FPS Problem

[Uniqueness]

Heyas.
Got a problem with my card. It won't handle the lowest of eye candy streams. The graphical capabilities of it are nice, though my system chunks badly when I'm playing a game, and a bit of eye candy comes close to me.

To understand my situation, let me put it to you this way;
Diablo II Lord of Destruction: a 25fps based game.
I get surrounded by a few creatures, or some magic is fired around me...and my fps drops to about 6-7 if I'm lucky...

Delta Force 2: A grenade explodes near me, the smoke effect just about locks up my machine.

The current driver I'm using for this is:
6.14.10.6512

Here are my system specs:

Acer Aspire T310
Celeron 2.6ghz
512 DDR RAM
Sapphire Radeon 9250, 128mb Graphics Card

I've tried driverguide.com, and googled other sites, though without success of finding an updated driver..if that IS the problem...?

I also tried installing my old NIVIDIA GeForce 4 MX, 64mb Card, with the correct driver, and had the same problem.
What other methods can I try?

[sp_100]

UT2004 guy is here ...
Not sure about your games, but if you are having this problem during local (not online) game, perhaps you CPU ("Celeron 2.6ghz") is the bottleneck.

I generally suggest avoiding Celeron even for general computing.
But once again, I have no experience with Diablo or DF.

If this is an option, try your cards with the same games on another box.

[Uniqueness]

Originally Posted by sp_100

UT2004 guy is here ...
Not sure about your games, but if you are having this problem during local (not online) game, perhaps you CPU ("Celeron 2.6ghz") is the bottleneck.

I generally suggest avoiding Celeron even for general computing.
But once again, I have no experience with Diablo or DF.

If this is an option, try your cards with the same games on another box.

Diablo, and DF2, are both low graphic games. I shouldn't have any trouble running them on pretty much any box.

Would anyone know what the latest driver is for my Radeon card, and have a link, please? I know the one I'm currently using is out-of-date, because there is a: 6.14.10.6517, at the ati site, though I can't download it for some weird reason. I highly doubt it's the driver, due to my changing cards and having the same problem. Though, I need to try every option.

[ANZAC_ELITE]

Catalyst 6.2 is the latest I believe ...... you can get them here WinXP 32bit