ATI's new drivers is suck

[BeauJangles]

Just reformatted my HDD, reinstalled XP, Radeontweaker. Enabled everything I had before on my LE, and installed the latest ATi driver. Guess what? freezes in civ3, freezes in Half-Life, freezes in Max Payne. Every time the problem is with the Radeon. OMG, I can't stand it. Guess I'll go back to Beta drivers for win2k, at least they worked. I can't wait until i can buy Nvidia, where things might be stable for more then 5 minutes of gaming!

Grr....

 

[John]

Sucks to be you. I have no problems with the VE in my other system.

 

[BeauJangles]

gee, thanks for all the support. I feel soo much better now. Seriously, i wish they could put out a decent driver set, and if they didn't i wish they would leave the ones that worked on the site!

 

[A5]

You should have installed the drivers before Radeontweaker...and Ati's setup program is suck, its better to just use the 'Upgrade driver' wizard in Windows and point it to the dir where you extracted the driver set to.

 

[BeauJangles]

OMFG! I just tried to install the drivers that I know work (they are the alternate drivers for win2k) and it tells me i need a VGA driver installed, so i try to tell winxp to deal with. and it just gets fscked up. I cannot believe this. I hate ATI and shotty drivers.

 

[rommel]

lol...dont you hate when that happens...ATi wants you to load a vga generic driver before it upgrades or reinstalls a driver...now i am not sure but is that even possible in xp...will it allow you to specify a driver to use...if so install the vga reboot and then update to the driver you want...i get a feeling xp isnt gonna allow it but try it.

 

[Lichee]

yes yes yes.....come on now.....dont whine so loud. I can hear you from TX.

just pop the XP cd and it will find the generic VGA drivers automatically.....it should take a minute or so for the whole process.

 

[Bovinicus]

Well if the same ones aren't working then maybe it is some kind of problem related to you reinstalling Windows XP. An OS reinstall can often lead to many differences in the way your system works.

 

[nortexoid]

what support could u possibly want???

try fiddling around w/ settings to tweak stability - otherwise, revert back to your old drivers that worked.

anyway, i'm glad to hear that ATI's driver development team is hard at work...bravo

 

[EMAN]

I agree with Bovinicus. You can always get a screwed up a system by not properly installed operating system. Or change your PCI devices around see if you still have problems and disable ACPI.

 

[BeauJangles]

ugh... well i tried to revert back to the original drivers that worked, but that resulted in a series of errors concerning loading the vga stuff. i tried repairing the xp installation and found it was unwilling to do that. right now i'm about to reformat again, because now i am getting crazy errors and cannot get into xp looks like it will be the 5th reformat in 2 months oh well the first 3 were stupid (and my fault to some extend ).

 

[corkyg]

Been running the new 7189 driver on my Radeon 64 DDR for over a month now, and have not had one single problem . . . no lock ups, freezes or other crashes. It works for me.

 

[Justorq]

I have the 6.13.3276 Windows Xp drivers and when I try to install Red Alert 2, my whole computer crashes and when I reboot ... windows XP tells me it's my ATI drivers !
Arghh !!
This sux