New mobo or HL2 or a solution

[Faravid]

Well as I'm short of cash and my motherboard is really crappy (something wrong with AGP I think).
Should I buy HL2 and play it with really bugged framerate (FPS is always good but everything slows down), this affects many games, Halo (inside buildings), Gothic (when transparent textures (textures with alpha channels near) (those are the worst ones) and a little bit to every game with sprites (CS: Smoke (on close distance), Black Hawk Down: Smoke (on close distance)) or buy a new mobo that should solve this problem... or is the problem actually in the 3D card (processor tested, 3D card tested with a slow computer (1GHz Thunderbird)).

Surprisingly Max Payne 2 works perfectly

Yeah I'm expecting better solution to this problem, if someone has had same problem and have fixed it.

AMD Athlon XP 2200+ (not overclocked, silver stuff (sorry don't remember the word and got no translator program here) between the processor and heatsink)
MSI GF 4 Ti4200 64Mb (also silver added)
Problem mobo: A7S333
512MB PC2100(266MHz) DDR
Sound Blaster Live! Value (removing this card helps a little, but not enough)
Antec 330W Truepower (switched from 235W power =P, helped only a little bit)

 

[Bobo Vieri]

Is the silver stuff ur refering to thermal paste, like Arcic Silver?

 

[Faravid]

Yes, that's it, thanks for correcting.

 

[Sideshow]

Have you installed agp-drivers for your chipset?. The A7S333 use the sis 745 right?

 

[Faravid]

Believe me, I'm not that bad with computers, I have tried everything I can think of.

 

[Asus]

What goes wrong in those games? Does it just take a hit in FPS and look very jittery/laggy?
Do you think it could be that your card only has 64mb memory? Maybe it has to use your system memory and that slows it down.
One time I played CS 1.6 with DX and when I entered smoke it slowed down a lot like it was slowmotion. (of course i put it back to opengl asap, i was just testing ) Anything like that?
What driver version are you using?
When I first installed DX9 I had problems with games lagging at first.
I had uninstalled dx9 at that time (not sure what version).
Although, I have had DX9b for awhile now and there are no problems.
AGP fastwrite enabled?

 

[thehunter1320]

try different video card

 

[Willber123]

wot does fastwrite do? cos i got it enabled and i dunno wot it does :s

 

[Asus]

Fast Write is a feature which accelerates memory write transactions from the chipset to the AGP device.
Normally, any data meant for the AGP device must be written to the main memory for the AGP device to read. Fast Write allows the AGP device to bypass the main memory and directly access the data. To do so, the AGP device will act as a PCI device whenever the chipset attempts to write to it. This allows the data to be directly written to the AGP device (like other PCI devices), instead of being written to the main memory first.
As you can see, bypassing the main memory saves time and improves the AGP read performance. However, AGP writes (to the chipset) will not benefit from Fast Writes as it will follow normal AGP protocol and write to main memory.
It is recommended that you enable AGP Fast Write for better AGP read performance.
Please note that for AGP Fast Write to work, both motherboard chipset and graphics card must support the Fast Write protocol and the data transfer rate must be at AGP2X or faster.

 

[Faravid]

Originally posted by Asus
What goes wrong in those games? Does it just take a hit in FPS and look very jittery/laggy?
Do you think it could be that your card only has 64mb memory? Maybe it has to use your system memory and that slows it down.
One time I played CS 1.6 with DX and when I entered smoke it slowed down a lot like it was slowmotion. (of course i put it back to opengl asap, i was just testing ) Anything like that?
What driver version are you using?
When I first installed DX9 I had problems with games lagging at first.
I had uninstalled dx9 at that time (not sure what version).
Although, I have had DX9b for awhile now and there are no problems.
AGP fastwrite enabled?

No hit to FPS, just weird slowdown.
No, for example CS uses very little amount of that memory.
Similar problem as your Direct3D with CS, but this also happens with OpenGL, though it slows down only little bit with CS, since it's not too heavy game.
Can't check here at work, but it's latest or second latest, updated 15 days ago or so.
I have DX9b, going to try reinstalling it (if it's possible).
Fastwrite is enabled, disabling it makes no difference.

 

[Faravid]

Originally posted by thehunter1320
try different video card

Tried Radeon 8200, it's a slow card, so it's not too good one to compare.
Also tried another processor, Duron 1,2GHz, it's a slow one as well, but this same problem happened with it too, just in smaller scale.