I have a Sapphire X1600 Pro 512mb AGP card and I installed the ATI drivers from the website (originally had OMEGA but ATItool said to use ATI drivers with it).
So I overclocked it a bit (from 500 core to 537, and from 400 mem to 435)
It was working fine and then I thought I could go back and install the Omega drivers instead. I'm not sure exactly when it happened but Oblivion began to run much slower. It was not even that the FPS was low (load times are taking much longer than normal) but that it was choppy so often. In places where I would get traditionally high FPS it was low. I uninstalled/reinstalled the game, ATItool, the drivers, etd. and nothing fixes it. I thought getting rid of ATItool would set everything back to normal but no.
The only thing else I can think of that I tried before it w ent bad was to up the fan speed using ATItool at one point because I thought it would help while overclocking but I can't imagine that would be the cause.
Does anyone know if something on the X1600 was changed that I can't see? The one thing that definitely tells me its slower is that load times are much slower when loading a saved game or going indoors/outdoors, etc.
Anyone with any info or help is greatly appreciated. I can't understand how after uninstalling everything it wouldn't go back to normal. Please, someone.
So I overclocked it a bit (from 500 core to 537, and from 400 mem to 435)
It was working fine and then I thought I could go back and install the Omega drivers instead. I'm not sure exactly when it happened but Oblivion began to run much slower. It was not even that the FPS was low (load times are taking much longer than normal) but that it was choppy so often. In places where I would get traditionally high FPS it was low. I uninstalled/reinstalled the game, ATItool, the drivers, etd. and nothing fixes it. I thought getting rid of ATItool would set everything back to normal but no.
The only thing else I can think of that I tried before it w ent bad was to up the fan speed using ATItool at one point because I thought it would help while overclocking but I can't imagine that would be the cause.
Does anyone know if something on the X1600 was changed that I can't see? The one thing that definitely tells me its slower is that load times are much slower when loading a saved game or going indoors/outdoors, etc.
Anyone with any info or help is greatly appreciated. I can't understand how after uninstalling everything it wouldn't go back to normal. Please, someone.