ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series (256mb) Problem

A few months ago I got a new PC with the ATI Radeon X1300/X1550 Series graphics card. From the day I got it, I've been having problems with the graphics card. When I play a game, which my PC can handle, the PC goes very slow unless I put the graphics settings to low. Also, I can't play a DVD on my PC, it says there is a problem with my graphics card.

Can anyone help?

I have the latest drivers. (ATI Catalyst 7.10)

PC Spec
DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2800 MHz (14 x 200) 5600+
nVIDIA nForce 6100-4xx, AMD Hammer
2048 MB (DDR2-667 DDR2 SDRAM)
Radeon X1300/X1550 Series (256 MB)
596.1 GB Hard Drive Space

Any more information required just ask

Thanks, Mattie!

Games like The Battle for Middle-earth, which should run on my computer. Well thats a problem actually because I don't remember what it was when I bought it and it just says "Radeon X1300/X1550 Series (256 MB)" :/

I'm not sure how to go into the bios and disable the onboard graphics. Could you possibly tell me how to?

BIOS Type
Award (06/15/07)

Thanks, Mattie

well to get into BIOS
when your computer is starting up press the F-key it tells you to

its probably F1 or F2
mine is F2

plus
if you know how, go into device manager and find the area called device adapters

it should tell you specifically which card you have

(to get to device manager(in XP) right click the my computer icon and select properties, then under the tab that says hardware, press the button that says device manager)

I've gone into the BIOS but it didn't have an onboard graphics enabled. I just found out that there is a later version of the driver and I have installed that but I still get the same problems.. :/

I tried the "dxdiag" method and it still just says "Radeon X1300/X1550 Series"

I know my PC can handle the games I'm trying because I used the website "System Requirements Lab" which tells you if your PC can handle the game.

Thanks a lot, Mattie.

But it doesn't just meet the minimum requirements.. It over the recommended

It's the one that came with it. I haven't even opened it up because I don't want to void the warrenty. When I try an play a DVD on any program it doesn't work and on Windows Media Player it says

"Windows Media Player cannot play this DVD because there is a problem with digital copy protection between your DVD drive, decoder, and video card. Try installing an updated driver for your video card."

Thanks, Mattie.

Post your make and model computer

Here is my guess and an easy way to test/fix

Change your date on your computer to before December 1st 2006 then try and play a dvd. If it works then the problem is the codec and I can post you a link but need make and model of your computer (sounds like a DELL)

It's a Dell Inspiron 531. I tried changing to an earlier date but it still came up with the same message

Thanks, Mattie.

This is NOT a video card problem I am very familiar with ATI and their errors (btw Catalyst 7.11 is the latest).

It is a problem with your DVD decoder. What OS do you have installed? if vista - is it home basic <-(im guessing again here)

Yeah I have the latest but still have all the same problems. I have Vista Home 32 bit. When I played a DVD without any ATI software installed the DVD played :/

Thanks, Mattie.

do you have cineplayer or cyberlink power dvd?

I don't actually have any at the moment as I uninstalled it because it didn't work. I'll get one now and try it.

http://www.free-codecs.net/Vista_Codec_Package_download.htm

new version came out 2 days ago, but older one should work too. Vista Codec Package does not contain a media player. It does not associates filetypes. With this package installed you will be able to use any media player (limited by the players capabilities) to play DVD's, movies and video clips such as quicktime, realmedia, avi, mpeg, Flv, swf, wmv, etc. Streaming video is supported in most web browsers. By default you shouldn't need to make any adjustments to enjoy your media content immediately.

Users have the ability to choose what is installed using the public redistributable and after an unattended install, you can select to remove specific portions without removing the entire package. Future releases will recognize previous releases and perform upgrade installations.

I use catalyst 7.7 btw

Edit:This is a licensing issue between microsoft and 3rdparty vendors. For example you wouldn't expect your computer to just play blue ray or hddvd. It's really the same for DVD even though dvd is old and widely accepted. Roxio and Cyberlink have also released a good stand alone codec if you want those you can search for them

I tried the Vista pack and the problem didn't go away, so I went back to my old one (Latest K-Lite Codec Pack) and uninstalled all the ATI software but the DVD isn't playing like it did last time. I'm really confused

Thanks, Mattie.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows_vista_hotfixes.html

check this out

I don't have a GeForce so it won't work for me will it?