ATI and Call of Duty!

[Joe Harrison]

Does anyone here not have lockup problems with Call of Duty with Radeon
9800XTs?

Am considering upgrading my FX5900XT to PowerColor 9800XT - but as COD is
the only game I play, I would be most unchuffed if I splashed the cash only
to find that I have lockup issues.

CHeers

 

[dino]

I have read of issues with the XT's....but the only one I had was with
MOH....COD ran great...after formatting and cleaning everything up ( I was
due)...both games are fine.I have the 9600XT

 

[Martin]

Does anyone here not have lockup problems with Call of Duty with
Radeon 9800XTs?

Am considering upgrading my FX5900XT to PowerColor 9800XT - but as
COD is the only game I play, I would be most unchuffed if I splashed
the cash only to find that I have lockup issues.

CHeers

As an aside, you could consider the Hightech Excaliber IceQ 9800 pro, which
has a special cooling solution on it. I am running it at 9800XT speeds with
no problem at all - as have a few reviewers...

It's a lot cheaper than a 9800XT, but you do need to sacrifice the PCI slot
next your AGP slot, 'cos it's big with a capital F. (That's friggin' big).

Regards

Martin

 

[john]

Does anyone here not have lockup problems with Call of Duty with
Radeon 9800XTs?

Am considering upgrading my FX5900XT to PowerColor 9800XT - but as
COD is the only game I play, I would be most unchuffed if I splashed
the cash only to find that I have lockup issues.

CHeers

i think theres a hotfix for CoD on ati cards.

 

[MKH1]

Does anyone here not have lockup problems with Call of Duty with Radeon
9800XTs?

Am considering upgrading my FX5900XT to PowerColor 9800XT - but as COD is
the only game I play, I would be most unchuffed if I splashed the cash only
to find that I have lockup issues.

CHeers

Turn of FW for you ATI card, then you will be allright.

 

[Mike P]

The hotfix is the 3.10 drivers.

i think theres a hotfix for CoD on ati cards.

 

[Joe Harrison]

The hotfix is the 3.10 drivers.

Hi Mike,

I have checked this out, but am a little confused. If I follow the link to
the hotfix from ati's site, it brings me to the catalyst drivers download
page. The only driver I seem to be able to get from there is the latest
Catalyst 4.2 software.

Are you saying that I need to find in ati's archive an old 3.10 version of
the Catalyst software?

Cheers.
Joe.

 

[Thomas]

I have checked this out, but am a little confused. If I follow the
link to the hotfix from ati's site, it brings me to the catalyst
drivers download page. The only driver I seem to be able to get from
there is the latest Catalyst 4.2 software.

Are you saying that I need to find in ati's archive an old 3.10
version of the Catalyst software?

No, he means that from that driver update on, the drivers should be okay for
CoD.

Thomas

 

[Airman Basic]

Just to verify, running 3.10 here, and COD's great with my 9600XT.

 

[dino]

do not turn off fast writes for the XT...apparently they need it to run
properly and you will cause even greater grief disabling that
option.....shut-off VPU recover though..

 

[Thomas]

do not turn off fast writes for the XT...apparently they need it to
run properly and you will cause even greater grief disabling that
option.....shut-off VPU recover though..

I THINK this goes for the 9600 XT. The 9800 XT runs better with FW disabled.

Thomas

 

[dino]

I see...they just don't release enough info on the invidual series of each
card...especially for the XT's. Took me some playing to get mine exactly the
way I want it and am happy with it. But I should've waited...the 9800Pro's
dropped to the same price as the 9600XT's here.
$299 Canadian

 

[Joe Harrison]

I see...they just don't release enough info on the invidual series of each
card...especially for the XT's. Took me some playing to get mine exactly the
way I want it and am happy with it. But I should've waited...the 9800Pro's
dropped to the same price as the 9600XT's here.
$299 Canadian

Well, I can see that it should run okay, so I've ordered a Sapphire 9800
Pro. Just couldn't justify double the price for the XT, and at my level I
doubt I'll notice a few measly fps here and there.

This will be my first ati card so we'll see how it goes!

Thanks for all the advice.


Joe

 

[dino]

the 9600XT is my first ATI...have had lot's of Nvidia cards and I have no
complaints with the switch

 

[Mike P]

Yes, in a nutshell what Thomas said.

The "hotfix" was a beta release of the 3.10 drivers because of the known
issues with CoD and the 3.8 and 3.9 drivers. The 3.10 drivers are fine and
imo the best at this time.

Mike

 

[GTX_SlotCar]

.....The only driver I seem to be able to get from there is the latest
Catalyst 4.2 software.

Look to the left of the driver page and you'll see the link to older
versions (archives).
Call of Duty was released to work with the Cat 3.7 drivers and they work
fine. There was a problem with 3.8 & 3.9 and it was fixed in 3.10. 4.1 & 4.2
work also.
I'm running 3.7 with the 3.10 control panel.

Gary

 

[Darthy]

Does anyone here not have lockup problems with Call of Duty with Radeon
9800XTs?

Am considering upgrading my FX5900XT to PowerColor 9800XT - but as COD is
the only game I play, I would be most unchuffed if I splashed the cash only
to find that I have lockup issues.

COD runs just fine on my ATI9800Pro... which is a far better deal than
the 9800xt... in a month or so, new $400 video cards will smoke it.

The 9800Pro isn't that much faster than your 5900... faster yes, but
is it worth $200 - thats up to you.

COD runs on an OLD game engine, it ran very well in 1600x1200.

Check out UT2004 www.unreal.com - for some serious eye candy... its a
differnt FPS game from COD - but gives ya an idea what COD-2 may look
like... play Onslaught mode online.

 

[Joe Harrison]

COD runs just fine on my ATI9800Pro... which is a far better deal than
the 9800xt... in a month or so, new $400 video cards will smoke it.

The 9800Pro isn't that much faster than your 5900... faster yes, but
is it worth $200 - thats up to you.

COD runs on an OLD game engine, it ran very well in 1600x1200.
--
Remember when real men used Real computers!?
When 512K of video RAM was a lot!

Death to Palladium & WPA!!

We'll see how much difference I get tonight. New 9800 Pro card arrived at
work today so I'll check it out tonight.

Must say the card itself doesn't look all that hot with its relatively tiny
heatsink and fan. Not half as good as my MSI 5900XT which looks like a tank
of a card in comparison.

If it's not worth the extra cash I splashed, and I have a load of registry
hacking to clean out the old Nvidia stuff to get COD stable I'll flog it on.
(I'm buggered if I'm gonna install WinXP from scratch again just for ati!)

My Dad really needs a new gfx card for flight sims so I have a punter
already lined up for the slower of the two cards. He just doesn't know it
yet;-) I'll also have to sell him a new computer to go with the card, but
that's a small matter!!

Thanks for all the advise so far guys.

Joe.

 

[Mike P]

"...(I'm buggered if I'm gonna install WinXP from scratch again just for
ati!)..."

I didn't know ATI benefitted from people re-installing XP. You learn
something new every day... or did you mean that you were going to travel to
Ontario to do one of their test computers?

 

[blabble]

We'll see how much difference I get tonight. New 9800 Pro card arrived at
work today so I'll check it out tonight.

okay... guess its been awhile...

Must say the card itself doesn't look all that hot with its relatively tiny
heatsink and fan. Not half as good as my MSI 5900XT which looks like a tank
of a card in comparison.

so? Big and exotic doesn't always mean better. You could always go
back to the big 5.25 hard drives? The ATI runs cooler... remember -
the fx5800 was a very LOUD card with a super cool looking cooling
system - but it was no match against the ATI9700.... and even mt
TI4200 is easily bigger than my 9800Pro.

If it's not worth the extra cash I splashed, and I have a load of registry
hacking to clean out the old Nvidia stuff to get COD stable I'll flog it on.
(I'm buggered if I'm gonna install WinXP from scratch again just for ati!)

Not required... removed Nvidia drivers, installed ATI drivers - I had
no problems.