Help on HD4850

I brought a MSI HD4850 512MB card recently. And i don't feel it to be better than 8400M GT on my laptop......
I've tried Original driver provided by MSI and also latest Catalyst driver v8.11. Much difference felt while i played "ELDER SCROLLS 4: OBVILION". Nvidia 8400M GT showed much more good to see experience than HD4850. Also HD4850 showing poor Vista Rating than 9600GT.
Pls help me solve this problem...

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What are the rest of the components in the computer that you put it into? If you have a really old CPU in comparison to what is in your laptop, it can slow games down.

So it sounds like you had the 9600GT in before the 4850? You need to uninstall every possible video card file and driver before installing a new driver. Even bumping up from catalyst 8.10 to 8.11, you need to uninstall the old drivers and delete the ATI folders before installing the new drivers. You can't install drivers over top of one another. It gets extra messy when you have nvidia drivers and ATI drivers floating around too.

Is your system the one you have Validated in your signature? That should be a very nice system. I'd also suggest double cleaning the old NVidia drivers (if they were ever present).

I tried 1024x768...... with HDR enabled & without(8x AA)..

I downloaded FRAPS...... HD4850 and 8400M GT,both shows 60fps..
But difference seem to appear in clarity...... stones and water appear clearer/good in 8400M GT...

It's supposed to. My Core i7 @ 3.73 only pulls 2FPS on the first CPU test and 3fps on the second.

As for the performance, it sounds fine. 60FPS and 12k points is perfectly fine.

But it seem to have level of details low in 4850... its confusing na..

I too think so.... 8400M GT is entry level and HD4850 mid-level...
About Vista rating, its true... rating could go over 7.

Crank up the res and details on the game.

Are you by chance using an old CRT? If so, can you run @1280x1024?

Your GPU is not doing much at your low res. I think I'd max out the settings and see how it runs.

I've tried max. @ 1280x800. Thats the highest.

Thats not my rating.... its from my friends desktop...
Me with HD4850 have 5.9.

wait, you get 60FPS on both your laptop and on your desktop in Oblivion? So you have the vsync enabled? That will cap your FPS to your monitor refresh rate (60) I am not familiar with Oblivion to know if it has a FPS cap when vsync is off....that could be happening as well which would make it look like both cards are performing the same.

For the detail, go into catalyst control settings and under 3D slide your mipmap settings to the highest quality. Set everything else to off or use application settings and see if that helps make things look better.


Also, what is your laptop's resolution set at? If your laptop has a higher resolution than what your desktop is running at then things will look better. 1280 is a pretty low resolution...is that as high as what your monitor will go? What size monitor do you have for your desktop?

Turn it off. V-sync forces the maximum FPS to stay the same as the moniter refresh rate (60 by default). You'll see the diffrence between the two once V-sync is off.

oh shoot, you're problem seems to be the image quality not the performance per se. turn anisotropic filteringb to 8x at least (via the catalyst control center). maybe thats why you're seeing console-like textures in there. and if you're still capping 60fps turn it up to 16x AF.

It showed different in "Collin McRae Dirt"........ HD4850 outperformed all others.... good graphics in "DiRT"..... but still sympathetic in "Oblivion"

Ya.. I tried Catalyst v8.11... Its of no good... coz.. when using it increases grains/noise... So got occupied with the one bundled with MSI pack..

Ya...i could set it to 16x..