ATI in the good old days

[Schadenfroh]

today i had to put video drivers on 5 machines with rage IIs in them. ahh, man, their drivers sucked, i tried to set them for 32bit colour @ 800X600, had to reboot 3 times for it to take and half the time it would not reboot, but finally i got it to keep the settings after fighting, reinstalling, etc for windows 98SE, i finally got a chance to look at ATIs roots, and what poor roots they are, man, they have came a long way, artX is the best thing that ever happened to them, finally got some people that can find their butts with both hands

 

[Soulkeeper]

yeah i remember my rage 128 aiw and a few other old ati chipsets (even the mach64 onboard graphics set)

their drivers only go so far then they stop working on them (lot better now)
when new things come out it takes of lot of effort and employees to make sure everything is compatible and optimized (on all os's)
in the past ati and others havn't been good at this


driver errors suck

 

[rbV5]

ATI's good ol' days started way back with supplying graphic chips for Commodore almost 2 decades ago. Rage is one of their modern products.

 

[kylebisme]

hu, i never had any issues setting 32bit color on a rage card.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: TheSnowman
hu, i never had any issues setting 32bit color on a rage card.

neither did one, exact same computers, all freshly formated, had the problem with 2/3 of them, everything the same, wierd

 

[Cerb]

Yup. ATi Rage128AIW. Its only use was as a last-ditch AGP card. in Windows 98, NT or 2k, it always got corruption and such within a matter of minutes.
Got a bad 7500 AIW, so decided to try the Rage128 during the RMA period.
With newer drivers, it ran perfectly fine.