HELP!!...lag with video card

[Zorchenhimer]

Have you gone to your computer manufacturer's site for drivers? Thats where I got mine, and nVidia hasn't released any 'final' drivers on their site yet.

[CAPO!]

nope ...but i'll try

[kNoC]

Have you gone to your computer manufacturer's site for drivers? Thats where I got mine, and nVidia hasn't released any 'final' drivers on their site yet.

nvidia has Win x32 and Win x64 drivers for Vista, also his card is ATI, but he cannot come through and give us a specific model...

goto your desktop, right click, goto properties, goto Settings tab, and under display it should show your monitor name and model # and what its connected too, look at what its connected too and post back, or take a screenshot for example the video card is circled in picture:

[CAPO!]

oh ok sorry.

but...

chip type- ATI Radeon Xpress Series (0x5A61)

dac type- Internal Dac (400mhz) <<<< didnt know if u needed that but o well

[kNoC]

okay send a pic of yours just like i did before and send one like this for me, to due this, just hit the print screen button on your keyboard which falls after the f1-12 keys, then open paint.exe and goto edit > paste and save that picture as a jpg.

[CAPO!]

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ok ...

[CAPO!]

opps....

[jitspoe]

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/catalyst_71_vista.html#192136 -- says that driver has native OpenGL support...

[CAPO!]

then what could be the problem?

because i downloaded build 16 and it said that i needed an openGL

[Eiii]

-Get latest drivers
-Get not-Vista

[jitspoe]

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/7-3_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_43741.exe -- is that the driver you downloaded?

Oh, and try shutting off the fancy vista themes and crap that use hardware acceleration.  I think that might break OpenGL.

[CAPO!]

AMD?

no i got the driver that came with the computer.

and to turn off vista settings what would i do to turn them off?

[jitspoe]

so i downloaded the latest drivers for dpb and the game worked just fine.

no i got the driver that came with the computer.

Uh... which one is it?

And AMD and ATI merged.  Try installing that driver I linked above and see if it helps any.  As for shutting off the fancy themes, I think you right click on the desktop and go to properties.  It should be in there somewhere.  Set it to the "classic" theme and see if that helps (after installing the new drivers).

[CAPO!]

yea but i set my computers date system back before i installed the latest drivers...idk if it would change...well of course it changed because it worked...but was choppy....and then when i set the date back it stopped workin ...

but i'll try to do what you just told me.

oh and i clicked the link and it said something about not being able to download it...but let me keep looking through it:)

[CAPO!]

Eh...double post...

ok so i looked for them...

and its giving me options...

and my computer is a 32-bit edition...and its vista...would i be able to install any driver from the list?...and if so which would be the best.... if not...then my upgrade will be an ATI Radeon X1950 Series

[Zorchenhimer]

As for shutting off the fancy themes, I think you right click on the desktop and go to properties.  It should be in there somewhere.  Set it to the "classic" theme and see if that helps (after installing the new drivers).

Right click on the desktop, select "Personalize" then "Theme" (2nd from bottom).

[XtremeBain]

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/7-3_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_43741.exe

You can't hot-link akamai resources like that 

[CAPO!]

 

lol i hate to keep asking for help ... thanks for everything:)

haha only problem now is the choppyness.

i changed my theme but it does the same thing.

anyother ideas to why its choppy?...

it does that sometimes.

also...

it feels like im goin slow...really slow!

[jitspoe]

Type "cl_drawfps 1" at the console to see what framerate you're getting.

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/7-3_vista32_dd_ccc_enu_43741.exe

You can't hot-link akamai resources like that 

Bummer, try this:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/integrated-vista32.html

Click on the "Catalyst Software Suite (32 bit)" download link.

Also, with as many posts as you've made, you might as well register an account so you can edit your posts and stuff.

[capo]

okay...i already had a account but was never signing on...

so i did the cl_drawfps 1

and it showed me at 40 and lower in a room by myself.
and it wasn't choppy

when i got into a room with ppl in it...it jumped from 40 to 90 back down again...then thats when it becomes choppy