Cat 4.7's on 98SE: Far Cry noticeably slower

[Wblane]

It seems to me that Cat 4.7 has Far Cry running slower than Cat 4.3.
Also, Jedi Knight Academy crashes hard and COD starts up and my CRT promptly
shuts down (although I can still hear COD so I know it's running), I can
manually shutdown COD by hitting tilde then typing in quit, at which point the
CRT comes back to life. <shrug>, the COD problem sounds like some sort of
refresh rate problem to me.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

 

[Shawk]

It seems to me that Cat 4.7 has Far Cry running slower than Cat 4.3.
Also, Jedi Knight Academy crashes hard and COD starts up and my CRT promptly
shuts down (although I can still hear COD so I know it's running), I can
manually shutdown COD by hitting tilde then typing in quit, at which point the
CRT comes back to life. <shrug>, the COD problem sounds like some sort of
refresh rate problem to me.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

Bill,

I dont think ATI have supported 98SE since about 4.4's? I have XP on all
PC's here so someone else can confirm.

Cheers, Shaun

 

[Shawk]

ati just released the 4.7s for Win98/SE/ME but they are not WHQL certified
as MS does not do it anymore.

Thanks Piers. I stand corrected. Shaun

 

[Piers James]

ati just released the 4.7s for Win98/SE/ME but they are not WHQL certified
as MS does not do it anymore.

 

[Blahguy]

It seems to me that Cat 4.7 has Far Cry running slower than Cat 4.3.
Also, Jedi Knight Academy crashes hard and COD starts up and my CRT promptly
shuts down (although I can still hear COD so I know it's running), I can
manually shutdown COD by hitting tilde then typing in quit, at which point the
CRT comes back to life. <shrug>, the COD problem sounds like some sort of
refresh rate problem to me.
-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)

What is the refresh rate on COD? My monitor shuts down if the refresh rate
is too high for a given resolution.
Can't comment on the others as I am using XP pro, and Far Cry is running
great (touch wood), have installed Jedi Academy but haven't played it yet.

 

[First of One]

CoD runs fine here. The difference being I installed the game after the 4.7
drivers, whereas your installation carried over from 4.3. Maybe the game
needs to redetect the display device. Have you tried running CoD Safemode?