Kyro II w/tv out.......Choppy Video

[MadDad]

Hello all. Have a problem with choppy video. It shows up in Half-Life as quick little pauses in the game (real quick, and real annoying) and also shows the same choppiness when running the DirectX diags and watching the box spin around with quick little pauses, just like they happen in half-life (which is all the life I have anymore). I have installed all the latest drivers, running DirectX 8.1. I disable my virus program and zonealarm, and have shutdown any and all un-necessary programs with no success. I have removed joystick, but have a gamepad in the gaming device listing, but it is not connected.
It acts like something is polling the computer, like a network connection. Things had been running fine a week or so ago, can't think of anything that has changed or been installed to cause this? Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
:frown:

 

[nemesismk2]

<< Hello all. Have a problem with choppy video. It shows up in Half-Life as quick little pauses in the game (real quick, and real annoying) and also shows the same choppiness when running the DirectX diags and watching the box spin around with quick little pauses, just like they happen in half-life (which is all the life I have anymore). I have installed all the latest drivers, running DirectX 8.1. I disable my virus program and zonealarm, and have shutdown any and all un-necessary programs with no success. I have removed joystick, but have a gamepad in the gaming device listing, but it is not connected.
It acts like something is polling the computer, like a network connection. Things had been running fine a week or so ago, can't think of anything that has changed or been installed to cause this? Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
:frown: >>



Here's what usually fixes the above problem for me (it plagues most video cards, I've so far had this problem with my kyro 2, geforce2mx, savage4 etc so it's very common and there's usually 2 causes!)

1.Reinstall directx8.1, in 99% of the cases the problem will be fixed.

2.If above doesn't work then you need to reinstall the agp driver for your motherboard, in your case just reinstall via4in1 (use the latest version which is v4.35) . When you are installing the agp driver select standard mode instead of turbo. IMO turbo just causes instability and not much performance gain so don't use it.

If your still having problems then send me a message here and I'll send you my email address!

 

[MadDad]

I had already installed the latest AGP drivers from ecs. This didn't help. Aren't the Via4-1 drivers meant for Via chipset mobo's? The ecs mobo uses Sis 735 chipset. Thanks for help.


BTW, a few things I didn't mention in my first post....I'm not seeing any hard drive activity while this choppy stuff happens, I'm running Win98se, no other MS programs like Office or anything, I have the graphic settings under device manager set for full, and the puter is set as a network server, even though it isn't.

 

[nemesismk2]

<< I had already installed the latest AGP drivers from ecs. This didn't help. Aren't the Via4-1 drivers meant for Via chipset mobo's? The ecs mobo uses Sis 735 chipset. Thanks for help.

BTW, a few things I didn't mention in my first post....I'm not seeing any hard drive activity while this choppy stuff happens, I'm running Win98se, no other MS programs like Office or anything, I have the graphic settings under device manager set for full, and the puter is set as a network server, even though it isn't. >>



Sorry I was online abit too early this morning!

OK anybody know anything about SIS motherboards, I never touch them myself and we don't sell any SIS products in work due to our contract with Via.

Have you tried reinstalling directx as I said earlier?

 

[sash1]

Well, to start off, you have the same video card, processor, and mobo as me. The rest is different, but taht makes no difference.


<< I had already installed the latest AGP drivers from ecs >>

That me be what caused the problem
I did that, thinking it would boost my performance a little. Well I was wrong, it totally screwed my video card, giving me stutters everywhere and crashed 3DMark2001, so I put in the k7s5a Mainboard CD and just reinstalled the AGP drivers from there and my Kyro II worked fine again.

I suggest you try that.

~Aunix

 

[MadDad]

Good Morning.........thanks for info......I'm going to try re-installing DirectX as soon as my download is done.

I was having this problem with an earlier AGP driver version, not sure if I had done an earlier upgrade from the drivers that came with the mobo cd originally, but if my DirectX re-install doesn't do it, I'll try going back to the original AGP drivers.

Will keep you posted, hope this will help someone else out there, too, whatever the solution is. I'm preparing myself mentally for a re-format and re-installation if all else fails.

 

[nemesismk2]

SIS have always produced very dodgy drivers, my first and LAST experience with a SIS motherboard was in the Socket7 days. After numerious bsods and slow performance I returned it and got a Via based motherboard instead, best move I ever made and I've been with Via ever since!

 

[MadDad]

Well, my re-install of DirectX didn't help......gonna go try reinstalling the original AGP driver. I still have a hunch that some process is running that I can't figure out. I thought I had read somewhere that network cards will poll something or other. I'll try disabling the onboard lan that I use and see if that does anything good.

 

[MadDad]

Well, here's the latest......
Disabled SMART for the hard drives, disabled on-board lan, changed AGP setting from 4x to 2x, re-installed originall AGP drivers from CD that came w/ mobo, and nothing has changed.
HELP!! Any other ideas?

 

[MadDad]

Success! Downloaded and installed latest drivers for the Fortissimo II sound card, runs great!
Thanks for help everyone, hope this helps someone else out.
Laters

 

[thedan]

good work