Upgrade to 9800 128mb, got lower framerate

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Anyone upgraded from 8500 128mb to 9800 128 mb and experienced lower frame
rates??? I upgraded and now Call of Duty looks like a slideshow. Ran
flawlessly with my trusty 8500 128 mb. Followed ATI's upgrade instructions
to the letter when installing new card (repeated several times. . .)
Adjusting graphic properties in Call of Duty do not seem to help, so I think
something up with the new card. . .Help plz!!!

P4a 1.6 @ 2.1 ghz
768 megs rdram 800mhz
Win XP Pro
Asus P4T-E mobo
SBAudigy2

p.s. - XP id's the 9800 as an 9800 Pro. . .

J. Helmuth
 
There is a patch on ATI's web site (not sure where) from what I'm told to
patch the 9500 and up. I heard it will be fixed in the next drivers.

Randy
 
I've read that the hot fix is a beta pending release of Catalyst 3.10 and
they may or may not be relaible. A second option is to download and install
the Catalyst 3.7 drivers. Activision tested Call of Duty extensively with
these drivers and states they are rock solid. I can attest that the game
runs flawlessly with them (no "slide show" and no game freezing).
 
Anyone upgraded from 8500 128mb to 9800 128 mb and experienced lower frame
rates??? I upgraded and now Call of Duty looks like a slideshow. Ran
flawlessly with my trusty 8500 128 mb. Followed ATI's upgrade instructions
to the letter when installing new card (repeated several times. . .)
Adjusting graphic properties in Call of Duty do not seem to help, so I think
something up with the new card. . .Help plz!!!
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Make sure you had removed ALL drivers from our old video card... The
8500 had crap drivers.

P4a 1.6 @ 2.1 ghz
768 megs rdram 800mhz
Win XP Pro
Asus P4T-E mobo
SBAudigy2

p.s. - XP id's the 9800 as an 9800 Pro. . .
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BTW... keep in mind that your system performance is quite low, the
early P4s and Celeron (P4 cores) are crap. This was kinda KNOWN.

Even the AMD Duron (low end $35 chip) 1600 is faster than the 2.6Ghz
Celeron.
 
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