Visiontek AtI 4850 preforming poorly...

Although I have completly cleaned all my old drivers with driver cleaner pro and have uninstalled all my previous drivers and replaced them with the latest ones from the ATI website, I continue to get poor results from my 4850. For example when trying to run Unreal Tournament 3 when I start up the game it gives me a warning saying that my system does not meet the minimum specs to run the game. Also when I play games like Crysis it sets the optimal system settings as everything low and the res as 800x600.
I have tried replacing my drivers numerous times yet it still preforms poorly. Can this problem be caused by a faulty graphics card? Could it be that my motherboard is not compatible with this video card? Or could there be another problem? If someone could please help soon I would be very greatful. Thanks in advance!

I have the following setup:
4X 1GB 667 Ram
AMD AThlon X2 4800+
Ati Radeon 4850
and a 22" LCD
550Watt Cooler Master PSU
My motherboard is http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc [...] c=en&cc=us

Thanks!

Looks like driver problem, does the PC recognize it as 4850?

If the driver cleaner you ran is more than a year old, it probably don't have the full listing of entries made by newer drivers, possibly leaving some out. Try this:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655

Whats the recommended for UT3?

Thanks but I have the latest dual optimizer installed already and the Pc does recognize it as 4850. I also used the same driver cleaner as the link provided. Any other suggestion?

I have very similar specs as your computer and my 4850 is getting all the problems you have stated so far. Maybe we can figure this out together.

I'm sorry to ask, but did u plug in the 6 pin power connection on the card to the psu?

Also in UT3 are you running the maps with the physics pack or mod on it?

Can we get a screenshot of your GPU stats from you computer? it might be a bad card

After reading the whole thread, I noticed that you didnt state the settings on which you are trying to play on for both games.

ALSO the link to your mobo is dead

Also I have the fan speed set to 70% yet my temperatures remain well above 60 mainly around 65

Thats what I think too but is there anything else I should try before doing so?

Suprised nobody susgested this, but it could be that motherboard. Odds are its running at 8x, or even 4x. There was a guy up here not too long ago with a Dell that had a 680i board in it, that was locked at 8x.

Have you tried any other games, or benchmarking tools such as 3Dmark. If not, I susgest running 3dmark and compare your scores with similar systems. If the card is faulty, youll easily be able to tell. I wouldnt necessarily tie low FPS to a faulty card so easily. Hold off on the RMA.

70%? wow!!! is that healthy for the card?
And I are you talking 65 at idle with that fan speed?

I run my 4870 @ 38% and its loud but the card stays fairly cool. I couldn't Imagine the noise at 70%.

Benchmarkers got 97C on the same 70% fan load.
http://en.expreview.com/2008/06/24 [...] hd-4850/6/
What did you use to stress it? Typical games don't put gpus under full load. It's like how you'll use Prime95 to stress cpu instead of Microsoft Office. Use a gpu stress utility like Furmark instead. Use standard settings, (default resolution, no AA, no AF), stress mode for at least 30 minutes for temperature to stabilize.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/

Supreme Commander is cpu bottlenecked, and C&C3 is hardcapped at 30fps by the game itself. Like I said, those don't nearly reach full load. You may not care for solid performance testing, but others do. It's established practice to post full load results. Others will assume you're adhering to the same standard as themselves. Don't measure yourself by a different rule and then post flawed results to mislead others.

Nothing wrong with posting your temperatures. You should just have made it clear that those are not full stress results, which you didn't do. Stressed temperatures are the assumed norm. If you don't say so, they'll assume those low numbers are from benchmark stress.

Thanks for the replies well my mobo is Asus A8M2N-LA A.K.A. (NodusM3-GL8E) I have tried a few other games including Assassins Creed and Gears of War which both run at barely playable fps. I currently have taken my card out of my system but if I am correct I remember the GPU scoring in the low 3K range in my last 3dMark Vantage test. Also before removing my card I tried setting my fan speed to 80% yet on idle it was still about 62C-63C which is pretty hot. Anymore help would be appreciated. Thanks

Folding at home is not a good utility to test ATI cards. It bottlenecks due to the architecture of how ATI stream processors are set up. That's why comparable Nvidia cards perform so much higher in folding at home despite trialing in gaming. You have to use a real stress utility that does not bottleneck anything, like Furmark and rthdribl.
http://www.ozone3d.net/benchmarks/fur/
http://www.daionet.gr.jp/~masa/rthdribl/
I'm guessing you've already tried, as they're the most commonly used, but decided to not mention the results you got.

Theres a new folding client coming out for ATI cards. Ive heard itll be very good

It might tell you under "onboard devices" or "advanced" tabs in your BIOS.

If it`s active, try disabling `cool `n quiet` by changing the power saving options in Windows to anything but Minimal Power Management.

Here is the GPU-Z image http://gpuz.techpowerup.com/08/08/29/fan.png
I am going to run 3dmark vantage again and see what results i get.
BTW right now with my fan speed set at 80% and my case open the temps are still at around 57C.