ 256MB.

 

[themadmonk]

Had the 3286's installed and for some reason my hard drive got screwed, so I had to revert to the 3281's. I also know that others have had that problem with the 3286's so that is no longer an option. Compression is on, fastwrites are off. Any other suggestions?

 

[Blueshound]

What game?

 

[themadmonk]

I'm at 1280x1024 in Rune, and 1024x768 in 3Mark2001.

 

[afireinsideme]

I would say it's your Envision EN7100e it's an LCD without DVI right? I'm not the most knowledgable about LCD but found ur manuel at Envision I know people say LCD aren't not the best for gaming. Because other then the poor monitor ur system looks like it's a gaming machine.

 

[JackBurton]

<< Have a look and see what the story is with texture compression. If it's grayed out, you need to enable it. >>


Under what tab is this, and where do you enable it?