problem: MSI Radeon 9800 PRO 128 MB (RX9800-TD128) and 3D Studio MAX 6

[Nissim Trifonov]

Hello

I recently istalled a MSI Radeon 9800 PRO 128 MB
What i had before is a GeForce 4 MX 440

I use 3D Studio MAX once in a while...

now with the old card MAX used to work quite ok
but now it works really slow. it is set to use OpenGL

i also tried to use the Software driver which had pretty
much the same performance as the OpenGL one
and also Direct3D which was slower, in fact much
much slower!

does anybody have a solution for this problem?
I really dont want to quit using MAX...

thanks in advance

 

[Nissim Trifonov]

anyone? please, give me ideas

 

[@ndrew]

anyone? please, give me ideas

Which Radeon card are you using? Because of the CAD rendering no
gaming card copes particularly well with 3d Studio Max you really need
a FireGL or Quaddro from ATI and Nvidia respectively.

regards

@ndrew

 

[DaveL]

Sounds like you did not get the video driver loaded corectly. Did you first
uninstall the nvidia driver? You would need to do that. What version of
ATI catalist driver did you load?

DaveL

 

[Nissim Trifonov]

i uninstalled the nvidia driver and then used a driver cleaner
then i installed the latest driver that i downloaded from the MSI web site
(my card is manufactored by MSI)

also i tried to uninstall MAX and reinstall it. but i might have not done it
so well
because when i reinstalled it "remembred" the old folder when it was
installed
and also it did not ask me to authorze it.

 

[n.heyen]

Try deleting the max .ini file and letting it give you a chance to select
the video mode to use when you first start it up again.

 

[Nissim Trifonov]

no, that did not help
what about installing differend drivers? like drivers from ATI instead from
MSI? or that Omega drivers?
could it help?

 

[DaveL]

no, that did not help
what about installing differend drivers? like drivers from ATI instead from
MSI? or that Omega drivers?
could it help?

They can't hurt! Try the Cat 4.8 first. http://www.rage3d.com

 

[Nissim Trifonov]

i have installed the latest driver from the ATI site
now the computer tells me i got a 9800 XT with 128 MB
but the problem with MAX remains
does anyone think that i should try that omega stuff? and if yes - where is
a good place to find them?

 

[Randy]

Look here: http://www.omegadrivers.net/main.php as for should you use
them... I like them as they are setup for gaming but it would be up to you
and your mileage could be different.

Randy