help with ati drivers...

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Bono

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BooGiTyBoY said:
I also noticed when uninstalling the drivers it shows a 9600xt then under it it also shows another one listed under it as "secondary"
What's that all about.
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This means that your ATI card is capable of handling two monitors, i.e. it has two VGA- connectors or one VGA- and one DVI- connector (don't know if a DVI- DVI- model exists).

Do not try to uninstall the "seconary" device although you don't use a second monitor. You may encounter serious problems! Just ignore it :D

And concerning drivers: I had problems with every Catalyst version > 4.5, ranging from bad performance to graphic bugs and sudden reboots while playing. After an OS change from Win2k to WinXP even the "good old" 4.5 wouldn't work properly.

Now I am using the current Omega drivers and I am really impressed. Neither performance issues nor stability probs. Since you shouldn't change a running system: stick to Catalyst 4.12. But if (one day) you find yourself toying with the idea of a driver update, give them a try :D
 
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Thanx Bono, I was still wondering bout' that one. I was pretty much ignoring the secondary. I thought maybe it was picking up the native winXP drivers or something as well. That explains it though. :)

I've used the Omegas in the past on my old ass ATI 7000 and I totally forgot to check them out with this card being I've been using nVid so long.
These 4.12's are working fine but like I aid I'm only really playing 2 games right now. If I run into another one that doesn't like them too much I'll give the Omegas a try. Hopefully I won't have to worry bout' it too long as I'm now saving up for a 6600gt or a 6800. :)
 
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Thanatos45

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BooGiTyBoY said:
Thanx Bono, I was still wondering bout' that one. I was pretty much ignoring the secondary. I thought maybe it was picking up the native winXP drivers or something as well. That explains it though. :)

I've used the Omegas in the past on my old ass ATI 7000 and I totally forgot to check them out with this card being I've been using nVid so long.
These 4.12's are working fine but like I aid I'm only really playing 2 games right now. If I run into another one that doesn't like them too much I'll give the Omegas a try. Hopefully I won't have to worry bout' it too long as I'm now saving up for a 6600gt or a 6800. :)
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I didn't notice much difference between catalysts and omega's when I used them in the hopes of cranking up the performance of my old Radeon 9600 Pro but to no avail :(

But anyway, I now have a Geforce 6600GT and it runs UT quite well, but please get 1 gig of RAM with the card as ONS runs even worse than before if anything with my 512 mb :hmm:
 
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Thanatos45 said:
I didn't notice much difference between catalysts and omega's when I used them...
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Ditto. I did notice one BIG difference though... The Omega drivers screwed up my advanced display properties so that I couldn't change any of the settings. Went straight back to Catalyst and haven't looked back. :mad:
 
HuggyBear

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I've always had good luck with catalyst drivers <knocks on wood> so I've never had a reason to try the omegas. I get ~60 fps regularly now (I toned down all my super-high-detailed settings and noticed that I don't notice much lack of sweetness) on my 9600 pro.
 
dXII][Pa

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Where's the thing in the INI that lets you cap your framerates different from your refresh rate?
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I'd like to know that as well. I just got myself a new rig but with the new rig I also got a TFT screen. I can now run 2k4 at 1280x1024 with everything on normal or up and still get a purty 85 fps online. However, the TFT does give a slight ghosting effect, not much, but still noticable in certain moments. So I was thinking that if my "refreshrate" for the TFT is set at 60 perhaps I need to cap my fps below to avoid some of the ghosting effect. I dunno if that is even possible but it's still worth a try I guess.

Anyone know how to do this?
 
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No, the response time on your tft is insufficient to the framerate change.

Soz but you need a better monitor.

p.s. never had a positive experience with Omega drivers.
 
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Well, my responsetime is 12ms and that was the best I could get with a TFT. And because I share the pc with my girlfriend I had to accept the TFT in order to get a fast pc :p

But then I know. Thx for the input edhe!
 
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Thanatos45

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dXII][Pa said:
Well, my responsetime is 12ms and that was the best I could get with a TFT. And because I share the pc with my girlfriend I had to accept the TFT in order to get a fast pc :p

But then I know. Thx for the input edhe!
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Why would your gf need a TFT monitor, those things are vastly inferior and at least twice as expensive as any CRT... :hmm:

IMO those things are only good if you don't have enough space to put down a CRT monitor.
 
dXII][Pa

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Thanatos45 said:
IMO those things are only good if you don't have enough space to put down a CRT monitor.
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Give the man a cigar.


Oh, and what I deem to be perfect space for a 21' CRT is at the same time deemed "barely enough space for a 17' TFT" by my girlfriend.

No, I don't pretend to understand girls. Ever. But she's the love of my life, we have two kids, and if she want's a TFT to be happy I'll damn well get one. Oh, and for the TFT being vastly inferior, thats true for games but nothing else.

:)
 
BooGiTyBoY

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kay a new problem has arisen and I've bout had it with this piece of crap-ass ATI card...

Now I get MAJOR hitching during games no matter what I set anything to in my ini, no matter what I set my resolutions and display option too, and I just can't get it to stop no matter what map I'm playing on.

Time to take this P.O.S. out and throw my geforce 4 back in. grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.....

EDIT: Put my gf4 ti4200 back in... the hitching, it goes bye-bye. No more skitter/jitter either. Damn ATI... grrrr....
 
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HuggyBear

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Sounds like a code 18 to me - you know, a loose nut behind the wheel?

Fully half of us use ATI cards without hitching....
 
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