Video Card Thread (Mostly Gecube x1950xt)

Going back to XP is perfectly thinkable and perfectly reasonable.

 

Oh ok, I guess I got it wrong then.

But ahm, the BIOS does call it the 'AGP Aperture', so I don't know...
So I guess I don't have to request the store to order a 256mb-version.
I'd still like to try a 7950GT, and if that's still not working I'm just forgetting about AGP in combination with newer games.

 

yeah, it has been an ordeal!

 

It is now i've managed to crack WMA on the only copy of XP i have kicking around!

The only performance downside is that i'll be wasting 2 of my 4GB of RAM - but at least the AGP works.

 

Why? XP supports 4GB.

 

Yes - but but from what I understand it can only really make use of 2 of them.

 

Not true, my mate's PC has 3GB of RAM and despite a slower CPU and the same graphics card it runs Stalker a lot better than mine does with 2GB, we both run XP.

 

Apparently it's better in 64bit - which mine isn't.

It seems to vary depending on what you're doing at the time. I am only going on what i've read on other threads. I think the point is that 4gb in XP does not give you double the RAM performance of 2gb.

Those nice chaps at Gigabyte responded to my query.

I asked:

"This motherboard is not yet Vista supported. I am trying to install a Gecube X1950XT AGP card and am getting a blue screen on bootup due to this, as specified on this link:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=19933

WIll there be a new driver to fix this? I cannot find any relating to Vista on your site."

And they replied:
"Hi,

According to Microsoft Windows Vista hardware requirement, this product does not fully support Windows Vista since it was released before Windows Vista ready to the market. We suggest you check with the respective vendor website for more information. They might have some beta or official Vista drivers available. For example you can download the Chipset drivers from nVidia website"

Which wasn't much help - I couldn't find any relevant drivers anywhere else. Think i'll have to give up on Vista until i finally go PCIe.

 

Does this one not work?
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/7-7_vista32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_49713.exe

 

Not on my motherboard.

It would probably work for a motherboard on the Vista list. The problem is that my motherboard doesn't have specific Vista support.

The link I posted above is the exact problem i'm having - for some reason the link is not working.
This is what it says and is my exact problem:

Symptoms:
After installing the Catalyst display drivers and rebooting, the system will give a blue screen (BSoD) error referencing ATIKMDAG.SYS

Cause:
This issue is caused by using a motherboard with a chipset that is unsupported in Windows Vista.

Solution:
Please make sure that the motherboard you are using is listed on Microsoft's Vista Hardware Compatibility List at the following location.

https://winqual.microsoft.com/hcl/ (requires Internet Explorer 6 or higher)

Officially supported motherboards can be found by setting the first dropdown menu to "systems" and then the second drop down menu to "motherboards" or by clicking on "motherboards" under "systems" on the left hand side menu. Only those motherboards that are on the official Microsoft Windows Vista HCL are supported by AMD.[/img]

 

Ah right. Which board do you use? There may be a fix for it. My motherboard's not compatible with vista, and it's far newer than yours!

 

A Gigabyte GA-K8NSC-939

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=1881

It's a sad day when i can remember my motherboard model off by heart. I must get out more.

 

Well, I've had an A8N-SLI SE, an A8R-MVP, an MSI MS-6775 and currently use a P5N-E SLI. Can't remember the first one I had.

 

You need to get out more too then!

 

yep!

 

wow, lots of posts since I was here last...

WFIH, does your card overheat? Since most of the x1950xts do, I just thought yours would but I dont recall you saying anything about it yet.

EDIT:

How did you get COH to do that? My card will only play it on medium/high settings with some lag starting when things heat up.

Anyways, I will try the overclocking method now and get back later on.

Is there a chance I can fry my cpu by increasing the voltage? What does that do?

 

Oh! So thats how you overclock the cpu!!!! Yea, I did the thing in the BIOS, overclock 10% right now, and Im running at 3.51GHz! Thats 879.7mhz on the fsb. Ill see how far I can go...

(this is according to cpuz)

 

With a P4, you won't get too far, but you can at least bag a few extra mhz.

 

yea, the max I can go is overclock 10% (3.51mhz),anything above that and the computer wont boot...

This is good enough though!



I found this to be extremely weird... Bf2 will play jittery, and around 30fps on wake 64player (multiplayer), but when I turn up the settings all the way (highest, no aa/ff) @ 1280x960, I get the same fps, maybe even better, and better quality!

Is that the cpu thats making it better?

 

Waymon, will you try something for me:

- Go into BF2, start a match to be sure.
- Tab out to the desktop.
- Open Firefox.
- Scroll a webpage by dragging the sliding bar.
- See if it goes fluently or "laggy" with like moving slow and all.

It does that with me, and it's the same effect as if I don't have drivers installed.
Even before this card when I wouldn't have drives while updating them.
So in between the old and new ones...
It's something with the software too apparently.