HL2 Problem
I just installed HL2 and am having terrible, terrible performance issues. People heads disappearing, horrendous artifacting, skipping sound, the train in the first sequence only 3/4 exists... walls flicker... hell, even the menus don't work right. It's ridiculous.
I'm running a brand new system... A64 3200, a gig of OCZ ddr 2700 memory, and a Radeon 9800. All the game video settings are set to "recommended". I even tried closing F@H and every non-critical background app I have to no avail.
Anyone have any ideas?
I'm running a brand new system... A64 3200, a gig of OCZ ddr 2700 memory, and a Radeon 9800. All the game video settings are set to "recommended". I even tried closing F@H and every non-critical background app I have to no avail.
Anyone have any ideas?
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is this the nightmare system from the LAN? the problems never end with that one, man......
Driver is Catalyst 5.7
Yes, this is the nightmare system...
I'll download 3DMark
//edit: Anyone know what this "secondary" thing is about?
Secondry is normal - it's the other "head" on the card - amy X850 has exactly the same in my hardware display
i don't care so much about the score as - did it artifact during the tests? Obviously it didn't crash. I wanted to put a load on the card to see if it would flake out.
It might be the PSU, keebs. I know we never tried that because we just assumed that if it was a brand new antec, it couldn't possibly be bad, but can you at least try a different psu?
I ran memtest for 6 passes (fell asleep) and got no errors. I do have a second PSU laying around, but if I had to bet money on one being flaky, it's that one.
to prime: if its the PSU, wouldn't it show the same behavior in 3dmark as it did in HL2? I would suspect that either HL2 needs to be blown away and reinstalled, or your vid drivers need to be blown away and reinstalled (use drivercleaner or some such)
No, I don't recall artifacting or the image messing up really. Maybe parts of the image flickered once or twice? I don't really remember.
//edit: My CPU score was 891 if that means anything...
Hell. Maybe I should just go start a "what card is the best for my money right now" thread and replace the SOB.
Best best Bang/Buck right now is ati's X800gt.
You might want to check the BIOS settings for AGP, too, if you haven't already done so.
The point is just to see if the other card has the same problems running games or not, it doesn't matter how well it runs HL2. Just run anything and see if it does the same thing or not. And what prof said too, stick that puppy in another computer and see if it acts screwy there too.