ATI Radeon HD 3400 HELP!!!

Hello everyone, I apologize for the long post, I tried to make it as descriptive as possible

I recently just bought CS: Source, and I am having trouble playing, with the default settings I only got about 11 fps, and after some tweaking with some commands in console the absolute max I get is like 25 fps and the game is very very choppy when I move around

these are my system specs:

Windows 7 32-bit
3GB ram
ATI Radeon HD 3400 Series (512 MB dedicated vid card)
AMD Athlon 2.20 GHz dual core processor

now before you flame me and tell me my computer is old, and the graphics card isn't good, bla bla, etc etc... I understand that BUT
my laptop has worse specs, and an integrated video card, and I don't have these problems

also my friend has a desktop with a worse video card (although his processor is better) and his Source runs better as well
and let's be realistic, this game is a bit old and it can be run without the most up to date machine

Below I have added a few screenshots of how my game looks.. No matter what settings I play the game with .. I get that tearing.
Whether it's low settings or high settings I still always get that type of tearing on characters


http ://i45.tinypic.com/2w6ud8x.jpg

http ://i50.tinypic.com/e9b035.jpg

http ://i45.tinypic.com/w2d738.jpg




Another thing, I did a test on "Can You Run It"
http:// WWW .systemrequirementslab.com/cyri/intro.aspx

and I passed everything, in fact, I passed on both minimum and recommended settings in all categories ...

and one last thing, you know how for the video settings there is an asterisk (*) next to which setting is recommended for your graphics

(example .. Low Medium High*) the asterisk is next to "High" in every instance .. would that not mean I can run everything on High ... let alone Low

please help, it's unbearable to play this game, and I know there is a settings issue with CCC or something and not the actual hardware

ps. this whole "new user can't post links" thing is very silly ..

EDIT: one more thing, now that I remember, when I used to play Portal 1 (not 2), I also felt like the gameplay was a bit choppy, now not as bad as Source but it was still choppy
It seems like every game that has that "Powered by Source" message at the beginning doesn't run good, and my specs should run Portal 1 EASILY


Just an update on the situation

I uninstalled CCC (Catalyst Control Center) and the game worked A LOT better, I wasn't getting tearing anymore and the image looked really good, also it was a lot less choppy, BUT I was still getting low FPS (about 15-20) but the game definitely ran much better

so I started installing older drivers and the problem was still there tho, just wondering how far back do I have to go?
I had CCC 12.4 and went back to 10.8 and still had low FPS

Also, my friend had a Radeon HD 2600 (mine is HD 3400) and he used to get max settings on it, now he has the same problem as me with the updated drivers

EDIT: I was using this site to roll back http: //support.amd.com/us/gpudownloa...w_vista32.aspx

went all the way back to 9.1 and still getting low FPS .. please help this is driving me crazy

Just remove it and again install the driver properly.

Change your graphic card...