bad 3d performance w/ Radeon le and Xp

[Dion Unroe]

Since I have installed XP I have had bad performance with my Radeon le ( 32 meg ddr) I have the latest drivers installed for both the video card and motherboard an I honestly can't think of anything else, I remember when I used Win98 there was like a "cool bits" tweak and You would get major performance, is there anything like this for XP? Thanks in Advance! Dion

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

head on over to www.rage3d.com for all your ATI needs!

 

[Dion Unroe]

Thanks for the heads-up, I will try out the site and let you know, anyone else with a similar setup have any problems with the Radeon and XP? Dion

 

[Doh!]

While browsing at www.rage3d.com as mentioned above, be sure to grab the tweaked drivers either by Red Software (plutonium drivers) or Omega. I have my radeon le overclocked to 210/210 and have absolutely no performance issues playing games (i.e., RTCW, Halflife, etc. all at max/high config settings). Playing MOHAA is another story though.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Wow! I can't believe you can o/c ur radeon to 210/210 so easily! I get issues @ 183 MHz, sometimes below! Do you have any extra cooling for the card or what?

 

[Doh!]

Well, actually it's not a regular radeon le. It's made by Unitech which is an OEM for ATI. It's named as Radeon LE "Ultra" indicating the default speed of 166/166 w/ hyper-z enabled by default. Basically, it's a regular Radeon DDR w/ a lower speed setting but can be easily overclocked to 200 (210 in my case). It does come with a heatsink/fan but nothing special. I dont' think this particular brand is available in the U.S. I picked it up while on a biz trip in Korea.

 

[The_Lurker]

My Radeon LE and Win XP run 100% fine! Great performance even in MOH:AA (except snow levels.. gah). Running the 3276 drivers , old old drivers, but newer ones dont give me any performance boost and wont let me alt tab out of CS w/o it locking up. I've play CS, Serious Sam TSE, MOH:AA, Jedi Knight II all at quite acceptable levels at 1024x768 (1152x867 in CS). Jedi Knight and MOH have to be turned down a bit for the frame rate to stay viable. Probalby pick up a R8500 soon though.

My suggestion, download the tweakers, oc the thing to around 180, and see what other tweaks you can run.

 

[Dion Unroe]

Thanks eveyone for all your advice! I will post my results soon! Dion

 

[Dion Unroe]

also my computer shows that I have the RADEON 7200, not the radeon le... is this a problem and does andy one else notice this? Dion

 

[Doh!]

Don't worry. XP detects LE as 7200.