Radeon 9700 Pro HELP

[JBird7986]

Hey out there!

I was wondering if anyone could help me. I'm not sure when this first happened, but recently I've noticed a drop off in framerates on my 9700 Pro. I'm currently running the latest drivers (6.10) but where I used to get about 100fps on the HL2 Stress test in CS: Source, I'm now only getting about 68fps. Any ideas on what might have caused the drop off and how to fix it?

 

[lyssword]

check settings in ur HL2 options Maybe you have AA or AF enabled

 

[BassBomb]

dont ugprade drivers?

 

[Slammy1]

Check to make sure your fan is spinning OK. You might d/l ATITool to check temps.

 

[JBird7986]

I was checking CPU-Z when I noticed something funny...the graphics interface setting is grayed out. I then went to the ATI drivers window and checked SMARTGART. It says my AGP is off. I've tried turning it back on, but it won't work. AGP is enabled in my BIOS. Any thoughts?

 

[evolucion8]

Well, is weird, did you use Driver Cleaner before reinstall, there's some options in there that may delete some chipset drivers without your knowledge, I suggest you to uninstall the Display Driver completely, use driver cleaner in safe mode, then reboot and reinstall the Chipset Driver, reboot and then reinstall the Display Driver, if that doesn't work uninstall the Display driver and use the previous one, I had to do the same because I was having issues with the 6.10 also, it was unable to read my Temperature Sensor, and was freezing up in many games. That doesn't happen with the 6.9, we shall wait then to 6.11 to see any improvements though.

 

[JBird7986]

I got a slight FPS increase when I did that to about 71.1FPS...this is still about 30FPS lower than what I used to get...is it possible that there's something wrong with my BIOS that's interfering with my AGP?

 

[JBird7986]

Scratch that...just downgraded my BIOS and it did nothing...I'm stumped...anybody have any ideas?

 

[BassBomb]

downgrade your graphics drivers

 

[JBird7986]

OK...so I think I've figured out what's going on...for some reason, my card is reading as a PCI card. Anybody have any ideas why this might be and how to fix it?

 

[Killrose]

Did you download and use the full version driver which contains both Control Panel and Driver? Try re-installing only the Control Panel drivers if you did, if not, try a Driver set that contains both.

 

[Avalon]

Does your PCI to AGP bridge show up in your hardware device manager list?

 

[Killrose]

Another thought is you might have to re-load the Mboard chipset AGP gart drivers. Load only those if given a choice.

 

[JBird7986]

There's a CPU to AGP controller, and a PCI bus, but no PCI to AGP bridge...

 

[JBird7986]

Success!!!! I installed an older AGP driver, and then upgraded to the current one from there and according to CPU-Z my AGP bus came back on-line this morning! The three month battle is over!