counter-strike models look weird with radeon 8500

i just got a radeon 8500 (for $110). and the guns in my counter-strike are weird. my glock looks all inflated and other guns look like they were melted or something.

does anyone know what's wrong? are there patches or something that i can install. my friend said that he had the same problem with his 7500 but i can't get in contact with him right now.

suggestions? solutions?

truform rocks eh? That's a "feature" of the 8500, which, in my opinion, is an exceptionally poorly implemented technology. Unfortunately, I don't remember how to turn it off.

Did you make sure you set CS to the best quality as the default look so bad!

yodums

Set to best quality? you mean in the video card settings or in counter-strike settings. i can do it under display settings but i don't quite get what you're talking about settings "in counter-strike".

How do i set CS to be best quality?

i found out how to turn off truform....anandtech did an FAQ here . Thanks truck chase!

I found that in sound options I enabled A3D and EAX and it worked better graphics wise and sound wise.

Then in Video make sure your using a display that will give you the full potential as CS worked bad for me at 640x800 since the refresh rate was horrible thus FPS was horrible.

Yodums