Like many here I've also tried the Cat 3.8's. What I have noticed is 2D
desktop screens seems slow to draw which is fixed by disabling the VPU recover
options.

I've had no issues with any of the games I personally run. MOHAA,Breakthough,
TW2004 etc etc. Although benchmarks are slightly reduced.

What I have found annoying however is the fact that for some reason when I have
the Cat 3.8's installed XP takes ages to initialise.. ie. it sits for ages on
the Welcome screen before bringing the desktop up... weird.

I've checked all my network settings as this is usually typical of a network
problem, I'm on cable and have a couple of machines networked via a Linksys SR41
router, but eveythings is fine in that department.
And yes All traces of previous drivers have been cleaned out.

If I switch back to the 3.7's all is well again!

Anyone noticed this delay at the welcome screen?

Regards

John

First, does the VPU Recover only work in Windows XP?

Also, try disabling the secondary adapter to get rid of the
long-boot.

ATI processes the secondary adapter for some reason. It is
causing monitor failures too.

> Like many here I've also tried the Cat 3.8's. What I have
> noticed is 2D desktop screens seems slow to draw which is
> fixed by disabling the VPU recover options.
>
> I've had no issues with any of the games I personally run.
> MOHAA,Breakthough, TW2004 etc etc. Although benchmarks are
> slightly reduced.
>
> What I have found annoying however is the fact that for some
> reason when I have the Cat 3.8's installed XP takes ages to
> initialise.. ie. it sits for ages on the Welcome screen before
> bringing the desktop up... weird.
>
> I've checked all my network settings as this is usually
> typical of a network problem, I'm on cable and have a couple
> of machines networked via a Linksys SR41 router, but
> eveythings is fine in that department.
> And yes All traces of previous drivers have been cleaned out.
>
> If I switch back to the 3.7's all is well again!
>
> Anyone noticed this delay at the welcome screen?
>
> Regards
>
> John

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 10:46:08 GMT, "Paul D. Sullivan" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>First, does the VPU Recover only work in Windows XP?
>
No idea.. :-) I only use XP although I do use a duel boot system which gives me
the option to boot Linux (Susie) but of course then I'm not loading the same
drivers. :-))


>Also, try disabling the secondary adapter to get rid of the
>long-boot.

I have that disabled all the time anyway... don't need it as I'm only using one
monitor. Not sure if this makes any difference at all actually as I don't think
the secondary monitor support uses totally separate drivers. I suspect they are
all part of/one of the same physical primary driver, as although you can disable
them individually you cannot load one without the other.

>
>ATI processes the secondary adapter for some reason. It is
>causing monitor failures too.

Yes I 've read that in the forums too. I have noticed that on my Iiyama it
appeared as though the monitor was sometimes writing the screen twice but very
quickly of course... strange!

Personally I'm sticking with the 3.7's for the time being. :-)))
They work fine for me.

Regards

John