I'd never thought I'd start a thread like this but,
I recently bought a Sapphire 9100 128mb card. It's going pretty well so far and I'm fairly happy with it. The performance is great for a budget card. I'm having a couple of issues with it though, and I'm wondering what I can do to fix them.
Freedom Force has weird rendering issues. The shadows do not render well at all and make the game look a little strange. I've tried the driver's off the CD and the latest off ATI's website. I don't have anything else installed on my system besides UT2K3 (which runs wonderfully) so I'm not sure whether the other games I play are ok. Is there a particular driver revision I should be running that is more compatible?
Also, I'm having 2D image quality issues. When I bump the res up to 1600*1200 @ any refresh rate, I get weird banding on the monitor that scrolls down the screen. I never had this with my old video card (Hercules GF2MX) and I tried it out on another monitor with the same results. Which brings me to my next point, how do I set my screen resolution to 1280*960? I can set it to everything but that, which is annoying as 1280*1024 is not an option and I like my desktop real estate, the next highest 4:3 res to run being 1152*864.
If I can get it to run at 1280*960 I will be happy to keep the card until I upgrade next, which is only a month or two off anyway. Otherwise I think I will return it so I can run 1600*1200 again.
If anyone can answer any of my questions I'd be grateful.
I recently bought a Sapphire 9100 128mb card. It's going pretty well so far and I'm fairly happy with it. The performance is great for a budget card. I'm having a couple of issues with it though, and I'm wondering what I can do to fix them.
Freedom Force has weird rendering issues. The shadows do not render well at all and make the game look a little strange. I've tried the driver's off the CD and the latest off ATI's website. I don't have anything else installed on my system besides UT2K3 (which runs wonderfully) so I'm not sure whether the other games I play are ok. Is there a particular driver revision I should be running that is more compatible?
Also, I'm having 2D image quality issues. When I bump the res up to 1600*1200 @ any refresh rate, I get weird banding on the monitor that scrolls down the screen. I never had this with my old video card (Hercules GF2MX) and I tried it out on another monitor with the same results. Which brings me to my next point, how do I set my screen resolution to 1280*960? I can set it to everything but that, which is annoying as 1280*1024 is not an option and I like my desktop real estate, the next highest 4:3 res to run being 1152*864.
If I can get it to run at 1280*960 I will be happy to keep the card until I upgrade next, which is only a month or two off anyway. Otherwise I think I will return it so I can run 1600*1200 again.
If anyone can answer any of my questions I'd be grateful.
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