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
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
