CS Refresh rate and Doom 3

MikeybobMikeybob Middle o' Farmer Land
edited August 2004 in Hardware
Right, I have two problems at the moment. I just got a Radeon 9800 Sapphire and my refresh rate on CS is really poor, like 40 hz or something on OpenGL. I could turn this up on my old Nvidia card by going to the openGL tab in the display properties and change the refresh rate for OpenGL there. But Radeon doesn't seem to have this option.

Secondly Doom 3 is really stuttery. The voice stutters when people speak, the graphics is a little laggy. Any ideas?

My specs are:

Athlon XP 2600
Ati Radeon Sapphire 9800 (4.8 Catalyst driver)
XP Pro SP1
1024 mb Corsair DDR RAM
Iiyama vision master 1403

Ty.

Comments

  • SmiGDigSmiGDig Albany, NY
    edited August 2004
    what motherboard? much more important than the monitor...
  • ketoketo Occupied. Or is it preoccupied? Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    What resolution are you playing D3 at? What quality setting & AA, both in game and in the driver control panel?

    If I hadn't see your specs, I would otherwise have guessed low RAM. Got programs running in the background?
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited August 2004
    Refresh Force for refresh rate.
  • MikeybobMikeybob Middle o' Farmer Land
    edited August 2004
    I have an Asus A7N8X Nforce 2 mobo, original drivers becuase I can't find any more.

    I'm running Doom 3 at 1024 x 768 sam with CS. I tried running Doom 3 on medium and then on low ... no difference.

    I think AA is on, and set to program controlled.

    Only things I had running the background would be the ATi taskbar thingy, Antivirus program which I turned off but still didn't make a difference, Keyman program for my cherry keyboard and windowsblinds.

    I also noticed one of the svchost programs is using about 15k of memory ... is it supposed to?
  • CaxusCaxus
    edited August 2004
    Reforce should solve your refresh problems. As for the stuttering, is it mostly your sound thats stuttering? Also, definately download that 4.9 beta catalyst. It says its mostly for doom 3 and openGL but i've noticed framerate gains in Far Cry as well.

    Definately do this as well. Helps doom 3 quite a bit.

    http://www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=14874

    I tested a lot of different video setups with doom 3 and the best i found was this. 1024 x 768 res. Medium quality. All advanced options turned on EXCEPT AA. Vsync on is very important. In your card settings, all AA and AF down to minimum and set to application preference, vsync default off (just turn in on in the game options), and in the compatability tab turn on triple buffering. After i did the above tweak i was able to run it at 1152 x 864 with the same performance as i previously had with 1024 x 768.
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