Last X800 Advice I beg of you

I have this monitor going from VGA to DVI connection. I have it on adapter WOULD This at all be effecting my FPS!?!?!

It shouldn't make a difference...and what game are you getting bad FPS in and what are your settings include antialaising and anistrophic filtering

I play source and hl2, and I turned settings ALL THE WAY DOWn I changed my mat_dx level from 9 to 8.1 to 7 then I reinstalled drivers. everytime I changed it. it would always stay at 50 fps on de_train and it would lag like 50% of the time when I explorered map. I am guessing its cpu so i am thinking of getting 64 bit in a month or 2. So if it is my cpu or not. i really want to know I am also thinkin itm y motherboard its like a 10 buck motherboard. So yeah but I did try this on a p4 3.6

Okay I jsut did another test, I put it all on medium, high, all low as possible, all high as possible, different aa and af, different resolutions, I am thinking something is holding the card back. It IS NOT changing it is staying at like 49-52. Not going highr or lower when I change these settings unless I am suppose to restart cs:s

Check to make sure vertical sync is not on

i turend it off and on its off now. I changed every setting I thought of in console. its pissing me off could it reallyb e the video card. think I could get ati to tgive me a VIVO X800 pro?

it cant be your card, back before i flashed my X800Pro into an XTPE i would get 60-70FPS vsync off AA 4x AF 8x at 1280x1024 Settings at MAX no lag like you mentioned...now my XTPE will get 60-70FPS vsync off AA 12x and AF 16x at 1280x0124 Settings at MAX

Yo but, on the box it says HL2 perferred graphics thats telling me like 120-150 fps is suppose to happen =(

I have an X800 Pro, and I'm not getting massive frame rates. I hate Train, so I don't play but I usually get around 70 fps on Dust...but then again that is me playing alone with bots; I run like 8 person teams. That puts a very big load on the CPU, and this game is heavily CPU bound for many things.

gotgohan u might have problems because of your CPU...i didnt think ur CPU was that bad but thats all I can think of, when it says HL2 Preferred graphics theyre talking about ATI X800 cards in general not ur specific card

Take out your two sticks of 2700 ram, its slowing your system down. Computers read slow memory first then when thats all used up itll go to the 3200. But as for your card, have you installed the latest drivers?

Quote: Originally Posted by LaidoutS10
Take out your two sticks of 2700 ram, its slowing your system down. Computers read slow memory first then when thats all used up itll go to the 3200. But as for your card, have you installed the latest drivers?

Your theory about the memory is a bit incorrect. All installed memory is run at the same speed, so all the sticks effectively work at the same speed, which has to be the speed of the slowest memory module, the weakest link.