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ATI Radeon 9000 Pro and game
Recently I had a video card/driver problem when playing "Sherlock Holmes,
Silver Earring", an adventure game. The game ran ok till quite near the end of the game. But when I exited and or entered a certain door, the game crashed and I was kicked to the desktop. When I tried to play the game again, it said check video drivers and "game caused an invalid page fault in bink32.dll" Module XXX- that file is one of the game files. I checked Display, and found that my enhanced video drivers had disappeared, like Smartgart, 3D, and others. Only basic drivers were left. I re-formatted the hard drive 4 times over the next two weeks, trying various Catalyst drivers and 4in1 Via drivers. But every time I tried the game, the same thing happened. Asus A7V8X-X Wom 98SE Radeon 9000 Pro.128MB 256 RAM DirectX 9b Catalyst 4.2 Via 4in1 drivers 4.53 On a game forum, some people had crashes at the same place as me but none had the severe problems as I had. I met all the requirements for the game.I've played games (mostly adventure) for the last 14 years and nothing like this has happened. I played two recent games with similar requirements with no problems. The game seemed to trigger a problem with the video drivers, but I have no idea why. I emailed the game developer and he blamed my ATI 9000 Pro and said he had a problem with an ATI 9000 (non Pro) when playing "Call of Duty" with crashes and lost files. He also said they had problems when game testing with ATI cards and don't use them and said Nvidia cards were more stable. (the box suggested ATI or Nvidia video cards). He sent me a saved game to get past the part where the game crashed. I am very curious to know if anyone here has ever had a similar problem with enhanced video drivers not being available any more when playing a game. Thanks. Chris |
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Yes, with same card up to the 4.3 drivers. Once I switched to the Catalyst
4.6 or 4.8 drivers, that problem went away. One thing .. you cannot have fast writes enabled. With the correct drivers CoD and MOHAA both ran perfectly with no further problems. Make sure you do a clean install of the 4.8 drivers. Also I don't think the 4.11 drivers are really out of beta yet. Also, Win98 is really the pits for games. Everything runs in software, and is just too slow. Worse, you don't have enough ram to run Donkey Kong ... 1 gig is mandatory for CoD. johns |
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