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Catalyst 3.8 and Battlefield 1942
Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI.
I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? |
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I have the EXACT same problem with the 3.8s. When I hit escape the
menus are all messed up and I can't see my mouse cursor, then when I try entering the game again everything is corrupted. I'm assuming the 3.8 Cats introduced the problem, since it only started happening after I installed them. I also noticed a severe performance hit in BF1942 with the 3.8 Cats. Flying around Mimoceques(Secret Weapons map) really lags, and it never did in 3.7. I'm none too happy with the 3.8s so far. The saved profiles for Direct3D and OpenGl do not work properly either. You select them and apply, but it doesn't actually change the settings. I'm running, Gigabyte 7VAX (F10 BIOS) Athlon XP 2100+ Radeon 9700 Pro Win2k Pro SP4 A revert back the 3.7s will probably fix the issue in BF1942. Hopefully their next driver release will fix this. Indestructible GamerzAlliance.com The White Werewolf wrote in message . .. Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? |
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The White Werewolf wrote in message . ..
Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? I'm having the same problem with a 9800 pro and the new drivers. Must be a driver issue. Go back to 3.7, and see if that helps. |
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"Gatlin" wrote in message om... The White Werewolf wrote in message . .. Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? I'm having the same problem with a 9800 pro and the new drivers. Must be a driver issue. Go back to 3.7, and see if that helps. No problems of that sort here, running the original BF 1942 patched to 1.4x Maybe something to do with the expansion packs? P4 3.2 IC7-G 9800P 3.8 drvs WinXP etc --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 10/09/03 |
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The White Werewolf waxed eloquent in
: Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? So far I'm running the Cat3.8s' with a Radeon 9700Pro, and have no problems with BF. However, I do not have the Secret Weapons expansion. Just played on-line last night. The only problem with BF I run into occasionaly, is a semi-transparent black box at about 2/3 they way up the screen, where the "loading" dialog is. However, I have run into this before, with older Catalyst drivers, so I think it's a BF issue. System Specs: Motherboard: Soyo KT400 Dragon Ultra Platinum CPU: AMD Athlon 2600+ running at its default speed Memory: 768Mb DDR333 generic Video Card: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: 2x40Gb Maxtor in RAID-0 (system drive) 1x80GB Western Digital (swap and storage) Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Audigy Platinum CD: Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM Memorex 2.4x DVD+RW Nic: Intel Pro1000/MT Other: MSI TV@nywhere TV tuner Win2K Pro SP3, re-loaded less than a month ago. Motherboards on-board audio is disabled. Running BF1942 v1.45, with the Road to Rome expansion pack. Jason A. |
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Yep. Same exact problem with 3.8 driver and 9800 Pro. I also had a similar
problem with Ghost Recon. Reloaded 3.7 drivers and the problem was solved. "Indestructible" wrote in message m... I have the EXACT same problem with the 3.8s. When I hit escape the menus are all messed up and I can't see my mouse cursor, then when I try entering the game again everything is corrupted. I'm assuming the 3.8 Cats introduced the problem, since it only started happening after I installed them. I also noticed a severe performance hit in BF1942 with the 3.8 Cats. Flying around Mimoceques(Secret Weapons map) really lags, and it never did in 3.7. I'm none too happy with the 3.8s so far. The saved profiles for Direct3D and OpenGl do not work properly either. You select them and apply, but it doesn't actually change the settings. I'm running, Gigabyte 7VAX (F10 BIOS) Athlon XP 2100+ Radeon 9700 Pro Win2k Pro SP4 A revert back the 3.7s will probably fix the issue in BF1942. Hopefully their next driver release will fix this. Indestructible GamerzAlliance.com The White Werewolf wrote in message . .. Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? |
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"ginfest" wrote in message news:0X9ib.742225$Ho3.182195@sccrnsc03...
"Gatlin" wrote in message om... The White Werewolf wrote in message . .. Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? I'm having the same problem with a 9800 pro and the new drivers. Must be a driver issue. Go back to 3.7, and see if that helps. No problems of that sort here, running the original BF 1942 patched to 1.4x Maybe something to do with the expansion packs? P4 3.2 IC7-G 9800P 3.8 drvs WinXP etc --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.525 / Virus Database: 322 - Release Date: 10/09/03 Same here just tries original BF 1942 (latest patched version)and it works fine. I wonder if its a expansion pack issue with the new 3.8 driver? |
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I finally got this problem figured out folks.
The whole problem has to do with your monitor refresh rate. You will get this problem if your refresh rate in BF1942 is different than your desktop refresh rate. After I installed Cat 3.8 BF1942 reset my refresh rate in the game to 60hz for some reason. My desktop runs in 85hz. Seems when you press escape in BF1942 the game flashes to your desktop and switches to your desktop refresh rate, then goes back into the game menu still in your desktop refresh rate, when the game is expecting an altogether different rate. This is what causes all the visual garbage. Simply set the refresh rate in BF1942 to the same rate as your desktop and this problem will go away. Worked great for me. You'll have to edit /EA GAMES/Battlefield 1942/Mods/bf1942/settings/VideoDefault.con and change renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 0 to renderer.allowAllRefreshRates 1 to give you the ability to choose a refresh rate within the game. Hope this helps everyone with the problem. --------------------- Indestructible GamerzAlliance.com The White Werewolf wrote in message . .. Ran into an odd problem with the new Catalyst 3.8 drivers from ATI. I downloaded them. Uninstalled the catalyst 3.7 drivers using the ATI uninstall all app located in the install folder. Then installed the new driver set. This required two restarts. Once when i uninstalled the first driver set and again when installing the new set. I went into testng the new driver with various games and all seemed to work fine with the exception of one. Battlefield 1942. I can run the game. select a battle, and play just fine. But if i hit escape to go back to the menu, the menu is corrupted. moving the mouse around will cause further corruption and will lock the system up after a few seconds. I tried evrything i could think of to fix this. disaled all non essential services. I even tried just about every motherboard bios setting i have and none of these seem to effect the problem in any way. Reverting my motherboard to its failsafe defaults only resulted in slowing my ystem down but the graphic corruption still happens in BF1942 when going back to the menu from an active map. The map i was using for this is the Eagles Nest map that comes with the Secret Weapons of WWII expansion. Here is a list of my system load out. Power supply: Antec Truepower 333 watt. Motherboard: Abit KX333 CPU: AMD Athlon 1600+ running at its default speed Memory: 512 megs Crucial brand Registered ECC Video Card: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro (ATI Manufactured) Hard Drive: Western Digital wd1200JB Sound Card: Creative Labs Sb Live 5.1 CD: Pioneer 117 model DVD rom. Nic: 3com 3c905c-tx Windows 2000 Pro installed 2 months ago from a full format of the hard drive. All drivers (sound card, motherboard chipset, video card, ethernet card, etc. .) are the current batch from the hardware manufacturers website. All system bios are current. First off, is anyone else experiencing this problem? And does anyone have any recommendation on how to fix this or at least what the cause of the problem may be? |
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"Indestructible" wrote in message om... I finally got this problem figured out folks. The whole problem has to do with your monitor refresh rate. You will get this problem if your refresh rate in BF1942 is different than your desktop refresh rate. After I installed Cat 3.8 BF1942 reset my refresh rate in the game to 60hz for some reason. My desktop runs in 85hz. Thanks for that, I've only just upgraded from a 4200 to a Crucial Radeon 9800Pro today and haven't been impressed at all. Battlefields is my main game. I tried changing the refresh rates and it didn't work so I lowered my desktop res to 1024x768 and tried with the same res and refresh and thats cured the problem but now the desktop looks crap. On Tiger woods 2004 there is no in-game menu for AA so the only way to do it AFAIK is through the control panel but with AA switched on the screen blanks when you take your shot which is really annoying and puts me right off the game, whats the point of spending £260 on a graphics card if games change their behaviour for the worse in return for improved picture quality. I had the option of playing in 1600x1200 on the Ti4200 plus switching on Vertical sync in the control panel to stop the textures tearing, when AFx8 is switched on, makes the mouse unresponsive so it's impossible to play Tiger Woods with either AA or AF. Overall the graphics were better with a Ti4200 due to the higher resolution. Max Payne 2 runs OK, a little dark at first but changing the Gamma in the control panel helped that. I'm going to test Halo and a few more games tonight but I wouldn't recommend anyone run out and upgrade if you already have a GF4 Ti4200. |
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On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:26:01 GMT, "James smyth"
wrote: Thanks for that, I've only just upgraded from a 4200 to a Crucial Radeon 9800Pro today and haven't been impressed at all. Battlefields is my main game. I tried snip. Go back to the 3.7 drivers, I don't get any of those problems with BF1942 or the TW2004 demo. -- Andrew. To email unscramble & remove spamtrap. Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim messages to quote only relevent text. Check groups.google.com before asking a question. |
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