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Recently I took my 9700 out so that I could change the heatsink, so I put my 3dfx banshee in which seemed to work ok. Now that the 9700 is back I have a few problems. First the texure quality is lower and has less detail and worst of all the frame rate drops by 90% every second which makes everything unplayable. IS there an app to remove the banshee drivers I think thats whats casuing it?
format.com - kills all known drivers, dead
Try Driver Cleaner, it has the option to remove 3dfx drivers as well.
Format.com has one ever so slight side effect. It kinda kills everything dead :p
tryed driver cleaner. Thought itd be good idea anyway as since ive used omega drivers I hadnt bothered to remove the old versions of the omegas first, just installing the new versions over the top... which wasnt a bad thing, although it meant putting the 9700 back in after banshee was not usuing the newest version. Thats fixed now, using latest version, no 3dfx files left etc.. but the game is still slow - slower infact.
Anyway ive noticed the STEAMING PILE OF rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishE icon in the tray looks different recently and also just discovered it has PRE LOADED 75% of CS:CZ WHICH I NEVER INTEND TO BUY!!!! could this have been causing the low fps? Ive paused it for now anyway.
The only other cause could be my 9700 runing at 228/270 instead of the stock 275/270. I am fairly sure this isnt the cause as ive done it before without this prob. Its only tempory as my watercooling had to be removed for a few upgrades which has taken a few weeks.
Oh yes, It says CS is not available atm so I cant test it, just when I thought I have found thie fix :(
Happens in software mode, d3d aswell as opengl. Even in the menu where theres almsot nothing going on. help me please, i cba to reinstall 20gb of apps that have built up over the last 3 years!
And it gets worse!
Runing dxdiag, one of the most useless apps available has discovered some more stuff. Running the gfx tests results in everything happining about 100000x faster than it should, by that i mean if normally the box was spinning about 30mph this would be 1000000mph, resulting in a large smudge of colours accross my screen :(
Going to reinstall dx9b quick
didnt help, 15 restarts later im getting very frustrated and about to put the banshee back in permently.
what did we learn about keeping our os on a different partition to all our junk?
I do, but I see little point in installing programs on a different partition because 90% of them will need to be reinstalled anyway due to the missing files they thought they dumped somewhere in C:\WINNT\
As you can see, C: is just installed programs and games, while D: is all my junk, and stuff I cannot mention here... :P
Hard Disks:
Total/Free: 267.16/147.99GB
Total/Free space on:
C: 152.66/128.66GB
D: 114.49/19.33GB
What would you suggest directhex, to fix this?
check your processes list, services, runonce and run sections of the registry?
hmm mbm5 shouldnt be using up 50% of cpu all the time should it?
Services, runonce and run sections of the registry are all normal...
yay fixed :D :D :D :D :D
textures still look rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbishe though, I would take a screenshot but I cba.
now to find out why mbm5 was doing that :/
Update interval some how was set to 1sec, usually it should be 10. I think that was the cause, but it still uses too much when it updates, which is now every 15sec. In games i htink it would still go slow with every update it does, but it should do for now...
Yeah that's no problem, it's just because you've most definitely got vsync disabled, no vertical refresh synchronization means your friendly DxDiag cube is going at an insane speed. You can see if it's still being rendered properly by jabbing print-screen and pasting into mspaint after the test finishes, you should see one frame of that wonderous cube :DQuote:
Originally Posted by |SilentDeath|
Hope this helps mate :)
Ive never had vsync on before when doing those tests, how odd that it should only go fassssssssssssst now, prob is fixed but its still 1000000000000000x what its suppost to be :)
It still has the annoying pause every 15 secs though from mbm5, I need to know why its suddenly using so much cpu just for a quick update...