Sapphire X800 Pro not performing as expected

Gexor · Mar 1, 2005, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Zorg

I assume you should have the 1455 installed since it is the Via chipset driver?!
However, under SP2 the agp driver is skipped under normal install due to a MS recommendation. Just extract the zip file to a location of your choice, open the device manager and scroll down to system devices/"via cpu to agp" controller (something like that). double click on it and do a driver update where u point to the location of the unzipped file - inside is a AGP folder..select viagart.inf and install it. Once it is done the agp controller is called "VIA CPU to AGP2.0/3.0 controller"
Now reboot and check if it helps you. It helped me big time getting rid of problems with my Radeon card.

However, I feel your time is ripe for a fresh install of XP? - then install the chipset driver as the first driver once the XP base installation is done.

hth

I followed your instructions but my agp in smart gart says Agp is off and same with fast write. Same with CPU Z graphics interface is ghosted with nothing present

Oddly I can run games, and I changed my bios setting to 8x, fast write enabled.

Zorg · Mar 1, 2005, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by Gexor

I followed your instructions but my agp in smart gart says Agp is off and same with fast write. Same with CPU Z graphics interface is ghosted with nothing present

Oddly I can run games, and I changed my bios setting to 8x, fast write enabled.

Yes, smartgart seems to be completely confused. However, Everest reports my card in 8X mode and all is running beautifully. Maybe it helps to uninstall/reinstall the ATi driver..haven't done it yet. Who cares anyway? - it is the first time my card runs free of artifacts in all games and benchmarks. Whatfore smartgart when it is causing trouble like this

ThomasMack · Mar 1, 2005, 09:17 PM

I'm running AVAST Antivirus and KERIO Firewall, could this be the problem?

Even though before I installed either one of them my games get low FPS. Also on BF:Vietnam, I was getting 140fps and randomly it just drops to 25 out of no where..

Zorg · Mar 1, 2005, 11:22 PM

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Originally Posted by ThomasMack

I'm running AVAST Antivirus and KERIO Firewall, could this be the problem?

Even though before I installed either one of them my games get low FPS. Also on BF:Vietnam, I was getting 140fps and randomly it just drops to 25 out of no where..

Yes, could be that a background process pulls your framerates down?!
How much ram u have in your box? I found that 512 MB is a problem for many games since too much HD activities while playing - this pulls the framerate down to stuttering.
I too have Avast running but my Firewall is Sygate. Both combine very well.
However, my advise is get a fresh XP install done when u have the time and see how it works out. My experience is u always have to do it earlier or later as soon as u change your hardware like CPU, video card or even ram - only then your box will be back working smooth.

ThomasMack · Mar 3, 2005, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zorg

Yes, could be that a background process pulls your framerates down?!
How much ram u have in your box? I found that 512 MB is a problem for many games since too much HD activities while playing - this pulls the framerate down to stuttering.
I too have Avast running but my Firewall is Sygate. Both combine very well.
However, my advise is get a fresh XP install done when u have the time and see how it works out. My experience is u always have to do it earlier or later as soon as u change your hardware like CPU, video card or even ram - only then your box will be back working smooth.

I have 1.50GIG in ram (three 512MB's).

I get about the same, 30FPS with both my firewall and virus scanner disabled.

Mar 1, 2005, 09:17 PM	Thread Starter #33
ThomasMack DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 80 Rep Power: 0	I'm running AVAST Antivirus and KERIO Firewall, could this be the problem? Even though before I installed either one of them my games get low FPS. Also on BF:Vietnam, I was getting 140fps and randomly it just drops to 25 out of no where..