Latest 5.8 Catalyst Drivers Causing Problems With Radeon 9800 Pro

[Cyde Weys]

you using the Catalyst drivers 5.8?.. same thing was happening to me
on HL2 when i was using those drivers, just rollback to your previous
driver version and everything should be fine.. worked for me.

Same damn thing happened to me - textures would just start dropping out
due to attrition as I was playing the game and after 20 minutes or so
half the textures would be missing and it'd be unplayable. I have a
Radeon 9800 Pro and HL2 was nagging me to update to the latest drivers.
So I did. Ever since it's been nothing but hell. ALL of my 3D
applications are ****ing up ... Battlefield 2, UT2K4, HL2, hell, even
bzFlag for chrissake. I even tried the Omega version of the new
drivers and ... same damn thing. I think it's pretty clear what
happened here. ATI ****ed up. I'm going to rollback to 5.7.

 

[Ironside]

Same damn thing happened to me - textures would just start dropping out
due to attrition as I was playing the game and after 20 minutes or so
half the textures would be missing and it'd be unplayable. I have a
Radeon 9800 Pro and HL2 was nagging me to update to the latest drivers.
So I did. Ever since it's been nothing but hell. ALL of my 3D
applications are ****ing up ... Battlefield 2, UT2K4, HL2, hell, even
bzFlag for chrissake. I even tried the Omega version of the new
drivers and ... same damn thing. I think it's pretty clear what
happened here. ATI ****ed up. I'm going to rollback to 5.7.

Make sure your AGP aperture (bios setting) is at least 64 Mb. 128 Mb is
better but you need at least a gig of RAM for 128.

 

[Julian Richards]

Same damn thing happened to me - textures would just start dropping out
due to attrition as I was playing the game and after 20 minutes or so
half the textures would be missing and it'd be unplayable. I have a
Radeon 9800 Pro and HL2 was nagging me to update to the latest drivers.
So I did. Ever since it's been nothing but hell. ALL of my 3D
applications are ****ing up ... Battlefield 2, UT2K4, HL2, hell, even
bzFlag for chrissake. I even tried the Omega version of the new
drivers and ... same damn thing. I think it's pretty clear what
happened here. ATI ****ed up. I'm going to rollback to 5.7.

I'm getting problems with Counterstrike:Source on occasion where it
stops drawing in all the surfaces. I had thought that my card was on
the way out but having read this thread, I realise that the problems
did coincide with the 5.8 (Omega). Quitting the server and
reconnecting clears the problem.
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Julian Richards
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www.richardsuk.f9.co.uk
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[Cyde Weys]

Make sure your AGP aperture (bios setting) is at least 64 Mb. 128 Mb is
better but you need at least a gig of RAM for 128.

Thanks for the advice. I'll look for those settings in my BIOS the
next time I reboot.

 

[Doug]

I have no problems w/Cat 5.8 and my 9800 Pro. I'm using a 512MB AGP aperture
size setting (I've got 2GB of RAM).

 

[Ironside]

I have no problems w/Cat 5.8 and my 9800 Pro. I'm using a 512MB AGP
aperture size setting (I've got 2GB of RAM).

512 is overkill. No need for more than 128.

 

[Doug]

Maybe you're right. I've heard 256MB has some advantages w/certain games,
but never 512MB. I'm probably wasting quite a bit of memory for the lookup
table.