9700 pro fps help

[Abyssiann]

When I play Counter-Strike my FPS will somtimes drop down to as low as 15. NOw this happens at any given time, not just when there is movement. It will stay down for about 5sec then go back up. I've tried both the 3.1 and 3.2 Cats, and I'm running at total stock. Any ideas? I never had these problems with my Geforce4 in the same setup.

 

[BFG10K]

Turn off truform, FSAA and vsync in the driver control panel. Also run the game under OpenGL.

 

[kylebisme]

turning off just trueform should do the trick, the rest is nice for image quality and should not slow down an old game like cs. it may well be that old nvidia drivers are still in the system and messing things up though.

 

[Abyssiann]

I will have to try that, thanx guys ya I'm running it in OpenGL, but I'll have to turn off Trueform. Let me say sorry before I ask this newbie question, but if I turn off V-Sync won't I get tearing? And if it is the old drivers, what's a good program to make sure that the old nVidia drivers are gone for good?

 

[kylebisme]

yes if you turn of vsync you will get tearing. as for a program to get rid of the old drivers; there is something called detonator destroyer, but it doesn't work for xp. the sure fire way to make it work right is to ditch your windows install and start from scratch, or you you can just try and manualy regedit out all traces if nvidia, or deleate the enum section of the registry makeing the computer redetect all hardware.

 

[zxczxc]

http://download.guru3d.com/pafiledb.php?action=category&id=13

there are like 4 programs that delete traces of detonator drivers. I ran all of them on my windows xp before I upgraded my video card from Geforce 2 GTS to Radeon 9700. 3Dmark 2001 score went up from 5000 something to 15520!!! (flashed my 9700 non-pro to 9700 pro BIOS and o/c'ed it to 350/330Mhz)