I am just about stumped on this.
Visiontek X1300 with 256 GDDR-2 @ 533 MHz
I am not joking, my gforce3 with 128 memory is kicking this cards butt.
I have a K7N2 Delta ILSR Mobo
AMD cpu running at 2180 ghz
768 DDR RAM
Plenty of HD space
I am getting low frame rates in games(TFC,[TFC should be screaming!!!] CS
source, DOD source, etc.) and stuttering of the video.
These game use dx9
Any suggestions?
I have tried the Omega drivers, the drivers that came with the card, and the
odngov drivers. All seem to work about the same.
Where is my issue with this?
The $$$ spend
Should run very well compared to gforce3.
Any ideas would be obviously appreciated!
WS
It is known that nvidia give more fps but has more trouble to give
quality. But with today's video card the same thing apply but is
counter balance with technologies and all the option that you can get
in a video card. the card you mention is at the base of the new set of
video card from ati. The cheap one are x1300. i bet that you've bought
it for 30$
your gforce card was i guess a good card for it time and was using
directx 5 or 6, but here the x1300 use directx 9 witch ask for a lot
of power and capability to render an image per second.
Ie: your x1300 has ...
Bus Type PCI Express x16
Memory Amount (MB ) 256
Memory Type DDR2
Memory Interface 128-bit
Memory Clock Speed (MHz) 500
Engine Clock Speed (MHz) 450
Pipelines 4
Pixel Shader Processors 4
Pixel Fillrate 1.8 Gpixels
Geometry Rate* N/A
there are 3 main thing that you should look for
Higher is better...
1. the memory interface
2. the memory speed and the gpu speed "processor of the card"
3. the number of pipeline use in the card.
That part is really important.
It's like buying a car with a 4 cylinder vs one that has 16.
your x1300 is the 4 cylinder " is has 4pipeline"...
So your old card perform better because it use the directx version
that is supported like dx 5 or 6 vs your new x1300 that use dx9 witch
need power " the tree things mentioned". Games seems to work better
with the gf3 because they are built to fit whats in your pc. By this,
it using dx5-6 to complie with your old card and make the game run
smooter. The same thing apply to your new card. What you should do is
trying to set "in the game" the dx version to a lower one, by default
more than often it use dx9 in games. Ie: COD2 use dx7 and 9. dx7 will
be faster because it doesn't need much from recent cards. By that your
x1300 will have less trouble to get more frame per second, but again,
you will loose the eye candy of the game. in last ressort you should
try to lower the resolution of the screen in game like goin gfrom
1024x764 to 800x600 if the game handle it. Or removing all the extra
options.
Finally you get what you've paid for, that what i learn.
You should try something else like a x800 or a x1600xt or something
around 150$ us. They are good card for their price and has 12 pipeline
128bit/256bit memory interface and come in a variety of brand and
spec.
i hope it help you...
