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Horrible Game Performance

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ATI doesn't accept cards that aren't Made by ATI. Have you tried the new drivers released on the 10th by ATI? They have a long list of 9700 fixes and a noticeable performance increase in aa and af.
 
Your benchmark runs correctly, which means there is no apparent conflict with your CPU/RAM/Bus/videocard. So all the internal componets runs correctly.

You have an AMD, which would rule out any throttling issue.

The only other thing that could slow your system down is sound, since you disabled sound that's not the problem either.

what kind of keyboard do you have? (try to use the non-multimedia one if you can)
same goes with mouse. (simple 3 button one from MS)

Other than that, try the new nvidia driver.

gl
 
I have a standard keyboard and a logitec mx500 mouse. I have tried the mouse with and without the drivers installed. I think im going to try it USB and see if that helps anything. Im going to reformat in a little bit and try a Ti4600 in the system and see if that helps any problems.
 
Dude,

Play those games in Win98, I had problems with WinXP too and as soon as I switched back to Win98, it went away.
 
The first and most obvious place to start would be to make sure that you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers for your system.
 
You mentioned your comp was 50 degress Celcius under load, is this the CPU temp, the board temp, or the video card RAM temp or the video card processor temp? Does the 9700 come with a temperature monitor? Ive got a Gigabyte 8500 and it came with a program called V-tuner that lets me monitor the RAM temp and GPU temp on my video card. At 250/250 it runs 107 degrees fahrenheit and at 300/300 it runs around 113 degrees fahrenheit under full load. I had to add in a video card fan in the back of my case to suck air off the video card because before it would get up to 120 degrees under full load at high clockings and it would start to stutter and slow down. You can get an Enermax Whispersys video card exhaust fan at Newegg for $11 shipped linky poo. It does take up 2 PCI slots but you said you didnt have any other cards in so this shouldnt be a problem if you chose to get one.

Just an educated guess by a silly bear 😀
 
If his benchmarks run ok that means everything that's suppose to make the game go goes. The game only becomes unplayble when the user input is needed.

Defective circuit for keyboard and mouse ports? 🙂

yeah..try USB see if that solves your problems.

have you tried run "demo four" in quake3? If that runs fine then it's pretty obvious that you have some type of conflict with your input device.

 
If his benchmarks run ok that means everything that's suppose to make the game go goes. The game only becomes unplayble when the user input is needed.
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I am with this guy. By the way you are not hooked up to a kvm bOx ?
 
Ok, An update for anyone still following this.

Today I got pissed and erased the computer again, many many times. Things I tested that didnt help the situation:

Video Card, Replaced with a Ti4600 on a fresh install
Changed Mouse to USB
Changed Mouse Entirely
Changed Keyboard
Disabled USB
Disabled NIC
Disabled Sound
Changed Ram
Changed Ram Slot

Ran the game at 800x600 with the lowest detail and still experienced the problem.
I am not running through a KVM.

Just now I thought about disconnecting all the IDE devices by the HD so im going to go try that.
After that is there anything else, different power supply maybe?
Maybe just RMA the motherboard to asus?
 
ok... there COULD be one other thing that you havent checked... are your drives in DMA mode? Because if they are not, that could be slowing you down, due to the drive access or something!
 
Originally posted by: Cyro
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?
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Wow, I hadn't checked in a while - you really have some big problems.
I take it you ran all the follow up tests at 180?

If the NVidia card also plays everything badly, it does sound very much like a bad motherboard. One thing I saw once is that an undervolted CPU would react slowly at times. Maybe the voltage generated by the motherboard is a tad too low or unstable.
 
I checked, all the drives are running in DMA mode.


Yea I ran the rest of the tests at 180 and continued to run 180 after that. I have played with the CPU voltages, increasing them as .05. Asus probe (when it was turned on) never gave me a warning for any of the voltages.

-Mike
 
The first and most obvious place to start would be to make sure that you have the latest BIOS and chipset drivers for your system
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Did you do this? Did you reset your bios to default settings and just set the clock speed for your chip? It very well could be due to one of your bios settings, when I upgraded a year or two back to a faster card I had the same problem, it ended up being a bios setting, can not remember which one though! It may have been agp fastwrites although you have this enabled already in the bios.
 
What drivers are you using for the mobo? Do you have WinXP SP1 installed? Check what kind of IDE driver is being used. With the latest nforce 2.00 drivers, you need SP1 in order for the nvidia IDE driver to work. If you do have SP1 installed, just update the IDE drivers manually (the nforce setup should create an nvidia folder. it should be under nvidia/nforceWinXP/2.00/IDE). Another tip is to have a fixed size swap file (minimum/maximum disk is the same)
 
Here is something simple to try....If your WinXP install has "Default Monitor" drivers being used, Ive had weird 3d acceleration problems before with it set to that with my setup. 3d was running at an unusual 5 FPS ...if that much at times When I knew that the card was capable of much more. I did everything and as a last change that I did was to change the "default monitor" to the specific drivers for the Monitor and that fixed it. I have no idea on why a driver for a monitor would cause the problem but its fixed now on mine. Runs great. 😀
 
Originally posted by: bigpow
Dude,

Play those games in Win98, I had problems with WinXP too and as soon as I switched back to Win98, it went away.
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You may want to try what I just posted too about changing the drivers for the monitor. Mine worked fine with Win2k but XP it got screwed up until I defined a specific monitor driver.
 
I tried updating the drivers for the monitor (KDS 19 XFlat) but that also didnt solve the problem. Any other last suggestions before I go sending my board back to ASUS and lose my gameing machine (well was going to be the gaming machine) for about a month.


-Mike
 
did you reset the bios to default? have you flashed it to the newest release? Have you even looked into this option? Sorry if I had missed something through out this post!
 
Nope you really didnt repeat anything. I have tried different bios settings. There isnt a new bios out for my board yet (kind of annoying) there is only a new one out for the non delux version.


-Mike
 
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?
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So if your are standing still will everything move pretty smooth, like when you first enter the game with out touching the mouse or keyboard? If so it has to be the ports on the board or the KB mouse its self! Like the guy said above! I would rule out the kb mouse them RMA the board and be pissed off! good luck post back when the new board comes in!
 
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