Games jumpy??

[Damien]

I've got an Athlon64/3000+ with an ATI x1600 and several old games we've tried playing are incredibly jump on it! Both Diablo 1 and Bricks of Atlantis (a relatively recent shareware title) both should play smooth as a baby's bottom but instead are jumpy like a geek on caffeine. I had the 5.13 drivers but upgraded to the 6.2 ones but its still the same. I've got Kaspersky Internet Suite 2006 Beta running but only the virus checker and firewall are actually running, I disabled all the other features so it shouldn't be interfering. I've also got Windowblinds 5 installed and have specifically added the main binaries for both games to its ignore list.

Any ideas folks? Thanks.

Damien

 

[MBrown]

I'm guess the game is not compatible with th video card. Its a brand new video card so you are prolly going to have to wait for patches to come out for those games.

 

[Damien]

Given that the games are all old ones (diablo 1??) shouldn't it be ATI's responsibility to ensure that these popular games are fully compatible? I've submitted a trouble-ticket with ATI about this, its a little silly IMHO.

 

[w00t]

dont jump to conclusions here and start an ATI vs nVidia war. have you tried running any benchmarks do you even know what your fps is in those games? download FRAPS and see...

 

[gorcorps]

I suggest trying the drivers at www.omegadrivers.net and see where that gets you.