x1800xt not performing as it should

Vegeta · 4 May 2006 at 11:20

The overclocks it gives is a lie also, I dont actually think it overclock to 690 on the core as I get higher 3dmark scores when I manually overclock my score to 635!

Darkwave · 4 May 2006 at 11:31

Yep it also seems to be a liar. :mad:

Did you email ATi yet?

LoadsaMoney · 4 May 2006 at 11:35

BS Dave said:
i just change aa/af settings in game - so much easier

690/800 on stock cooler gives me 10050 in 05

Yeah theres that to if the game has its own AA/AF settings.

welshtom · 4 May 2006 at 11:49

Whats wrong with the good old control panel thesedays then?

Darkwave · 4 May 2006 at 12:02

No control panel version for Catalyst 6.4 as far as I know.

zytok · 4 May 2006 at 12:04

welshtom said:
Whats wrong with the good old control panel thesedays then?

Nothing much at all imo apart from profile creation. It's just that ATi seem to be pushing the CCC. It's quite hard to get the control panel version of the latest drivers. Think you can get still get them by going to the FireGL downloads section.

Darkwave · 4 May 2006 at 12:04

zytok said:
Nothing much at all imo apart from profile creation. It's just that ATi seem to be pushing the CCC. It's quite hard to get the control panel version of the latest drivers. Think you can get still get them by going to the FireGL downloads section.

*Jumps on it.*

LoadsaMoney · 4 May 2006 at 12:06

Exsomnis said:
No control panel version for Catalyst 6.4 as far as I know.

Ahh but there is, just download the Cat 6.4's from the FireGL drivers set, as thats just the 6.4's, but with the old CP.

Darkwave · 4 May 2006 at 12:07

Thank you.

Vegeta · 4 May 2006 at 12:45

huh old control panel, does this overclock and voltmod past CCC? Can someone link me I've never used ATI before so im not sure what you guys are talking about but I wanna try it.

ugly ferret · 4 May 2006 at 13:16

Bah, still no good. I'm still getting 7100 in 3d mark 2005 using ati tools and the ati tray tool thingy. Also, I tried to overclock it using the autodetect feature in ati tool but the core wouldn't go past 630 and the memory got to about 780 when artifacts started appearing.

Maybe it's something wrong with the card. Even if my system needed a clean install, it still should be getting much higher than my 7800gt was getting a few days ago, but it's only getting the same score.

One strange thing I've noticed is that in all the benchmarks I run (3d marks, FEAR, aquamark, splinter cell), I get almost exactly the same score/frame rate as my 7800gt, and at all the different settings, I still get a near identical score/frame rate. It seems strange, I'd expect there to be some sort of variation.

Vegeta · 4 May 2006 at 13:56

Reinstall your system before sending it back.

ugly ferret · 4 May 2006 at 15:05

What, as in rma? Can I really do that?

Vegeta · 4 May 2006 at 15:08

I meant reinstall your system and check if the card is working properly after that, if it isnt then RMA it because the card maybe faulty.

ugly ferret · 4 May 2006 at 15:16

Ok, will do exactly that. One last thing, do I need to do a clean install or would a repair install be ok?

Vegeta · 4 May 2006 at 15:16

Nah dont repair, backup everything, format the drive and install a fresh copy of windows on it, then install the .net thing then the ati drivers.

ugly ferret · 4 May 2006 at 15:34

Oh, I have to reformat as well?

Killajaz · 4 May 2006 at 15:43

Yes, reformat.

megatron · 4 May 2006 at 16:50

http://www.driverheaven.net/showthread.php?t=88559

Try overclocker.exe, there might be a more extensive guide in this thread but as I understand it u have to delete ATIhotkey and ATIsmartgart services or kill ATI*.exe or something. This is to stop there being a separate 2d and 3d clock.

Dont take that as gospel though maybe overclocker.exe has its own way around the problem.