UT2003 Problem with Radeon 8500?

[ctk1981]

First, Im sorry if this is in the wrong forum..but I figured this is where all the gaming buffs are!

Let me run you through the situation.

On my computer, when I had the 8500 in there...it ran UT2003 just fine. It was a 1900+ athlon, 512MB DDR, Philips Acoustic Edge, Intel Pro Nic, 60GB IBM Deskstars, etc etc. All the updated drivers and such. I then sold the 8500 to a co worker for 100 bux and installed it into his computer. His computer is the following:

Thunderbird 1.33ghz, 256MB DDR, 40GB WD drive, Crystal Soundcard (cheap works good). Its a clean install of Windows XP Pro, newest drivers, newest 4n1 drivers. The only difference is the motherboard northbridge really.....His is a AMD 761/Via Southbridge solution.

I set the game up to play, start the game...and about 5 seconds into the game...the screen clicks over and I get a bunch of vertical band corruption in the screen. The computer locks up tighter than a drum at this point.

On this same system, I can play Max Payne without any problems at all. So I think I've narrowed it down to a bug problem with UT2003 and some piece of hardware/combination. Oh...Ive downloaded the demo patch, no fixing.

Any thoughts or suggestions? Thought it was weird the day before I was playing UT2003 without any problems on my computer, then switch over to this other guys computer and it wont play for nothing. Especially after a fresh install, that usually cures everything. Oh well.

 

[EdipisReks]

i would suggest asking around at the rage3d.com forums. someone there may have run into this before.

 

[billyjak]

Did you install the patch for UT2003

 

[ctk1981]

Oh...Ive downloaded the demo patch, no fixing.

Yup. No go. The computer has already been returned to the owner, he never plays first shooter games but I put it on there in case he wanted to give it a whirl sometime. Just seemed so odd. Not a big deal, was just wondering if anyone had ran into this before.

 

[tenoc]

Latest Catalyst 2.3 drivers?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Try setting the AGP speed to 2X in the BIOS. I had problems running an 8500LE with an Athlon and a AMD 761 chipset - setting it to AGP 2X fixed it for me (also disable side bands and fast writes if that doesn't work).

 

[ctk1981]

Yep, latest catalyst drivers.

Didnt try reducing the AGP setting though. If that would be the case to fix it, why then would it work in Max Payne at 4x just fine and not in UT2003?

I did disable fast writes also to try and fix it. Thats about the first thing I do in the bios when I put a Radeon card in anyways. Have had way too many goofy problems while enabling it and sometimes I lose performance.