there is the new cat 4.2 driver... should i try it or not...?? right now i'm using the cat 4.1.. and my pc run like dream at 8X and fast write on.. can anybody give an idea... should i try it or not..??

sorry if my english is broken... heihihihih...

there is the new cat 4.2 driver... should i try it or not...?? right now i'm using the cat 4.1.. and my pc run like dream at 8X and fast write on.. can anybody give an idea... should i try it or not..??

sorry if my english is broken... heihihihih...

i would if you play wolf ET.

Nice one bud!.
I upgraded my PC last week (P4 chip and Asus P4V800-x mobo and Radeon 9800 Pro gfx card) and since then F1 Challenge 99-02 has been crashing constantly and driving me nuts.
Reducing the AGP from 8 to 4 has sorted the problem for me.
Ta very much....

i swear i'm not bulls**tting, but i think Catalyst 3.4s may have fixed my problems. before, i couldn't play NFS:U, it would crash. now, after i installed them, it runs pretty fine (very rare lockups). i had no lockups before i installed the control panel, though with the control panel, it appears to have more frequent (but rarer than previous) lockups. i think installing the control panel and increasing AA to 8, AF to 16 may have caused a little stress on the GPU.

running at all settings stock.

try 3.4. it's only a 9Mb download for both the control panel and driver.

Although newer catalyst drivers seem to work for some I must say 3.4 (driver that came with my card) seems to be the best solution 4 me too. Cant play cod though. If my card has issues with bf vietnam because of old drivers I will get ridd of it because I really am sick of it.

bah...what about for those that don't have 3.4 cats as the ones that come on CD? I have a lousy Sapphire Cd that loads god knows what drivers...if the old driver set seems to be working so well, i wonder why engineers/coders would even bother upgrading

i remember when ATI made solid cards...but had sh*tty drivers and now they have too many drivers and sh*tty cards...

first of just download 3.4 from ati's website and try it. Second 3.4 doesn't fix all problems its just the one with the least problems 4 me.

put my old card back in place everythings sorted sticking to nvidia from now on as my asus board seems to love nvidia
gonna seel ati 9600 radeon pro for 50 pounds stirling 4 weeks old
if intrested email me at andrewlenihan30@msn.com
i live nw2 london so the closer the better btw ill throw in 3 online rpg games
dark ages of camelot
anarchy online
asherons call 2
all originals

on posts 30 - 31 (if i remember correctly), there were also a few people who praised Cat 3.4s as being stable.

it still freezes for me, though it takes much longer. i'm very sure it's becuase i maxed the AA and AFs (and changed the colour to 32bit). if it still freezes, i could always uninstall the control panels, at least it still works.

download 3.4s from the ATi site if you don't have it.

when my card didnt work i never tried 3.4.. i went as low as 3.5 and it worked great for me (except for cs). Those were probably the most popular picks for drivers that worked. (3.4-3.6). I'm happy i can now use the newer drivers (3.10 and up) =].

Is this the leading post on the website or what? By the sheer size of it it makes me want to stay away from 9600s all together!

Hola .... que post mas largo .... primero que nada ... me doy cuenta de que aun que todos tengamos distintos chipset placas madres .. y procesadores .... llegamos al mismo error .... ahora estoy probando el ultimo driver y asi y todo sigo con problemas ..... lo curioso es que en windows98se no tengo problemas .. pero si en 2000 y XP .... ahora .. la pregunta del millon de dolares ...... la GPU de ATI .... esta mal fabricada??? si es asi ... perdemos el tiempo bajando driver y dando soluciones extrañas y fuera de lo estandar... para mi gusto ... si uno adquiere una tarjeta de video la quiere para mejorar el sistema completo ...no para crearte problemas y dolores de cabeza ..... de mi punto de vista ATI deberia dar una respuesta al problema .. y dar una muy pronta solucion....

Mi sistema es MB ASUS A7V333, CPU AMD Athlon XP 1700+ sin overclock (Con volcano 9), VGA Asus A9600se, 256ram Samsung (PC2100), SB Live MP3+ (4.1), Lan Compaq y Dlink, modem generico, PS350W, Mouse MS Explorer Optical USB, Keyboard MS Explorer, CDROM ASUS 52X, Grabador LG 12X8X32, Volante Genius USB, MS SideWinder FreeStyle USB, Palanca de vuelo IBM puerto de joystick, Web cam LG USB, Monitor LG 17".

Espero que ATI de una pronta solucion .. por que pienso que nos tomaron el pelo con la tarjeta de video ....

Saludos comunidad de ATI congelada.....

Hi folks here is a very rough translation of the above guys post.

Hello .... that post longer .... first of all ... I realize of that even that we all have different chipset badges mothers .. and processors .... we come to the same error .... now I am proving the last driver and this way and quite I continue with problems ..... the curious thing is that in windows98se have no problems .. but if in 2000 and XP .... now .. the question of the million dollars ...... the GPU of ATI .... is it bad made??? if it is like that ... we lose the time going down driver and giving strange solutions and out of the standard thing ... for my taste ... if one acquires a videocard he wants her to improve the finished system ... not to create to you problems and headaches ..... of my point of view ATI I should give a response to the problem .. and to give a very prompt solution....

My system is A MB ASUS A7V333, CPU AMD Athlon XP 1700 + without overclock (With volcano 9), VGA Asus A9600se, 256ram Samsung (PC2100), SB Live MP3 + (4.1), Lan Compaq and Dlink, generic modem, PS350W, Mouse MS Explorer Optical USB, Keyboard MS Explorer, CDROM ASUS 52X, Engraver LG 12X8X32, Frill Genius USB, MS SideWinder FreeStyle USB, Lever of flight IBM port of joystick, Web cam LG USB, Monitor LG 17 ".

I wait that ATI of a prompt solution .. for that I think that they teased us with the videocard....

Greetings community of frozen ATI.....

Hope this helps folks- sorry about the grammer but the point he makes seems to be that Win 98Se users have no problems. Well I use Win 98SE and we do get problems too- although to a lesser degree - in my case cos I have a gigabyte brand of card.
Regards Twilight

omg! i have read forums about radeon 9800 series and they seem to have excactly the same problems as the 9600 series.. I have a radeon STANDARD 9600 and it crashes with many games.. Thps4 and cs for example.. I bought this finnish built pc for 2 weeks ago and starting to get angry about this.. now im downloading the newest cat drivers for the card.. can that solve the problems? now i have 3.8 installed. It was that xp had.. i tried that after installing from the cd.

if it works on Windows 98 only, why don't we attempt to run games under 98 OS instead of 2000/XP?

yesterday, i experienced a crash at one specific point in the game (i've tried at least 5 times, they all crash at that point.)

turned off FW - nothing
dropped to 4x - nothing
turned AA to 2x + AF to 2x - success! though it would only last a little longer.

i'm going to try underclock my card.

Can someone install these 2 games? War of the ring and age of empires 2 conquerors expansion pak. They are the ONLY games which i so far cannot get working. I got UT2004 recently and it runs beautifully except there are some odd crashes something with my motherboard beeping indicating something to do with graphics card or monitor. I have updated my motherboard bios and it seems to have fixed the problem (thank goodness).

Can someone please tell me if they can get thoes 2 games working on a 9600xt?

gigabyte n400 pro 2
3200xp amd
9600xt sapphire 256 megs
1 gig of generic ram

exactly how does it freeze? does it automatically freeze when you do a certain thing, certain stage in the game, or does it just freeze when you enter the game?

if i install it, my version will be cracked (i don't have the real copy)

Primero que nada doy gracias Twilight Guy por los subtitulos en ingles ^o^.

Bueno .... siguiendo en la busqueda de una solucion .. me encamino a algo que no me gusta hacer mucho ... actualizar la bios de mi tarjeta madre .... segun lo que informan los señores de asus .. en la bios 1016 ya esta solucionado el problema con las VGA ATI .. en la Mobo Asus a7v333.... y dado que ya se encontraba la bios 1017 .. me dije a mi mismo ... milagro ... esta es la solucion ... me encamine a realizar la actualizacion .... una vez hecha ... comienzan las pruebas .. lo primero con lo que me encuentro es que la vga aun se queda congelada...... por lo que la actualizacion de bios ... fue un inutil intento....

Lo que me parece raro .. es que en mi caso especifico los cuelgues de la tarjeta ... tan solo ocurren en los escritorios de Win2000 y WinXp... pero no dentro de ningun juego .... otro punto curioso es que cuando intento instalar algun juego desde algun cd.. este se queda pegado a la mitad de la instalacion .... entonces probe otro metodo de instalacion.... con el software Alcohol 120 ... cree ISOS de varios juegos ... y las monte como unidades virtuales ..... en ese momento no tube ningun problema .....en vista de que todo lo que he realizado no ha funcionado ... voy a utilizar la tecnica del descarte .. en un OS XP y 2000 ... comenzare tan solo con la CPU, RAM ..y VGA ... incluso despues de instalar el os .. desconectare las unidades de cdrom .. para determinar ... que componente es el que esta afectando el funcionamiento normal de la VGA (Si es que esta alguna vez funciono normal en los laboratorios de desarrollo ATI ^o^)...

Bueno saludos .... usuarios de ATI Glaciar Edition....

on my pc the game freezes just suddenly... cs and thps4 the screen goes black and sometimes the sound loops in around 3 secs.. then the screen cames into the game with the vpu recovery thing.. i can go on playing.. b4 i installed the 4.2 cat patch the screen was just black and i had to press the restart buttom.. so there you have it..


ATI RADON SUXX... why cant they understand that this is a very big and serious problem ???
cant somebody make an email everybody with this problem shall send to ati.. please
i think that will help so they understand the "bigness" of this bug/prob