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ATI DRIVERS SUCK- A RANT. (Read 3001 times)
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Reply #120 - 24.02.08 at 20:45:55
 
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WTF? How did ya' do that? Shocked
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Reply #121 - 25.02.08 at 00:52:59
 
The newer Catalyst Versions come with integreated Steam Client which also includes Half-Life 2: Lost Coast and Half-Life 2: Deathmatch. (At the moment I just think that Lost Coast was freeware everytime ?!  Wink or does it need HL2 ?).

But it's integreated a bit stupid into the driver installer, cause it even wants to uninstall Steam when it's just on your computer... like everything from ATI it just feels a bit unfinished and not well made  Undecided
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Reply #122 - 22.03.08 at 11:30:29
 
ps47 wrote on 24.02.08 at 03:51:05:
..back to 8.1-hitman blood money is unable to set FSAA correctly with 8.2 (no matter the selection,you dont get any FSAA at all) Roll Eyes

I take this back-I had conflicting settings in ccc.it always amazes me how dumb can I get (sometimes) Roll Eyes

so no problems with x1950pro agp (and x1950xtx pci-e) with the latest 8.x drivers.oh,and did I mention they fixed thief2 fog (after all those years)? ati,I love you Grin
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Reply #123 - 22.03.08 at 13:40:05
 
First time since I have the 3870 ones, I'm sort of "happy"  Huh

Just played HL2 Cinematic Mod and I'm absolutely surprised: It runs quite fine  Roll Eyes Cool
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Reply #124 - 22.03.08 at 22:32:55
 
They fixed the fog in Thief 2? Not to go off subject here, but did you ever play the Thief mod for UT called Thievery? It's kind of cool but you need a bunch of people to play it. Since it's still very playable on the 3dfx cards, I can through some of the Thief links up in there. Tons of mods for it.

Anyhow, I haven't had any problems with the 8.3 drivers at all. Just gaming for the most part. Most of them are newer games and WoW has been taking up quit a bit of my gaming time so.. (shouldn't have ever started playing it).  Tongue
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Reply #125 - 22.03.08 at 23:49:48
 
never played it,but I'm aware of it-I lurk around ttlg forums as well (even submitted a few system shock/thief related fixes)..
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Reply #126 - 24.03.08 at 22:49:25
 
For those of you with problems getting AGP to work, try these:

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&tld=&task=knowledge&qu...
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Reply #127 - 25.03.08 at 20:44:29
 
Hmmm, haven't had any problems since 8.1 with both of the AGP cards I have (X1950 Pro, X850 Pro). I know when I installed the hotfix for 8.1 that fixed everything, I had to download and install the CCC control panel seperately from the hotfix as it's only the drivers and basic software (15 megs compared to the normal 34 megs) so might have to do the same with these if you plan on installing them.
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Reply #128 - 26.03.08 at 08:12:12
 
I only ever use the drivers and ATI tray tool. Wink

Never bothered with the bloatware "Catalyst CR@P-TROLL Centre" Roll Eyes

LOL! Grin
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Reply #129 - 28.03.08 at 15:27:27
 
paulpsomiadis wrote on 24.03.08 at 22:49:25:
For those of you with problems getting AGP to work, try these:

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&tld=&task=knowledge&qu...

yup,I can confirm,you wont get a hd2600 agp running unless you install those (did some remote troubleshooting a few minutes ago).not needed for the x1000 agp line,it would seem..
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Reply #130 - 12.04.08 at 19:06:13
 
..I have just found a pretty serious bug-on my x1950pro agp,opengl is half broken wih cat7.12 and higher.most opengl games display weird symptoms such as flickering/twitching of textures,spikey polygons,black areas,shaky screen.observed on quake4 and homeworld cataclysm (quake3 seems to work fine).no problems on cat7.11 and older.

can someone confirm this?


edit: using opengl from the 7.11 driver with cat8.3 installed kills this bug.
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