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Horrible Game Performance

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Cyro

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Its a long shot, but I am hoping someone can help.

I am running a 9700 Pro in an ASUS A7N8X Delux with a 2600 XP and 512 Megs of Corsair 3500 Cas 2. I am presently running Windows XP with the newest cat. drivers, direct x, and nvidia reference drivers for my motherboard.

My problem is that games are all running like crap. The worst one is Unreal Tournament 2k3. When you are moving around in the game it starts stuttering around like it cant keep up. With this scores shouldnt it be running like a dream?

Some background:
Running game in 1024 x 768 with all highest Detail settings.
Runnin the Benchmark.exe in the system dir. of unreal produces results of Flyby 206.3 & Botmatch 75.2
3dMark2001 SE produces a score of 16367.
The computer is currently running at 190 FSB but performed the same way without the CPU overclocked.
All the settings in the ATI drivers are turned down for best performace.
I am running Windows XP.
I have tried enabling V-Sync, that doesnt help, as well with trying the directx fresh fix, which also doesnt help.
I am also running at 4x AGP with fastwrites enabled.

I am running out of ideas.

Thanks in advance for any help you can give me

-Mike
 
This doesn't sound right. The 3d mark seems right. Are you running a P4 system? If so is your system overheating, in which case would cause it to lower it's clock speed. Thats all I can think of
 
sean2002; No, its an AMD system. My temps are constant underload right around 50C which should be acceptable.

Bovinicus; I have tried Hitman 2 and Diablo 2 which also ran poorly so I stopped installing games since ive been reformating a couple times a day trying to figure it out.
 
Try setting the process priorities to real-time for WinXP. Or, try using 3D Analyzer to rid stuttering.

Also, do you have any other process(es) running in the background. I know WinXP uses a lot of default (but unnecessary) services from a default install.

Lastly, visit http://www.3drage.com and peruse the forums for any specific configuration issues. Good luck.
 
Do you have a gamepad or joystick attached to any gameports? Analog joystick were a bitch to poll...

Can you run memtest? Somehow I am feeling it could be RAM. Actually, run prime95 as well.

*wonders if NVidia Nforce slows down when ATI card is present*
 
Mem test locked at 191 FSB but ran fine at 180. Ill run Prime95 all night tonight to see if that works. Anyone else have any suggestions?
 
Try disabling onboard audio in the bios and then play the games. Try also disabling fast writes. If all else fails format your hdd and reinstall everything. When you are running 3dmark does it stutter also even though you are getting high fps or is it smooth?
 
Ben88; I tried it with fastwrites off. It got worse. I also disabled the on board sound and that didnt help either. I dont reformatting again is going to help, ive been doing it 3 times a day. Trying different things like directx 9, etc.
 
Would a different audio solution solve the problem even after I tested with the on board turned off and it didnt help anything.

And as an update, just fooling around getting ready to start kicking stuff I was running 1024 x 768 with "stat fps" and with 4x Anti and 8x AA the game runs at 60 fps+ but still isnt smoot at all, it looks as if it is being ran on a system to slow to run it.
 
And as an update, just fooling around getting ready to start kicking stuff I was running 1024 x 768 with "stat fps" and with 4x Anti and 8x AA the game runs at 60 fps+ but still isnt smoot at all, it looks as if it is being ran on a system to slow to run it.
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Now i'm starting to think that you're just running it at uber-high settings. Try turning off all that stuff and report back. When i say uber-high settings, i mean fsaa and ani filtering.
 
erikiksaz; I orginally had everything turned off. Just in testing I was turning that stuff on. Surprisingly with all that stuff turned on the performance remains the same as it did with it off but the visuals do increase so it is working.

BlinderBomber; It is a passive heatsink on the northbridge, no fan.
 
If you disabled onboard audio in the bios and you still have the problem then it isn't an audio problem. Have you tried moving your RAM to different slots? You could also move your pci cards away from the agp slot. That has worked for me in the past. Try that and then report back 🙂
 
I have the same problem you do man. Im running different specs and it also only seems to lag in BF 1942

xp2100
ti4600
512megs samsung true 2700
AT7 Max
blah blah blah
 
I tried moving the ram, it didnt help. I dont have any other cards in the machine at the moment for trouble shooting purporses, so that is also not the problem.

-Mike
 
What is your memory timings set to ? Even if it is supposed to be CAS2 (or is it?), try 2.5. If the memory is re-paging due to error, that would explain it.
 
Markfw900; the timeings are 7 2 2 cas 2. I tried your suggestion, but it did not help the situation.

Im begining to think I should have bought a P4 with a Nvidia card🙂
 
Morning Bump.... This is a question for everyone. Would I benifit sending the card back to ATI for the new revision. And since its a Sapphire but a reference board, can I send it back to ATI because www.sapphiretech.com has been down for a few days.
 
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