It seems to be running okay for now. I downloaded Rage3d and tweaked a few things. Still not 60+ fps, but it's good enough for when I play.
Well it works, but there's crackling audio and some graphical abnormalities. I'd take a screenshot, but I can't seem to find a place where it happens. I've only really seen it in shadowed areas, and it displays a few lines and such. I don't think it's heat-related, but setting-related.
crackling audio, if ur on an nforce2 (idunno what you have), then you'd needa get a heatsink on the southbridge.
Motherboard Drivers? Like, BIOS, or something different? I could try to do that with the sound drivers and see what goes down...
I uninstalled, Driver Cleaned, and installed latest audio drivers, and that fixed the crackling audio. Also did the same, but installed latest Omega drivers instead of ATi's Cats. Doesn't seem to have changed anything, but it's running alright for now. Guess I'm still limited until I get better cooling for the Radeon.
Everything seems to be running better. I've tweaked a few more settings in UT2k4, am using those two driver updates I've posted before, and always make sure to keep running processes to a minimum (I think my average is about 20-25 and I've not yet done any of Black Viper's service tweaks).