ATI X1800XT Performance help please

**verena xeventus** · December 15, 2006, 09:15 PM

Hi peoples of the total war dominion

I currently have a X1800XT 512mb graphics card and am having great difficulties running ME2TW. I have updated drivers, defragmented and even installed the latest windows media player 11 and still the lag/stuttering and framerates during battles is terrible. (Framerates are averaging between 13-25 during battles).

What really angers me about the whole thing is that the computer and graphics card aint even a year old yet and I paid full price for the bloody thing - getting ripped off as usual.

I play me2tw on medium settings-ish, no shadows, high unit detail, high texture detail, low grass detail, 1152/864? resolution, low building detail, low effects detail, 2x AA, 2 X AF filtering and large not huge amry sizes.

I tried it on shader version 1 and found that the only thing that changed was that the water looked crap, there were no blood effects and reflections were at a minimum... perfomance wise I didnt see an improvement.

So, for saying this card is only 11 - 12 months old... why cant it run a game of this standard.... I intend buying either a new graphics card (8800GTX) or a new computer altogether, but for the time being I would like to be able to make the game more playable performance wise.

Finally when I try to play the game on 1024/768 resolution the game becomes unstable and crashes - defaulting the resolution to 1152/864. Whats causing this?

Sorry for the long post.. please help.

Can someone please suggest something?

**pajomife** · December 16, 2006, 05:40 PM

the graphic card is not your problem i have ati 1650 pro and i run the game in high definition , 20-25 FPS , you should look to your processor or memories ,some textures are compressed so you must have a fast Disk .

AMD x2 4200+
ATI 1650 pro
1024 - 533Mhz
200 GB Sata 7200RPM

Not a monster but i can play the game easily , only after a patch 1.1 , i have some minor glitches .

**verena xeventus** · December 16, 2006, 08:46 PM

Yeah, the patch made things even worse for me too - performance wise that is. My chip is a 64 4000... Im thinking about having it over clocked to see what effect that has, am I right in believing this chip can be safely and easily over clocked?

Thanks for the reply.

Oh what do you mean by my textures being compressed?

**pajomife** · December 17, 2006, 04:50 AM

I read something about that , but seems that my hard drive works more in this game that in others game , in your case the processor and the graphic cards seem to be good maybe your memories are ddr 400 mhz , not ddr2 . But in othe games or in 3d marks , you have good score? if you have the problem is with the MTW2, not the computer.

**Doono** · December 17, 2006, 05:43 AM

do not overclock it, that processor is more than sufficient, this game runs fine for me on a 2800 sempron, your processor is way better. I really think that it's a software issue causing the problems. Check things are disabled in your catalyst control panel, things like antialising and antriscopic filtering should be set to application controlled.

**rayzzz** · December 17, 2006, 06:20 AM

do u play other games fine, you shouldnt just buy a whole new computer just because one game isnt running to ggod. I however doubt its got anything to do with your grphics card unless its a faulty one.

**verena xeventus** · December 18, 2006, 11:26 AM

Thanks again for the replies fellas. Im going to have a look at catalyst control centre and test the options.

As for other games... it seems to run most fine... it even runs tomb raider legend on next generation mode... although the frame rates leave a lot to be desired in parts. It runs the likes of call of duty 2 and half life 2, far cry etc on full settings without problems.

Keep the replies coming its all helping. Thanks.