when I first built my computer (specs are amd 3000+ venice 939, 1024mb [2x512] corsair value ram dual channel, ati radeon x800xtpe [refurb], msi k8n neo2 platinum, fortron 400w psu, 120gb western digital hdd) everything was fine and games ran perfectly. keep in mind I had a refurbished ati card directly from ati (thank God it has a 3 year warranty, though)
I was using Windows XP Pro SP2, and I had Catalyst 5.7 drivers and everything was running smoothly. I got Radeon omega drivers for 5.7, installed them on top, and everything still ran fine. Then ATi came out with some new Catalyst drivers, so I figured I'd install them, so I uninstalled all the drivers I currently had. When I restarted, there were some gay error messages telling me that it couldn't load a low level device driver. I searched it on Google, found what I thought would be a fix to it, and installed the most recent Catalyst drivers for my card. This is around where the problems began, but it might have been a little before it (my problem is slight enough that I can tell there's a problem that shouldn't be there, but it's still a somewhat hard problem to identify and explain)
The problem is this:
Games feel slightly slower than they should be. At first I thought it might have been my imagination, but I'm positive that it's not. When I play Quake 1, my movement is much worse. It feels like I'm in a very laggy server, even though I'm practicing on my own LAN. In Counter-Strike, when I shoot a gun, the recoil is all messed up (much more jittery and just not fluid at all-very annoying), and when I move and stop, it takes a fraction of a second longer to stop than it should. Some of you might be thinking "oh, fraction of a second, who gives a damn?" I do. Most people probably wouldn't have even noticed this problem if they hadn't experienced a perfect setup first, and maybe they wouldn't after, but I play games a lot and I play competitively, so having things work with perfect smoothness = vital. In PainKiller, when turning (normally you can do a full 180 in midair and keep jumping with the same momentum that you had, but I can't anymore) it's a lot more drawn out and long, and just feels crappy.
At first I thought this might have been a problem with vsync being on, but I disabled it and still had these problems.
Then i thought it might be a refreshrate problem, but I don't think it is anymore. Maybe I have a refreshrate of 60 and it's locked that way and it's telling me otherwise (it doesn't show me on my monitor)
Any ideas for solving this problem are welcome, and I appreciate anyone who read this.
The moral of this story is to create an image with Norton Ghost when you have everything running perfectly, and when I have everything running nicely again I'm going to do EXACTLY that. If you guys haven't done that yet, do it right now. You may be glad you did later.
I was using Windows XP Pro SP2, and I had Catalyst 5.7 drivers and everything was running smoothly. I got Radeon omega drivers for 5.7, installed them on top, and everything still ran fine. Then ATi came out with some new Catalyst drivers, so I figured I'd install them, so I uninstalled all the drivers I currently had. When I restarted, there were some gay error messages telling me that it couldn't load a low level device driver. I searched it on Google, found what I thought would be a fix to it, and installed the most recent Catalyst drivers for my card. This is around where the problems began, but it might have been a little before it (my problem is slight enough that I can tell there's a problem that shouldn't be there, but it's still a somewhat hard problem to identify and explain)
The problem is this:
Games feel slightly slower than they should be. At first I thought it might have been my imagination, but I'm positive that it's not. When I play Quake 1, my movement is much worse. It feels like I'm in a very laggy server, even though I'm practicing on my own LAN. In Counter-Strike, when I shoot a gun, the recoil is all messed up (much more jittery and just not fluid at all-very annoying), and when I move and stop, it takes a fraction of a second longer to stop than it should. Some of you might be thinking "oh, fraction of a second, who gives a damn?" I do. Most people probably wouldn't have even noticed this problem if they hadn't experienced a perfect setup first, and maybe they wouldn't after, but I play games a lot and I play competitively, so having things work with perfect smoothness = vital. In PainKiller, when turning (normally you can do a full 180 in midair and keep jumping with the same momentum that you had, but I can't anymore) it's a lot more drawn out and long, and just feels crappy.
At first I thought this might have been a problem with vsync being on, but I disabled it and still had these problems.
Then i thought it might be a refreshrate problem, but I don't think it is anymore. Maybe I have a refreshrate of 60 and it's locked that way and it's telling me otherwise (it doesn't show me on my monitor)
Any ideas for solving this problem are welcome, and I appreciate anyone who read this.
The moral of this story is to create an image with Norton Ghost when you have everything running perfectly, and when I have everything running nicely again I'm going to do EXACTLY that. If you guys haven't done that yet, do it right now. You may be glad you did later.
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