Radeon Users: Do you have any slowdowns in WinXP?

[Martin]

I just reformatted and installed XP a few days ago. I put in the newest Radeon64 Driver (posted october 13th I think).


Anyway, CS slows down A LOT. fps varies from 15 to 75, but most of the time its in the 30s and 20s. It is simply awful and I can hardly play it

all the settings are the same as under win2k, where I used to get low 60s all the time.


anyone have similar probs?

 

[Syborg1211]

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Yea I have the 64mb radeon vivo and when I switched to Xp from 2000 performance was so crappy that I reformatted and switched back to 2000... BUT I dont remember my counterstrike being that slow.

 

[Rand]

<< I just reformatted and installed XP a few days ago. I put in the newest Radeon64 Driver (posted october 13th I think).


Anyway, CS slows down A LOT. fps varies from 15 to 75, but most of the time its in the 30s and 20s. It is simply awful and I can hardly play it

all the settings are the same as under win2k, where I used to get low 60s all the time.


anyone have similar probs? >>



Have you disabled TruForm in CounterStrike?
That can have a hefty hit on performance.

 

[Martin]

<< Have you disabled TruForm in CounterStrike?
That can have a hefty hit on performance. >>



I have the original Radeon64, not the 8500.

 

[Adul]

My brother has no issues with it in CS. he runs windows XP and a radeon 64 DDR. What are your system specs?

 

[Martin]

a7v133
256mb PC133
Duron 750
Maxtor HD
etc....

Its a good system, what bothers me is that CS ran fine under win2k.


Btw, I just benchmarked Serious Sam, and I got 35fps average at 1024x768, 30 @ 1280x1024. All the options were turned to the max...so it might not be a driver issue. I will try reinstalling though I don't think that'll do much good.

 

[Rand]

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<< Have you disabled TruForm in CounterStrike?
That can have a hefty hit on performance. >>



I have the original Radeon64, not the 8500. >>



By default ALL Radeon cards run with TruForm enabled in CounterStrike even the original radeon cards. Their forced to do TruForm in software emulation and hence take a huge performance hit.

 

[Martin]

<< By default ALL Radeon cards run with TruForm enabled in CounterStrike even the original radeon cards. Their forced to do TruForm in software emulation and hence take a huge performance hit. >>




weird, how does one turn that off? I've never seen an option for it....

 

[Rand]

<<

<< By default ALL Radeon cards run with TruForm enabled in CounterStrike even the original radeon cards. Their forced to do TruForm in software emulation and hence take a huge performance hit. >>




weird, how does one turn that off? I've never seen an option for it.... >>



I don't know exactly because I don't personally play CS. It's something your supposed to type in... I remember that much. I'm sure someone here must know as it tends to be a frequently posted problem.

 

[Martin]

thanks, I'll do a search on google...

 

[Martin]

yay, good old google, never fails me

It turns out it was just as you suggested, Truform was being emulated.

The command to turn it off is "ati_npatch_0". I guess I didn't have these problems under win2k since I was using old drivers (from may or march I think) and these winxp are from october.


Thanks a lot