ATI 9800Pro sucks!!!

[Mem]

mabster,did you also try disabling fastwrites both in BIOS and ATI control panel(Smartgart tab).

You may find you can run 8x AGP with fastwrites off,however the performance between 4x and 8x AGP is so small just like I`ve already stated.

 

[Rudee]

With a title like yours, I'm suprise people are willing to even help you. Consider yourself lucky.

 

[CaiNaM]

Originally posted by: Rudee
With a title like yours, I'm suprise people are willing to even help you. Consider yourself lucky.

lol.. so true.. amazing how helpful and "non-volatile" this thread has been 😀

 

[Slickone]

And people say ATI doesn't have the driver issues it used to anymore?

I never installed the chipset drivers for my VIA KT266A, nor the VIA AGP drivers, just using WinXP's, and haven't had a problem (built 2+ years ago). I was told XP's are fine. ?

 

[Mem]

I never installed the chipset drivers for my VIA KT266A, nor the VIA AGP drivers, just using WinXP's, and haven't had a problem (built 2+ years ago). I was told XP's are fine. ?

The ones in WinXP are out of date,the reason for installing newer VIA drivers is for newer VIA chipsets and normally driver improvements ( improved stability ,speed,fixes etc.. that you get with later drivers,especially for newer chipsets,I`ve used all the VIA drivers up to the Hyperion 4.51s on my old KT266A that I use to have with XP,never had any problems,except for those bad 4.50s that VIA released and pulled off their site after a day or so when they found a major bug that effected a lot of users PCs.

And people say ATI doesn't have the driver issues it used to anymore?

I`m pretty new to ATi, about a year or so & have never had any problems with their drivers(3.4s to 4.3s) on my ex VIA board or even my current NF2 ultra 400,however I can only speak for myself 😉.

 

[mabster]

mem: Yes I have tried AGP 8X with fastwrite "off". And this setting, my card will crash during 3DMark03 benchmark test.
does my 5368 score sound alright with 4X AGP?

Yea.. People have been really helpful here.. tks yall..

 

[mabster]

mem: Yes I have tried AGP 8X with fastwrite "off". And this setting, my card will crash during 3DMark03 benchmark test.
does my 5368 score sound alright with 4X AGP?

Yea.. People have been really helpful here.. tks yall..

 

[Mem]

does my 5368 score sound alright with 4X AGP?

Seems about right with a KT600 board and your rig,don`t worry too much about benchmark scores,stability in gaming is more important ,no point having high 3Dmark score if you can`t run half your games 😉.

 

[Slickone]

Originally posted by: Mem

I never installed the chipset drivers for my VIA KT266A, nor the VIA AGP drivers, just using WinXP's, and haven't had a problem (built 2+ years ago). I was told XP's are fine. ?

The ones in WinXP are out of date,the reason for installing newer VIA drivers is for newer VIA chipsets and normally driver improvements ( improved stability ,speed,fixes etc.. that you get with later drivers,especially for newer chipsets,I`ve used all the VIA drivers up to the Hyperion 4.51s on my old KT266A that I use to have with XP,never had any problems,except for those bad 4.50s that VIA released and pulled off their site after a day or so when they found a major bug that effected a lot of users PCs.

So you're saying it can only be better if I installed the VIA Hyperion 4in1's? I remember of people having problems with them back when my chipset was newer. Any examples of fixes or stability fixes? Any certain order to install?

And people say ATI doesn't have the driver issues it used to anymore?

I`m pretty new to ATi, about a year or so & have never had any problems with their drivers(3.4s to 4.3s) on my ex VIA board or even my current NF2 ultra 400,however I can only speak for myself 😉.

I've read of many, and not just in forums.

 

[Mem]

So you're saying it can only be better if I installed the VIA Hyperion 4in1's? I remember of people having problems with them back when my chipset was newer. Any examples of fixes or stability fixes? Any certain order to install?

In general yes,I can`t rule out driver problems since you will even find members here that install new ATI/Nvidia drivers and get problems,getting hardware and software to work together will always cause problems for some people and their systems.

Btw for Win98/ME it`s best to use 4.35 drivers for older VIA chipsets.





VIA hyperion drivers installation guide .


VIA Arena driver download section .

Release notes and difference between each VIA hyperion driver