[Darkmag]

[American Zombie]

Try turning off Vsync for games.

In HL2 it is at Options > Video > Advanced >wait for vertical sync > disabled or enabled

Maybe there is an option in your drivers control panel to do this as well. I do not use ATI so I have no idea.

[Darkmag]

I disabled Vsync and nothing changed I still get the same performance on every setting, When I push the resolution to 1600X1200X32 I got a slight frame drop, Its like my GFX card is do more work than needed

[American Zombie]

Maybe try ATI Tray Tools as I hear it has a refresh lock in it. I think the ATI control panel has refresh lock too under monitor > video or something like that. Like I said before I do not use ATI card so I am not sure.

[Sampson]

When most video drivers are installed they default to something generic for the monitor - like plug and play monitor or in your case Default monitor. It may be that by supplying the monitor driver for your specific monitor may correct the difficulty.

[Darkmag]

So where do I get drivers for my monitor ? I have no idea who made it only clue is a sticker in front that says Rainbow

[American Zombie]

Go to Windows Update and select custom scan.

BUT, the generic default drivers are capable of running at least 60 in games with a high of 85 and you are only getting 40. Your desktop says 75 and the lowest it would fall back would be 60 when you switch to games.

HL2 uses D3D so you could try overriding DirectX as a test to see if refresh rate is your problem.

Open the DirectX utility (dxdiag).

Click on More Help button > Override button

Tick so checkmark is in front of override instead of default then enter either 75 or 85 in the box.

Now try HL2 and see if you get higher FPS.

IMPORTANT - do not go higher then 85 with the default monitor driver.

Remember to set refresh rate back to Default in dxdiag after your test.

[Darkmag]

No it didn`t help, but why didn`t my old 9200se give this problem ?
it can get real annoying cuz playing doom3 would be like playing it on 1360x1024 on a 9600 cuz there no performance increase if I change the resolution, if I go higher than 1360x1024 then I get a slower performance

[American Zombie]

Must be a driver problem or the card itself then if overriding did not help.

See if a fresh install of the latest drivers will help and make sure all remnants of old drivers are gone.

Uninstall drivers then follow the directions for running Driver Cleaner to remove all registry entries and old driver files.

Then reinstall drivers.

[Darkmag]

Thats the fisrt thing I tried used the tweaktown guide

[Malaris]

If changing resolution doesn't really affect your framerate, it could be your CPU capping the performance.

"Processor: Intel® Celeron™ CPU 1200MHz"

there's your problem

[American Zombie]

One PC I own with a 500MHz CPU can top 100 FPS in games.

He even said the same PC with other card did better so I tend to think this card is the problem.

[Darkmag]

Originally posted by Darkmag:

Quote:

If changing resolution doesn't really affect your framerate, it could be your CPU capping the performance.

"Processor: Intel® Celeron™ CPU 1200MHz"

there's your problem

Thats what I thought at first but there should have been a diffrence when selecting 640x480 low detail over 1024x768 high detail wiether my card is on high performance or high quality the frame rate is constant would overclocking make a diffrence

[Sampson]

If you know someone who will chance it, install this card into their computer. If you get the same result, you will at least know it is the card.

[Darkmag]

My Display card currently uses IRQ channel 11 with my modem, usb controler and network card, and my sound card uses IRQ channel 10 alone. Now how can I change this so that my Display card uses channel 10 and my sound card shares channel 11 ?

[Sampson]

XP does not work like 98se. The hardware allocation layer is set by plug and play. Sometimes, moving the cards physically from one PCI slot to another can change the IRQ's allocations, BUT - you never know which one. And, sometimes it never changes.

In theory, you can get XP to act like 98 by doing the following:
Disable ACPI, change the system setting from 'ACPI-PC' to 'Standard-PC'. Right-Click on My Computer -> Properties -> Hardware -> Device Manager -> Computer -> Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC -> Driver -> Update Driver -> Install from a list or specific location -> Don't Search.. -> Standard-PC. It will want to reboot. (Note that changing this means that all drivers of your hardware will need to be re-installed so keep the driver disks available).

Additionally, BEFORE YOU LET THE COMPUTER BOOT-UP IN WINDOWS make sure that PNP OS INSTALLED in BIOS is set to NO (very important).

Be advised that disabling ACPI mode may cause your computer to not power off when you perform a Windows shutdown. Simply push the power button after performing a shutdown.

Also. be advised that this may royally mess up your XP installation completely. In other words, be sure that you really want to do this, that you have plenty of time for a re-install in case things go south, that you have taken your blood pressure medicine, and you are in good standing with whatever diety, higher power or simply the FORCE that you observe.