x1950 agp

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Limp Gawd
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I did a little reading on upgrades for my aging agp box and discovered that the x1950 pro was the best choice. Now, I am replacing a 9800pro with this card and to my horror the card runs slower than the 9800pro in one of the only games that I play, WOW.
With everything turned off I get anywhere from 8-48fps. this is under 1280x1024 with everything turned down to it's lowest setting.
Shouldn't I be getting better than this?

the system i'm running it on is:
P4 2.4 @ 3ghz
1 gig of ddr 400 dual channel ram
750 gig hitachi drive
windows 2k
Corsair 520 watt psu

I have 2gigs of ram on the way to me in the mail and windows xp sitting on the floor (waiting on the ram to install). Is xp going to make a difference (I'm thinking driver issue since ati doesn't seem to want to support 2k anymore) or should I just exchange the card for another (defective?)? I've tried running multiple drivers from the latest omega to cat 6.11 - 7.11.

Any help you could provide would be appreciated.
 
I'm going to guess that upgrading to XP will solve your problems. I went from a 9800pro to a 256m X1950pro AGP, and the difference is huge....
 
try looking for omega drivers. they work great for the agp 1950's if you are having problems but i do not know if thy make them for win2k
 
Yes, I uninstalled the drivers each time I installed a different version.
I used drivercleaner pro after using the ati uninstaller. I don't think it's a clean driver issue.

I did notice one other thing that I forgot to mention... the caed after playing for a good while was just warm, not hot.
 
You got the card plugged into the PSU I trust. Other than that, and getting XP, I don't know what to say.
 
Ya I got it plugged into the psu. The card came with a 2x4 pin adapter. I tried using that and then the 6 pin connector that the psu came with when I noticed the fps issue. No luck at all.
 
Try using ATI tool to manually adjust your gpu/ram speeds to the 3d clocks/voltages and then play your games or run your benches. Your setup may be having an issue with 3d detection.
 
lloose said:
Omegas are no good for older os's too.
I would just upgrade to xp. It will be worth your time. That 1950 should be about double your current card.

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=32&card2=471
Click to expand...

The X800XT have 2.5 the performance of the 9800PRO, and the X1950PRO is between 30% and 65% faster than the X800XT, so it should be almost 4 times faster, but since he's CPU limited, the gains will diminish.
 
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