Performance issue

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Athlon XP 2800+
x850pro
asus a7n8x nforce2 mobo
1gb ram
Antec Smart power 400W PSU

My primary game is Enemy Territory but I'm getting horrible performance issues. I could barely get over 30fps unless i was staring at the wall or the sky. Now a friend of mine is running a 2500+ with a 9800pro and he easily gets over 70fps. I upgraded to the x850pro from an old 5900np and i still got the same performance.

Another thing, my floppy drive is completely unresponsive. I can hear it reading the diskette, but i cannot open it or add files to it for things like BIOS flashes. But old BIOS shouldnt be the problem because i have 1004 and the latest ones right now (1006 to 1009) arent telling me any major changes other than compatability with sempron cpus.

Any ideas?
 
How well did you clean out the nvidia drivers before switching to ATI? That could be causing you problems.
 
How many drives do you have. Maybe the psu is limiting your abilities. Stranger things have happened. My Antec 430W was not enough for my 3.2 prescott and 6800GT and some drives (4).
 
No one else knows anything? I've fixed my floppy drive problem but the performance on my video card is still a major issue. Are there any diagostics programs that i can use to help determine whats wrong?

Even after a reformat, i used driver cleaner pro to get rid of any bad drivers that might be effecting the performance, ran a memtest to see if its my ram, and even updated the bios for my mobo. Is there anything im overlooking?
 
i assume you have also updated all the other various drivers (chipset, sound, etc)

clark
 
Is it doing this in just Enemy Territory? or other games too?
 
ll drivers are updated. I even nuked them all with a driver cleaner and reinstalled them just to make sure i didnt do anything wrong the first time.

I get around the same performance with Q4 and HL2 (get better performance here than on OpenGL games). FarCry seems a bit on the sluggish side also. Other games like NFS:MW play just fine with little spikes in performance with the bottleneck on my CPU. Because of the bottleneck, im not really expecting stellar performance, but ET is an old game which should be running 70+FPS easily.

Something tells me that if I fix the performance problem in ET, performance for all the other games will improve as well.
 
What other software do you have installed? Antiviruses? VPN software, IIS, Apache, maybe? MS Defender 2--The Deuce? Windows up-to-date (SP2, MS Update installed and running)?

A bad power supply does not cause performance to degrade, that's just silly, so don't worry about that.
 
My system right now is pretty bare because of the reformat. I use No32 for my antivirus program. I've disabled the automatic windows update but my machine is up to date, i manually check every week or so. I also disabled Microsoft's built in security center.
 
Task Manager shed light on big, ugly processes?
 
Nothing running in task manager that i dont need. On start up the only tasks running are KHALMNPR.exe, ati2evxx.exe, explorer, nod32kui.exe, gnotify.exe (gmail), SDMCP.exe, and WFWIZ.exe(tv tuner). I've gone into msconfig and disabled everything i didnt want or needed.
 
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