Recently built a new machine and purchased a Sapphire 9600XT with 256 MB
DDR. The card is great except for the fact that I cannot play any of my
games without crashing. I have tried using the older catalyst versions from
3.6 to the new 3.10 and have had no luck at all.

I sent an e-mail to Electronic Arts Support and they informed me that ATI is
aware of the problem and should be working on a fix and to use the Catalyst
3.7 drivers until then. Even with these drivers I am unable to play my
games.

If anyone has seen or experienced these problems or has a suggestion any
help would be appreciated.

Machine specs

Asus P4P800 Motherboard
Intel P4C 3.2Ghz
Sapphire Radeon 9600XT with 256MB DDR
1GB PC3200 DDR
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platnium
Linksys Wireless-G Network card
Sony CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive

Make sure that your motherboard chipset drivers are installed and uptodate,
including the all important AGP drivers. Then make sure that you have the
latest DirectX 9 installed, and then install the latest ATI 3.10 drivers.
Assuming your hardware is not defective, you should be good to go then.

JK

"Eric Glaister" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:2i1Lb.2870$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Recently built a new machine and purchased a Sapphire 9600XT with 256 MB
> DDR. The card is great except for the fact that I cannot play any of my
> games without crashing. I have tried using the older catalyst versions
from
> 3.6 to the new 3.10 and have had no luck at all.
>
> I sent an e-mail to Electronic Arts Support and they informed me that ATI
is
> aware of the problem and should be working on a fix and to use the
Catalyst
> 3.7 drivers until then. Even with these drivers I am unable to play my
> games.
>
> If anyone has seen or experienced these problems or has a suggestion any
> help would be appreciated.
>
> Machine specs
>
> Asus P4P800 Motherboard
> Intel P4C 3.2Ghz
> Sapphire Radeon 9600XT with 256MB DDR
> 1GB PC3200 DDR
> Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Platnium
> Linksys Wireless-G Network card
> Sony CD-RW/DVD Combo Drive
>
>

> Recently built a new machine and purchased a Sapphire 9600XT with 256 MB
> DDR. The card is great except for the fact that I cannot play any of my
> games without crashing. I have tried using the older catalyst versions
from
> 3.6 to the new 3.10 and have had no luck at all.
>
> I sent an e-mail to Electronic Arts Support and they informed me that ATI
is
> aware of the problem and should be working on a fix and to use the
Catalyst
> 3.7 drivers until then. Even with these drivers I am unable to play my
> games.
>
> If anyone has seen or experienced these problems or has a suggestion any
> help would be appreciated.

I too have this card and also have memory issues with it. It would
constantly reboot my computer, and the blue screen errors I got (having
turned off automatic rebooting in windows) always pointed to faulty memory.
Having removed the graphics card, my computer runs fine, so it would seem
that my product is defective.

Having spoken to Sapphire tech support, they informed me to try installing
new VIA chipset drivers, etc, but these did not help. They then said to try
the new Catalyst drivers which were due out yesterday, and if they did not
work then to return the card. The drivers never were released yesterday, and
I am convinced that the memory is faulty on this card, so I am returning it
for a replacement.

If you look back about a week you will be able to find my post to this
newsgroup (and others) concerning this problem.

Here in the UK the shipment date for these cards keeps going back so I
wonder if this is because they suspect a hardware problem and are trying to
fix it before shipment?

J.

"Jordan Woolley" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:btk1fs$86rn3$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > Recently built a new machine and purchased a Sapphire 9600XT with 256 MB
> > DDR. The card is great except for the fact that I cannot play any of my
> > games without crashing. I have tried using the older catalyst versions
> from
> > 3.6 to the new 3.10 and have had no luck at all.
> >
> > I sent an e-mail to Electronic Arts Support and they informed me that
ATI
> is
> > aware of the problem and should be working on a fix and to use the
> Catalyst
> > 3.7 drivers until then. Even with these drivers I am unable to play my
> > games.
> >
> > If anyone has seen or experienced these problems or has a suggestion any
> > help would be appreciated.
>
> I too have this card and also have memory issues with it. It would
> constantly reboot my computer, and the blue screen errors I got (having
> turned off automatic rebooting in windows) always pointed to faulty
memory.
> Having removed the graphics card, my computer runs fine, so it would seem
> that my product is defective.
>
> Having spoken to Sapphire tech support, they informed me to try installing
> new VIA chipset drivers, etc, but these did not help. They then said to
try
> the new Catalyst drivers which were due out yesterday, and if they did not
> work then to return the card. The drivers never were released yesterday,
and
> I am convinced that the memory is faulty on this card, so I am returning
it
> for a replacement.
>
> If you look back about a week you will be able to find my post to this
> newsgroup (and others) concerning this problem.
>
>