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propellerhead
Head Merchant
Joined: 08 Dec 2001
Posts: 71
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I will tell you all that my expirience with windows xp and its integrated driver update sucks majorly.
I was having problems with the drivers for my aiw radeon 8500dv. I ran the demos and with its stock drives, I am sorry to say it ran very poorly until i made a discovery.
When i updated the drivers from the download page, i discovered that when doing the update, even though I installed it, windows still installed the old ones and if i was connected, it would access microsoft for the old driver and after the install them making me think that i was running the new driver.
So when i accidently installed the new driver when i was not connected after i had a fresh install of the xp os, I will tell you that i had a 25 percent increase in performance...not only that, going into bios and bumping the the agp ram usage to 128 also gaved me another 25 so it almost doubled my framerate in games after all.
So my suggestion is when you do an update, be offline and increase apature agp ram to 128 and you will see a nice increase in performance...
It worked for me and i proved it formyself.....10 times reinstalled to confirm my finding...on my system......running510mb ram..so I hope you guys can benifit from this.
[ This Message was edited by: propellerhead on 2002-01-10 19:59 ] |
Fri Jan 11, 2002 1:57 am |
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