WTF is wrong with my gfs computer :( Just bought her a new hard drive and video card.....

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WarDemon666

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System:
AMD Duron 750
256 Megs of ram
160GB WD 7200rpm 8MB Buffer hard drive
Asus Radeon A9250 128 meg
all the other stuff...


I used to have a voodoo 3 in there, UT99 would never lag, other games werent playable (need for speed, etc) so I changed the card... How come after the format and reinstall the new video which is faster,lags? Its not a lag which you think its the comp thats too slow, something bugs up somewhere.. Like, even at low settings it does the same thing... the old card was PCI this one is AGP, I put the bios AGP settings to 4x, and enabled everything. Ive played with quite a few settings, still no go...

FPS in UT99 starts off at 90, and goes down to 23, and less... With the voodoo it used to stay around 50-60 all the time.... (800x600)

Any ideas?

UPDATE: put in an old hard drive, NO LAG, EVERYTHING ON HIGH, new video card....... just old configuration on a 40 gig hard drive...

IDEAS?!?!

Thanks.
 
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OmegaXero

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Check your chipset drivers, you said you did a format/reinstall. I'm assuming you're using an older chipset, maybe a KT133? Get the latest drivers for your chipset and no matter what you do, DO NOT use the driver disk that came with the video card. Go to ati.com and download the latest drivers from there.
 
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WarDemon666

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Originally posted by: OmegaXero
Check your chipset drivers, you said you did a format/reinstall. I'm assuming you're using an older chipset, maybe a KT133? Get the latest drivers for your chipset and no matter what you do, DO NOT use the driver disk that came with the video card. Go to ati.com and download the latest drivers from there.
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Just looked at the mobo, its an Abit kt7a, ill go look for updated drivers..

As for video drivers, I will try that too...

Thanks for the advice..

What else could it be if it isnt that?
 
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CraigRT

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Originally posted by: WarDemon666
Originally posted by: OmegaXero
Check your chipset drivers, you said you did a format/reinstall. I'm assuming you're using an older chipset, maybe a KT133? Get the latest drivers for your chipset and no matter what you do, DO NOT use the driver disk that came with the video card. Go to ati.com and download the latest drivers from there.
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Just looked at the mobo, its an Abit kt7a, ill go look for updated drivers..

As for video drivers, I will try that too...

Thanks for the advice..

What else could it be if it isnt that?
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It's almost definitely a driver problem.. whether it be a bad install (needs to be cleaned) or an incompatibility, the only other issue is that it COULD be a weird hardare conflict, but hardly likely.
 
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WarDemon666

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"are you sure you want to overwrite English(Canada) with English(United states)??" hahah! :)


Ok just fininished installing latest chipset drivers and video drivers..
its trying to find the "via bus master ide drivers" errrrr... good thing I have google by my side
 
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Mik3y

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the difference in performance between 4x agp and 8x agp is really negligable.
 
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WarDemon666

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Originally posted by: Azzy64
hmm, defo something wrong here!!! Does the card work perfectly in your system?
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I currently only have a laptop, so no testing on any other computers
 
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LiekOMG

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Are ALL games running slow with the new video card, or only Unreal Tournament (1999)? Because its a well known fact that the original Unreal engine ran FAR better on Voodoo cards in Glide mode than on Direct 3D on Geforce and Radeon cards.

If its only UT99, try downloading the special OpenGL drivers for the game, which should hopfully get the game running back up to speed.
 
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WarDemon666

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Originally posted by: DOACleric
Are ALL games running slow with the new video card, or only Unreal Tournament (1999)? Because its a well known fact that the original Unreal engine ran FAR better on Voodoo cards in Glide mode than on Direct 3D on Geforce and Radeon cards.

If its only UT99, try downloading the special OpenGL drivers for the game, which should hopfully get the game running back up to speed.
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ive only tried 2 games so far, and they both lag. I tried ut2004 too, but that simply was unplayable,,,, after a few minutes in the game it got better though, but at first it was really bad.. I also tried NFS UG2, and was good with everything on low, once it got into medium it got laggy...
 
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WarDemon666

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I have a feeling its the speed of the hard drive...


Are there any hard drive speed tests available somewhere? And what are the "average" times?

Thanks
 
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WarDemon666

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OH! I just realised that when ever I install something to the hard drive (a game, or drivers, etc) the mouse gets really laggy, and the computer too, I really have a feeling its that.
 
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WarDemon666

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OK: did a hard drive test, the hard drive did about 20MB/s, another test did 2.5min, 3.3max (mb/s)... whats the average time for a hard drive?

another program gave me 3.2MB/s 8.32ms avg. access time...
 
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WarDemon666

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UPDATE: put in an old hard drive, NO LAG, EVERYTHING ON HIGH, new video card....... just old configuration on a 40 gig hard drive...

IDEAS?!?!
 
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PrayForDeath

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Originally posted by: WarDemon666
Bios only reads the drive as 136GB. What could I do to get it to read over that? Any ideas?
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Windows drivers.
My brother bought a 160Gb HD for his 4+ year old ASUS mobo and in BIOS it showed only 120Gb, so he had to install drivers for it to run at 160Gb in windows only.
 
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Farmer

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You need 48-bit LBA capable BIOS and Win2K SP3+ or WinXP SP2 (IIRC) for drives > 136GB.

So flash and install updates.

Flash your BIOS, that is.
 
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