Hi Sparx100,
If the new drivers are not working on your system, you can roll them back:
Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
the adapter, select Properties > select Driver tab and then click:
Roll Back Driver.
If that doesn't work for you use Windows XP System Restore:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/using/howto/gethelp/systemrestore.asp
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Cheers, *Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User*
Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
Visit my MSN Games and Windows Gaming Help Site:
www.msce.mvps.org
MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
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Sparx100 Wrote:
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| "Jimmy S." wrote:
|
|| Hi Sparx100,
||
|| Updating video card drivers can solve most gaming issues. Here's some
|| simple abc's to always keep in mind. a. Shut off download accelerators,
|| firewalls and antivirus programs when downloading or installing updates;
|| b. Check for game patches:
www.avault.com/pcrl/patches_list.asp?letter=a
|| c. Make sure you meet the game's minimum video and system requirements;
|| d. Check for known issues with your video card at the game's web site.
||
|| 1. Before you update your drivers, I recommend that you update DirectX
|| from:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx/default.aspx
||
|| Please look over the ATI articles about their latest driver on the download page.
|| They list Installation Tips, Fixes, and Release Notes with important information.
||
|| 2. Download the latest Catalyst driver for ATI Radeon or All in Wonder Card:
||
|| Win XP/2000:
http://ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html
|| Win 98/Me:
http://ati.com/support/drivers/winme/radeonwdm-me.html
||
|| 3. Save the .exe driver in My Documents\My Drivers\ATI
||
|| 4. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||
|| 5. Click Start / (settings) Control Panel / System / Hardware
|| Device Manager / expand +Display Adapters / right click on
|| the adapter, pick "Uninstall", and click No if asked to reboot.
||
|| 6. Use Control Panel / Add-Remove programs to uninstall the
|| previous driver (exe)software which may have been installed.
||
|| 7. Restart the computer in Safe Mode by pressing the F8 key
|| about once every second as it's rebooting to pick Safe Mode.
||
|| 8. If Windows prompts you to install the adapter, click "Cancel".
||
|| 9. Double click the ATI driver we saved to My Documents\ My
|| Drivers\ATI folder in step 3 to install.it. If it complains about
|| Windows Logo Certification just click "Continue". This is normal.
||
|| 10. After you reboot, go to Control Panel / Display / Settings and
|| choose 32 bit Color Quality, and 800x600 or higher Resolution.
||
|| TROUBLESHOOTING:
||
|| Test your drivers using DXDiag: Click Start / Run / type: DXDIAG
|| Click the "Test" buttons in the Display, Sound, Music & Network Tabs;
|| If any of the Display options are Disabled and you cannot Enable them,
|| your most likely solution would be to update your Chipset Drivers as per
|| my website:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/nibblesnbits/Video.html#v11
||
|| Your program might not support dual monitors, or "dual head" video cards
|| You can disable the extra video output in your display properties control
|| panel. Click Start>Settings>Control Panel>Display>Settings>Advanced.
||
|| Along with your Video card, Sound Cards, Motherboard Chipsets,
|| and Video Monitors may also require updated drivers. Even your
|| motherboard's BIOS may need to be updated for compatibility with
|| your Video card. These steps are listed at:
http://NibblesNbitsVideo.tk
||
|| Perhaps the old ATI drivers did not completely uninstall. If that's the
|| case, use these utility to completely uninstall the drivers and go to step 7:
||
http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/ (works for all cards including nvidia)
||
|| The latest video drivers sometime don't work with a particular game.
|| (Check the Video suggestions in the readme.txt file in your game folder/CD)
|| If there's no suggestions, try an older (WHQL) driver, and/or if you still
|| experience problems try a Beta driver, or even an Omega driver instead:
||
|| BETA Drivers:
http://download.guru3d.com/
|| OMEGA Drivers:
http://www.omegadrivers.net
||
|| There you have it, if you have any questions feel free to post them!
||
|| --
|| Cheers, Windows_XP_MVP_Shell/User
|| Jimmy S.
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com
||
|| Visit my MSN Zone.com and Gaming Help Site:
http://mvps.org/nibblesnbits
|| MS Games Help and Support Center:
http://support.microsoft.com/?pr=gms
|| My advice is donated "AS IS" without warranty; nor do I confer any rights.
|| _________________________________________________________
||
|| Sparx100 Wrote:
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||| "Jerry" wrote:
|||
|||| You go here
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html and select the
|||| appropriate items and download the latest drivers
||||
|||| ||||| I desperately want to play Ahriman's Prophecy and games that are similar.
||||| However, when I download them and start them up they crash my computer and
||||| briefly flash a message saying there is a problem with the ati2dvag driver
||||| and that "device driver is stuck in an infinite loop." I have Windows XP
||||| with
||||| ATI Radeon xpress 200m series. I attempted to update or fix the problem at
||||| ATI's website but I am somewhat simple when it comes to computers and
||||| cannot
||||| find where and what to download exactly. Could someone help?
||||
||||
|||| Well, it didn't work... when I tried to install it, it said "Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA driver
|||| before running setup"... what does this mean and what do I do?
||
||
|| Jimmy S.
| ... No offense, but now I'm royally screwed. I have uninstalled my ATI
| display driver, and when I tried to install the update it said i needed a
| standard VGA drive. Now my display on my compute is vertically stretched and
| fuzzy. I really would appreciate it if you helped me fix it.
