gometang

Hi guys,

I just bought a new Radeon ATI 9800 pro 128mb gpu. I'm replacing my old GeForce4 ti 4200 64mb card. I've installed the latest Catalyst 4.3 drivers and got a decent score of 4862 on 3DMark03. I have a 1.7Ghz Celeron and 512MB 2100 RAM.

However, though the 3DMark03 score is much better now (vs the Nvidia card), when I play COD, my FPS = ~20??!!! I don't get it. Anyhow, i'm not sure if it might be my slow CPU, but it's doing a lot worse than when I had my NVidia card. Has anyone experienced this with the 9800 pro? I'm guessing it might be a driver issue, but I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers through XP, and re-installed the Catalyst drivers a few times already. To get to the point, i'm really disappointed with the 9800 pro performance. I know it's not the card, because we all know it's a great one, BUT has anyone had problems with this? If so, how did you solve it? Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance everyone!!

Gome

nuG

well nvidia cards have always been good opengl performers and most of the time better than ati. although a 4200 should get the crap kicked out of it by the 9800 pro....i woul dtry to download the latest chipset and agp drivers for your mobo.

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inet

His celery cpu just isnt capable of feeding his graphics card.

tandra

i had a same experience with you when i've changed my geforce2 ti to radeon 9700 pro. i just uninstalled my nvidia driver and install the catalyst driver. all my games ran badly. stutter and slow in quake 3 arena... slow in Medal of Honour. reinstalled catalyst driver many times... but it still performed the same.
TAKE NOTE : I JUST UNINSTALLED NVIDIA DRIVER WITHOUT CLEAN INSTALL MY WINDOWS XP

PROBLEM SOLVING!
steps:
1. REINSTALL YOUR WINDOWS XP!
2. INSTALL Intel Inf and Intel application Accelerator.
3. Install DirectX 9.0b
4. Install Catalyst driver and control panel..
5. PROLEM SOLVED

the point is... althogh u've uninstalled nvidia driver.. but some files were still there.. that's why it perform it shouldnt be.. cos i conflict with new catalyst driver

Hope this problem will solve your problem as mine...

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C0NAN

Just use Driver Cleaner to remove all references of the old Nvidia drivers. No need to reinstall Windows.

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The_Neon_Cowboy

for 1 you need to format and reinstall, or try driver cleaner and you must uninstall and reinstall or start your games in thier own safe modes (just reformat)

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for 2 you sytem is a large bottleneck for that card

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free_refil

When going from a Nvidia card to an ATI card, a full system format is usually suggested. If not, use Driver Cleaner 2 to remove all of the NVIDIA AND ATI drivers, also running the Cab Cleaner isn't a bad idea either. Once you've done that, when you restart youre card should only be recognized as a Standard VGA Card. At this point, seeing your system probably has an old install of chipset drivers, go ahead and remove those and install new ones. If you haven't installed DirectX 9.0b yet, now would also be a good time to do that. Once you have the new Chipset and DirectX drivers installed and you have rebooted the system, install the Catalyst 4.3's or even Omega's 4.3's... This should solve all of your problems. If not, I once again suggest a full format of the drive and a reinstall of Windows.

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