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From: William on 18 Apr 2008 17:10

"Godfrey Wilkes" <nospam(a)cornedbeef.net> wrote in message
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> "sl91" <nospam(a)free.fr> wrote in message
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>> cat's 8.4 are outtttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
>>
>
> What the heck is ATI playing at? OK, STALKER, HL2 and HL2 EP1 now run fine
> with 8.4 but Crysis is totally b0rked, major graphic corruption. Also
> noticed that the DirectX3D tests (the spinning cube) in Dxdiag are messed
> up. Was OK with 8.3. Never had this sort of trouble with my old Nvidia
> 6800 128Mb, would run anything, on low settings of course.
>
> So the situation is - uninstall 8.4 and install 8.3 to play Crysis,
> uninstall 8.3 and install 8.4 to play STALKER etc. Not good enough ATI!
>

I play Crysis allot. Was hoping I could pick up AA - turn it on now and you
loose the crosshairs in the scopes. ATI's Crysis hotfix had AA and
crosshairs going and fast game play, but that was 4 versions ago. Non of
the new versions have taken care of this fix found in the hot-fix from 4
months ago. Why?

I sure am glad you gave a heads-up, I'm getting tired installing new updates
and not knowing what is going to work or stop working. It's getting old hat
to me anymore.

Hay - two weeks ago I OC'ed my cpu up 5%, what a difference in frame rate in
Crysis. I couldn't believe the difference. Crysis always slowed down when
there were falling rocks around the quarry, -- major improvement. I'd like
to bump it up to 10%, but I only have factory cooling on the cpu. Don't
want to press my luck. Core 2 dual E6600, 4 gig of ram, ATI HD 3870.

William


From: Strutter on 19 Apr 2008 07:34

"Godfrey Wilkes" <nospam(a)cornedbeef.net> wrote in message
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> "sl91" <nospam(a)free.fr> wrote in message
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>> cat's 8.4 are outtttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
>>
>
> What the heck is ATI playing at? OK, STALKER, HL2 and HL2 EP1 now run fine
> with 8.4 but Crysis is totally b0rked, major graphic corruption. Also
> noticed that the DirectX3D tests (the spinning cube) in Dxdiag are messed
> up. Was OK with 8.3. Never had this sort of trouble with my old Nvidia
> 6800 128Mb, would run anything, on low settings of course.
>
> So the situation is - uninstall 8.4 and install 8.3 to play Crysis,
> uninstall 8.3 and install 8.4 to play STALKER etc. Not good enough ATI!

I've been running 3 systems using ATI graphics cards including a 1650Pro,
2600XT and a 3850, one system runs XP 32bit, one runs vista 32bit and one
vista 64bit. All have run perfectly with no gaming or crashing issues. Not a
single issue as of yet. I find the ATI drivers are far superior to anything
that Nvidia have provided me when I used to use their products. Maybe the
"some" of the crashes and such are more to do with the users and their other
hardware conflicting or something like that...I dunno, but they are great
drivers IMO.


From: Augustus on 19 Apr 2008 10:40
> I've been running 3 systems using ATI graphics cards including a 1650Pro,
> 2600XT and a 3850, one system runs XP 32bit, one runs vista 32bit and one
> vista 64bit. All have run perfectly with no gaming or crashing issues. Not
> a single issue as of yet. I find the ATI drivers are far superior to
> anything that Nvidia have provided me when I used to use their products.
> Maybe the "some" of the crashes and such are more to do with the users and
> their other hardware conflicting or something like that...I dunno, but
> they are great drivers IMO.

And how many of those cards you listed are AGP?


From: TGH on 19 Apr 2008 12:18


"William" <nospam(a)pacifier.com> wrote in message
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> "Godfrey Wilkes" <nospam(a)cornedbeef.net> wrote in message
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>>
>> "sl91" <nospam(a)free.fr> wrote in message
>> news:480661d9$0$8082$426a74cc(a)news.free.fr...
>>> cat's 8.4 are outtttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
>>>
>>
>> What the heck is ATI playing at? OK, STALKER, HL2 and HL2 EP1 now run
>> fine with 8.4 but Crysis is totally b0rked, major graphic corruption.
>> Also noticed that the DirectX3D tests (the spinning cube) in Dxdiag are
>> messed up. Was OK with 8.3. Never had this sort of trouble with my old
>> Nvidia 6800 128Mb, would run anything, on low settings of course.
>>
>> So the situation is - uninstall 8.4 and install 8.3 to play Crysis,
>> uninstall 8.3 and install 8.4 to play STALKER etc. Not good enough ATI!
>>
>
> I play Crysis allot. Was hoping I could pick up AA - turn it on now and
> you loose the crosshairs in the scopes. ATI's Crysis hotfix had AA and
> crosshairs going and fast game play, but that was 4 versions ago. Non of
> the new versions have taken care of this fix found in the hot-fix from 4
> months ago. Why?
>
> I sure am glad you gave a heads-up, I'm getting tired installing new
> updates and not knowing what is going to work or stop working. It's
> getting old hat to me anymore.
>
> Hay - two weeks ago I OC'ed my cpu up 5%, what a difference in frame rate
> in Crysis. I couldn't believe the difference. Crysis always slowed down
> when there were falling rocks around the quarry, -- major improvement.
> I'd like to bump it up to 10%, but I only have factory cooling on the cpu.
> Don't want to press my luck. Core 2 dual E6600, 4 gig of ram, ATI HD
> 3870.
>
> William
There is now a 8.4 hot fix for agp cards

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=31542


--
The Glory Hornet

From: Kent_Diego on 19 Apr 2008 14:30
> ...
> And how many of those cards you listed are AGP?
>
I have one Vista 32 and two XP systems with X800/X850 AGP cards. My dxdiag
runs fine on all of them. No hot fix needed. I am sure this is a rare
problem but it is great that ATI will invest the man-hours necessary to
release a hotfix for those that need it.

I have never had trouble with ATI drivers since the original Radeon was
released.


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