Advice wanted

[Augustus]

Just switched from an Asus V7700 Geforce2 GTS Pro 32Meg to a Sapphire Radeon
9100 128 Meg. Running on a PIII 1133 / XP Pro system. Using the latest set
of Catalyst drivers from ATI's website. The 9100 is o/c to 275 Core / 225
Memory.

Here's the probems:
1) 2D performance/screen refreshes are awful....on bootup the login screen
scrolls down visibly, and on startup. you can watch screen elements being
drawn

2) 3D performance is 15% slower than my Geforce2 GTS Pro using 3dmark 2001.

What is the problem here? Any suggestions?

 

[Laurence Wilmer]

Just switched from an Asus V7700 Geforce2 GTS Pro 32Meg to a Sapphire Radeon
9100 128 Meg. Running on a PIII 1133 / XP Pro system. Using the latest set
of Catalyst drivers from ATI's website. The 9100 is o/c to 275 Core / 225
Memory.

Here's the probems:
1) 2D performance/screen refreshes are awful....on bootup the login screen
scrolls down visibly, and on startup. you can watch screen elements being
drawn

2) 3D performance is 15% slower than my Geforce2 GTS Pro using 3dmark 2001.

What is the problem here? Any suggestions?

Don't think the 9100 card of itself is the problem - it ought to be
significantly faster than the GF2
http://www6.tomshardware.com/graphic/20030120/vgacharts-05.html
I have a 9000 PRO which should be noticeably slower but none of the problems
you describe.

I wonder if perhaps you've upset it by overclocking?

I would start by putting it back to stock again - and revert all BIOS
settings on the mobo to default.

Laurence

 

[Asestar]

Reinstall windows.. I know it sucks. I just switched from Gf2-pro 64meg, to
ATI-Radeon9100(8500le). I also noted some performance loss.

 

[Sham B]

Your card is using some old GeForce drivers. this is a very common problem,
caused by not uninstalling the old geForce drivers and deleting all
references to them. You need to uninstall them completely, and there are
several applications that can do it (driver cleaners - freeware)

S

 

[Sleepy]

thoroughly remove the old drivers from your geforce.
uninstall them thru add/remove ... then do a 'find files' for
nv*.* under c:\windows or winnt and delete em all.
use regcleaner to remove all registry entries refering to nvidia. then
install the catalyst 3.7s - best driver with my 9100. that should do it and
saves you having to reinstall windows.

 

[Augustus]

Where can you find older ATI drivers like the 3.7's?

Thanks

 

[Steve]

Look here, www.driverheaven.net

 

[Tod]

Get the program detonator destroyer, to completely remove old Nvidia
drivers.
Clean off all ATI drivers.
then install ATI drivers
Reload latest motherboard drivers
(VIA recommends reloading their drivers after any hardware change)

 

[Gordon Scott]

Where can you find older ATI drivers like the 3.7's?

Thanks

on ati's website