4.5 broke up videocard?!

Hi all,

I have Saphire 9500 Pro. After installing 4.5 drivers, I noticed
graphic corruption in all 3d games (blue/black dots, lines and other
"dust").

Reinstalling old drivers (3.10) and WinXP didn't help. Anyone had this
problem?

My pc is under xp/sp1. Desktop applications run fine.

Thanks, Sergei.

"Serge Yatsenko" wrote in message
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Hi all,

I have Saphire 9500 Pro. After installing 4.5 drivers, I noticed
graphic corruption in all 3d games (blue/black dots, lines and other
"dust").

Reinstalling old drivers (3.10) and WinXP didn't help. Anyone had this
problem?

My pc is under xp/sp1. Desktop applications run fine.

Thanks, Sergei.

Try using the System Restore feature of Windows XP to restore your system to
a previous restore point.

Before updating to 4.5 from 3.10, did you use a driver cleaner program? It
doesn't really matter with the new driivers, but with the old ones if you
don't they leave alot of garbage... ( i.e. it was hardly an incrimental
upgrade... ).

"Serge Yatsenko" wrote in message
om...
Hi all,

I have Saphire 9500 Pro. After installing 4.5 drivers, I noticed
graphic corruption in all 3d games (blue/black dots, lines and other
"dust").

Reinstalling old drivers (3.10) and WinXP didn't help. Anyone had this
problem?

My pc is under xp/sp1. Desktop applications run fine.

Thanks, Sergei.

disable all anti-aliasing and see what differance it makes.

"Serge Yatsenko" wrote in message
om...
Hi all,

I have Saphire 9500 Pro. After installing 4.5 drivers, I noticed
graphic corruption in all 3d games (blue/black dots, lines and other
"dust").

Reinstalling old drivers (3.10) and WinXP didn't help. Anyone had this
problem?

My pc is under xp/sp1. Desktop applications run fine.

Thanks, Sergei.

Join the club, man. I have exactly the same problem, although I have an
Radeon 9000 64 MB.
Check out the "corrupt 2d display in 3d games" thread.

Unfortunately I still don't have the solution. I think there's a bug in
dynamic lightning routine, since disabling that in most cases eliminates the
"dust". Unfortunately newer games don't even give you an option of disabling
it, just perhaps lowering it which is not enough to eliminate the problem.

What I don't understand is why uninstalling the 4.5 doesn't help. I still
didn't have the time to try Drive Cleaner people told me about, so try that,
maybe that would help. After cleaning install the old drivers and see if it
helps. Post here, so I'll know too if I should bother with it.

I am also amazed that there's no more occurences of this problem. If it's a
bug, and it's hard to clean from the system, how come we don't hear about it
more often??



"Serge Yatsenko" wrote in message
om...
Hi all,

I have Saphire 9500 Pro. After installing 4.5 drivers, I noticed
graphic corruption in all 3d games (blue/black dots, lines and other
"dust").

Reinstalling old drivers (3.10) and WinXP didn't help. Anyone had this
problem?

My pc is under xp/sp1. Desktop applications run fine.

Thanks, Sergei.

"Glzmo" wrote in message ...
Try using the System Restore feature of Windows XP to restore your system to
a previous restore point.


As I said, I even *reinstalled* system with 3.10 drivers. That didn't help.

It seems like cat4.5 modifies videocard bios or something.

I had read another people talking about this, in this group.

I recently changed my video card from my 9800 pro to my 9800 np ( selling
the pro in anticipation of x800, sigh... ). Anyway, even when booting to
safe mode, display corruption still occured. It required me to boot into
"vga compatibility mode" and manually reinstall the driver files with the
setup.exe to get things working again... Other than that, the cat 4.5s have
given me no problems...

"Baba" wrote in message
...
Join the club, man. I have exactly the same problem, although I have an
Radeon 9000 64 MB.
Check out the "corrupt 2d display in 3d games" thread.

Unfortunately I still don't have the solution. I think there's a bug in
dynamic lightning routine, since disabling that in most cases eliminates
the
"dust". Unfortunately newer games don't even give you an option of
disabling
it, just perhaps lowering it which is not enough to eliminate the problem.

What I don't understand is why uninstalling the 4.5 doesn't help. I still
didn't have the time to try Drive Cleaner people told me about, so try
that,
maybe that would help. After cleaning install the old drivers and see if
it
helps. Post here, so I'll know too if I should bother with it.

I am also amazed that there's no more occurences of this problem. If it's
a
bug, and it's hard to clean from the system, how come we don't hear about
it
more often??



"Serge Yatsenko" wrote in message
om...
Hi all,

I have Saphire 9500 Pro. After installing 4.5 drivers, I noticed
graphic corruption in all 3d games (blue/black dots, lines and other
"dust").

Reinstalling old drivers (3.10) and WinXP didn't help. Anyone had this
problem?

My pc is under xp/sp1. Desktop applications run fine.

Thanks, Sergei.

I just installed the 4.5 drivers ( ATI Radeo 9000 Pro 128 ), and notice
dramatic improvements in Far Cry.
I was having load problems at level 11 .. that went
away. And also, the game seemed to speed up just
a little. Something else ?? In the level ( also Demo2 )
where spotlights are shining down on the floor in
a cave, the light beams look much more convincing
as light shining through dusty air .. much softer and
more diffuse. I wonder if the 4.5 code makes the
older cards more compatible with DirectX 9b ??
but at the same time, might be messing up the newer
cards that ARE compatible with 9b ?? I'm sure the
level load problem with my card was due to DirectX
compatiblilty issues. That got fixed. If that is true,
maybe 4.5 is altering "DirectX" itself ?? ... ?? ...
any chance that DirectX is the culprit that went after
your card Bios ?? .. and now is corrupt with the
reinstall ?? Just guessing, but that would be the
bad guy in a re-image ... with the good DirectX
now not compatible with your video card.

johns

No driver nor DirectX can alter bios of a card by itself. It needs spesific
tools provided by card's manufacturer, not Ati in case of oem cards.
So that's out of question.

I do think there are some driver files left over the system from newer
drivers. Uninstall cat4,5 , run Drivercleaner, re-boot, now install whatever
version you want. This was there will be no more files with newer version
from new catalyst.

As for water, I think you are looking at pixel and vertex shaders.

"johns" wrote in message
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I just installed the 4.5 drivers ( ATI Radeo 9000 Pro 128 ), and notice
dramatic improvements in Far Cry.
I was having load problems at level 11 .. that went
away. And also, the game seemed to speed up just
a little. Something else ?? In the level ( also Demo2 )
where spotlights are shining down on the floor in
a cave, the light beams look much more convincing
as light shining through dusty air .. much softer and
more diffuse. I wonder if the 4.5 code makes the
older cards more compatible with DirectX 9b ??
but at the same time, might be messing up the newer
cards that ARE compatible with 9b ?? I'm sure the
level load problem with my card was due to DirectX
compatiblilty issues. That got fixed. If that is true,
maybe 4.5 is altering "DirectX" itself ?? ... ?? ...
any chance that DirectX is the culprit that went after
your card Bios ?? .. and now is corrupt with the
reinstall ?? Just guessing, but that would be the
bad guy in a re-image ... with the good DirectX
now not compatible with your video card.

johns

"Serge Yatsenko" wrote in message
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"Glzmo" wrote in message
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Try using the System Restore feature of Windows XP to restore your
system to
a previous restore point.


As I said, I even *reinstalled* system with 3.10 drivers. That didn't
help.

Yes, I know. But System Restore usually works better than a simple reinstall
as it restores all the files to a previous state. There are no file corpses
from the newer install in there. Just try it out, it doesn't hurt. You can
always restore the system back to before the restoration process afterwards.
If it doesn't work, there could be something wrong with the card, otherwise
it's a driver issue.