Radeon Frustration!

[mechanized80021]

I have a 8500DV (1024Mb RAM) in one machine and a 7500 (768Mb RAM) in
the other. Both have problems with commercial games.

Desert Combat (A Battlefield 1942 mod) crashes unless I roll the
drivers back to what came from the factory on the radeon install
cdrom.

I've uninstalled & reinstalled drivers so many times... currently have
6.14.10.6094 in both machines and still can't get Desert Combat to
work... Ugh!

The game Railroad Tycoon 3 has an annoying bug where the cursor blinks
horribly as you move the mouse.

Planetside has all kinds of black triangles on the ground, and
hotspots and other map info simply does not show on the 7500.

It's a bummer because ATI has some nice features. My 9800 Pro
captures video well. But I will never buy another ATI product for
gaming again!

If anybody can advise me on getting Desert Combat to run on the 8500DV
and/or the 7500, I'd appreciate it!

Thanks.

 

[Julian Richards]

I have a 8500DV (1024Mb RAM) in one machine and a 7500 (768Mb RAM) in
the other. Both have problems with commercial games.

Desert Combat (A Battlefield 1942 mod) crashes unless I roll the
drivers back to what came from the factory on the radeon install
cdrom.

I've uninstalled & reinstalled drivers so many times... currently have
6.14.10.6094 in both machines and still can't get Desert Combat to
work... Ugh!

The game Railroad Tycoon 3 has an annoying bug where the cursor blinks
horribly as you move the mouse.

Planetside has all kinds of black triangles on the ground, and
hotspots and other map info simply does not show on the 7500.

It's a bummer because ATI has some nice features. My 9800 Pro
captures video well. But I will never buy another ATI product for
gaming again!

If anybody can advise me on getting Desert Combat to run on the 8500DV
and/or the 7500, I'd appreciate it!

It probably won't help but have you tried the Omega drivers? They are
based on the original drivers so it shouldn't make a difference but
I've come to the conclusion that PCs are inhabited by ghosts and it's
worth a try.



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[J.Clarke]

It probably won't help but have you tried the Omega drivers? They are
based on the original drivers so it shouldn't make a difference but
I've come to the conclusion that PCs are inhabited by ghosts and it's
worth a try.

I haven't noticed the "annoying bug where the cursor blinks horribly as
you move the mouse" issue with RT3 and the 8500DV. I _did_ notice some
dead space on the screen once but a reboot cleared it--I suspected at
the time that the Dvico drivers didn't clean up after themselves but it
might have been something else. Have a 9800 Pro in that machine now.

 

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It would help if you tell what version of DC your are trying to play...

For me this is:
0.39 had a serious memory bug that always rendered a BSoD after playing for
some time.

0.40 - 0.60 is Ok for me (0.6 and Catalyst 3.9 on a 9800)

Catalyst 3.10 drivers has a tendence to crash every graphic intensive
application/game so I wouldn't recommend that one, I've personally
reinstalled 3.9 which still causes a freeze once in a while when playing DC.

I also have some problems with Saitek (joystick) and Hyperthreding, this is
a real pain...I very often get a BSoD after playing DC and the core dump
always point into the Saitek driver. I have noticed that recalibrate the
joystick after every boot helps to get rid of the problem but still I forget
some times and then, BSoD...

 

[bob cox]

What kind of crap systems are you people running? I run a 9700 Pro on
a P3 1.0 (CRAP!!!) and I've never even had one crash related to video.
No matter what catalyst version I use. Makes me suspect the people
who have these problems don't know what they are doing as far as
installing this driver...or something....when they mention "it has
atendency to crash", well, that's your system so why should that
effect mine? Giving probabilities about driver failures is so
scientifcally moronic and completely arrogant... anyone who says stuff
like that just plain has no clue...

It would help if you tell what version of DC your are trying to play...

For me this is:
0.39 had a serious memory bug that always rendered a BSoD after playing for
some time.

0.40 - 0.60 is Ok for me (0.6 and Catalyst 3.9 on a 9800)

Catalyst 3.10 drivers has a tendence to crash every graphic intensive
application/game so I wouldn't recommend that one, I've personally
reinstalled 3.9 which still causes a freeze once in a while when playing DC.

I also have some problems with Saitek (joystick) and Hyperthreding, this is
a real pain...I very often get a BSoD after playing DC and the core dump
always point into the Saitek driver. I have noticed that recalibrate the
joystick after every boot helps to get rid of the problem but still I forget
some times and then, BSoD...

 

[Strontium]

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bob cox stood up at show-n-tell, in
(e-mail address removed), and said:

What kind of crap systems are you people running? I run a 9700 Pro on
a P3 1.0 (CRAP!!!) and I've never even had one crash related to video.
No matter what catalyst version I use. Makes me suspect the people
who have these problems don't know what they are doing as far as
installing this driver...or something....when they mention "it has
atendency to crash", well, that's your system so why should that
effect mine? Giving probabilities about driver failures is so
scientifcally moronic and completely arrogant... anyone who says stuff
like that just plain has no clue...

First of all, moron, what card are you running? And, no, I don't mean what
model. There are plenty of SHITTY mfg's out there. The infinite loop did
not just appear, out of thin air.

Dumb ass.