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Hi, i have a dell dimension 8200, which ihave just upgraded the RAM and the graphics card to a saphire radion9800xt in hope of playing HL2 and doom 3 smooth. But i am getting very slow graphics that stutter, sound that stutters and an ATI control centre that wont start. can anyone help please.?
You should have no problems playing doom3.
Try downloading the latest ATI radeon drivers, Directx 9c redist, sound drivers.
It might be an idea to check your computer for viruses and perhaps run some kind of system check (e.g Norton Windoctor) to check for registry errors and conflictions.
If you don't have it, go to www.majorgeeks.com, you should be able to find some freeware scanners on there.hope this helps.
AMD Athlon XP2200+
Aero7 lite
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Abit NF7-s V2.0
80GB Seagate SATA
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Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms
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Make sure ur processor is compatible with ur graphix card.. seems like it is struggling with it.. r u sure ur motherboard can handle the graphix card??
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thanks for the help. Ant idea how i can find out what my motherboard is and if it is compatible compatible with the 9800
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You can go to google.com and put in your motherboard in there and search for it there. You might be able to go to dell.com and look there.Two:
If yo are unsure, you can give us your motherboard and we can tell youThree:
If you know you have an AGP 4x/8x slot, then it will be compatible.Four:
If you have the new ati drivers, try uninstalling the new control panel, you know, the one that is 44mb, i had trouble with this thing, but when i uninstalled it everything was fine.Do these things and get back to us.
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hi , i have downloaded the Omega drivers for my sapphire radion 9800xt 256Mb, everything is now back to normal but graphics and sound still jittery. My AGP is 4x, is that a problem then?, do i need a new motherboard to get the most out of the 9800?
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AGPx4 shouldn't be a problem. 8x and 4x are compatible with each other and there is virtally no visible difference in actual graphics performance.
I changed from an AGPx4 motherboard to one with AGPx8 (My card is AGPx8) and I haven't noticed any difference in games whatsoever.
AMD Athlon XP2200+
Aero7 lite
512mb Crucial pc2700
Abit NF7-s V2.0
80GB Seagate SATA
120GB Seagate SATA
Geforce4 Ti4200 128mb
Benq FP767-12 17" 12ms
SB live 5.1 Digital
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i still am having major problems with the sound im doom 3. keeps juttering? ive got turtle beach soundcard. any ideas? also i changed the AGP tab in Bios from 128Mb to 256Mb is this the right setting?
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If ur card is that size then yes. As for the sound, i had a friend that it did the exact same thing. I do believe he uninstalled and then reinstalled his game and things still didnt work 100%, but they worked a lot better.
Try a different set of driver's for your sound card, weather it be new ones you have yet to download or an old set and see what that does.
Make sure there are no hardware conflicts with your computer. Also, try uninstalling and reinstalling you sound card.
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look in device manager..
right click on my computer..
properties
hardware tab
then device manager.
look for any yellow exclamation marks next to a drive.
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