Bought a HD3870 (Diamond) and when I go to play COD4, it crawls. I never had this problem with my 1950xt. I was able to play a map once with no problems, but as soon as the map changed, crawled to a stop. I'm using the default "optimized" settings too. The same settings my 1950xt had don't work either.
I was able to run 3dMark06 with no problems at all, worked great. Going to pick up rainbow six vegas 2 tomorrow and hope that works but I'm wondering if I should return the card for a replacement or find out if there is another issue going here.
I'd agree with Shadow most likely gfx drivers need reinstalling. Or maybe a game .ini hasn't re-optimized for the new card, just a matter of re-installing (BF2 was a good example of that).
When i first installed the 3870 I used catalyst 8.2. Then updated to 8.3. Then went down to 7.12 (3870 release drivers). Now i'm using the omega drivers.
I haven't tried reinstalling the game so I'll give that a try.
I have the same card, Ati hd 3870 Diamond and i'm not experiencing any issues with cod4 with the 8.3 catalyst drivers.i suggest you reinstall the game and patches.
I've tried Warcraft 3 and EVE-Online... and 3dmark06, as mentioned before. I'm reinstalling COD4 right now and i'm also going to install Oblivion after that.
Well, reinstalling COD4 gave me a different symptom... My computer restarts now as soon as the map finishes loading -_- I changed drivers and installed the COD4 patches with no luck.
I'm installing oblivion to test. I will let you know how that goes.
