Where did 75% of my fps go on my Radeon?

[Raycaster]

After installing the 9500 in my Athlon 1.33GHz 512M XP Pro machine I quickly was up and running Battlefield 1942 at 1600 X 1200 smoothly.

2 weeks later I installed a leadtek 2000 XP deluxe capture card for recording satellite. While installing this card my machine rebooted around 6 times before my root drive was toast and needed a full reinstall of XP. I was going to do it anyways so I withheld from tossing the Leadtek into a wall.

Anyways, I'm back up and the clean install went smooth. The Leadtek card actually is pretty impressive. After a clean install of bf 1942 and patches my 9500 is now sloooow. I've installed the latest drivers and even defaulted the card's opengl and d3d to performance settings ignoring quality. No difference, game is jerky at any resolution. Of course the capture utils are all shut down while playing.

Maybe a bios setting was change with the earlier HARD crashes?

Bios is set to 4X AGP and aperature to 256... Loaded latest mb agp driver also.

What did I miss? I have no background apps running and basically a very clean new install, even directx 9.0a.

Any help would be much appreciated, I might have to go dig out my old 3dfx banshee card and play Tomb Raider 1 or something!

 

[kurt454]

Just a shot in the dark but, did you reinstall your chipset drivers?

 

[eklass]

and what happens when you yank the capture card?

 

[tkdkid]

Check that DMA is enabled on all your hd's and cd/dvd drives.

 

[gururu]

could be a resource conflict. check IRQ usage. make sure that the two cards aren't trying to share resources.

 

[NokiaDude]

Windows XP and ATI Radeon card have a problem with agp aperature set above 128mb. Go back into the BIOS and set it to 128 or less.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Windows XP and ATI Radeon card have a problem with agp aperature set above 128mb. Go back into the BIOS and set it to 128 or less.

Funny isn't it how ATI bugs make your pc crash or unstable however Nvidia bugs make things faster! hehe

 

[Noid]

Welcome to the forums Raycaster

 

[NokiaDude]

Originally posted by: nemesismk2

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Windows XP and ATI Radeon card have a problem with agp aperature set above 128mb. Go back into the BIOS and set it to 128 or less.

Funny isn't it how ATI bugs make your pc crash or unstable however Nvidia bugs make things faster! hehe

And Nvidia driver also disable DVD playback when you have an older card with TV out? It tha funny too? Or how the FlowFX sounds like a blow-dryer? HA HA!

 

[Raycaster]

Thank you for all the replies.

Yes I have installed the latest AGP driver for the mb.

I will try the 128M Aperture setting though.
I will check for shared resouces.
I will yank the capture card but hope thats not it.

I do notice when playing Battlefield now that the hd light flickers constantly for some reason...
Its a clean XP install, formatted first, but I'll defrag for good measure.

I feel like I'm just missing 1 stupid setting as the game was running 16X12 GFX maxed godlike and now it stutters ugly.

I'm also going to check the Audio drivers...

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: NokiaDude

Originally posted by: nemesismk2

Originally posted by: NokiaDude
Windows XP and ATI Radeon card have a problem with agp aperature set above 128mb. Go back into the BIOS and set it to 128 or less.

Funny isn't it how ATI bugs make your pc crash or unstable however Nvidia bugs make things faster! hehe

And Nvidia driver also disable DVD playback when you have an older card with TV out? It tha funny too? Or how the FlowFX sounds like a blow-dryer? HA HA!

What older video cards does that effect? I wouldn't know what a blow-dryer sounds like because we have hair dryers instead! HA HA

 

[tkdkid]

Originally posted by: Raycaster
Thank you for all the replies.

Yes I have installed the latest AGP driver for the mb.

I will try the 128M Aperture setting though.
I will check for shared resouces.
I will yank the capture card but hope thats not it.

I do notice when playing Battlefield now that the hd light flickers constantly for some reason...
Its a clean XP install, formatted first, but I'll defrag for good measure.

I feel like I'm just missing 1 stupid setting as the game was running 16X12 GFX maxed godlike and now it stutters ugly.

I'm also going to check the Audio drivers...

HD flickering huh? Well that again points to DMA not being enabled. You should check that.

 

[Marvelous]

Personally I think you should reinstall Winxp once more. Sometimes installing windows go heywire.

I've had problems like this and usually 2nd time is the charm.