Radeon 9700 graphics issue

94transam

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Jan 17, 2003
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Wonder if anyone has any idears or has heard of this.
On a few games i get werid things. Empires for example. under any Catalyst driver when i click on the settings/options words, all the settings page dialog just superimposes itself over the main page. same thing for some other of the same type screens. if i use pre-catalyst drivers it works fine.
Korea-forgotten war. if i put graphics all the way especially 16x12 with full AA then i lose all color/textures. I had this happen on the COD demo awhile back too.
Last but not least when swapping drivers for empires, i ran aquamark3 and noticed that with the pre-catalyst driver my cpu score was 6323 and GPU was 4722 - total of 34390 with my fps at 34.39.
when i use the 3.8 or 3.9 catalyst driver i get a CPU score of 5232 GPU:4998 total of 33828 and FPS at 33.83
kinda sounds like the new drivers really suck on your CPU.
Let the input begin
 
Oct 18, 2003
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I had similiar problems with my catylist 3.9 too. What I did was went into the monitor settings, clicked on advanced. under 3d you will find a custom button. Set Direct 3D texture and mipmap to high performance. Do the same for OpenGL. If this doesn't work, then my next suggestion is go to FAQ at www.ati.com. They have a section for known game issues.