Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, pretty
good results so far.
3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15 fps in
N2003.
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Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, pretty
good results so far.
3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15 fps in
N2003.
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> Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, pretty
> good results so far.
> 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15 fps in
> N2003.
I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this res
and colour I cannot even read a web page!
Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
Glad to hear you had better luck.
Cheers
Gerry
> > Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, pretty
> > good results so far.
> > 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15 fps in
> > N2003.
> Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16 colour
> 640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails, with the OS
> insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI control panel
> refusing to load.
> I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this res
> and colour I cannot even read a web page!
> Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
> Glad to hear you had better luck.
> Cheers
> Gerry
Of course, this is assuming that you've either partitioned your drive
or you have more than one physical hard drive in your system, which
makes the ghost/restore process much faster.
>> Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro,
>> pretty good results so far.
>> 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about
>> 10-15 fps in N2003.
> Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16 colour
> 640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails, with the
> OS insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI control
> panel refusing to load.
> I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this
> res and colour I cannot even read a web page!
> Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
> Glad to hear you had better luck.
> Cheers
> Gerry
What I did was , uninstalled Control Panel, uninstalled the 3.2 drivers,
rebooted machine. Installed new 3.2 drivers, rebooted, installed control
panel, rebooted.
Are you running XP? If so, can you do a restore back to the latest point
prior to installing the drivers?
If not, can you uninstall the drivers? Afterwards, do a search in the
regjstry for anything ati and remove. ( back up reg before doing so). Then
reboot and try reinstalling.
Also , after removing the 3.2 drivers, upon rebooting, XP recognized the new
hardware and wanted to install drivers for it, I cancelled out of this so it
only loaded a std vga driver, then installed the new drivers.
Hope this helps,
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>>> Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro,
>>> pretty good results so far.
>>> 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about
>>> 10-15 fps in N2003.
>> Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16
>> colour 640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails,
>> with the OS insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI
>> control panel refusing to load.
>> I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this
>> res and colour I cannot even read a web page!
>> Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
>> Glad to hear you had better luck.
>> Cheers
>> Gerry
> One of the best pieces of software I ever purchased was Symantec
> Ghost. Ghost your system drive before changing the drivers, and if
> something goes wrong, restore from the ghost image and try again. :)
> Of course, this is assuming that you've either partitioned your drive
> or you have more than one physical hard drive in your system, which
> makes the ghost/restore process much faster.
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Either go to "add/remove programs" and get rid of all the ATI stuff. Or try
going to "Device Manager" and clicking on RADEON under video, and hit
uninstall. Reboot and you'll be in the standard VGA driver. So everything
will be nice and slow and in 640x480. Then run that .exe that you downloaded
already from the ATI site and let it do what it's supposed to do.
Did you do this the first time, or did you just install the drivers overtop
of your current ones? ATI drivers are finnicky when it comes to that stuff..
Mike
http://mikebeauchamp.com
> > Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro,
pretty
> > good results so far.
> > 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15
fps in
> > N2003.
> Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16 colour
> 640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails, with the OS
> insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI control panel
> refusing to load.
> I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this res
> and colour I cannot even read a web page!
> Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
> Glad to hear you had better luck.
> Cheers
> Gerry
If your using XP you might be able to try using hte rollback feature
for the video drivers. The procedure is:
Right click on My Computer, select properties
Click Hardware Tab
Click Device manager button
Click the + next to Display Adapters
Right click the adapter shown (is it the ATI card?)
Click the driver Tab
Choose rollback
If, as you say, it shows no drivers installed you can use System
Restore to bring your system back to a previous state, just what that
state is (and when) is dependant on how it was set up. This is
available in ME also as I remember.
Good luck!
Icer
>> Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro, pretty
>> good results so far.
>> 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15 fps in
>> N2003.
>Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16 colour
>640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails, with the OS
>insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI control panel
>refusing to load.
>I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this res
> and colour I cannot even read a web page!
>Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
>Glad to hear you had better luck.
>Cheers
>Gerry
>> Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro,
>> pretty good results so far.
>> 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about
>> 10-15 fps in N2003.
> Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16 colour
> 640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails, with the
> OS insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI control
> panel refusing to load.
> I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this
> res and colour I cannot even read a web page!
> Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
> Glad to hear you had better luck.
> Cheers
> Gerry
Did you ever get this all sorted out?
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Larry
The end-result is the same. Getting there is just a better ride with PQDI
:)
Larry
> > > Just installed the new Cat 3.4 drivers for my ATI Radeon 9700 Pro,
pretty
> > > good results so far.
> > > 3dMark 2003 went up by just over 300 points, and I gained about 10-15
fps in
> > > N2003.
> > Don, I just tried to install them, but now my PC is stuck in 16 colour
> > 640x480. Any attempt to roll back to an older driver fails, with the OS
> > insisting there is no ATI driver installed, and the ATI control panel
> > refusing to load.
> > I cannot begin to imagine what I did wrong. Any ideas? Stuck in this res
> > and colour I cannot even read a web page!
> > Oh well, seems like a job for format\c!
> > Glad to hear you had better luck.
> > Cheers
> > Gerry
> One of the best pieces of software I ever purchased was Symantec
> Ghost. Ghost your system drive before changing the drivers, and if
> something goes wrong, restore from the ghost image and try again. :)
> Of course, this is assuming that you've either partitioned your drive
> or you have more than one physical hard drive in your system, which
> makes the ghost/restore process much faster.
> I agree, but I personally believe that PowerQuests DriveImage is a superior
> solution.
> The end-result is the same. Getting there is just a better ride with PQDI
> :)
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
> > I agree, but I personally believe that PowerQuests DriveImage is a
superior
> > solution.
> > The end-result is the same. Getting there is just a better ride with
PQDI
> > :)
> Seagate "DiscWizard" :-)
> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy
> "goyl at nettx dot no"
> http://www.theuspits.com
> "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
> --Groucho Marx--
> 6 for one, half a dozen for another..
Beers and cheers
(uncle) Goy
"goyl at nettx dot no"
http://www.theuspits.com
"A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
--Groucho Marx--
> > 6 for one, half a dozen for another..
> True, but my 6 is freeware :-)
> Beers and cheers
> (uncle) Goy
> "goyl at nettx dot no"
> http://www.theuspits.com
> "A man is only as old as the woman he feels........"
> --Groucho Marx--
Yes with 3.1, not with 3.2, not tried 3.4 yet.
Regards,
Mark Davison
V8 Thunder OVAL Deputy Admin
Car #69
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