Video Card ? Radeon 9600 Pro

[DEAShrp7]

I am Looking for some help with regards to my new Radeon 9600 . I replaced my GeForce 3 ti200 (35 to 45 fps) with this new card to increase my gaming frame rate in Raven Shield and help smooth out the game all around.

Turns out I installed the ATI Card and I am getting nomimally better rates (45 to 50) but not the difference I expected going from a 64mg card to a 8X AGP 256 card.

I understand that my soltek mobo does not support 8X but it does support 4X 128 and I adjusted my bois chipset setting to accomodate it.

All that being said I would ask if anyone that has experience with the 9600 pro (catalyst drivers) setup as it pertains to optimizing gaming setups it would be appreciated.


Thanks in Advance
DEAShpr7

 

[aus78]

About how much do those cost?

 

[sandorski]

What are the specs of the est of your hardware? Your cpu might be too weak.

 

[DEAShrp7]

AMD Athlon XP Palamino 1700+ 512mg DDR ram PC2100

 

[Blastman]

It's possible the game defaulted to higher settings for the 9600pro. Try turning down some settings maybe.

 

[mrgoblin]

Because the 9600 256mb is a piece of garbage. You SHOULD have bought the 128 meg 9600 pro since the memory is alot faaster than the 256 and its a pro speed card. However the best buy at the moment is the 9800 pro for 230 at newegg. I say return it and grab one of the above 9600 pro is currently 130

 

[Dman877]

To see a real improvement you shoulda gone to 9700 Pro or 9800 pro

 

[clicknext]

You should be seeing a rather large improvement going to that card. I went from Radeon8500 to 9600Pro and the difference was pretty big. I'd say 30-50% increase in fps in most games. The 256MB is really useless in a card like that, though, because right now games don't really make use of all that, and the 9600 Pro isn't even a high end card. 128MB would have been good. You could try some overclocking (at your own risk) because that card is generally a great overclocker.

 

[JBT]

Did you happen to run driver cleaner or anything to get the last traces of the Nvidia software off there? because that can cause lots of problems.

 

[DEAShrp7]

Obivously no has any experience with this card did the driver cleanup before the install

Would be great if someone could give some positive progreesive feedback as to how to set this card
up properly all I have recieved is conjecture and negative comment for the most part.

ANYONE had success with this card in gaming???

 

[JBT]

Well from reading your post I can't tell if u ran driver cleaner or not. So first off download driver cleaner if you havn't un install all nvidia dirvers/software. Go into safe mode and run driver cleaner to get ride of all Nvidia items. restart. Go to the ATI control panel and look in the 3D tab to see if you have AA or AF for both Direct 3d and Open GL. If you do turn them off if you want the best performance or leave them on for a cleaner picture. When in games if they run crappy turn the resolution down or AA and AF off. In the bios turn it to 4x even though it probably doesn't even matter and the AGP apteture size doesn't matter either 128 is probably good.

Other than that all I ahve to say is 9600's with 256 memory are NOT fast cards. You should see if you can return it for a 9600 Pro with 128 memory.

The amount of memory now doesn't matter because nothing takes advantage of it, cards with 256 memory have VERY slow clock speeds so it actually impares them. GL

 

[DEAShrp7]

Thanks JBTwill do

 

[JBT]

No problem good luck in your quest to find high performace bliss