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Problem with new Radeon card

Onizuka

Onizuka

Onizuka

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Hi,

I've just installed a new Sapphire Radeon 9550 and installed it all but it's already causing problems. Before I had a 3 year old Geforce fx 5600 which broke. The new raddeon has slowed everythingdown considerably, WoW's framerate has gone right down, it was fine with my 5600. Anyone have any idea what the problem could be.
Is it a dogy card / installation?
Is it cocky drivers?
or should I stop being so cheap and invest in a better card?
 
It shouldn't be that bad, sounds almost certainly like there is a problem with the drivers. What was the process you used? Uninstalled old nVidia drivers with control panel, powered down, installed new card, installed ATI drivers?
 
I use an AMD Athlon 3000+ 2.0 Ghz with 1Gb RAM.


. What was the process you used? Uninstalled old nVidia drivers with control panel, powered down, installed new card, installed ATI drivers?
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Bang on, I only removed the old nvidia drivers using control panel. I'll give it a crack using driver cleaner
 
Right, found what might be the problem, SMARTGART says the AGP is turned off, whenever I use it to try and turn the AGP up to 8x (What it should be), then apply it, with or without retesting, it will restart and still say AGP is off. Any ideas?
 
Aside from reformat what you could try is go to your Bios, and double check AGP hasnt been restricted. You could also try uninstalling your ATI drivers, then motherboard drivers, running driver cleaner over the entire lot (so you're only using default windows drivers), to remove all traces of your gfx (Nvidia/ATi) drivers, and motherboard drivers, then reinstalling the mobo drivers followed by fresh ati drivers.
Sounds like a load of hassle but sometimes solves problems caused by drivers settings being changed by one thing or another, and being incompatible or not working too well with something else.
 
Seems like a good idea as It occurs to me my mobo using Nvidia Nforce. How do I go about removing the mobo drivers? is it just a case of removing them via control panel then using driver clean?
 
Got it working, thanks for the help :)

.... and there's always a 'but', I ran 3DBenchMark 03

Description RADEON 9550
Manufacturer ATI Technologies Inc.
Total Local Video Memory 256 MB
Total Local Texture Memory 256 MB
Total AGP Memory 32 MB
Driver File ati2dvag.dll
Driver Version 6.14.10.6626
Driver Details 8.273-060718a-035119C-ATI
Driver Date 7-18-2006
Driver WHQL Certified true
Max Texture Width 2048 px

These were some of the results, how come the total AGP Memory is 32MB, thousln't this be like 128MB. Any suggestions, is it something to do with the BIOS?
 
Hmm, if you type DXDiag in the Start > Run box and hit enter, then go to the display tab, how much memory does it say your card has there?
 
Tetras said:
Hmm, if you type DXDiag in the Start > Run box and hit enter, then go to the display tab, how much memory does it say your card has there?
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DXDiag says the approx total memory is 256.0MB. This doesn't bode well :(
 
^ Thats right you do have a 256mb card. :confused: :p

The 32mb on the Total AGP Memory, could that not be the AGP Aperture size that you set in the BIOS, as you can set that to 32mb/64mb/128mb/256mb in there, or if its not that then it could just be wrong in 3DMark and nowt to worry about.:)
 
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