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I just purchased a new AIW Radeon 7500 ... the boxed OEM version. I
installed it and now there are several screen display characteristics
that I find annoying and I'd like to change. I'm sure they are
related to the new AIW card, but I can't figure out how / where to
change them. Most likely, I just don't know what the settings is
called that is responsible for the particular behaviour I want to
change.
For example, scrolling in windows is slower with my new AIW card than
it was with my old card (ASUS AGP-V6600). This is evident in several
applications, and is worse in some than in others. For example, in MS
Outlook, if I am replying to an email message and I press and hold
down the <enter> key (to create several blank lines at the top of the
message), the screen is repainted each time the PC "reads" the <enter>
key being pressed. But if I enter, say, six lines the PC gets behind
and it takes a second or two to catch up (after I release the <enter>
key). The resulting screen / display is not pretty -- the entire
screen sort of "ripples" as each line of text is shifted down the
screen, and then shifted down another line, and then another ...
I KNOW this rippling was not evident before I installed this new card.
I'm guessing whatever display options are available in my OS are still
set the same (unless the AIW install changes them) and so they
wouldn't be to blame. I'm HOPING that there IS an option in the AIW
display settings that will control this ... and that the cause is not
simply this card is slower than my older one.
My old ASUS card was powered by an NVidea GeForce 256 and had a
"built-in 32 MB frame buffer, 256-bit QuadPipe rendering, AGP4X with
Fast Write, video acceleration, etc." My new AIW says "Radeon 7500,
64 MB AGP" on the box. There's no owners manual at all inside the box
(it's the OEM package).
What might be the cause of what seems to me to be slow updating of my
screen? Are there specific settings in the ATI settings screen that I
can check? I see over a dozen different tabs on this screen, but I
don't see any options that look like they are obviously to blame.
btw, My PC is running Windows 2000 (SP4) and I installed MMC 8.9
(display driver 7.991 / 6.14.10.6430)).
Thanks.
I just purchased a new AIW Radeon 7500 ... the boxed OEM version. I
installed it and now there are several screen display characteristics
that I find annoying and I'd like to change. I'm sure they are
related to the new AIW card, but I can't figure out how / where to
change them. Most likely, I just don't know what the settings is
called that is responsible for the particular behaviour I want to
change.
For example, scrolling in windows is slower with my new AIW card than
it was with my old card (ASUS AGP-V6600). This is evident in several
applications, and is worse in some than in others. For example, in MS
Outlook, if I am replying to an email message and I press and hold
down the <enter> key (to create several blank lines at the top of the
message), the screen is repainted each time the PC "reads" the <enter>
key being pressed. But if I enter, say, six lines the PC gets behind
and it takes a second or two to catch up (after I release the <enter>
key). The resulting screen / display is not pretty -- the entire
screen sort of "ripples" as each line of text is shifted down the
screen, and then shifted down another line, and then another ...
I KNOW this rippling was not evident before I installed this new card.
I'm guessing whatever display options are available in my OS are still
set the same (unless the AIW install changes them) and so they
wouldn't be to blame. I'm HOPING that there IS an option in the AIW
display settings that will control this ... and that the cause is not
simply this card is slower than my older one.
My old ASUS card was powered by an NVidea GeForce 256 and had a
"built-in 32 MB frame buffer, 256-bit QuadPipe rendering, AGP4X with
Fast Write, video acceleration, etc." My new AIW says "Radeon 7500,
64 MB AGP" on the box. There's no owners manual at all inside the box
(it's the OEM package).
What might be the cause of what seems to me to be slow updating of my
screen? Are there specific settings in the ATI settings screen that I
can check? I see over a dozen different tabs on this screen, but I
don't see any options that look like they are obviously to blame.
btw, My PC is running Windows 2000 (SP4) and I installed MMC 8.9
(display driver 7.991 / 6.14.10.6430)).
Thanks.
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