Low FPS with X850 XT

[Addequate]

Hi everyone, I just got an ATI X850 XT (core 520, mem 540) AGP (early x-mas present, dad is comp illiterate so he bought it while i was with him) Price was $342 CDN(sale) with taxes. I get around 15-40 FPS(25 averge) throughout all maps. I run at 1152x864@75hz Texture-Med, Effects-Med, Geo-Med, Terrain-Low, Lighting-low, Shadows off, global light-low, AA- 4x, texture filt-low. running it all med and all high gets alot of stutter and same FPS.

Computer(detailed): mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 1900+ (1600mhz), 2x512 Kingston ValueRam (1 pc2700 and 1 pc3200 both running at pc2100), ECS L7VMM3 Mobo AGP 4x, Windows XP Pro XP2, Antec True 430watt (+12v 26a), LG 52x CD-RW, seagate 40gb 7200rpm. AGP Aperture - 64. Newest ATI drivers(installed correctly!) Card runs at 28° idle and 38° when playing. Vid card is at Balanced settings in catalyst.

I would like to know if everyone thinks that the slow performance is due to my computer setup and not the card itself. Just wanting to know just incase there is some way to help it until i get a new computer(which I should be getting soon) feel free to ask as many questions as you may need, Thanks!

[[DC]M4guy624]

Re: Low FPS with X850 XT

Hi everyone, I just got an ATI X850 XT (core 520, mem 540) AGP (early x-mas present, dad is comp illiterate so he bought it while i was with him) Price was $342 CDN(sale) with taxes. I get around 15-40 FPS(25 averge) throughout all maps. I run at 1152x864@75hz Texture-Med, Effects-Med, Geo-Med, Terrain-Low, Lighting-low, Shadows off, global light-low, AA- 4x, texture filt-low. running it all med and all high gets alot of stutter and same FPS

Computer(detailed): mobile AMD Athlon(tm) XP-M 1900+ (1600mhz), 2x512 Kingston ValueRam (1 pc2700 and 1 pc3200 both running at pc2100), ECS L7VMM3 Mobo AGP 4x, Windows XP Pro XP2, Antec True 430watt (+12v 26a), LG 52x CD-RW, seagate 40gb 7200rpm. AGP Aperture - 64. Newest ATI drivers(installed correctly!) Card runs at 28° idle and 38° when playing. Vid card is at Balanced settings in catalyst.

I would like to know if everyone thinks that the slow performance is due to my computer setup and not the card itself. Just wanting to know just incase there is some way to help it until i get a new computer(which I should be getting soon) feel free to ask as many questions as you may need, Thanks!

yeah, you're performance is slow due to your processor and ram

[primesuspect]

Re: Low FPS with X850 XT

yea my fps suck also when i play bf2 or sf. i dont get high fps during big battles or so like 25 or lower. however when im somewhere where no1 is and far away from the battle the highest ive ever gotten is 87fps

specs
AMD AthlonXP 3200+ 2.21ghz
1gig RAM, 160 gb space
ATI Radeon x850 256mb(using 5.10 catalyst drivers)
WinXp, 6 fans inside, 400 watt Antec psu.
my motherboard is a KT6 Delta MSI-6590 (v2.X) ATX Mainboard.
17 inch LCD flat screen monitor

[Jackass]

Re: Low FPS with X850 XT

All because of the ram people. I'm 100% sure.

[Talus]

Re: Low FPS with X850 XT

I'd say CPU.

1 GB is enough if you're running graphics settings on low. I've mixed RAM sticks before and there was no problem. So long as you have some way of fixing the divider.