3850 weird frame rate drop

kingka · Mar 6, 2008, 06:41 AM

Hey guys, i have a weird issue. when i play CS:S and i have it windowed, it runs smooth, like 42-45 FPS. when i hover my tooltip (mouse) above the time or something and it shows me the date, or if i hover it above the ATI icon and it shows me my desktop resolution, my FPS drops to 1. it's rEALLY weird. i tried in cs 1.6 and it's fine. any thoughts?

kn00tcn · Mar 9, 2008, 10:11 AM

normal, i get that when windowed too

the older AIM (messenger) makes opengl freeze up when the alerts appears
quicktime (alternative, in mediaplayerclassic) freezes when tooltips/menus animate
msn's alerts freeze fullscreen games when the alert slides back out of view

cs1.6 has 3 different modes - direct3d/opengl/software, & if you switch to... probably direct3d as that's source's default, you should get the same slowdown

Spyre · Mar 9, 2008, 04:59 PM

If you dont want that issue then turn off AA or install Vista which doesnt have that problem. The issue is a XP OS bug and wont be fixed by MS.

Mar 6, 2008, 06:41 AM	#1
kingka DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	3850 weird frame rate drop Hey guys, i have a weird issue. when i play CS:S and i have it windowed, it runs smooth, like 42-45 FPS. when i hover my tooltip (mouse) above the time or something and it shows me the date, or if i hover it above the ATI icon and it shows me my desktop resolution, my FPS drops to 1. it's rEALLY weird. i tried in cs 1.6 and it's fine. any thoughts?

Mar 9, 2008, 10:11 AM	#2
kn00tcn DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Toronto Posts: 649 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	normal, i get that when windowed too the older AIM (messenger) makes opengl freeze up when the alerts appears quicktime (alternative, in mediaplayerclassic) freezes when tooltips/menus animate msn's alerts freeze fullscreen games when the alert slides back out of view cs1.6 has 3 different modes - direct3d/opengl/software, & if you switch to... probably direct3d as that's source's default, you should get the same slowdown __________________ http://www.kn00tcn.net/site/ati-catalyst-profiles/ http://www.kn00tcn.net/FPSLimiter.rar

Mar 9, 2008, 04:59 PM	#3
Spyre DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: England Posts: 240 Rep Power: 62	If you dont want that issue then turn off AA or install Vista which doesnt have that problem. The issue is a XP OS bug and wont be fixed by MS. __________________ ATI Beta Tester game.AMD.Moderator