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Tanaban
January 1st, 2003, 10:41 PM
M'kay well I am a fucktard for not remembering what happened last time I tried to update my drives. I tried to update to the CAT 3.0 drivers ... and well... it has killed all my games. Except Need For Speed. *shrug* For some reason I don't think its completly ATI's fault. Other users on other boards have had similar problems with the Sound Blaster Live 5.1 series. Gawd I hate Creative soo much .. but I keep buying their products >_<
Tanaban
January 2nd, 2003, 12:00 AM
WEll pooh
not even the Omega drivers seem to lub me... I am going to uninstall my Sound card crap and see if that brings some life back.
Tanaban
January 2nd, 2003, 12:30 AM
O this is lovely. As I am uninstalling the SB live drivers I get this lovely kernel error... IN FREAKING WINDOWS 2000 A KERNEL ERROR>!!>!?!?!?
mOOkie
January 2nd, 2003, 12:42 AM
A lesson I learned the hard way. Don't replace your drivers unless something stops working. I satyed with a CAT release from October. I ain't upgrading to 16FSAA capable shit until something doesnt work properly. <_<
Tanaban
January 2nd, 2003, 12:54 AM
Originally posted by mOOkie@Jan 1 2003, 07:49 PM
A lesson I learned the hard way. Don't replace your drivers unless something stops working. I satyed with a CAT release from October. I ain't upgrading to 16FSAA capable shit until something doesnt work properly. <_<
Actually there was something wrong. I wasn't able to run some stuff correctly and I have had this problem before. Long story short I am reinstalling my system.
mOOkie
January 2nd, 2003, 12:56 AM
Originally posted by Tanaban@Jan 2 2003, 02:01 AM
Long story short I am reinstalling my system.
Why consoles will one day rule the earth... :D
JC Denton
January 2nd, 2003, 02:57 AM
I've gotten mixed results from the Catalyst 3.0's. When I had the 2.5's I had kick ass performance in Max Payne (game of the moment) with DirectX 9, yet I was getting really shitty performance from UT2K3. When I upgraded to the 3.0's, Max now has FPS problems and now Deus Ex has these weird artifact "lacing" problems.

:angry:
Tanaban
January 2nd, 2003, 07:26 PM
Well I got a hold of Windows Xp Corperate addition (my friend sweared it was a legal copy <_< ) but alas its just another pitated copy. So couldn't update the OS, silly Microsoft and their antipiracy. I am going to go ahead and just reinstall good old Win2k, cause me lub the legit shit. :alien:
JC Denton
January 2nd, 2003, 07:35 PM
Originally posted by Tanaban@Jan 2 2003, 02:33 PM
Well I got a hold of Windows Xp Corperate addition (my friend sweared it was a legal copy <_< ) but alas its just another pitated copy. So couldn't update the OS, silly Microsoft and their antipiracy. I am going to go ahead and just reinstall good old Win2k, cause me lub the legit shit. :alien:
Good luck, 2K makes my skin itch. ATI really needs to clean up the Catalyst 3.0's, IMO they're pieces of shit. They make some games kick ass, while making others total crap.
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
January 2nd, 2003, 10:47 PM
Looks to me they took the 3.0 off the site, only 2.5's if you do a driver search. Maybe they realized the isssues and are fixing them.
JC Denton
January 2nd, 2003, 11:55 PM
Originally posted by Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat@Jan 2 2003, 05:54 PM
Looks to me they took the 3.0 off the site, only 2.5's if you do a driver search. Maybe they realized the isssues and are fixing them.
Nope, they're right here (http://mirror.ati.com/online/showcase/catalystdx9.html). Also the only link to them is this image:
http://www.ati.com/images/mini-cat.jpg
Tanaban
January 3rd, 2003, 04:56 AM
Well I am back up .... just havent takent the time to load all my drivers and stuff so I will give a werdict when I do.
Tanaban
January 5th, 2003, 05:01 AM
Cause Kirk doesnt believe me that the CAT drivers past 2.3 are causing my games to crash
ToxicSoup
January 5th, 2003, 08:20 AM
photoshop works great wonders eh tan?
Deus
January 5th, 2003, 02:10 PM
uh, i coudln't help noticing, but what was going on when you took the picture of the monitor?
Chief
January 5th, 2003, 03:10 PM
Tan, have you ever changed your video card's BIOS? Have you flashed your mobo BIOS recently, or looked for a newer BIOS?
Tanaban
January 5th, 2003, 08:05 PM
Originally posted by ToxicSoup@Jan 5 2003, 03:27 AM
photoshop works great wonders eh tan?
mmm no the only thing I did with photoshop to that picture was save it at lower quality...
Tanaban
January 5th, 2003, 08:06 PM
Originally posted by Chief@Jan 5 2003, 10:17 AM
Tan, have you ever changed your video card's BIOS? Have you flashed your mobo BIOS recently, or looked for a newer BIOS?
I looked into that and found that they all give the same results and the original bios is more stable than the newer ones
Tanaban
January 5th, 2003, 08:07 PM
Originally posted by Deusex Dolor@Jan 5 2003, 09:17 AM
uh, i coudln't help noticing, but what was going on when you took the picture of the monitor?
Thats the error I get when play a game like Unreal T2k3, CS, sometimes even Need For Speed HP2