help me with my radeon 8500!

[LongCoolMother]

whenever i turn in counterstrike, or serious sam, the FPS gets really choppy for a sec while im turning on the y or x axis. im using the 5.13.1.6043 drivers, but everything else seems really quick. i score about 7000 on 3dmark2001 SE. im using it with my Tbird 1.4Ghz and 256 PC2100. ECS K7S5A. Does anyone know what he problem is? thanks

 

[LuDaCriS66]

You're not using D3D are you?

 

[spanky]

in your display properties, go to the advanced tab and u should see some ati stuff. go to opengl, and disable "wait for vert sync" or something like that. also... if u have AA enabled... that will cause choppy gameplay too. i just figured my 8500 peevs today... after i ironed them out... everything was golden

 

[chickendinner]

do you have the half life update for ati cards?

 

[spanky]

also... when i had my radeon vivo... when truform was enabled, it hurt my fps bad. i dunno how much truform will affect the 8500. u could try to disable it and see if that helps too. to disable truform, u can type this in the console: ati_npatch 0
or you could modify or add that line into your config.cfg file.

 

[tenoc]

The currently supported driver is 6014. Try it instead of a beta and report back.