Best drivers for Radeon 8500 (General & KOTOR)

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paillet

Hello everyone,

I had HUGE lag times and kept getting STUCK when walking around
in Star Wars - Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) using ATI
latest driver 3.10.

So I went back to driver version 3.7 and now everything runs
smoothly (touch, it's pure velvet ! ;).

I also read here and there that 3.7 is definitely the best version
of the ATI drivers for Radeon 8500 cards.

So if you want performances AND stability go for it !

"THREE dot SEVEN" !

BTW, I use the omega ones found at http://www.omegacorner.com
because there are less bugs crawling around than in the official ones.

ENJOY !
 
The 3.7s are the best but KotOR still locks up occasionally and my PC
is rock steady otherwise. For example at the Yavin Space Station I tried to
take my crew out in pairs to strip off armour and weapons before going to
the merchant to
sell old stuff and upgrade - I wanted to take out 2 / strip / go back and
get another 2 ...
the game crashed when trying to reenter the Ebon Hawk without fail.
Truth is KotOR is a Nvidia kiss ass game.
 
SORRY !

Telling you that 3.7 solved my problem
in Knights of the Old Republic was a MISTAKE !

In fact, the culprit was my USB DSL MODEM !

I didn't realize until then that it is such
a RESOURCE HOG => -28% at 3DMark2001 when
it is connected to my PC !!!

So I went back to 3.10 and when I play to KOTOR
I UNPLUG my modem to free resources.

Voilà !
 
paillet said:
Voilà !
Click to expand...

You win the special secret prize for being the first person ever in the
history of this newsgroup to spell that word correctly!

Juast tell me where to send this big wheel of stinky French Livarot cheese
;>)
 
let me get this clearly - you can play the game fine with the
3.7s and your modem plugged in but you prefer to unplug your modem and use
the 3.10s instead ? how does it play with the 3.7s and no modem ? have you
tried that ?
 
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