Hi all,
Well i have just bought a new powercolor HD 4350 graphics card to replace my sapphire radeon x1300 256mb PCI-e.
But have noticed no real change in graphic stability if so worse
I play age of pirates 2 and on my old card i had to play on everything low in catalyst and in the game, and even then it would stutter every now and then but it was playable and i put up with it until i got this new graphic card.
So just got the new card, unistalled the old catalyst and installed the new card with the drivers on the CD.
So i start up age of pirates 2 on the same low settings i was playing it with on my old card, and id say it plays worse stuttering is much more frequent..? i made sure everything was on low in game ( foilage, sea detail, texture quality) all on low. how could this 512 card play worse than my 256?
So i go into the new catalyst setting and turn the 3D settings all to performance. opened up age of pirates 2 and still framerate laggy. it seems to be able to handle graphics but cant keep a stable framerate
I also play league of legends even that game has a decrease in performance on very low.
and on the back of the powercolor box it has a pic of the new card playing the new tom clancys HAWKS game and the games i play are far from as graphical as that game.
My specs are:
Intel Pentium D 805 2.66Ghz,2.67Ghz
1GB RAM (1st: DDR2 667 512MB) (2nd. DDR2 533 512 MB)
500w Raidmax power supply
512MB radeon 4350
Can anyone help me its drivin me nutz lol…
Here is a link to my new graphics card and my old graphics card:
(New Card): http://www.powercolor.com/global/products_features.asp?id=145
(Old Card): http://www1.sapphiretech.com/en/products/graphics_specifications.php?gpid=124
Your system is definitely bottle necking the card a bit. 1GB more of RAM would help tremendously.
Download the newest Catalyst Drivers here (10.4)
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
That might just solve the problem without having to do any hardware changes.
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May 21st, 2010 at 2:57 pm
You DO realize that a 4350 is a complete budget bottom of the bin card, right?
Also, 1GB of RAM is tiny by today’s standards.
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I’d never buy one.
May 21st, 2010 at 3:17 pm
Your CPU and RAM are bottlenecking your video card.
Even if you bought the best video card out there, your games will still stutter due to the fact that everything else in your computer can’t keep up.
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May 21st, 2010 at 3:34 pm
Your system is definitely bottle necking the card a bit. 1GB more of RAM would help tremendously.
Download the newest Catalyst Drivers here (10.4)
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx
That might just solve the problem without having to do any hardware changes.
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May 21st, 2010 at 3:53 pm
people have abused the 4350 but its more powerful than your old card so.
i know what your problem is. either you have kept the catalyst control centre from your old card or you have just installed it from the CD. you need to go onti the ati website and download the most recent catalyst control centre and graphics drivers (its all in one package that you can download and install) the 4350 is alot more complicated than your old card so it will not function properly on the old drivers end of story.
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May 21st, 2010 at 4:21 pm
I can’t comment on the bottle necking and I do not game but try this. Go to the first link and download and save the latest drivers. Just remember where you save them to. Get the one under Full Catalysts Software Suite (for your OS) and and get the one with just the driver under Individual Catalyst Components (for your OS). Go to the second link and get CCleaner if you do not have it. Go to the third link and get Drive Sweeper. Install the CCleaner but do not run. Install the Drive Sweeper but do not run it. Go into install/uninstall programs. Uninstall the CCC. I think it will make you restart. Do it. Let it boot normally. The generic driver will take over. Get rid of the CCC desktop shortcut, if you have one (if it will not delete do a restart and then delete it). Look in your start menu, both the menu on the left and under all programs, and delete any CCC icons and folders (should all be gone anyway). Go into computer and open up your hard drive. In mine there is an ATI folder there with my program folder. Delete it. Go into your program folder and Program x86 folder, if you have one, and delete any ATI folders (even thought I doubt you will find any). Run the CCleaner for registry errors. It will most likely find an ATI obsolete key (says something like that) and blow it away. Go into Safe mode, by restarting and tapping F8 immediately. Open Drive Sweeper. Check the ATI and Nvidia Display boxes and analyze. Then click clean. Then do the restart like it says. Let if boot up normally. Now install the Full Catalyst Software Suite Driver first. Let it make the ATI folder when it asks you. Check out your game. If it seems to run OK good. If not go thru that whole procedure again and this time just install the driver you saved from individual Catalyst Components. I know this because I am having a different issue with an ATI 5770 card. When you uninstall drivers in Device Manager or thru the program screen it looks like they are all gone. But Drive Sweeper finds a bunch of stuff. Also maybe you do not have the newest drivers. Other people have solved problems by just installing the driver and not the whole Catalyst Suite. Hope this helps. Good Luck.
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1655
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