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Huge problem with video choppiness (KT7, 1.2GHz, GF2)

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Hey, I'm new to the forum, got directed here by a buddy of mine who said you guys would be the ones to ask, so here goes.

I used to run an Asus A7V with a 1G Athlon...I recently bought a KT7 with a 1.4Gig CPU, and put it together last night. Well, games don't run for crap on it. I'm talking frames per second in the single digits in Nascar 4, when I used to get over 100 with my old setup. I ran the 4-in-1 4.33 installer, downloaded the latest Detonator drivers for my GeForce2, set the AGP to 4X in the BIOS, but no matter what, when I fire up a game, I get stuttering from hell. In one particular game, Nascar Heat, it lists a polygon fill rate, and it's 2400/mpixels (which is middle-of-the-road). With my old setup, I used to have double that w/ the same video card and drivers.

I'm guessing it's something in the motherboard that I've missed, but with the latest 4-in-1's, the latest vid drivers, and everything I can think of, I can't determine the source of the problem. Here's hoping that somebody out there with the Abit KT7 (non-raid) had the same issue, and can tell me how to resolve it.

TIA.

P.S. Simple PC133 RAM, 768MB of it. I DO have a single stick of 512, then another stick of 256...think having the 2 sticks might have a ram timing issue or something? That's about the only thing I haven't tried yet...(yanking the 256 stick).
 
Are you using Windows 2000? There is an AGP patch for Windows 2000 for VIA chipsets, the location escapes me at the moment however. Hope this helps.
 
Maybe you have IRQ conflicts? Type this in the start/run window --> "msconfig" This will show u which devices use which irq's. <--assuming u'r using win98se
 
OK, I think I'm narrowing this down more. This is really bizarre.

I installed DX8.0a, and several different versions of video drivers. Both manufacturer default (Hercules Prophet II) and the NVidia detonators...it will sometimes give me an error that I don't have a DX8 compatible display adapter, which is a crock because I used the manufacturer adapter last week on my old PC. Still nobody with a clue as to what could be screwing up DX8's ability to see my display adapter, eh?
 
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