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FAULTY ATI X1900 XT-X?

Have you tried adjusting the video card PCI latency in ATItool or ATItraytools?
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I haven't tried that megatron. Could you tell me how to please?

At the end of the day, if you're not happy with it, easiest thing is to sell it and get a 7900gtx. Im assuming that the card isnt playing well with the rest of your system (the motherboard as you say). Im not an nvidiot, I have always been an ATIfan; FWIW.
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As a last result I might just do that but the card sounds great and I would ideally like to get it operating properly in my machine, especially having paid so much money for it.


On another forum somebody has suggested that it may be my CPU that is the problem because of the times at which the FPS drops. Does anybody have something to say in response to this? Or any other ideas?
 
Thx megatron, I will give that a go.

I have a few things to try that people from other forums have suggested, and I will also have a go with the Catalyst 6.4 betas. If this doesn't work I give up, unless someone can come up with an answer.
 
I have tried that. The only thing I have left I am going to try is the 6.4 Catalysts on a bare fresh install.

I wanted to assign my graphics card its own IRQ as without this by X-Fi performs rubbishly but I can't work out how to and nobody else seems to know either.

I am happy enough to sell the system (with my previous graphics card) and buy myself a new system, and also sell the X1900 X-TX. I will get a nice new dual-core setup. :)

If I can fix it this weekend I will cancel those plans.
 
This is insane...

I ended up selling that system with my old 7800GT graphics card (I sold the X1900XTX seperately) and bought a new one. It's a 4200+ dual core setup with an Asus motherboard, X1900XT, 2GB GEIL Value, 560W Thermaltake etc.

It came preinstalled with Windows and all the drivers (catalyst 6.4, AMD CPU drivers).

I installed a few games (Far Cry, AOE3 and Quake 4). Guess what... It peforms even worse! :eek:

Far Cry is stuttering along at 20-30FPs~ when there are gunfights (lowest I saw was 6FPs), Quake 4 averages at 30FPs (even with the 1.2 multi-CPU enabled) and AOE3 is about the same as before.

I don't understand how it is possible for both these systems to be sucking in the exact same way. I didn't change any settings in Windows, just installed the games, patched them, configured them for best settings and played them.

It is possible that the cause this time around is something more common and is just a rare coincidence. If I can't find a solution this time around though I am abandoning PCs forever and going with Macs for computing and consoles for gaming, as this is pushing my patience to the limits...

@ megatron - thanks for suggestion but in this machine my X-Fi isn't even installed. :eek:
 
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Thanks again guys,

So how can I assign those IRQs?

I'm beginning to wonder if people are fibbing that this card can handle recent games at maximum settings and 1280 x 1024 resolution. How could two completely different systems both perform in the same incredibly poor way? :confused:

If it is a coincidence, my legendary bad luck with PCs is keeping up well.

If anybody can actually make my PC run at what it "should" do, I will offer a financial reward. So far nobody at any forums knows the solution (albeit this is a new PC now).

BTW, tried different memory but that didn't help. Also disabled some sound thingy in the BIOS but that didn't improve things either.

Other system errors are:

When selecting "Turn Off" in Windows it often restarts instead.

Sometimes when switching on PC it says that overclocking failed even though I have not done any overclocking. It says to restore BIOS defaults so I do that and it boots up, but even when it is running on BIOS defaults in the first place this message can pop up.
 
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Yes, X-Fi doesn't seem to make a difference in my case.

Don't want to get yet another motherboard tbh.

Will a codec pack effect games?

I think the chipset drivers are installed, but I'm not 100%. Can someone direct me to a download for the latest ones please just to make sure.

Will try changing the PCI latency.
 
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