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Point me in the right direction? New ATI owner, ex Nvidia owner
Yup, I've converted. Ex Nvidia owner now has a 9800 pro 128 in my
machine. I did a driver clean up. installed that latest drivers from ati's site. Now, I'm wondering what tricks there are 1. What are the best version drivers to use? 2. What is the best overclocking program to use. Is there a faq for the ati overclocking? I'm not familiar with the ati stuff yet. |
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Newf !!! wrote:
Yup, I've converted. Ex Nvidia owner now has a 9800 pro 128 in my machine. I did a driver clean up. installed that latest drivers from ati's site. Now, I'm wondering what tricks there are 1. What are the best version drivers to use? Always the latest, unless you know that a specific problem has been introduced for a particular game in a late version. (ask or read here if you have problems) 2. What is the best overclocking program to use. I like ATItool, finds errors better than trying to spot them youself. Is there a faq for the ati overclocking? I'm not familiar with the ati stuff yet. Dunno. Ben -- A7N8X FAQ: www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html Questions by email will likely be ignored, please use the newsgroups. I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String... |
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"Newf !!!" wrote in message ... Yup, I've converted. Ex Nvidia owner now has a 9800 pro 128 in my machine. I did a driver clean up. installed that latest drivers from ati's site. Now, I'm wondering what tricks there are 1. What are the best version drivers to use? 2. What is the best overclocking program to use. Is there a faq for the ati overclocking? I'm not familiar with the ati stuff yet. A lot of us like the Omega drivers. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Comes with an Overclocking utility built in. |
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A lot of us like the Omega drivers. http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Comes with an Overclocking utility built in. And a great tool to set graphic settings FOR EACH APPLICATION on itself :-) So in games like Vice City you can raise the anti aliasing high while in Farcry keep the original settings. Damn usefull at times... |
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"Newf !!!" wrote in message ... 1. What are the best version drivers to use? ATi does a pretty good job at improving drivers while stomping out bugs. Personally, I'd grab the latest as they probably are the greatest. Other than that, I can't recommend a specific driver. 2. What is the best overclocking program to use. I use a great little utility called RadLinker which I'm suprised I don't hear about more often from others. This allows you to overclock, set per game visual settings (have game A run at Higher AA level with no ansio while game B runs at lower AA level with Ansio on, for example), and several other goodies that practically all the good utilities have. The two primary things about this utility it's freaking easy to use and it uses no memory whatsoever. With most utilities, in order to setup per game settings you have to go to display properties and change things or use a utility in the tray icon. With radlinker, you adjust the settings for an individual game by going to it's shortcut in the start menu and right click on it. The first time you do this, you'll see two new menu items with an ATi symbol next to them, one of the says custom settings. Click this. Then, right click on the shortcut in the start menu for the game again. This time, go to properties. You'll see new tabs at the top now. You can set the visual settings for the individual game now. You can even set overclocking settings on a per game basis if you want although I set that in the video setup/display options myself. Do the above for each game. So freaking easy. Bottom line: you want to set up per game display settings, just right click on the game name in the start menu. Another thing I like about this utlitity is that it doesn't use any memory. Most utilities load a service or something that runs in the background everytime you boot up. Not this utilitiy. It saves memory!! Here is a link if you're interested. http://www28.brinkster.com/chrisww1942/ Chris Smith |
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Hi,
I have only been using ATI (9800) since last August, and only recently have I began to overclock the card as it was so good at stock!. Anyway I can 100% recommend ATITool + Cat 4.5's. ATITool will *intelligently* test/overclock your card for you, pumping the MHz up until it find errors then it will lower the MHz until it can run a preset amount of time error-free. I have used Cat 3.7 for ages, just worked well for me, but just this week I have switched up to Cat 4.5, everything still works well and the control panel is improved. You can find out more about ATITool he http://atitool.ocfaq.com/ and you can download the Cats he http://www.ati.com/support/products/...usdrivers.html I began life in ATI land using a Sapphire Atlantis 9800 (325/290) and after using ATITool, flashing to a Pro BIOS and adding an Arctic VGA-Silencer my 9800 now runs faster than a 9800XT (440/390), that's +115MHz on the GPU and + 100MHz (200DDR) on the Sammy 3.3 memory. People used to kick sand in my face as I am a graphic-card-overclocking nOOb, but thanks to ATITool I can now flex my silicon muscles! -- Wayne ][ |
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"Wayne Youngman" wrote
I have used Cat 3.7 for ages, just worked well for me, but just this week I have switched up to Cat 4.5, everything still works well and the control panel is improved. Err, as an ATI-newbie I'm a bit confused... Is the latest control panel compatible with all the previous driver versions, or do I have to downgrade control panel to "match" the driver? |
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Aki Peltola wrote:
"Wayne Youngman" wrote I have used Cat 3.7 for ages, just worked well for me, but just this week I have switched up to Cat 4.5, everything still works well and the control panel is improved. Err, as an ATI-newbie I'm a bit confused... Is the latest control panel compatible with all the previous driver versions, or do I have to downgrade control panel to "match" the driver? Yes you do, as stated in the driver downloads area at ATI. McG. |
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"McGrandpa" wrote
Err, as an ATI-newbie I'm a bit confused... Is the latest control panel compatible with all the previous driver versions, or do I have to downgrade control panel to "match" the driver? Yes you do, as stated in the driver downloads area at ATI. Apparently I am blind. How "handy", with control panel that makes ATI driver pack about 20 megs in size, compared to Nvidia's drivers that are about half of that and include all stuff needed. Well, I have used the latest v4.6 control panel with v4.4 drivers (because of messy graphics in Thief3 with v4.6 drivers) till now and haven't encountered any problems... luck?-) |
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Aki Peltola wrote:
"McGrandpa" wrote Err, as an ATI-newbie I'm a bit confused... Is the latest control panel compatible with all the previous driver versions, or do I have to downgrade control panel to "match" the driver? Yes you do, as stated in the driver downloads area at ATI. Apparently I am blind. How "handy", with control panel that makes ATI driver pack about 20 megs in size, compared to Nvidia's drivers that are about half of that and include all stuff needed. Well, I have used the latest v4.6 control panel with v4.4 drivers (because of messy graphics in Thief3 with v4.6 drivers) till now and haven't encountered any problems... luck?-) Hah! I don't know; I've just done as the ATI sites instructions say to and used the control panel they say to with each of the drivers. McG. |
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