Fresh install results in terrible game preformance on Asrock board

[Kccdx2]

So I did a complete reinstall of windows on my system:

X2 3800
Asrock ALI mobo (the one that supports both AGP and PCIe)
BFG 6800oc

So anyways, after windows I reinstalled the drivers in this order:

Audio
AGP Driver for Board
Ethernet drivers
Nvidia Geforce driver
AMD Dual Core optimizer
DirectX

However, now when I try and play games that are seriously runnable on a Geforece 5xxx or less card, the frame rates are terrible.

Also, I should note that the rig worked flawlessly on my old mobo (in sig) and old cpu. Keep in mind that I did change mobo sets (From Nforce to ULi) so maybe there's something in there that went wrong??
What did I miss? Am I doing something wrong??

 

[tcsenter]

NVIDIA nForce3 Ultra

What was wrong with your 'old' motherboard?

 

[grooge]

there is an option in BIOS to use for AGP nvidia card.. I don't remember which one thou...

 

[Araemo]

Originally posted by: Kccdx2
So I did a complete reinstall of windows on my system:

X2 3800
Asrock ALI mobo (the one that supports both AGP and PCIe)
BFG 6800oc

So anyways, after windows I reinstalled the drivers in this order:

Audio
AGP Driver for Board
Ethernet drivers
Nvidia Geforce driver
AMD Dual Core optimizer
DirectX

However, now when I try and play games that are seriously runnable on a Geforece 5xxx or less card, the frame rates are terrible.

Also, I should note that the rig worked flawlessly on my old mobo (in sig) and old cpu. Keep in mind that I did change mobo sets (From Nforce to ULi) so maybe there's something in there that went wrong??
What did I miss? Am I doing something wrong??

I can only assume your motherboard is the ASRock 939Dual-Sata2 (That isn't the only one from them that supports AGP and PCIe though, there is also the 939Dual-VSTA, which is slightly different).

Anyways: Try the windows XP dual core fix (Or You can probably also disable Cool'N'Quiet to test. Supposedly the windows XP dual core fix fixes an issue caused by dual core chips that have speed-altering power management, like Cool'N'Quiet, that windows XP wasn't designed to deal with, but the hotfix, http://support.microsoft.com/Default.aspx?id=896256 , adds the support to XP. ) One quick way to fix that, is to go into the windows 'power' control panel, and set the Power Scheme to Minimal Power management.

If that fixes the problem, then disabling Cool'N'Quiet would solve it(But your chip will run hotter and use more power when you aren't using the computer), or you can call microsoft and get the dual core fix(It should be free, if you give them the KB#896256, they should give you a download link, or you could search google to find a download site that has mirrored it.).

Also, make sure you don't have 'compatibility option' turned on in the bios(that runs your ram at DDR266 instead of DDR400, regardless of what you set the ram speed to.)

I also hope you installed the general chipset drivers, rather than ONLY the AGP drivers.