ASUS Radeon 7000 major slowdown problem

DobaySoft · October 13th, 2004

Hello all,

I recently switched my graphic card from Voodoo3 3000 with 16MB of VRAM to ASUS Radeon 7000 with 64MB vram and supposed to be much newer.

Tried with multiple games such as Tekken 3 or Final Fantasy 9 which were working perfectly well before seem to be suffering from a general slowdown, before these were running at 50-60 fps and now are running at 15-20 fps.

I've been using Pete's D3D driver with my Epsxe 1.6.0 until now, I tried other graphic drivers but none helped. Any ideas as to how I can help this?

I have 512 megs of RAM on a P3 Celeron 500Mhz, and I repeat, I have had no speed problems until I changed my 5 year old graphic card to a newer one.

Thank you in advance.

DobaySoft

**Kane** · October 13th, 2004

The Voodoos are far more capable at emulation than any ATi card before the 8500, and probably beat down that too. It's simply the way they are designed, because they can riun in thier native Glide mode.

DobaySoft · October 14th, 2004

Thank you very much for oyur response, so I shall stop trying. All right, just now I do not know what to change it back to, the store personnel said that any newer card wouldn't fit into the age-old (PIII) machine.

sjaak · October 14th, 2004

I got a gf4 ti4200, pritty nice card but yeah it isn't working 100% becasue of my old cpu.

**cooliscool** · October 14th, 2004

Depending on whether or not it has an AGP 4X slot, any newer AGP 8X card will not work. AGP 8X cards require at least a 4X slot due to voltage requirements.

Esturk · October 14th, 2004

That's interesting cooliscool. My 5200 is an AGP8x card and it's running fine in my Asus P3B-F which has a max of AGP2x.

It's a Slot1 board.

I had the choice of getting a Radeon 7000... But decided right away it wasn't worth it at all.

**I-Chan** · October 15th, 2004

DobaySoft, please do not split your questions in multiple threads. I'll close this one, please keep the questions about this particular matter on that thread from now on.

October 13th, 2004	#1 (permalink)
DobaySoft Mythologist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Budapest, Hungary Posts: 4	ASUS Radeon 7000 major slowdown problem Hello all, I recently switched my graphic card from Voodoo3 3000 with 16MB of VRAM to ASUS Radeon 7000 with 64MB vram and supposed to be much newer. Tried with multiple games such as Tekken 3 or Final Fantasy 9 which were working perfectly well before seem to be suffering from a general slowdown, before these were running at 50-60 fps and now are running at 15-20 fps. I've been using Pete's D3D driver with my Epsxe 1.6.0 until now, I tried other graphic drivers but none helped. Any ideas as to how I can help this? I have 512 megs of RAM on a P3 Celeron 500Mhz, and I repeat, I have had no speed problems until I changed my 5 year old graphic card to a newer one. Thank you in advance. DobaySoft

October 13th, 2004	#2 (permalink)
Kane 邪魔ゎ指せない Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Gosport, England Posts: 26,255	The Voodoos are far more capable at emulation than any ATi card before the 8500, and probably beat down that too. It's simply the way they are designed, because they can riun in thier native Glide mode. __________________ >Site Live< Pop over to my site for help with setting up PSX emulators. Help for the Final Fantasies and other RPGs avalaible Celes: (Desktop) Athlon 64 X2 4200+, 2Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, MSI K8N Platinum, GeForce 8800 GTS 320Mb, 500Gb RAID HDD, Vista Business Erika: (MCPC) Athlon XP 2400+, 1Gb 400MHz DDR Ram, geForce 6800 256Mb, 80Gb Hdd, XP 2005 MCE Kimiko: (Desktop 2) Athlon 64 3000+, 512Mb 400MHz DDR Ram, Asus K8V, geForce 6800 128Mb

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cooliscool Natural medicine Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Redmond, Washington, USA Posts: 6,179	Depending on whether or not it has an AGP 4X slot, any newer AGP 8X card will not work. AGP 8X cards require at least a 4X slot due to voltage requirements. __________________ Fayt : Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 @ 3.06GHz (1360MHz FSB), 2GB Crucial DDR2-800 Dual Channel @ 800MHz 4-3-3-11-14 1T, 512MB BFG nVidia GeForce 7950GT OC @ 650/1600, Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS, MSI P6N-SLi - nVidia 650i SLi, 200GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2, 80GB Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache 7200RPM SATA2, Lite-On DVD+-RW 16x w/ Lightscribe, Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM, Aspire X-Dreamer II case, Logitech MX518 Optical Mouse, Asetek Waterchill kit (distilled water + Red Line Water Wetter), T.I.M - AS Ceramique

October 14th, 2004	#6 (permalink)
Esturk Registered User Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Posts: 6,957	That's interesting cooliscool. My 5200 is an AGP8x card and it's running fine in my Asus P3B-F which has a max of AGP2x. It's a Slot1 board. I had the choice of getting a Radeon 7000... But decided right away it wasn't worth it at all. __________________ Necrosaro: Windows XP Pro x64 Edition SP2 \| Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz, 1333MHz FSB, 6MB L2 Cache \| Asus P5Q Deluxe, Intel P45 Chipset, Socket 775 \| 4GB Kingston PC5300 DDR2 \| Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, 1024MB \| Creative SB X-Fi Fatality Edition \| Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD, 150Gb, SATA, Western Digital WD5000AAKS, 500GB, SATA \| LG 16x DVD-RWx2 SATA.

October 14th, 2004	#3 (permalink)
DobaySoft Mythologist Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Budapest, Hungary Posts: 4	Thank you very much for oyur response, so I shall stop trying. All right, just now I do not know what to change it back to, the store personnel said that any newer card wouldn't fit into the age-old (PIII) machine.

October 15th, 2004	#7 (permalink)
I-Chan Ex Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Spain Posts: 3,085	DobaySoft, please do not split your questions in multiple threads. I'll close this one, please keep the questions about this particular matter on that thread from now on. __________________ "I'm living in a dream I can't wake from" Core 2 Duo 6600 FSB 1066 \| 2048 MB DDR2 PC2 6400 800 MHZ \| NVIDIA 8800 GTS \| Sound Blaster Audigy 4 \| Seagate Barracuda 250GB SATAII+WD Caviar 250GB \| Dell 3007WFP-HC 30" Widescreen

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