Hi all,
I've put together what I consider to be a system that's built on the best of the hardware the XP era had to offer:
Before I swapped motherboards/reinstalled Windows XP my graphics experience in games like FEAR went downhill without rhyme or reason - I had all settings more or less maxed out running seamlessly , and all of a sudden I had to turn the resolution/detail down to retain a reasonable level of frame rate. I hoped this would be addressed with extra memory and a fresh install of XP on my new Asus P4C800-E.
With my Asus mobo today, even on the desktop the graphics seem sluggish - struggling even when I move open windows around the desktop, or when viewing photos it takes a few seconds for pictures to fully render.
I thought this would be a driver issue, but despite downloading some legacy ATI drivers nothing has improved. Any ideas?
Cheers.
I've put together what I consider to be a system that's built on the best of the hardware the XP era had to offer:
- Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
- P4 3.4GHz 'Gallatin' SL7CH Extreme Edition
- 4x 1GB OCZ PC3200 RAM
- Sapphire HD 3850 512Mb AGP
- 500W Generic PSU
- 80GB WD HDD (OK, so my storage could be better!)
- Windows XP SP3
Before I swapped motherboards/reinstalled Windows XP my graphics experience in games like FEAR went downhill without rhyme or reason - I had all settings more or less maxed out running seamlessly , and all of a sudden I had to turn the resolution/detail down to retain a reasonable level of frame rate. I hoped this would be addressed with extra memory and a fresh install of XP on my new Asus P4C800-E.
With my Asus mobo today, even on the desktop the graphics seem sluggish - struggling even when I move open windows around the desktop, or when viewing photos it takes a few seconds for pictures to fully render.
I thought this would be a driver issue, but despite downloading some legacy ATI drivers nothing has improved. Any ideas?
Cheers.