"Painkiller" game on x800 Pro

[Phil]

This game ran very well on my old Radeon 9700 Pro. I now have a x800 Pro
(with 7.2 cats) and
something very strange is going on. I seem to get a lot of 'screen tearing'
when walking sideways but not forwards.

At first I thought it was the Vysnc but it happened even when I switched it
to "always on." I messed around with my monitors vertical/horizontal and
composite holds but to no avail.

I've tried the game's bilinear/trilinear settings and nothing.

I don't have AA or AF switched on because I never use them because my PC is
only an old AMD 2600.

I have tried every patch know to man and nothing doing.

The strange thing is is that it is only this game that is effected and
newer/older games are fine. I don't suppose anyone can shed any light on the
matter?

Thanks

 

[First of One]

I noticed you had another post saying AGP is disabled on your system.
Install the latest nForce2 chipset drivers (in particular the GART driver in
the package), if you haven't already:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_5.10.html

Depending on Catalyst driver version, there may be options in CCC along the
lines of

"Force 24-bit Z-buffer"
"Disable lossless Z-compression"

Toggle them one at a time and see what happens.

BTW, AA and AF increase video card workload, not CPU workload. Don't let an
older CPU stop you from using those features.

 

[Phil]

I noticed you had another post saying AGP is disabled on your system.
Install the latest nForce2 chipset drivers (in particular the GART driver
in the package), if you haven't already:
http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_udp_winxp_5.10.html

Thank you very much - this did the trick and AGP is now listed correctly. As
for the game, I installed a much older driver and the game ran perfectly

Thanks to all who replied!