Stuttering problems with X1900XT in quite a few games.

[LW07]

The Games that do this are:
Doom 3
Quake 4
Pacific Fighters
Half Life 2: Lost Coast

My specs are:
X1900XT
Athlon 64 3500
2 gigs of ram at PC2700 speed

I run the games at 1024*768 and 1152*864 and it stutters like crazy. I have the latest drivers(catalyst 6.3, I use the CCC) and I came from an Nvidia 7800GT(please, don't comment on my upgrade, just help me with my problem here) and it didn't do this. I uninstalled the nvidia display drivers and then had driver cleaner uninstall the nvidia WDM drivers 5 times, which should have been enough. I installed the .NET 1.1 drivers, and today I updated it to the .NET 2.0 drivers and did a restart and that didn't help. I need help stopping this stuttering issue. HDR+AA doesn't work as well, BTW. When I enable HDR and AA, the AA doesn't show up and it's still jaggied.

 

[namityadav]

Comment on your upgrade: Man ! I wish I could be you :-(

Try installing one of these games again. I don't think that'll help though! Bah, sorry

 

[LW07]

I'm having to keep this thing for 3 years, though. But do you think uninstalling the drivers and going to the 6.2 drivers would fix this?

 

[5150Joker]

What mainboard are you using?

 

[BFG10K]

(Re)install your chipset drivers.

 

[LW07]

I'm using an ABIT KN8 ultra. The stutters are very light, like a 0.25-0.5 second one every 3 seconds and I have installed the older 6.2 drivers now and it seems a bit better, although the stutters are still there. What chipset drivers are you talking about? And I've tried V-Sync and it doesn't really do the job.

 

[BFG10K]

What chipset drivers are you talking about?

The ones for your motherboard.

If you're running an nForce chipset I suspect you've hosed them when you removed nVidia's GPU drivers.

 

[LW07]

I didn't uninstall the nforce drivers. Also, everything is good now(at least the stutters are now unnoticable). Thanks for the help.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

What is your power supply?

 

[LW07]

Power Supply is an Antec 550w TruePower II with voltages of 11.43 on 12v and -7 on -12v rails. It's gonna be replaced with a PC Power and Cooling I got behind me once I get a Power Supply bracket or whatever those things are called so that I can fit the PSU into my SLK3000B case.

 

[santz]

Originally posted by: LW07
The Games that do this are:
Doom 3
Quake 4
Pacific Fighters
Half Life 2: Lost Coast

My specs are:
X1900XT
Athlon 64 3500
2 gigs of ram at PC2700 speed

I run the games at 1024*768 and 1152*864 and it stutters like crazy. I have the latest drivers(catalyst 6.3, I use the CCC) and I came from an Nvidia 7800GT(please, don't comment on my upgrade, just help me with my problem here) and it didn't do this. I uninstalled the nvidia display drivers and then had driver cleaner uninstall the nvidia WDM drivers 5 times, which should have been enough. I installed the .NET 1.1 drivers, and today I updated it to the .NET 2.0 drivers and did a restart and that didn't help. I need help stopping this stuttering issue. HDR+AA doesn't work as well, BTW. When I enable HDR and AA, the AA doesn't show up and it's still jaggied.

hey i have the same problem with my x1900xt, check this thread here-

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1836358&enterthread=y

also, go to ati control panel and check your gpu temperature while its idle and when its on full oad ( check full load by playing a 3d game for 10 minutes, immieddiately quit by hitting ALT+F$, and check temperature.)

you can also download motherboard monitor 5, which will tell you everything about how much temp, voltag usage, fan speed, everything!!!

 

[LW07]

Originally posted by: santz

Originally posted by: LW07
The Games that do this are:
Doom 3
Quake 4
Pacific Fighters
Half Life 2: Lost Coast

My specs are:
X1900XT
Athlon 64 3500
2 gigs of ram at PC2700 speed

I run the games at 1024*768 and 1152*864 and it stutters like crazy. I have the latest drivers(catalyst 6.3, I use the CCC) and I came from an Nvidia 7800GT(please, don't comment on my upgrade, just help me with my problem here) and it didn't do this. I uninstalled the nvidia display drivers and then had driver cleaner uninstall the nvidia WDM drivers 5 times, which should have been enough. I installed the .NET 1.1 drivers, and today I updated it to the .NET 2.0 drivers and did a restart and that didn't help. I need help stopping this stuttering issue. HDR+AA doesn't work as well, BTW. When I enable HDR and AA, the AA doesn't show up and it's still jaggied.

hey i have the same problem with my x1900xt, check this thread here-

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=31&threadid=1836358&enterthread=y

also, go to ati control panel and check your gpu temperature while its idle and when its on full oad ( check full load by playing a 3d game for 10 minutes, immieddiately quit by hitting ALT+F$, and check temperature.)

you can also download motherboard monitor 5, which will tell you everything about how much temp, voltag usage, fan speed, everything!!!

My X1900XT runs about 60-63C idle and 79-81C(is that too hot?) under full load(I tested it under half life 2:Lost coast with 6xAA and 8xHQAF and 1600*1200 resolution and all the goodies turned on and HDR as well). It turns out that it was downclocked a bit. It was 621mhz core and 720mhz memory(1440mhz effective). I turned it to 625mhz core and 725mhz memory(1450mhz effective) where it's supposed to be and it runs great and stutters less. Sometimes 10mhz memory and 4mhz core can make a difference. My PSU is an Antec 550W TruePower 2.0

 

[santz]

cool. i will try it too

 

[LW07]

Originally posted by: santz
cool. i will try it too

I would still try to get a more powerful PSU, though. Here's a good one:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817103931

I'd get this power supply as well if you haven't already decided what PSU you want yet. My X1900XT runs great now. Thanks for the help, guys.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Some tips:

-Flash to the latest BIOS for your motherboard.
-Uninstall and then reinstall the lastest official motheboard drivers from Nvidia.com

Why did you need to uninstall Nvidia WDM 5 times? It kept reloading?

What's your RAM configuration like? How many sticks?

 

[LW07]

The RAM configuration is 2 1 gig sticks. I uninstalled the nvidia drivers 5 times to make sure. It runs great now, though.