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I had the same trouble with my x850 xt pe. My powersupply is 475 watts so that shouldn't of been the problem. I spent 350 on the card that was supposed to be the best at the time and it didn't improve squat. I sold it on ebay and went back to my 9800 pro 256. I found out later that my motherboard had updated agp drivers just for ATI x800 and x850 cards, so that could have been it. Check your motherboard company and see if they have any new drivers you can update.
If you have a very fast card and a slow computer low memory etc, the time required to render the frame could make the game appear laggy altough your frame rate is decent.
I've never seen this with battlefeild, BF doesn't require much in terms of CPU.
The other thing to check is what is your AGP set to 1x ???
I not an expert here I've never had much luck switching default x4 x8. For some reason sissoft reports my 9800 pro at 4x even though it's an 8x card and board. Tried drivers moterboard and other wise, switching the valuein the ati control pannel, regardless after boot it's stll 8x. Getting decent frame rates so I'm not worried.
I just figured out your problem. You are one of 6 people still using a Pentium Processor to play games other than Solitare or Minefield.
Seriously. You never answered if you have have checked to see if your PSU is plugged into your video card. If it is not, you might as well send the card back because it is hosed. The 1st time you start that card without the secondary PS input plugged in, you have hosed the card. Check it out.
yes the card is plugged into the PSU.... if it wasn't... it would start. Nothing else would happen... its not gonna get "hosed" because it doesn't get enough power to operate.
as for the Pentium comment.... please don't reply to this thread anymore. You have nothing to contribute.
vjs, yah its running at 8x.
Just did some more testing.... the pci latency fix helped... but not a lot. Framerate reaches 50-60 very rarely, usually its still 25-30, and when u are dazed from shellshock it drops to like 15.
Im not sure what that did... but I think my fps just doubled! THANKS!
BF2 shows 2 sets of fps, separated by a slash. I assume the first number is the fps? Whats the second number?
I also found a setting in bios - AGP aperture Size, its set at 64mb. Should I increase it?
PCI Latency changes the speed at which your computer communicated with your AGP card, the higher the latency, the higher the LAG between the video card and CPU. Going down to 32 will not improve anything, so 64 is good enough, quite the increase over the stock 256 :)
And yes, you can raise your AGP aperature size in BIOS to the max 256MB if you wish. This is how much memory the system will allocate for the AGP card to use, I dont think it will have much of an impact, but every little bit with bf2 helps, I know :)
I`m currently running the XT850 AGP at 1024x768 on all HIGH settings and it's doin pretty good. Glad I could help. I've spent countless days and hours on this problem when I bought this card, i`m surprised this isn't listed somewhere as a stickie for all AGP card owners.
yes the card is plugged into the PSU.... if it wasn't... it would start. Nothing else would happen... its not gonna get "hosed" because it doesn't get enough power to operate.
as for the Pentium comment.... please don't reply to this thread anymore. You have nothing to contribute.
vjs, yah its running at 8x.
Just did some more testing.... the pci latency fix helped... but not a lot. Framerate reaches 50-60 very rarely, usually its still 25-30, and when u are dazed from shellshock it drops to like 15.
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So I can talk about whatever is topical, I commented on the fact that you have yet to step into the real realm of gaming, the Athlon 64 939, Intel is dead in the realm of gaming. It is a proven fact.
Also you assertion that not plugging the PSU into the card won't hose your card is just plain wrong. I am by trade a computer technician. I have dealt with all sorts of Graphics Cards over the last 10 years, including the old long format graphics cards, even back then some had external power ports. Recently I had a client who bought a Nvidia 6600GT. He plugged it into the AGP slot, but didn't know he was supposed to plug an ATA power connector into the back of the board. The system started fine and ran well enough, then he tried to run a game, and suddenly the zigzag pattern appears, and the screen goes pink.
Then the PC goes down. I reboot, it starts ok, no video though, So I pull the card and put the old one back in, all is well. I drop the 6600GT into a PC back at the shop, no video. I RMA the card back to the manufacturer and sure enough it was cooked. So look, talk about stuff you have experience with. And get a sense of humor while you are at it.:)
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Im not debating that Intel P4 is better than Athlon 64.... its not.
But the "You are one of 6 people still using a Pentium Processor to play games other than Solitare or Minefield. " comment is just plain stupid. Intel has 80% market share. Far more people use Pentium than Athlon.
As for the no power cord not being plugged in.... thats just an isolated incident. I did the same thing with my 9700 to see what would happen if I didn't plug it in. There video card wasn't detected and that was it. Connect back the power, and its all good. You are suggesting that not giving the card enough power will cook it?
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