ATI 9000 Pro + F1 2002 and GT Racing 2002

Hi, I was wondering if anyone else was having problems with using Smoothvision and Anisotropic filtering on a ATI 9000 Pro with F1 2002 and GT Racing 2002? Each time I turn them on the screen either has a lot of tearing, especially in cockpit mode, or the entire screen would just freak out if it's a sunny day. It's a little disheartening since it looks so good with it on. I'm using Direct-x 9. I noticed that with both Smoothvision and Anisotropic filtering turned to "application preference" everything works fine, but those two things are turned off. Does it work with the 9700 and 9500? Nathan

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> Hi, > I was wondering if anyone else was having problems with using > Smoothvision and Anisotropic filtering on a ATI 9000 Pro with F1 2002 > and GT Racing 2002? Each time I turn them on the screen either has a > lot of tearing, especially in cockpit mode, or the entire screen would > just freak out if it's a sunny day. It's a little disheartening since > it looks so good with it on. I'm using Direct-x 9. > > I noticed that with both Smoothvision and Anisotropic filtering turned > to "application preference" everything works fine, but those two > things are turned off. Does it work with the 9700 and 9500? > > Nathan > > >

We've had several users with texture problems with the ati cards, but never any real fix has been found. Some have made extra sure that old nvidia drivers are cleaned out. This is interesting, You seem to have found a partial solution at least, by turning off the image enhancers. In the N2k3 readme, they claim the Catalyst 3.0 drivers have some issues that will be fixed by the current beta drivers. I wonder if the next driver release(currently in beta) will also improve the F1 2k2 problems. If you changed from older drivers, or nvidia drivers, do everything you can to eliminate the old versions. try regcleaner and search for nv*.* files to delete them. good luck dave henrie

Thanks, Dave. I never had a Nvidia card, but a Matrox G400 instead. It's a bit disappointing that I can't use those special enhancements, but if they're going to interfere with the program I can do without. I was hoping that either EA or ATI had a fix, but alas nothing. I'm hoping you're right and there really is a new Catalyst in the works. I remember when I had the Matrox G400 and Medal of Honor looked all funky. I downloaded their beta drivers and fixed everything right up. Perhaps I'll be lucky in this case too. "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "nathantw" <[email hidden]> wrote in > news:[email hidden]: > > > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone else was having problems with using > > Smoothvision and Anisotropic filtering on a ATI 9000 Pro with F1 2002 > > and GT Racing 2002? Each time I turn them on the screen either has a > > lot of tearing, especially in cockpit mode, or the entire screen would > > just freak out if it's a sunny day. It's a little disheartening since > > it looks so good with it on. I'm using Direct-x 9. > > > > I noticed that with both Smoothvision and Anisotropic filtering turned > > to "application preference" everything works fine, but those two > > things are turned off. Does it work with the 9700 and 9500? > > > > Nathan > > > > > > > > We've had several users with texture problems with the ati cards, but > never any real fix has been found. Some have made extra sure that old > nvidia drivers are cleaned out. This is interesting, You seem to have > found a partial solution at least, by turning off the image enhancers. > In the N2k3 readme, they claim the Catalyst 3.0 drivers have some

issues > that will be fixed by the current beta drivers. I wonder if the next > driver release(currently in beta) will also improve the F1 2k2 problems. > If you changed from older drivers, or nvidia drivers, do everythingyou > can to eliminate the old versions. try regcleaner and search for nv*.* > files to delete them. > good luck > dave henrie

"nathantw" <[email hidden]> wrote in news:[email hidden]:

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> Thanks, Dave. > I never had a Nvidia card, but a Matrox G400 instead. It's a bit > disappointing that I can't use those special enhancements, but if they're > going to interfere with the program I can do without. I was hoping that > either EA or ATI had a fix, but alas nothing. I'm hoping you're right and > there really is a new Catalyst in the works. I remember when I had the > Matrox G400 and Medal of Honor looked all funky. I downloaded their beta > drivers and fixed everything right up. Perhaps I'll be lucky in this case > too.

EA won't be fixing it. The new ATI cards came out after F1 2k2 was released. They got it working with the hardware available at the time and won't be updating the program. ATI, on the other hand, has a small vested interest in fixing this problem. I hope they do. dave henrie