Catalyst 5.1 Disaster

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Terry

I installed the new CATALYST Windows XP 5.1 - Driver. Before I
installed this driver, my system worked flawlessly. Now I have
several serious problems. Games that worked before will not load and
everything runs very slow and jerky. The system acts like it was
1/10th as fast as befor. The task manger now shows 8% systems system
utilization when nothing is running (it used to show 1%).

I tried reinstalling the old driver but nothing changes. Any
suggestions as to what to do now?

My system:
Video Card Radon 9700 128M w/TV out
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model Dimension 8250
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~2386
Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A01, 10/22/2002
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB


When I try to load City of Heroes I get the following messages:

You card or driver doesn't support GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_multitexture
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_texture_compression
Tells me that I have an unsupported version of Radon 9700 or
drivers.

When I try to load Vampire Bloodline I get the following message:

Unable to init shader system

Terry
 
I installed the new CATALYST Windows XP 5.1 - Driver. Before I
installed this driver, my system worked flawlessly. Now I have
several serious problems. Games that worked before will not load and
everything runs very slow and jerky.
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Did you do a clean install or did you install over the top of your previous
version?

Tom Lake
 
Solved my own problem. There is an uninstall program supplied by ATI
locaced in the program folder:

C:\Program Files\ATI Techmologies\UninstallAll\AtiCimUn.exe

This rips out all ATI software.

I rebooted, ran the Catalyst Install program, and everything worked
fine. Previously I installed the MS .NET Framework referened in the
ATI instructions.

Terry
 
Terry said:
Solved my own problem. There is an uninstall program supplied by ATI
locaced in the program folder:

C:\Program Files\ATI Techmologies\UninstallAll\AtiCimUn.exe

This rips out all ATI software.

I rebooted, ran the Catalyst Install program, and everything worked
fine. Previously I installed the MS .NET Framework referened in the
ATI instructions.
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Many people (myself included) prefer to not use the CCC - they use the
"older" but more usual control panel style drivers, which is smaller, faster
and does everything you need.

Ben
 
by the sounds of it, the problem you had was that hardware directX
acceleration was disabled. Normally I install a new driver straight over the
top of the old, but occasionally I experienced what you have described. You
have solved it now, by using the ATI uninstall program and reinstalling, but
I expect that if you had run dxdiag, it would have reported no hardware
acceleration for DirectDraw and Direct3D, hence your terrible performance.

To echo someone else's post I given up on the CCC and gone back to the
traditional control panel, it's smaller and quicker and does the same job,
without the overhead of the .net framework, which none of my other software
needs, *yet*.
 
Terry said:
I installed the new CATALYST Windows XP 5.1 - Driver. Before I
installed this driver, my system worked flawlessly. Now I have
several serious problems. Games that worked before will not load and
everything runs very slow and jerky.
Click to expand...


I had the exact same problem. Did full uninstall and reinstall twice, but
same result. HL2 and Riddick got jerky as heck after 10 seconds or so.

Glad you got it working, but I finally gave up and went back to 4.12 and
everything was fine again.
 
Smart Feet said:
I had the exact same problem. Did full uninstall and reinstall twice, but
same result. HL2 and Riddick got jerky as heck after 10 seconds or so.

Glad you got it working, but I finally gave up and went back to 4.12 and
everything was fine again.
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Only time I had that problem was when I installed new drivers without
un-installing the old ones. After un-installing old then re-installing new
problem was fixed.
5.1s work fine for me.
 
Ben Pope said:
Many people (myself included) prefer to not use the CCC - they use the
"older" but more usual control panel style drivers, which is smaller,
faster and does everything you need.
Click to expand...


Agreed.
 
Terry said:
I installed the new CATALYST Windows XP 5.1 - Driver. Before I
installed this driver, my system worked flawlessly. Now I have
several serious problems. Games that worked before will not load and
everything runs very slow and jerky. The system acts like it was
1/10th as fast as befor. The task manger now shows 8% systems system
utilization when nothing is running (it used to show 1%).

I tried reinstalling the old driver but nothing changes. Any
suggestions as to what to do now?

My system:
Video Card Radon 9700 128M w/TV out
OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Manufacturer Dell Computer Corporation
System Model Dimension 8250
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 2 Stepping 7 GenuineIntel ~2386
Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Dell Computer Corporation A01, 10/22/2002
Total Physical Memory 1,024.00 MB

When I try to load City of Heroes I get the following messages:

You card or driver doesn't support GL_EXT_compiled_vertex_array
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_multitexture
You card or driver doesn't support GL_ARB_texture_compression
Tells me that I have an unsupported version of Radon 9700 or
drivers.

When I try to load Vampire Bloodline I get the following message:

Unable to init shader system

Terry
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if it aint broke......
 
Hi Terry

Perhaps your problems with 5.1 are due to the fact that you
do not have Win2K Service Pack 4 installed. I think I remember that
this is a mandatory condition before installing Catalyst 5.1 or 5.2 as well
as having Microsoft's .NET framework installed too with all recent
patches.

Here it works just fine.

Legolas
 
Legolas said:
Hi Terry

Perhaps your problems with 5.1 are due to the fact that you
do not have Win2K Service Pack 4 installed.
Click to expand...

That won't install on top of XP SP2 :-p
I think I remember that
this is a mandatory condition before installing Catalyst 5.1 or 5.2
as well as having Microsoft's .NET framework installed too with all
recent patches.
Click to expand...


You don't need .NET if you don't use the CCC, but use the normal Control
Panel instead (smaller and faster)

Ben
 
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