Gaming Missing Drivers / Game runs slow yet CYRI says other wise

[KirbyPink]

Right, this puzzles me.
CPU
Minimum: Intel Pentium 4 3.0 GHz or AMD Athlon 64 3500+
You Have: Intel Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
PASS

CPU Speed
Minimum: 3.0 GHz
You Have: 3.0 GHz Performance Rated at: 5.4 GHz
PASS

RAM
Minimum: XP = 1 GB, Vista = 2GB
You Have: 4.0 GB
PASS

OS
Minimum: Windows XP & Vista
You Have: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate Edition Service Pack 1 (build 7601), 64-bit
PASS

Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB 3D Graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce 6600 or ATI Radeon X1300 or better)
You Have: GeForce 8600 GT
PASS
Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
Required You Have
Video RAM 128 MB 2.2 GB
Hardware T&L Yes Yes
Pixel Shader version 3.0 4.0
Vertex Shader version 3.0 4.0

According to this, i can run it just fine, heck even run it at highest setting.
But, when i do . Suprise! Lags alot.

So, i do a little driver scan:
IDE ATA/ATAPI-styrenheter
Intel 82801G (ICH7 Family) Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27DF Missing
Intel 82801GB/GR/GH (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C0 Missing

Do these two really make that much of a diffrence? If they do, where can i download them?
And don't throw "Go Google it". Just be nice and give me a download url to a good site.

 

[Ryupower]

try you MB drive disc (if you have one)

 

[KirbyPink]

try you MB drive disc (if you have one)

Not really no.

 

[Bulit]

What game are you trying to run at max settings?

 

[KirbyPink]

Ah, right. Batman Arkham Asylum.

 

[Bulit]

Ah, right. Batman Arkham Asylum.

Oh, yeah that's the problem.
A 8600 GT isn't powerful enough to run Batman Arkham Asylum, at least not at the highest settings.

 

[Originality]

It tells you you need a 6600 minimum, and you have an 8600. Your graphics card is only one generation above the minimum specs, and it's a mid-ranged graphics card (of that range) at that, so you shouldnt expect it to run at anything more than medium settings, with certains settings at low (e.g. Shadows and reflections). Maybe even just low settings.

Oh, and don't try using AA. Not even 2xAA.

 

[kevan]

The ata driver missing seems a bit dodgy, isnt ata the cable which reads stuff off disc drives and the harddriver?

 

[Originality]

SATA and PATA, depending on how old your drives are. Motherboard specific drivers are only really needed for motherboard specific features (e.g. RAID), whilst Microsoft generic drivers are perfectly fine for just reading them.

If you really want to find and download the drivers, find your motherboard model number and look up the website. They will always have a list of drivers/software to download that are sometimes more up-to-date than that of the motherboard CD.

 

[kevan]

Nah I though Sata powers and ATA reads. Actually Sata has to power I thought since
it's part of the PSU.

 

[Originality]

SATA drives get a SATA power cable from the PSU and SATA data cable to plug into the motherboard. It's mostly the same as PATA drives using molex power from the PSU and IDE cables to plug into the motherboard (at least, if they still have IDE cables... some modern motherboards don't anymore).

 

[kevan]

So effectively there is two different kinds of sata cables?

 

[Originality]

Power and data... one is short, one is long.