I bought a new ATI Radeon 4770 four weeks ago. Works perfect three weeks, but after re-installing Windows XP last weekend, I havent the performance like before.
Longer Story:
I bought the ATI Radeon 4770 four weeks ago, because my old card crashed. with the ATI Radeon 4770, I was able to run freelancer in highest solution 1920 x 1200 with highest quality. Even with graphic card preferences prefering best quality. EVERYTHING WAS FINE!!
Last weekend I decided to do a fresh and clean installation of windows XP Pro, but after that, my graphics performance is bad. Not that fine as before.
With highest quality both on FL and ATI 4770 preferences, I earn a low frame-per-second-rate, if I have both a planet + a station in my view.
Also watching TV + using google earth causes low fps rate. And THAT wasnt never a problem before, not even with my bad old GS8400.
[edit]<strike>Also oddy: the actual driver from official website crashes my system to a sponaniously restart if I try to install it.</strike>[/edit]
' Wrote:Try using an earlier driver if the latest one is making you crash.
Didnt work neither with the newest nor the oldest (delivered with the CD, as I bought the new card).
Uff, its so frustrating.
Maybe i have to reinstall my old graphic card, only to unmount immediatly after the install, and than re-mount the new cards, than looking, if it works (or: Is the problem re-produceable?).
Or maybe <strike>another wasted three hours</strike> a 3rd XP-Fresh-Installation routine? But I doubt it is windows.
' Wrote:Didnt work neither with the newest nor the oldest (delivered with the CD, as I bought the new card).
Uff, its so frustrating.
Maybe i have to reinstall my old graphic card, only to unmount immediatly after the install, and than re-mount the new cards, than looking, if it works (or: Is the problem re-produceable?).
Or maybe <strike>another wasted three hours</strike> a 3rd XP-Fresh-Installation routine? But I doubt it is windows.
Uff, its so frustrating.
AND: I sense a totaly noob-failiure here, by me. Maybe it is only a simple button for some hidden preferences like that...
Maybe I am only an <strike>idiot</strike> noob in such graphic things, or... ..AARrghh...
Dunno...
please help me with other ideas, my dear community.
Do you have an on board graphics card ? if so make sure its disabled in Bio's, also maybe check for conflicts, in device manager is it showing it properly is working ? Have your tried completely removeing the drivers rebooting, turning it off again and reinstalling the card and loading drivers again ? If all fails sounds like RMA time. Also what size power suppply do you have and do you have the seperate power supply pin properly connected ? Reasons for asking this is you could have damaged the video card prior to reinstalling, but from what I heard its a driver issue common to that card "It uaually crashed after I updated to to the newest driver. I solved the problem with 3rd party driver remover to clear old driver."
' Wrote:Do you have an on board graphics card ? if so make sure its disabled in Bio's, also maybe check for conflicts, in device manager is it showing it properly is working ?
I am not sure about the onboard GFX and the BIOS preferences, but the device manager told me, all is working. Maybe I have to look into the BIOS, but I havent any glue about that stuff, I would have to learn about it before.
' Wrote:Have your tried completely removeing the drivers rebooting, turning it off again and reinstalling the card and loading drivers again ?
Yes
' Wrote:If all fails sounds like RMA time.
What does that mean? I dont know, what "RMA" means.
' Wrote:Also what size power suppply do you have and do you have the seperate power supply pin properly connected ?
600W / Yes
' Wrote:Reasons for asking this is you could have damaged the video card prior to reinstalling, but from what I heard its a driver issue common to that card "It uaually crashed after I updated to to the newest driver. I solved the problem with 3rd party driver remover to clear old driver."
The card was working fine; The first time this happened, was after the fresh XP-istallation.
' Wrote:<strike>Maybe</strike> i have to reinstall my old graphic card, only to unmount immediatly after the install, and than re-mount the new cards, than looking, if it works (or: Is the problem re-produceable?).
I did it <strike>that</strike> nearly that way: I did a fresh XP with my OLD card (NVidia8400GS). With my old card in my PC, I installed the mainboard drivers, the NVidia driver (only from the CD, not the newest one)XP-SP2. Than Freelancer + Disco. Than I de-installed the NVidia driver, changed the card into the new one, than installed the actual drivers for my ATI4770.
Result: Very much better now, but sadly the cards didnt work that well like it did before. Freelancer is ok now, but other games like Settlers2 TNG aren't.
Quick question.. Did you download latest version of Direct X?
That sounds a little obvious, But last system redo I did, I forgot that very thing & my graphics were POOP.
Downloaded & installed & everything back to warm & fuzzy again.
Known issue. Freelancer does not recognize newer graphics cards and switches it's graphics settings to a compatibility mode. I had the same problem on my Radeon HD4890. To solve:
- Open your device manager (right click my computer - manage - device manager)
- Expand Display Adapters, find your graphics card, rightclick, properties.
- Go to Details, then Hardware ID
- Jot down the VEN_ and DEV_ ID's. They are 4 digit hexadecimal (means 4 characters that are either numbers or the letters A to F)
- Go into your Freelancer folder, then into the EXE folder, and open the text file flconfigdatabase.txt
- Find the ATI section, and verify that the "Vendor =" line matches your VEN_ ID. It should match.
- If it does, find the line near the end of the ATI section reading:
Code:
0x7835 = "Radeon Mobility 9200 IGP" // added by Louva-Deus
Change this to:
Code:
0x7835 = "Radeon Mobility 9200 IGP" // added by Louva-Deus
0xABCD = "New Radeon Model For Myself" // added by Myself
Change ABCD to your DEV_ ID.
Then save the file (you might need to unflag it as readonly), and start freelancer to test your speed.
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