So I read somewhere that which driver you have matters.... So after all I'm not crazy. Because a long time ago I had a old driver and it ran cs:s fine. But when I installed newer drivers the fps got lower. So does someone knows what is probally the best ati radeon 9600 driver? Mmm... I can't realy find the version I'm using. This is what it says: Version 2007.1220.2143.38732
Go here and try some : try some like the 5 or 6 series as they might have optimizations for the old 9600 video cards. http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?id=18 even try some 4 series version of catalyst drivers on the next page...
I'm also looking for the best driver for my 9600pro. When I play Trackmania United. Certain tracks that have a lot of pieces seem to lag my card to ****. All the way down to around 12fps usually. And then every track I race on after that will be just as laggy. It won't stop unless I restart my computer. One time I played a track that lags me and then deleted it from the server. All the tracks I played after seemed to fun faster then ever, a nice 70fps. As if my graphics card was working right lol. So this whole thing is pissing me off lol.
Ah, 6.2!! Those were the best drivers for ATi's DX9 SM2.0 class cards I swear! When I had an X800XL, the performance was top notch with that set!
I first tried 6.5 that felt a bit better than the newest driver. I'll try 6.2 too. Hope it's better Anyway thanks for the many replies. Wtf... my game do crashes more.
Solved my problem lol.. Turns out having the games shader setting set to anything lower than pc2, would cause some sort of FPS bug with the lighting effect on the flashing boosters in game lol. Installed the omega drivers anyways, better performance .