I recently purchased a 7600gt xfx agp card to put a breath of life into my old system. I did some research before the purchase and it seemed that it would be an improvement over my old 9600 pro.
So far this is not the case. Before the installation I played several games and marked fps and settings. Then once I installed I went back to the games to compare fps (same level/maps, # of players, servers.. etc.). Much to my dismay there was no gain, not even fractional gains and in most cases there was an overall lose. I figured due to the instillation on non-reformatted drive there was confliction between the old card some how and the new card. Long story short I reinstalled (all things updated with the same version drivers as before the reformat) and went back into the games, I'm in tears by this point when I'm now 20+ fps under my old card in every game. I go through every possible setting to make sure nothing was limiting, frame syncing, somehow AA got turned on something, even with settings on lowest possible I only just barley get above fps on the 9600. I turn system off for 24 hours to give the system time to cool and settle, no change.
I don't know what the problem could be, and I'm about ready to just put the 9600 pro in, which still preforms the same I tested, and try and return the 7600.
I did fps recording in; Oblivion, Cod2, Cs 1.6/S, UT 2004, F.E.A.R., BF2 & Titan Quest.
I'm running a; p4 2.4 (Northwood), Asus P4PE, 512MB low latency Corsair memory, Maxtor diamondmax 9.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I apologize if I put this in the wrong spot this is my first post and this seemed applicable to place in the graphics section. I realize the system is one bottle neck after another but just getting back to being near even with the 9600 would be nice.
Thanks in advance for your patients and help.
So far this is not the case. Before the installation I played several games and marked fps and settings. Then once I installed I went back to the games to compare fps (same level/maps, # of players, servers.. etc.). Much to my dismay there was no gain, not even fractional gains and in most cases there was an overall lose. I figured due to the instillation on non-reformatted drive there was confliction between the old card some how and the new card. Long story short I reinstalled (all things updated with the same version drivers as before the reformat) and went back into the games, I'm in tears by this point when I'm now 20+ fps under my old card in every game. I go through every possible setting to make sure nothing was limiting, frame syncing, somehow AA got turned on something, even with settings on lowest possible I only just barley get above fps on the 9600. I turn system off for 24 hours to give the system time to cool and settle, no change.
I don't know what the problem could be, and I'm about ready to just put the 9600 pro in, which still preforms the same I tested, and try and return the 7600.
I did fps recording in; Oblivion, Cod2, Cs 1.6/S, UT 2004, F.E.A.R., BF2 & Titan Quest.
I'm running a; p4 2.4 (Northwood), Asus P4PE, 512MB low latency Corsair memory, Maxtor diamondmax 9.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, I apologize if I put this in the wrong spot this is my first post and this seemed applicable to place in the graphics section. I realize the system is one bottle neck after another but just getting back to being near even with the 9600 would be nice.
Thanks in advance for your patients and help.