HELP! Radeon 9700 PRO/ver. 1.1 Doesn't Work.... :(

[j@cko]

It doesn't run 3DMark2K1SE. Whenever I try to run it, it gives me an error that a DirectX 8.1 driver needs to be installed. I have the latest driver installed and everything. What's going on here?

Mobo: Epox 8KHA+

 

[cjsketchy]

Are you using the build 330 patch for 3DMark? Get it here if not

 

[BentValve]

run dxdiag and test DirectX to make sure it is working ok.

 

[chizow]

What version of DX and Cat's are you running? The 330 build would be the fix if you are running DX 9, as CJsketchy said.

Chiz

 

[Protouringcars]

I have no help to offer.... only advise...... to be worry free I'd focus on an nvidia based video card. That's that. I just purchased a 9500Pro from Newegg and ran into video trouble also. Lots of people seem to running just fine but in my case that's different. With Nvidia I have never once had to make sure I have this or that correctly installed or uninstalled.... it's just point and click with driver updates. Nvidia is the flawless way to go. Remember everything that is fast (9700Pro) eventually goes slow at one time in the computer world and is not neccessarily better...especially when it come to compatibility/drivers! Learn from 3dfx and all those snobby people who bragged about fps over nvidia at one point....where's 3dfx now? Which manufacturer had the spot light more so when 3dfx went down....nvidia. Did the market have a choice....yes....nvidia or ati. Did they go ati....no....because NUMBER ONE....ati had no speed which many people are possessed by ... and number TWO their drivers were still mediocre which has improved to this day but is not pretty much flawless like nvidia. I wish things would happen in ati's driver department where one could alternate hardware without sweating and praying that their video card will be 100% compatible. nuff said.

 

[OulOat]

Originally posted by: Protouringcars
I have no help to offer.... only advise...... to be worry free I'd focus on an nvidia based video card. That's that. I just purchased a 9500Pro from Newegg and ran into video trouble also. Lots of people seem to running just fine but in my case that's different. With Nvidia I have never once had to make sure I have this or that correctly installed or uninstalled.... it's just point and click with driver updates. Nvidia is the flawless way to go. Remember everything that is fast (9700Pro) eventually goes slow at one time in the computer world and is not neccessarily better...especially when it come to compatibility/drivers! Learn from 3dfx and all those snobby people who bragged about fps over nvidia at one point....where's 3dfx now? Which manufacturer had the spot light more so when 3dfx went down....nvidia. Did the market have a choice....yes....nvidia or ati. Did they go ati....no....because NUMBER ONE....ati had no speed which many people are possessed by ... and number TWO their drivers were still mediocre which has improved to this day but is not pretty much flawless like nvidia. I wish things would happen in ati's driver department where one could alternate hardware without sweating and praying that their video card will be 100% compatible. nuff said.

So says a fan boy in a thread that has nothing to do with Nvidia.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: Protouringcars
I have no help to offer.... only advise...... to be worry free I'd focus on an nvidia based video card. That's that. I just purchased a 9500Pro from Newegg and ran into video trouble also. Lots of people seem to running just fine but in my case that's different. With Nvidia I have never once had to make sure I have this or that correctly installed or uninstalled.... it's just point and click with driver updates. Nvidia is the flawless way to go. Remember everything that is fast (9700Pro) eventually goes slow at one time in the computer world and is not neccessarily better...especially when it come to compatibility/drivers! Learn from 3dfx and all those snobby people who bragged about fps over nvidia at one point....where's 3dfx now? Which manufacturer had the spot light more so when 3dfx went down....nvidia. Did the market have a choice....yes....nvidia or ati. Did they go ati....no....because NUMBER ONE....ati had no speed which many people are possessed by ... and number TWO their drivers were still mediocre which has improved to this day but is not pretty much flawless like nvidia. I wish things would happen in ati's driver department where one could alternate hardware without sweating and praying that their video card will be 100% compatible. nuff said.

You obviously are a complete idiot. Please take your fan boy-ism elsewhere.
Theres as many problems with NVidia products as with ATI products. So your statements are pure BS, just like you.

 

[Ophir]

Originally posted by: Protouringcars
... Learn from 3dfx and all those snobby people who bragged about fps over nvidia at one point....where's 3dfx now? Which manufacturer had the spot light more so when 3dfx went down....nvidia ... nuff said. .

How about you hazard a guess as to where 3dfx is now?