Computer Frameskipping?

[Mortizius]

I am having an issue where when I run certain games, there is very bad frameskipping involved. Lowering settings does not seem to help this however lowering the resolution in game does. For example, if I attempt to play Madden '08 there is bad frameskipping but if I lower the resolution to 800X600 or lower the frameskipping only seems to occur when the camera angle gets a closer view of the models. On the other hand, I can run UT2004 at full settings with no frameskipping at all. Another thing that surprised me was the game Fate (one of those wildtangent RPGs) frameskips horribly although I seriously doubt it is more advanced than UT2004. Even when I lower the resolution in Fate, there is still minor frameskipping. I am running these on my laptop and the specs are:

Windows Vista Home Basic
1918MB Ram
AMD Turion 64 X2 Mobile Techonology TL -60, 2.0ghz
ATI Radeon Xpress Series : Memory Size - 830 MB, Core/Memory Clock - 401mhz

All my drivers are up to date. I am assuming this is a videocard problem. Any ideas that may help? Thanks.

 

[crydee]

It's probably Vista and it's drivers especially notebook ones are terrible since they rely on the manufacturer to release new ones. I'd look for alt drivers.

 

[Mortizius]

I'll begin looking for alternative drivers... any in perticular anyone could mention? I'm new to Vista so I don't know much about getting different drivers to work with it.

 

[Mortizius]

I've finished installing Vista friendly sound drivers but I didn't expect that to do anything. If it had anything to do with drivers I'd imagine that it would be the video card drivers. I don't know what drivers to get for my card however. If anyone has any pointers on this one, it'd be much appreciated.