Help! This is driving me insane! I have an ATI 9550 256 mb, 512 mb ram, an athlon 900mhz, which should be more than enough to run older games like serious sam 1, but when I try to run them, they stutter horribly, to a point that it crashes, and I have to restart the computer. Ive tried defragmenting the drive, installing omega drivers, downloading latest ati catalyst, tried several utilities for lowering AGP from 8x to 4x, refresh rate 60hz to 75hz, you name it. And nothing. What on earth is the problem here? Anyone have suggestions?

thanks in advanced

Have you updated your motherboard's chipset drivers?

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Yeah, i went to the mainboard's webpage. Its an shuttle mk40v.

I downloaded a file called mainbrd.zip that was under the chipset section, and it gives two options, instell/uninstall pci and install/uninstall agp. I chose uninstall for pic since the videocard isnt pci and selected install agp, since the videocard is agp. Rebooted, and still, the games still stutter every few seconds. Its very annoying. Funny it only seems to happen on opengl games, and not direct3d ones. Also, dxdiag test only stutter when running the direct3d 7 test, the rotating box chokes every few seconds.

Try turning off/down the DirectX acceleration for your sound card using dxdiag.exe. On my computer (XP) it is in C:\WINDOWS\system32. and typing dxdiag in the Run dialog starts it.

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