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Fixed bug: new driver causes ati advanced display options to disappear
Hi, I recently had a problem when I used Microsoft's Update thingy and
upgraded my ATI display driver. The problem was that the advanced ATI options which are supposed to appear when you right click on the background or go to control panel, then to display properties, then to settings then to advanced. The extra features such as opengl, direct3d, etc. were not there. Just the standard windows generic tabs. This ****ed me off to no end because I wasn't able to select my tv so that I could play a DVD on my machine and have it show up on the television, because you can only do that with the 'advanced' proprietary ATI feature set. I tried to roll back the driver then realized it was the second time I had updated the driver and the previous update was faulty too. So what I did was (after trying about 1.5 zillion other things) I went into the video card's driver area and completely UNINSTALLED the driver, then rebooted. The machine came up with some lame ass vga screen in XP and then said "RADION 320m found" or some such crap. So I clicked on the little popup and proceeded to reinstall the ORIGINAL driver by selecting the "install manually" option (not automatically install), then "select from a list" (not select from any drives or anything).. the ATI RADEON 320M popped up as the only option on the list, I selected it, it evidently reinstalled the original driver that came with XP SP1, I rebooted, and all the original options were back. Just so's you know I have an HP Pavilion ze 4300 (ze4325) with the ATI RADEON IGP 320M display. Hope this helps because I'm sure others have this problem as well! It really ****es me off!! Everybody always says "oh make sure you have the latest drivers" well that's bull**** if the companies can't even make the updates right. So if it ain't broke don't fix it, and only update your drivers if you have a problem. Got it? B |
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