MAJOR gaming slowdown problems! Direct 3D.... the culprit.......

[GrimReefer]

I have a Thunderbird 1.1ghz, KT7 raid, 512mb pc133 cas2, 42gb IBM, HP 10x burner, Pioneer 115 DVD, and a Geforce 2 Ultra. Quake and Hitman run awesome. When I try to play Unreal Tournement, Giants, or worse... RUNE, my computer slugs down to a crawl. I have the Detonator 3 drivers installed and direct x 8. It was doing it before I installed Dx8 so I dont think its that. I have to reformat my HD because of problems with software, and Ive been changing stuff within my Award Modular BIOS v6.00pg. Not sure what the hell is causing this slowdown. It never use to do it before I formated my HD. Now that everything is back on, RUNE, UT and seemingly everything that uses direct 3d is slowing down severely. Any suggestions???

 

[GrimReefer]

I was thinking it could also be my bios settings

 

[pac1085]

I'm having the SAME EXACT PROBLEM. Its really pissing me off...I had a Radeon in my system and D3D was fine, now its running like sh!t. I wonder if it has anything to do with the KT7-Raid...I just dl'ed the new WZ bios, but to lazy to install it, perhaps ill try that later...

 

[pac1085]

I just thought of something...I wonder if the nVidia drivers dont like DX8...do you have DX8 installed? I'm gonna uninstall 8 and reinstall 7 and see what happens...I'll let you know. It kinda makes sense too...ran fine with the Radeon under Dx8..but not the nVidia card.

 

[paruhd0x]

I have the same problem also I have a KT7 non raid with Geforce 2 GTS.... D3D killz even after the game is closed my computer still acts like a slug

 

[paruhd0x]

Any answers?