Performance problems with Radeon 9550...

mskeezer · 01-04-2005, 07:03 PM

Hi all. This is my first time posting here. I've emailed ATI about the problem, but I haven't gotten a response from them yet, so I thought I'd try here.

I purchased a Radeon 9550 as a temporary replacement for my 9000. I plan on upgrading to something much better within the next 2 months, either an Nvidia 6600 GT or Radeon 9800XT. But anyways. I uninstalled everything for the 9000, and put in the 9550. I installed the software, then I installed the 4.11 drivers from ATI's website. Everything was going fine. My games played fine. I was able to play Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and all of the expansions at a resolution of 1024x768 with the settings maxed out with incredibly smooth performance. Half Life 2 was playable at 800x600 with the settings set to medium with very little slowdown. I decided to go ahead and download the 4.12 drivers off ATI's website. I installed them, and noticed a couple of problems with my games. Some of the them suffered from slowdown, and I had video problems with Knights of the Old Republic, which played fine with the 4.11's. So, I reinstalled the previous drivers, and the problems were still there. Both CoD and MoH suffer from slowdown, even at 800x600 with everything on medium, and bilinear filtering. I uninstalled everything ATI, including the drivers, all of the included software, and did a fresh reinstall with 4.11, and the problems are still there. I don't know what else to do. Can someone please help?

Here are my specs:
Athlon 3200+ 2.2 GH
512 MB PC2700
160 GB harddrive
Radeon 9550 256 mb video card
Sound Blaster Live 24 bit
Windows XP Service Pack 2

Thank you...

Thomas

**Praetor** · 01-05-2005, 11:18 PM

Quote:

So, I reinstalled the previous drivers, and the problems were still there

Did you uninstall the 4.12s?

Maybe this can help http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=329

speedcanhurt · 08-08-2007, 04:52 AM

What driver is your card using?

If you go into Hardware Manager (assuming you are using windows) and select you video card properties, you can change which driver you use. There is also a rollback driver button, just in case your card is still using the updated driver.

[-0MEGA-] · 08-08-2007, 04:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by speedcanhurt

What driver is your card using?

If you go into Hardware Manager (assuming you are using windows) and select you video card properties, you can change which driver you use. There is also a rollback driver button, just in case your card is still using the updated driver.

This thread is 2.5 years old, why are you posting here?

01-04-2005, 07:03 PM	#1 (permalink)
mskeezer New Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1	Performance problems with Radeon 9550... Hi all. This is my first time posting here. I've emailed ATI about the problem, but I haven't gotten a response from them yet, so I thought I'd try here. I purchased a Radeon 9550 as a temporary replacement for my 9000. I plan on upgrading to something much better within the next 2 months, either an Nvidia 6600 GT or Radeon 9800XT. But anyways. I uninstalled everything for the 9000, and put in the 9550. I installed the software, then I installed the 4.11 drivers from ATI's website. Everything was going fine. My games played fine. I was able to play Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, and all of the expansions at a resolution of 1024x768 with the settings maxed out with incredibly smooth performance. Half Life 2 was playable at 800x600 with the settings set to medium with very little slowdown. I decided to go ahead and download the 4.12 drivers off ATI's website. I installed them, and noticed a couple of problems with my games. Some of the them suffered from slowdown, and I had video problems with Knights of the Old Republic, which played fine with the 4.11's. So, I reinstalled the previous drivers, and the problems were still there. Both CoD and MoH suffer from slowdown, even at 800x600 with everything on medium, and bilinear filtering. I uninstalled everything ATI, including the drivers, all of the included software, and did a fresh reinstall with 4.11, and the problems are still there. I don't know what else to do. Can someone please help? Here are my specs: Athlon 3200+ 2.2 GH 512 MB PC2700 160 GB harddrive Radeon 9550 256 mb video card Sound Blaster Live 24 bit Windows XP Service Pack 2 Thank you... Thomas

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08-08-2007, 04:52 AM	#3 (permalink)
speedcanhurt New Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 9	What driver is your card using? If you go into Hardware Manager (assuming you are using windows) and select you video card properties, you can change which driver you use. There is also a rollback driver button, just in case your card is still using the updated driver.