`RaphX Registered User
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Posted: Sat Jul 17, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject: ATI Driver questions |
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My wife's computer has a Radeon 9200 SE (ATI, not Sapphire or anything else, AFAIK), and the default drivers are 6.14.10.6360 that came on the cd she got with the computer last year.
However, whenever we try to update the drivers, things seem to go wrong. Last time, I think I tried putting on Catalyst 3.8 drivers, which caused graphics to disappear completely from the games, so I could even see menu entries.
This time, my wife tried installing Catalyst Windows XP 4.7, which caused menus to appear really slowly (like right-clicking on the desktop, and the favourites menu). So she used Microsoft's roll-back option (including putting in the cd from last year). Strangely though, whenever my wife tries to start up a game of Star Wars Knights Of The Old Republic, the computer will automatically reset and restart.
Is there anything we can do to remedy this? What drivers should we be downloading to make Windows and games work well? And, once we've done so, which of the several thousand configurations that appear to be available should we use?
The ones on both our cds (I got my own computer with 9800 Pro last month with 6.14.10.6414) seem to have a different driver system (hence the 6.14 etc instead of 3.8/4,7), suggesting that we're getting the wrong kind of drivers
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