x1900xt and CS:S/DoD:S question

[BarryFell]

I upgraded from an x850xt pe to a x1900xt recently but am confused and concerned about the following.

For some reason CS:S and DoD:S are suggesting my recommended graphics settings are everything on high but no AA and only trilinear AF.

This concerns me as my old card recommended 4x AA and 4x AF. Any ideas why a more powerful card on the same system is making steam recommend lower settings?

So far i've not seen much performance improvement in actual games although my 3dmark06 score went from 2087 to 4316. At the moment performance is feeling worse than my old card and i'm getting in games what feels like lag quite often. (But it's in on and offline games )

 

[Psycho Sonny]

download the newest drivers for your motherboard, chipset, cpu, and graphics card, then report back

 

[BarryFell]

Yeah my drivers are all up to date.

 

[ACESHIGH]

I dont play those games, but its possible the games themselves have not been updated properly for the newer graphics cards, hence the system chooses settings which may not be optimum. Change them yourself & play the games, to see if they play ok. Run 3dMark as a guide to how the cards are running to if inclined.

 

[jellybeard999]

my X800 pro said far cry should be on low everything, 640x480 ... 7800gt said the same

its just the game is older than the gpu i think

 

[M0T]

On CS my x1800xt gets told to run at lower settings than max, I just turn it up and forget about it since it does 200fps on non hdr maps and 100 on hdr ones.

 

[Sjoehanson]

CS:S recommends 4xaa and 8xaf for me and my 1900xt (though 3dmark claims its a 1900xtx :?). On half life 2 though it claims no aa and no af, but just screw that and run it at what you want :].

Far cry said low everything for me aswell, but I just run 6xaa and 8xaf without any issues.

Cheers,
SJoehanson

 

[ins0mn1ac]

FEAR auto sets up my gfx quality pretty low too, I was surprised to see all my settings as low, soon changed that though

 

[Psycho Sonny]

auto settings never work properly on any game, call of duty 2 as well thinks i shouldnt be running on max everything even though my x1900xt is overclocked past XTX speeds

 

[Tetras]

but its possible the games themselves have not been updated properly for the newer graphics cards, hence the system chooses settings which may not be optimum. Change them yourself & play the games, to see if they play ok. Run 3dMark as a guide to how the cards are running to if inclined.

Yep, when a game is released most of the current gen cards weren't around during development, just the way of technology. Don't think anyone invented an adaptive game setting checker thingy yet except ones that update from the Internet

 

[BarryFell]

I see. Makes sense I guess.

Thanks for the replies lads.