New drivers having negative effect?

Cheeseboy · 12-02-2005, 08:47 PM

Hello, I could use a little bit of video card help.

I have a Radeon 9800 pro 128 card. I used to run it with some older drivers (somewhere around Catalyst 5.4 i think), and ran my games just fine. I recently had to wipe my HD though, so when I got everything going again I went and got the newest drivers (5.11). I noticed that I now receive more lag than I used to when playing games.

For example, I used to be able to walk pretty smoothly around heavily populated areas in World of Warcraft, but now I lag a good bit (not enough to make it unplayable though). I haven't fully updated windows back to how it was since im lazy, but I plan to do so soon.

I still have some testing to do, but do the video drivers sound like the problems? If you think so I will try going back to some older ones but I dont see how new drivers could have a bad effect. Thanks.

Tumbleweed36 · 12-03-2005, 05:09 AM

Hi,

I happen to think that the Omega drivers are the best for this card. Anyway, that is my personal opinion:

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

Luk07 · 12-03-2005, 12:22 PM

It is not uncommon for there to be times when the manufacturers release unreliable drivers, it looks like you either have to install Omega drivers or wait for another release from ATI.

I have had a problem in the past where a certain set of drivers messed my 6600GT up, creating white boxes when i played certain 3D games but when they released the next set of drivers i downloaded them and now i am fine so dont worry about it too much. Hope that helped

OneBadLT123 · 12-03-2005, 12:25 PM

Me and you have almost the exact same problem

Look at my thread for my problems, looks like after reading around I may have to go with the drivers listed here

12-02-2005, 08:47 PM	#1 (permalink)
Cheeseboy Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 13 OS: XP	New drivers having negative effect? Hello, I could use a little bit of video card help. I have a Radeon 9800 pro 128 card. I used to run it with some older drivers (somewhere around Catalyst 5.4 i think), and ran my games just fine. I recently had to wipe my HD though, so when I got everything going again I went and got the newest drivers (5.11). I noticed that I now receive more lag than I used to when playing games. For example, I used to be able to walk pretty smoothly around heavily populated areas in World of Warcraft, but now I lag a good bit (not enough to make it unplayable though). I haven't fully updated windows back to how it was since im lazy, but I plan to do so soon. I still have some testing to do, but do the video drivers sound like the problems? If you think so I will try going back to some older ones but I dont see how new drivers could have a bad effect. Thanks.

12-03-2005, 05:09 AM	#2 (permalink)
Tumbleweed36 Asst Manager Hardware Join Date: May 2005 Location: USA Posts: 19,661 OS: XP Professional	Hi, I happen to think that the Omega drivers are the best for this card. Anyway, that is my personal opinion: http://www.omegadrivers.net/ __________________ ---------- I don't receive email notifications of replies to subscribed threads. (Internet provider policy) Therefore, if I don't respond to your post within 24 hours, please send me a reminder PM and include the link to your thread.

12-03-2005, 12:22 PM	#3 (permalink)
Luk07 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Kettering, Northamptonshire, UK Posts: 447 OS: Windows XP Pro SP2 My System	It is not uncommon for there to be times when the manufacturers release unreliable drivers, it looks like you either have to install Omega drivers or wait for another release from ATI. I have had a problem in the past where a certain set of drivers messed my 6600GT up, creating white boxes when i played certain 3D games but when they released the next set of drivers i downloaded them and now i am fine so dont worry about it too much. Hope that helped __________________ It's all fun and games until the monkey craps on the carpet! I've got your nose Mr. Anderson and i intend to keep it!

12-03-2005, 12:25 PM	#4 (permalink)
OneBadLT123 Registered User Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 50 OS: Win XP SP2/Vista RC1	Me and you have almost the exact same problem Look at my thread for my problems, looks like after reading around I may have to go with the drivers listed here __________________ AMD Athlon 64 3200+ Venice 2.2GHz 1.5 gb DDR400 (3 X 512) 128GDDR GeForce 6600GT GfxCard GIGABYTE GA-K8U Motherboard