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Getting 9800 pro to... Work right

Originally posted by RS3RS
Well, I finally gave in and ordered a Sapphire 9800 pro 128 mb card from newegg to replace my old ti4200.

I got it today. Before I even put the card in, I uninstalled all of my nvidia drivers, rebooted, then ran Driver Cleaner 3 to wipe out all of the old drivers. Then I put the 9800 pro in, booted up, and installed the newest drivers off of the ATI website.

At this point, any window I dragged around the screen was choppy, none of the games would load, and I checked, and direct X and hardware acceleration were disabled. So, I dug out the Sapphire driver CD that came with it, installed everything on it, and it worked like a champ.

However... I'm getting about 40 FPS in UT2k4. I was getting about 30 with my ti4200... Farcry is quite a bit better, got about 30 FPS before, now getting about 60... Both games are being run at 1024x768, default settings.

But still, what should I be doing to make this thing work better on my system? Or is this just as good as the 9800 pro gets? Maybe was expecting too much, but I figured frame rates would be a bit better than this...

Oh well. If not, I'll just eat the 15% restocking fee and return the thing to newegg and go back to my ti4200... But it just seems like the card should be doing better.

Edit: Forgot to add, I have since updated to the newest drivers off of ATI's website (over the ones on the Sapphire CD), and frame rates are still about the same...
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update your mobo drivers...this was teh case for me and it really helped....if you look in the manual it warns you about that sort of thing too I think ;)
 
just cause your not getting that great of performance in ut2k3... its like mine.. I never get better performance with that game.. with all the diff cards I have had.. every other game.. works insanly well...
 
Originally posted by 1337m0dd3r
just cause your not getting that great of performance in ut2k3... its like mine.. I never get better performance with that game.. with all the diff cards I have had.. every other game.. works insanly well...
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It wasn't just UT2K4 though... Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield was hardly and difference over my ti4200. Farcry was maybe about right, I don't know (haven't tried anything besides UT since I got it to work).

All I know is there obviously was a problem, since I'm suddenly getting 85 FPS... And lastnight I overclocked it ALMOST to 9800 XT speeds (411.5/715), and whoa... 100 fps in UT2004 :D
 
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