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Radeon 8500 Problem With CS

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Bovinicus

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For some reason I cannot play CS for more than about 30 seconds before I overflow. It will overflow over and over and over. This has been happening ever since I install my 8500. I am running Windows 2000. I have tried both the 5.13.6025, 6032, and 3286s. I am currently using the 32s. The problem occurs in all three. I have tried turning on and off a few settings without success. For more information on my rig check at my.anandtech. If anyone can offer advice it would be greatly appreciated.
 
Yeah, it's not directly an ATI problem.. more with the last CS update that only took care of a version of OpenGL that catered to nvidia and not the one that worked with ATI cards...
 
There are actually 2 patches out. A half life patch and a counter-strike patch, each does a different thing. I still overflowed after the HL patch, installing the CS patch in addition solved my problems.

Both can be downloaded from Sierra, the game publisher.
 
There is another little thing I am curious about with CS. I get 85 FPS solid in most places. However, some places I get ~43FPS solid (Probably 42.5 or half of 85). I never seem to get a number of frames different from those two. Do you think is due to some sort of bottleneck? I am running in 1024x768x32 2xFSAA Quality Mode.
 
Ok, now I think something is wrong. I just ran 3DMark2001 and only got a score of 4421. What could possibly be making my card perform so poorly?
 
Now that it works, I recomend gowing to the lates 3286 drivers or the tweaked Omega corner drivers here although with the new Omega drivers you need to install everything in the download for it to work normaly. Also check that v-synk is dissabled. And anyway, 85 fps in 1024x768x32 2xFSAA Quality is not all that bad. The 43 is worse but not that horable for some cases. The 3DMark 2001 score should be higher but it is a synthetic bench and does not alway have a good score with some drivers but does not translate into bad gaming scores.
 
It's not that it's slow. It's the fact that I either get exactly 85FPS or exactly 43FPS. I don't get between 43 and 85FPS. I find that strange. I also find it strange that I go with the 3286 drivers and I get 7500 in 3DMark but I can't use FSAA correctly.
 
I was looking around Rage3D for some answers. That site is basically made for the Radeon. It seems as though there is a high polygon bug in the 8500. This should be fixed soon in drivers.
 
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