Can anyone figure this out?

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I've been all over the internet trying to figure this, still nothing and I'm getting desperate. Basically, in nearly every one of my newer games, I see a "ghosting" effect. It's like a momentary double image, like a new frame is drawn before the old one is cleared. This makes the games sort of blurry and some unplayable. I read it may be due to game FPS too slow compared to monitor refresh rate. This could be it; if I put details to min to boost FPS, I see the effect less. strangely when I manually lower monitor refresh rate it reverts back to the optimal in the game, so that doesn't work.

I have an Athlon 900 and a Radeon 32meg DDR, on a KT7-RAID motherboard and 256 megs of ram, and according to Quake3, the only game I don't see this in, I can get avg. 80fps at 1024x768 32bit with full details, and the monitor refresh rate at the resolution is 100hz (vsync is on, yet Q3 doesn't go above 90fps, strange).

I don't know if anyone here has seen this, but any insight whatsoever would be appreciated because it's preventing me from playing new graphics intensive games. thanks a lot!
 
it's not vsync, I've tried it on and off. as for the refresh rate, I can't lower it, because in the game it automatically reverts to the optimal rate for some reason.
 
This is kind of vague- but look for a "render one frame ahead" option in your display driver options. This used to be an option in games and old drivers, particularily with the TNT2 and Voodoo line. This could be causing your "ghosting".

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