Problem with GeForce ti4600 128MB

[Skiz]

Are you basically telling me that this GeForce ti4600 128MB is NOT as good as the Radeon 8500 64MB that I replaced??

[lynx]

But was Radeon 8500->Geforce ti4600 really a worthwhile upgrade? Neither of them is DX9 compliant.

The ti4600 is a little faster and obviously has more memory, but other than that it won't give you any benefits as far as game playing is concerned. When it comes to DX9 games one or the other may or may not be compatible, depending on the game. I'm guessing that Farcry/ti4xxx is one of the not compatibles, but I have never personally used the ti series so I can't be sure.

It's not an upgrade I would have even considered.

[Skiz]

It's not an upgrade I would have even considered.

It was free. A friend upgraded and gave me that one.


Okay, this is what I decided to do...and it worked:

I got tired of not being able to figure out a solution and not being able to play my game anymore. I decided to reinsert my Radeon 8500 64MB into the pc until I figured out a solution. Guess what, I had the same problem when I reinserted that card. You can only imagine my frustration. Then I remembered that I still had the driver disc for that card though and decided to try a complete reinstall with it.. So after a bit of rumaging (spelling?), I found the disc and reinstalled the Radeon 8500 drivers and rebooted. The game is now working. That got me thinking about the proper order of operations and why that just worked. I decided to run System Restore back to Wednesday which was before I started messing with the new card. After I ran system restore, the computer was back to it's old self as it should be. I went and downloaded the drivers again for the GeForce ti4600 128MB but DID NOT install them. I then powered down the pc and put the GeForce card back in the slot. Powered up the computer, waited for Windows to detect it, and ran the drivers. Viola! Finally! Success! Yes, it worked. Everything works great!

The bad news however is that I tried turning up the graphics a bit in Call of Duty:UO, and it lags. I have to put the settings right back where they were with the Radeon 8500 64MB for the game to run properly. Ain't that a bitch...

*Runs off to study overclocking*