Annoying Radeon Problem

[vlatkovr]

I have a very annoying problem with my ATI 7000 64MB DDR RAM video card. Before catalyst drivers version 3.6 everything is ok. But when i install newer catalyst drivers (at the moment i have 5.10) i can not play any type of video file(avi,mpg...) on a a player that uses overlay (almost all do). The computer completely freezes as soon as the movie starts (i can't even press ctrl-alt-delete). The only way i can view the video is to turn of directx (through dxdiag.exe) but this way i can't play games and the video players don't use overlays so the image is crappy.
Can someone help?
Thanks!

 

[phaxmohdem]

Get a new video card or roll back the drivers since you're not goign to be gaming anyways on that thing.... PCI or AGP? What version of DirectX are you sporting?

 

[vlatkovr]

I would rollback the drivers but i have one problem with the old drivers. When i use some application that uses the 3D capabilities of the video card, for example Google Earth or even a simple OpenGL application i write (a cube rotating) the speed is something like 0.01 fps and the whole PC is like frozen,it takes 1 min to show the start menu. With the new drivers this is not an issue, these apps fly.

I forgot, it is an AGP card with DX 9.0c

 

[phaxmohdem]

You might check in your BIOS to make sure that AGP FastWrites are tunred OFF, I'm not sure if that will help, but seriously, I'd recomment getting a new card. It alsmost sounds hardware related not driver related. The 7000 Radeons are honestly POS's I replaced a Radeon 7000 64MB PCI card on my secondary computer with an older Matrox 16MB card, and the matrox spanked it soundly. The 7000 was horrible With my Open GL apps (Lightwave 3D). That computer now runs a cheapo Radeon 9250 128MB 64bit card and it is an INCREDIBLE difference in reliability and performance, w/ the same drivers.

If you have a spare Vid card laying around, or can borrow one from a friend, i'd test out another card to find out for sure if it is your hardware that is the problem or not.

 

[vlatkovr]

I have a friend with the same card, Radeon 7000 64MB DDR and an athlon 2000 on a KT400 chipset and he doesn't have this problems.
I have an Athlon Barton 2500+ with 512 MB DDR RAM ,KT400 and WIndowsXP

 

[phaxmohdem]

Well my suggestion still, is do yourself a HUGE favor and get an early Christmas present:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102388

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102404

 

[jldash]

Yeah... I'd also try a 9250. Sounds like your 7000 has hardware issues when using any of its capabilities: ie overlay, openGL. And only works OK when you are doing 2D.