radeon 9800 pro 256mb not working ~_~

[Kraze]

okay, so i plugged in my ati radeon 9800 pro 256mb into my computer, booted up windows xp to see everything appear really sluggish etc. i thought that was normal since i hadn't installed drivers yet..so i installed the drivers and restarted computer..just to see it STILL being sluggish.

this is what dxdiag looks like (i used catalyst first, when that didnt work got rid of it and tried out omega drivers, which still didn't work ~_~)

catalyst 7.9
http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/1951/untitledan4.jpg

omega driver
http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/918/untitled1pt9.jpg

help?

my specs:

motherboard: RS400-A
cpu: intel pentium 4 640 3.2ghz Prescott Core
ram: 1 gig

 

[beef_jerky4104]

Try using older Catalyst drivers.

 

[Kraze]

but omega drivers are based of catalyst 7.4...so older catalyst still doesn't work??

 

[Jase123]

Big video (640x480 and higher will make everything pretty sluggish.. Try Changing your screen resolution

 

[Tmagic650]

Make sure you have dowloaded and installed all the .NET Framework software from Windows Update site... Do the criticals too. There is no other reason why the latest Catalyst software suite 7.9 drivers shouldn't work for you. I'm running a Sapphire Radeon 9600XT 256MB card with them perfectly. Put the resolution to 1024x768 at least

Get the drivers from here:

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

The omega drivers are very, very old!

 

[Jase123]

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...CB-4362-4B0D-8EDD-AAB15C5E04F5&displaylang=en

Download that net framework 2.0...