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Posted by BTG on May-23-2003 19:07:

My Radeon 8500 = help

Ok, why does it say its PCI?

anyone know why it says this?I woudln't be worried if it ran properly, but its running like shit, and it shouldn't.

help.

Posted by naeblis on May-23-2003 19:09:

you did put it in the AGP slot in your motherboard right???

Try installing the latest drivers which can be found here: Click Me for Drivers

Posted by BTG on May-23-2003 19:14:

yes i put it in the right spot, cause agp cards are keyed anyways...

i downloaded the newest drivers, cause i know ati never ships decent drivers (i used to work there)

;/ blah

Posted by Turbonium on May-23-2003 19:18:

BTG, that is normal. They are always reported as being on PCI as far as I know. That exact same window on my various Raddies...

What problems are you encountering?

Posted by naeblis on May-23-2003 19:25:

Well ATI does give you 30 days of free phone troubleshooting, perhaps you could call them?
The number for US customers is: 900-733-2841
Canada: 905-882-2626

*edit* its only 30 days after purchase though. =\

Posted by BTG on May-23-2003 19:26:

Well, in the matrix game: Random objects turn invisable (i.e. guns, random places on peoples faces, blocks, walls)

Counter-strike doesn't run any faster than it did when i had a first generation radeon card (pre 7500), and now it has little black lines here and there...going horizontal accross the screen.

Why. i dunno.

Posted by naeblis on May-23-2003 19:35:

quote:
Originally posted by BTG
Well, in the matrix game: Random objects turn invisable (i.e. guns, random places on peoples faces, blocks, walls)

Counter-strike doesn't run any faster than it did when i had a first generation radeon card (pre 7500), and now it has little black lines here and there...going horizontal accross the screen.

Why. i dunno.

Counterstrike will never look any better. Don't matter if you put in the sweetest card available... as for that game there is not much difference, because the game engine that utilizes your graphics card is so old that it can't make the game look any better no matter how many times they update it. They have pretty much hit the graphic cieling of sorts for CS.

As for the rest.. that is quite bizarre.. it might be defective?

Posted by BTG on May-23-2003 19:39:

quote:
Originally posted by djnaeblis
Counterstrike will never look any better.

I said it didn't run any faster: i'm still only getting 50fps, which i could be getting 99..

Posted by Dr. Cfire on May-23-2003 22:55:

It allways says PCI Bus. I could expalain why but it would require a large discussion on computer arictecture which is not really nessicary. Trust me the card is fine It should look like that.

For a Little evidence I have this to show you.

on the left is a Pci card see the bus number, on the right an agp card.

Posted by allstar on May-23-2003 23:28:

Ok, I can think of two other things.

What are your current system specs? Simply upgrading the GFX card may not improve much, as RAM and processor speed may in fact act as limiting factors to overall performance.

Secondly, power usage. Now that you have a more powerful card you may have pushed your required power levels past the maximum. Do you know what wattage your PSU is? If you have alot of components and a decent processor, 350W is the minimum you should be looking that.

Other than that, a defect card?

Posted by BTG on May-24-2003 00:29:

I have:

P4 1.5 GHz,
380MB Ram (SD )

don't know my wattage..but i coudln't imagin it makes THAT much of a difference.

Posted by mndeg on May-24-2003 03:00:

did you do fps_max 99 ?

Posted by BTG on May-24-2003 06:15:

quote:
Originally posted by mndeg
did you do fps_max 99 ?

yes.

i get 99 when i look right at a wall..but my friend has the same computer and he gets it in a 20 people server all the time.

Posted by nrjizer on May-24-2003 09:24:

If you have that rig and your not getting a constant 99 in CS then youve got some serious problems. Try this: Download the latest card drivers, uninstall the card (the drivers, do this in device manager). Boot to vga, install the latest drivers, restart, and then try it. Dont install the factory drivers, theyre useless. If you get 99 when you look at a wall it almost sounds like a ram issue, either on your card or your physical ram. You said you have 384 ram, so you probably have 1 stick of 256 and 1 stick of 128, right? Make sure the 256 stick is in slot one (usually the slot closest to the CPU).

Other than that you might just have a bunk card...

Posted by Ajay on May-24-2003 11:18:

www.guru3d.com/forum

Try there on the ATI card section, you should get instant help!