Framerate problems

[Indus]

Last week my motherboard failed a bios update and wouldn't post anymore. I bought a new motherboard and kept the rest of my system the same.

Now my system is stable again but in games and benchmarks I'm getting 1/2 the fps I'm used to.

I originally tried installing the motherboard chipset drivers for AGP graphics to PCI or something like that and my video was horrible. Even in 2d I'd get artifacts and in 3d I'd see massive tearing and skewing of the video.

I reformatted without those drivers and the video is much nicer and more presentable but I'm still getting 1/2 the framerate.

How should I fix this?


My system:

Enermax 485 watt powersupply
AMD Athlon 64 2800+ Newcastle 1.8GHz Socket 754 Processor
ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 Pro Cooling Fan with Heatsink
ABIT KU8 Socket 754 ULi M1689 ATX AMD Motherboard
CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
MSI NX7600GS-TD256 Geforce 7600GS 256MB GDDR2 AGP 4X/8X Video Card
2x Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 Plus ST3120026A 120GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive
LITE-ON Black 16X DVD+R 8X DVD+RW 8X DVD+R DL 16X DVD-R 6X DVD-RW 16X DVD-ROM 48X CD-R 24X CD-RW 48X CD-ROM 2M Cache IDE 16X DVD±R DVD Burner
D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/20/100/200Mbps PCI Network Adapter
SAMSUNG 915N-Black Black 19" 8ms LCD Monitor

 

[Indus]

bump

 

[btcomm1]

Did you reinstall windows from scratch when you got the new motherboard?

 

[Indus]

yes I did. I've installed the PCI to agp motherboard drivers and still I get video tearing.

 

[btcomm1]

Usually tearing is caused because you are getting too many frames per second and to fix this you would turn on vsync. As far as getting only 1/2 the FPS you used to well I don't know about that, I would be frustrated as well.

Only other thing I would think of is you are using a higher refresh rate then you were before you got the new motherboard but I'm not sure that refresh rate affects anything with an LCD .