ATI Device Drivers for XP

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I recently upgraded from a 2000 machine with an nVidia Vanta card to an
XP box running ATI's Radeon RX 300 SE-Guru card (with ABIT stuff). I
have a ViewSonic A91f+ monitor. I am running the monitor at the same
resolution and same refresh rate as before, but it is noticably blurry.
This new video card is many times faster than the old AGP 1x card, but
what gives? Are ATI drivers really so much worse than nVidia? I
noticed something similar with my parents XP machine awhile back, so I
hooked my old machine to it. Their monitor is crystal clear with the
nVidia card running 2000. Is XP really the Win98 upgrade it feels
like? Are there better device drivers for this ATI card, or do I have
to just put up with the XP blurriness?

Thanks.
 
Actually, it's a 2000 upgrade.

Have you checked the ATI site for the latest XP compatible drivers?
 
no said:
I recently upgraded from a 2000 machine with an nVidia Vanta card to an
XP box running ATI's Radeon RX 300 SE-Guru card (with ABIT stuff). I
have a ViewSonic A91f+ monitor. I am running the monitor at the same
resolution and same refresh rate as before, but it is noticably blurry.
This new video card is many times faster than the old AGP 1x card, but
what gives? Are ATI drivers really so much worse than nVidia? I
noticed something similar with my parents XP machine awhile back, so I
hooked my old machine to it. Their monitor is crystal clear with the
nVidia card running 2000. Is XP really the Win98 upgrade it feels
like? Are there better device drivers for this ATI card, or do I have
to just put up with the XP blurriness?

Thanks.
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Personally, I can't think of any technical reason that a different
operating system would make any difference to display quality. That
should be strictly a hardware issue between your adapter and display.
Some of these high performance cards get over clocked which could
conceivably cause a blurry image I suppose.

Have you tried turning off all graphic acceleration in the cards to see
whether you get a sharper image? You may not want to run it in that
mode, but as a diagnostic it might tell you something about the source
of the fuzzy. I really doubt it's XP at the root.

You could also try putting your old card into your new XP box to verify
that the image becomes sharp -- indicating it's the card, not XP that's
the issue.

Good luck...

Bill
 
Bill Martin -- (Remove NOSPAM from address) said:
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Personally, I can't think of any technical reason that a different
operating system would make any difference to display quality. That
should be strictly a hardware issue between your adapter and display.
Some of these high performance cards get over clocked which could
conceivably cause a blurry image I suppose.

Have you tried turning off all graphic acceleration in the cards to see
whether you get a sharper image? You may not want to run it in that
mode, but as a diagnostic it might tell you something about the source
of the fuzzy. I really doubt it's XP at the root.

You could also try putting your old card into your new XP box to verify
that the image becomes sharp -- indicating it's the card, not XP that's
the issue.
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In the past, I had the same graphic hardware get better from Win98 to 2000.

As for testing the old card, the new mobo takes a PCI express video card. No
AGP slot.
 
I too have experienced this. I have a gforce2 mx400 card that was crystal
clear under win98, but under XP, (dual boot) the view seemed to vibrate and
was not so clear, despite the identical resolution and refresh rates (10x7 @
85hertz). I tried the latest nvidia drivers and the latest gainward drivers
as well. I just wrote it off as the XP drivers were probably never given
much attention, after all, the card is over a year old. Its only a 64 meg
card. They've got bigger and better fish to fry now.
Tyler
 
In the past, I had the same graphic hardware get better from Win98 to 2000.

As for testing the old card, the new mobo takes a PCI express video card. No
AGP slot.
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Uhh... If it's a different adapter card, then you weren't using the
same graphic hardware?

Bill
 
In the past, I had the same graphic hardware get better from Win98 to 2000.

As for testing the old card, the new mobo takes a PCI express video card. No
AGP slot.
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Anyhow, have you tried disabling all the graphic accelerations to see
what happens?

Bill
 
no said:
I recently upgraded from a 2000 machine with an nVidia Vanta card to
an XP box running ATI's Radeon RX 300 SE-Guru card (with ABIT stuff).
I have a ViewSonic A91f+ monitor. I am running the monitor at the
same resolution and same refresh rate as before, but it is noticably
blurry. This new video card is many times faster than the old AGP 1x
card, but what gives? Are ATI drivers really so much worse than
nVidia? I noticed something similar with my parents XP machine
awhile back, so I hooked my old machine to it. Their monitor is
crystal clear with the nVidia card running 2000. Is XP really the
Win98 upgrade it feels like? Are there better device drivers for
this ATI card, or do I have to just put up with the XP blurriness?

Thanks.
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Get the latest ATI drivers. Install *exactly* as ATI specifies.

Q
 
Have you recently tested the monitor on a different system, perhaps the
monitor is going bad.
 
If that is a flat panel display you're using, have you enabled Clear Type
fonts ? It sure takes away the blurry fonts..etc.! Right click
Desktop>Properties>Display Properties>Appearance Tab>Effects>select Clear
Type. This solved my double/blurred vision problem. Also do you have latest
Direct X 9.0c loaded?
ATI stays up to date on their drivers.
 
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