I have one of these incredibly slow and pathetic excuses for a videocard, and recent events make me hate it more than ever. It started off with Jedi Knight 2, at first I could have the settings on high and things were fine, but later it lagged so bad I had to set it down as if it was a gf2mx. Never did figure out what that was, but I have since installed XP and the newest drivers. The first game I played was Grand Theft Auto 3, and this card can barely handle it at all! The minimum requirrements are:
450MHz Processor
96MB RAM
4x CD-ROM
16MB Video Card
700 MB Hard Drive Space
The damn thing should fly on my 1.2GHz, 256MB, Radeon 8500LE 64MB system! It just runs very sluggishly with medium settings. like it will just pause up for about 10 seconds every minute or so. You wouldn't believe how pathetic my machine is! And this is a clean install of windows! what could I be doing worng? Somebody please help!
Whats worse is I just found new drivers for this piece o garbage and with them when I try to play GTA3 it says "you need at least 12mb of visdeo memory for this game".....64 is less than 12 evidently.
Did you do a clean install or an upgrade? Are you using the latest drivers for you graphics card and motherboard chipset? Chipset drivers can make a big differance as they include the AGP drivers.
It should smoke you GeForce2 MX. If you installed XP without a clean format and you did not remove ALL the old drivers and registry items, they might be interfering with the Radeon drivers. Also are you using the newest Catalist 2.4 drivers and have you searched the GTA3 website for patches (it might be the games fault not ATI's).
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did you install the card correctly? use the manuel and fallow it step for step. also find out your 3dmark score and compare it to other people with the same card and similar systems, find out what drivers give the best results and use them. also make sure your fsaa and anastrophic filter are off. look for some tweak guides too. also make sure you dont have any conflicts and update all of the drivers in your computer.
Strange, my 8500LE was able to play any game I wanted with ease, including GTA3 and the demandnig Comanche4. Of course I could juice up the FSAA with my Ti4200, I still think I prefer to use anisotropic filtering with a Radeon than using FSAA on a GF4.
Not sure what your problem is. I would guess its a driver problem as aforementioned. Strange how some people have the worst luck with video cards, while others have no troubles at all.
Are you using Windows or Linux?
Btw, just meeting the GTA3 requirements won't allow you to play the game at all. You need at least a system of your caliber to play that game decently (at 800x600 or higher anyways).
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I was gonna say, Mine tears it up on all of the above games on max setting and I have about the same systesm as you.
Ati cards are also very sensitive to AGp clockings ans settings. Sometimes you can change something in your BIOS and all of a sudden your Ati card is freakin.
Crazy, but good to hear that this card isn't a POS after all.
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Yes, i'd say thats pretty good for that set-up. I just built a K7S5A with a 1.2 Ghz Duron, 256MB SDR RAM and a GF4 MX440 w/64MB DDR and it only broke 4000.
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Same problem with my old Radeon 7200. It was a POS card, my TNT2 ULTRA ran most games better. That's why I was reluctant to purchase the 9700 pro. BEsides the extra cooling needed to run it stable (stock). I'm actually impressed with it. Even if the FX looks to beat it.
Im currently looking for something to replace my V3 and the Radeon 8500LE was something that I looked at, along with a GF3 Ti200.
For half the price, I think the Radeon is winning, and I hope its more of a performance freak than my old 7000VE ever was! That damn card smoked on me
Glad everything worked out ok for you mate
edit... Dammit!!! The Radeon 8500LE which was half the price fo a Ti200 turned out to be a 7000LE 128mb SDR version.
The world sucks! Well ok, only my PC sucks, but ill get over it... when I get a new gfx card
Last edited by agw_01; December 3rd, 2002 at 04:37 AM.
Desktop - XP2100 @ 2.4GHz, Abit NF7-S, 1gb DDR500 Crucial Ballistix, 120 + 160gb HDD, Windows XP
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If you can get it, get the FULL 8500 w/128MB ram over the 8500LE with 64MB. I have both and the 8500 pure is better by about 10-15%. Also the FULL 8500 comes with lots of external cables, the DVI connector and the S-Vid output. The LE just has the video out connector.
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