Catalyst 4.5 and 4.6 cause windows problems and directx disabled!

i went back to the 4.5's two days ago.

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.... so much of me...

You are absolutely right, but we aren't talking about what is 'nice', we are
talking about 'morality'. A hugely different concept.






"J?j?" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've installed the Catalyst 4.6 and now my video card is slow!
dxdiag says any directx features are disabled!

My system:
Ati all in wonder 8500 DV
P4 2ghz

older drivers have no problems.

any idea?

Please reply by email




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Hi,

I've installed the Catalyst 4.6 and now my video card is slow!
dxdiag says any directx features are disabled!

My system:
Ati all in wonder 8500 DV
P4 2ghz

older drivers have no problems.

any idea?

Please reply by email

On 14 Jun 2004 20:15:04 -0700, (J?j?) wrote:

Hi,

I've installed the Catalyst 4.6 and now my video card is slow!
dxdiag says any directx features are disabled!

My system:
Ati all in wonder 8500 DV
P4 2ghz

older drivers have no problems.

any idea?

Please reply by email

Have Smartgart retest all.

Enable them?

"J?j?" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I've installed the Catalyst 4.6 and now my video card is slow!
dxdiag says any directx features are disabled!

My system:
Ati all in wonder 8500 DV
P4 2ghz

older drivers have no problems.

any idea?

Please reply by email

"J?j?" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I've installed the Catalyst 4.6 and now my video card is slow!
dxdiag says any directx features are disabled!

You can't take the easy way out and simply install the newer drivers over
your existing ones.

You MUST uninstall your current drivers (Add/Remove programs, look for the
drivers uninstall then software uninstall utilities), reboot, cancel windows
installing generic drivers, then start your new drivers install.

After a reboot, it will be hunky-dory.

HTH,

Neil

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:27:46 +0100, "[neil]"
wrote:


You can't take the easy way out and simply install the newer drivers over
your existing ones.

You MUST uninstall your current drivers (Add/Remove programs, look for the
drivers uninstall then software uninstall utilities), reboot, cancel windows
installing generic drivers, then start your new drivers install.

After a reboot, it will be hunky-dory.

HTH,

Neil


I just install over the top when using Omega drivers and never had a
problem. On Win98SE I remember my Directx acceleration was disabled
and having SmartGart retest caused it to enable again.

"Diskhead" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 09:27:46 +0100, "[neil]"
wrote:


You can't take the easy way out and simply install the newer drivers over
your existing ones.

You MUST uninstall your current drivers (Add/Remove programs, look for the
drivers uninstall then software uninstall utilities), reboot, cancel
windows
installing generic drivers, then start your new drivers install.

After a reboot, it will be hunky-dory.

HTH,

Neil


I just install over the top when using Omega drivers and never had a
problem. On Win98SE I remember my Directx acceleration was disabled
and having SmartGart retest caused it to enable again.

It's always *best* to uninstall the old drivers first but but why should one
have to. Is it really that difficult to create a driver package (or any
application) that you can install over a previous setup maybe by
uninstalling old files first?

BillL

Interesting. I never uninstall the old drivers. I always just install the
new ones over the old ones. Never had a problem. I've been doing this for
about two years now

"[neil]" wrote in message
...
"J?j?" wrote in message
om...
Hi,

I've installed the Catalyst 4.6 and now my video card is slow!
dxdiag says any directx features are disabled!

You can't take the easy way out and simply install the newer drivers over
your existing ones.

You MUST uninstall your current drivers (Add/Remove programs, look for the
drivers uninstall then software uninstall utilities), reboot, cancel
windows
installing generic drivers, then start your new drivers install.

After a reboot, it will be hunky-dory.

HTH,

Neil

"Daniel Czajko" wrote in message
...
Interesting. I never uninstall the old drivers. I always just install
the
new ones over the old ones. Never had a problem. I've been doing this
for
about two years now

I agree you shouldn't *have* to uninstall first, and sometimes maybe you can
get away with it... but on the couple of times I've thought "sod it, I'll
install over the top", I've had no DX acceleration in windows and had to
uninstall, reboot, install, reboot and it's then been ok.

Neil

On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:41:12 GMT, "Bill Larcombe"
wrote:


It's always *best* to uninstall the old drivers first but but why should one
have to. Is it really that difficult to create a driver package (or any
application) that you can install over a previous setup maybe by
uninstalling old files first?

BillL


That's one of the reasons I prefer to use Omega drivers, he has
designed the package so you don't need to uninstall the old drivers.