A question on my new x1650 pro

[Dr G]

So I just got this card: http://www.newegg.com/Product/...el-_-Content-_-text-_-

I installed it and put the driver from the cd on and now I have a question. When I load up a game of World of Warcraft my screen will go black for about 10-16 sec. It gets me worried that something is wrong but after that 10-16 sec the game loads up and I can play the game perfectly without any visual problems.

My second problem is that if I alt tab out of the game to either surf the net or change songs on my itunes it takes 10-16 sec for the windws screen to pop up. I never had these problems with my 9800 pro.

Could these issuses I have be driver related? Is it not a good Idea to use the drivers off the disk??? I've tested out my card with dvds, web movies, viewing pics and playing WoW and these *as of now* are the only real problems I have.

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

I never use drivers off of the manufacturer's CD - then tend to be out of date, sometimes dramatically so. Best to download the drivers directly from AMD/ATi.

 

[Dr G]

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
I never use drivers off of the manufacturer's CD - then tend to be out of date, sometimes dramatically so. Best to download the drivers directly from AMD/ATi.

should I get em off of saphires site since they made it?

 

[cmdrdredd]

Originally posted by: Dr G

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
I never use drivers off of the manufacturer's CD - then tend to be out of date, sometimes dramatically so. Best to download the drivers directly from AMD/ATi.

should I get em off of saphires site since they made it?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

 

[Dr G]

Originally posted by: cmdrdredd

Originally posted by: Dr G

Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
I never use drivers off of the manufacturer's CD - then tend to be out of date, sometimes dramatically so. Best to download the drivers directly from AMD/ATi.

should I get em off of saphires site since they made it?

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

so thats the one I should try? the 8.11? I'm such a noob with cards.

 

[IlllI]

uninstall the old drivers first

then download the most recent ones from from that link above http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

 

[nerp]

Yeah, best thing to do is uninstall any old graphics card drivers (generally ATI's Catalyst or nvidia's forcewarer) and then download the latest version directly from AMD or nvidia.

 

[Dr G]

Originally posted by: nerp
Yeah, best thing to do is uninstall any old graphics card drivers (generally ATI's Catalyst or nvidia's forcewarer) and then download the latest version directly from AMD or nvidia.

when I went to add/remove programs I found:

ATI AVIO codec
ATI Catalyst Control
ATI Display Drive
ATI Hydrovision
ATI Report Wizard

I belive that this all came on the disk. Should I delete them all?

 

[nerp]

Originally posted by: Dr G

Originally posted by: nerp
Yeah, best thing to do is uninstall any old graphics card drivers (generally ATI's Catalyst or nvidia's forcewarer) and then download the latest version directly from AMD or nvidia.

when I went to add/remove programs I found:

ATI AVIO codec
ATI Catalyst Control
ATI Display Drive
ATI Hydrovision
ATI Report Wizard

I belive that this all came on the disk. Should I delete them all?

Yeah, uninstall them all and then just go with the 8.11 catalyst control center installer.

 

[nemesismk2]

Originally posted by: clandren
uninstall the old drivers first

then download the most recent ones from from that link above http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Yeah this is all you need to do.