ATI Control Panel?!

ITGL72

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Yesterday I decided to put in the newest driver for my ATI 8500 Radeon. This is on an XP PRO P4 machine. Along with the driver is the ATI Control panel. Seems something went awry during its install. Yes the driver did install, but the control panel, which allows me to control the antialiasing, etc, did not install correctly.

When I click on the setup program it gives me some type of error about extracting the support files and can't do something with a file that already exists. I also see the ATI control panel in the XP control panels add/remove programs but there's no info about it (like rarely used, date, etc) When I try to uninstall it, nothing happens. It just bounces right back to the XP control panels add/remove programs window.

Anyone ever come across this issue? I can't reinstall it, I can't uninstall it, I can't set up the settings for my Radeon.

Suggestions welcome on this one. I emailed ATI support, but who knows how long that will take for a response or if it will help?

Thanks!


 

Wolfsraider

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have you tried restoring your computer or rolling back the drivers?
are you comfortable using regedit to remove all ati from your compter and then reboot/reinstall?

hth

mike
 

ITGL72

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I work with computers, and on the office network all the time. Not afraid of the Registry. My issue is I dont know where or what to poke and prode to get this one fixed.
 

ITGL72

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I got an email back from them.
They sent me links to their website.
DUH! Like I didnt go their first to see, maybe, just maybe, they might offer some type of helpful support.
I hate canned responses from unknowing employees.
My reply to them stated this as well. Not that it matters or they care.
FRUSTRATING STUFF!
 

rbV5

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try extracting the program to a folder first, then install from that folder. sandorski is probably right about the corrupt installation file, so you may need to redownload the file if the setup fails again.
 

cmdrdredd

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there is a folder on your C drive called ATi remove it then restart in safe mode and delete the ATi driver files via remove programs and try reinstall after another restart
 

ITGL72

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Well after wrestling with it for a bit I got it to install. I ended up really needing to disable my network connection to the internet so it would not automatically install the driver. I also had task manager open, and when the rundll came up on the list and XP was trying to get the driver installed again I ended the task. Between disabling the network connection and ending the rundll task I was able to muddle through. After uninstalling the driver and getting back into windows I didn't muddle through looking to delete files. Basically all the files I saw with a no hidden file search was stuff from the rollback directory. Well after this I got the original AT RADEON DRIVER CD out and loaded that and the control panel for it. Then I uninstalled it, went through the same process as above. To clean out the registry I ran REGCLEAN and REGCLEANER together. I was just trying to keep this process simple, since it was already a pain.

So now the latest catalyst driver and ATI control panel are installed.

My only other outstanding issue, is I don't think ANTI ALIASING is working. Actually I don't ever recall a HUGE difference in what I saw in ANTI ALIASING when I juiced up the settings in the control panel. I remember what anti aliasing looked like when I had my voodoo cards, but I don't think I have ever gotten great anti aliasing from this 8500. I had MS FS 2002 on last night and the mountains in the distance are totally jagged, as are the other looks in this flight sim. This video card scene is always a form of frustration. But I guess the anti aliasing issue is a good candidate for a new thread on this forum.

Thanks for the help folks.. Feel free to continue commenting.

-G
 

ITGL72

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Geez!

Well after using the latest drivers on my ati 8500, I'm probably going to go pickup a NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB DDR since its in my price range to test out some things. I can still use my 8500 on one of the computers I'm running on my LAN. I'm just frustrated over the anti aliasing issue. SO far in Return to Castle Wolfenstein and MS Flight Sim 2002 the anti aliasing just doesn't seem to work!

IS anyone running the NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti4200 128MB DDR or a model similar with either of these two pieces of software that might have seen the difference between the two in performance and anti aliasing?

You know I don't need PERFECR graphics, I want performance but a little bit of eye candy at least. FS 2002 looked like crap to me last night when I was testing this out.

One last question, there's a 64 and 128MB version of the Geforce4 I mentioned above. Obviously I wanted to go with something with more ram, because you figure ITS BETTER. Well reviewing this article: http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/02q2/020409/index.html it seems the 64MB card outperforms the 128MB card on some tests? Why is that? Different clock speed? Should I Still go with the 128?

really appreciate the help from this forum, have a great day...