Ati, is hardware or software shot?
polycounter lvl 18
I'm running a Radeon 9600. My system recently burned out though it looks like everything survived. It ran stable for a day before I installed the latest video driver. It now stalls and I get this message about VUE Recover having to reset my graphics card every ten to twenty mins (sometimes it happens at shorter intervals). Is it the card or the software? Also, anyone try that new Nvidia card out yet?
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When I was running an ATI card, one set of drivers would run great, but I'd upgrade to the latest when they came out, and sometimes my card would become unstable. A week or two later, they'd upgrade the drivers again because of the instablity issues.
Basically what I'm saying is, go to their archive area and get the previous version
If you installed CATALYST 5.8, shame on you. Go with what has been proven to work properly.
well nvidia's are awful too, anything newer than nov 2004 removes refresh rate override controls from the config, and screw up direct3d support royally on a geforce2
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Everything above the 73.**'s make games BSOD on exit for me!
And the ones I use make NF stall my pc at random.
So i unstilled my previous drivers completely, CC and all, and picked up the Radeon Omega Drivers 2.6.53 from www.OmegaDrivers.net .
Played some HL2. Played some CS:S. Played 6 rounds of BF2. No problem.
I tried those Omega drivers just now and was actually able to play halflife for a few mins where before it almost always crashed when the 3D title screen came up. So it's is much more stable and noticiably faster than the standard drivers but when it did crash it seemed to crash a bit harder than the standard Ati drivers which do take crashes in stride if nothing else.
I'm going to say it's the card and I'll probably get some version of the newer cards from nvidia, thanks for the help.
NVidia usually has super nice drivers IMHO... unfortunately as cards get older and older, the driver revisions pay less and less attention to those cards. Anything over version 57 or something like that would ruin dual displays on my Ti4200. A friend of mine experienced some other difficulties with his GeForce 3 with newer drivers. Then just recently I updated my drivers to 78 or whatever and my 6600GT started crashing Maya when doing "High quality" rendering in the view port.
Granted the fix is easy... just stick with the drivers that work best. I'm running 77.77 with my 6600GT and haven't had a single problem.
Nah, kub. I usually just scrap what doesn't work.
Program error? Complete Reinstall!
Trouble with hardware? The hardware in question gets a shotgun shell and I get a new part!
Normally I don't understand much in those little reports anyway. I did a clean install so there are likely no software gremlins in the system and I'd rather not tip toe around unreliable, dated hardware in my main system.