Counter-strike looks worst with a radeon 8500 than my gf2 gts-v??

[Chooco]

my buddy's ATI Mach64 has no support, my ATI Rage3D has no support and my Radeon32mb SDRAM has no support.

*edit*
let me rephrase that, they have support but no acceleration. i can see things like KDE indicating it does have drivers but it has no acceleration. when exitting KDE it says at the last line that it has no hardware acceleration.

 

[monkied]

Sorry for the confusion, I meant that it sort of lags when I play cs with the 8500. For instance, when moving around and observing the walls and corners, I notice that the picture kinda skips. I guess this means I'm getting a low fps. Now of course this is a bit subjective and I can't describe exactly what I'm seeing and I don't really have the time to make screen captures and post them up, sorry. My reason for buying the 8500 is because I've heard that it is a significant upgrade to a gf2 gts-v and it was a decent deal. I haven't tried it on any other game because I'm only interested in counter-strike right now, so the performance of the card may vary. It may also be my system setup as well, I'm running a duron 750 with a kt133a msi board and 256 megs of pc133. Do you guys think upgrading my os from win98se to win2k or xp would help?

 

[Chooco]

what resolution are you in again? yes getting WinXP or 2k would make a difference but i'm not sure if it's worth it. XP and 2k cost like 150 bucks.....the difference would not be THAT substantial.

 

[monkied]

I currently run 1024x768 in opengl.

 

[jcwagers]

Hmmm, this is odd. I'm FAR from a guru on this matter but it kinda looks like your CPU might be bottlenecking the situation. I'm sure I'm gonna get flamed for this. A Duron 750 is a nice processor but I would think that anything less than a 1 gig T-bird wouldn't really push the R8500 all that hard. If the performance is negligible between the two cards, I would definitely think that the CPU would be a culprit. Otherwise, it might be driver related. If all else fails, reinstall the drivers. I know you did a clean install but there is always room for some problems and maybe nuking the drivers and trying again might help. Maybe it will, maybe it won't but it's worth a try. I know that I went from a Radeon LE to a retail 8500 and I've been very happy with the performance. I'll put in a link to rage3d about how to completely uninstall the drivers. Which drivers are you using on your R8500? Are you using the latest drivers? I'm still using the 9009 drivers because of the lack of OpenGL S3TC support in some of the newer drivers. I know that the people on this forum are quite thorough and if anyone can help you get through this, they can. I think you'll be happy with your R8500 once you get this little problem figured out. Good luck!

jcwagers

How to completely uninstall drivers

 

[Jeff7]

Good point about the lack of S3TC (can't confirm that aspect, no ATi card here) but I have seen pics with and without S3TC - having it enabled really helps image quality. Use a tweaker to ensure that it is enabled.

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: monkied
I currently run 1024x768 in opengl.

try lowering the resolution, and crank up anisotrophic filtering all the way. i run at 1024x768 with 16x anisotrophic filtering & 2x AA. but of course... YMMV. try running lower resolution first. if the skips are gone... then juice up the anisotrophic filtering to improve image quality. and if u get really brave... go for AA.