I down loaded the latest driver for the ATI Radeon DDR 32
(wme-radeon-4-13-01-9050), now Nascar 2002 does not work. It will freeze
shortly after getting on the track. I have never had any trouble with it
before. I tried to reinstall a older version of driver but it says its not
compatible. Any ideas???
Mike Tuminski
system restore.
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> > I down loaded the latest driver for the ATI Radeon DDR 32 > (wme-radeon-4-13-01-9050), now Nascar 2002 does not work. It will freeze > shortly after getting on the track. I have never had any trouble with it > before. I tried to reinstall a older version of driver but it says its not > compatible. Any ideas??? > > Mike Tuminski > > > > >Mike, I used the 9050 catalyst drivers on my system with the Radeon 7000
32mb card and ran a 100 lap race at Daytona with 20 cars in Nascar 2002. I
thought I was doing pretty good with 25 to 35 fps at the start, and then as
the race progressed, 35 to 45 fps. But towards the last 20 or so laps things
slowed down to 15 to 20 fps. At least the frame stuttering in the corners
from all previous drivers was gone. But alas my eyes were awfully tired
after 60 minutes of practice and the 100 lap race with like 5 cautions, and
in checking video settings after the race I found out that the resolution
was at 800x600. Either it went back to that at the video driver setup or I
had changed during a previous driver attempt at running this game. I then
(next day) ran a short online session in Nascar 4 and didn't notice any
great improvement in the graphics from NR2002 to N4, pretty much the same to
me, Crapola ! N4 at 1024x768 is about the same asNR2002 at 800x600.
Jaggy ass shit in the far distance is very tiring on the eyes.
This is all in D3D, all pervious attempts with OpenGL resulted in less fps.
I have had problems in Nascar 4 with a crash to desktop during a, save
replay, export standings in multiplayer. And in Nascar 2002 Demo, screen
freeze with sound looping. FWIW.
With previous ATI drivers.
I haven't raced NR2002 much other than one previous 50 lap practice and this
100 lap race/practice. No lockups though.
One thing I did this time in installing the drivers is to manually clean the
registry of anything with ATI or Radeon in the key. Then run RegClean with
show all hidden keys and again delete anything ATI related. Also I went
through the system folder and anything that had a manufacture version ATI
was deleted plus a bunch of .cts or .cns files that are related to ATI
drivers were also deleted.
Careful with those .cts or .cns files, I can't remember exactly which
extension it is because I'm on XP Pro now with a GeFarce Card. But if you
have changed ATI drivers before you will recognize the extension because
there is a crap load of them. I didn't install any of the other HydraVision,
DVD Player, or Multimedia Center applications, (I am pretty fed up with all
these crap drivers).
Installation order, 9050 catalyst drivers, ATI Control Panel, DirectX 8.1b
reinstall. end.
It took me a whole Saturday to do this.
Race Results of the ever growing video driver folder 8/27/02;
Nvidia = 371mb
ATI = 289mb < their catching up with these monthly Catalyst drivers.
Test system,
P3-866mhz Windows ME, all updates.
Asus CUSL2-C motherboard, beta bios v1012
512mb CL2 Micron Ram
Radeon 7000 32mb card, 9050 catalyst drivers.
19" Sony Trinitron Monitor. @ most gaming times 1024x768 85hz
DirectX 8.1b
SoundBlaster Live X-Gamer < Last SoundBlaster Card I'll ever buy!
(XP weird new driver problems)
Maxtor 30gb 7200 rpm ATA 100 drive 2 partitions, 500mb swap on second
partition.
BTW a P3-800 is the prefered system on the NR2002 box, and I run Q3 @90fps
in Excessive mode, with many custom maps, Urban Terror Mod for Q3, MOHAA
full graphics, RTCW full graphics, Unreal Tournament full graphics, Nascar
Heat full graphics, F22 Lightning 3 full graphics.
N4 & NR2002 BAH !
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