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Old 01-23-2004, 05:48 PM   #1
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Problem with video Card

hi, I seem to be having a problem with my video card on my comp, I have an ATI Radeon 7500. When I tested my computer on pcpitstop it said that my card displayed 78 MP/s that was when i had windows 98 SE. I have just recently installed Windows XP Pro and now when i test my computer it says that the video card is only 42 MP/s that is about half as slow. i was wondering why its doing this. If someone could help me out it would be greatly appreciated.
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Old 01-23-2004, 08:16 PM   #2
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Are you using the most recent driver?
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Old 01-24-2004, 03:48 PM   #3
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yes I am using the same one as before, because the disk i installed the driver from contains drivers for both win98 and XP. I realize that windows 98 is faster for gaming but i dont think its this much faster i cant think of what might be wrong with it.
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anyone have any ideas?
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Old 01-26-2004, 07:37 PM   #5
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Go here : http://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp...x=5&submit.y=8 and download the ATI drivers.
Then go here : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en
and down load DX 9.
Uninstall the old drivers and install the new ones as well as DX9.
What you saw at PC pitstop was that the drivers off the cd that you were using for 98 are not doing the job.
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that didnt work either thanks anyways tho
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Old 01-27-2004, 08:18 AM   #7
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i guess time for a new video card huh
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Old 01-27-2004, 06:59 PM   #8
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I dont think its the video card because it works fine on windows 98 and on XP its as slow as the on board vga, and im sure the drivers and software are the right ones for XP because the card was designed for XP it says on the box however the Cd-ROM also comes with drivers for other systems
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Old 01-27-2004, 07:24 PM   #9
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Exactly what happened when you installed the newest drivers for your card along with DX9
Tell us what you did and how the computer reacted.
Also it would help if you posted the rest of your specs.
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