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Originally Posted by Petey the 3rd
Do you remember which driver you used? Maybe it could help me.
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sorry this is late
I kept posting and the weaksauce login timeout arrgh . . .
Notepad FTW.
anycase I was using 8.4 driver, it was a CD driver. I have other CD's for other 2 ATI's (they were giving them away from work for free) I got.
It worked with IL-2. I tried 8.2 and 8.6 and those work also but the 8.4 works for some other games.
The next part is kinda long, so if your part of the TLDR crowd, its optional.
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My experience with ATI / AMD
ATI has been a flipping hassle. Before IL-2 became the only game I play.
I had to set up 3 different boots of XP w/ different ATI drivers. One was for FPS / Half Life 2. Another was for MMO / RPG's. World of warcrack, mass effect, knights of the old republic, lord of the rings online. The final was IL-2. I had to tweak the card settings.
Then I got one nvidia to play them all. And it was straight out of the box.
I was cleaning out my old pentium 90 mhz and saw my notes for the diamond steath card incident and began to experiment w/ the ATI again and found the 8.4 works.
But 8.4 doesn't like Knights of Old republic or Lord of the rings.
I used to love AMD / ATI. They were cheap and AMD was even faster (at the same price). Then the multi core AMD fiasco came, and they bought out ATI, and the quality went down on both fronts
AMD / ATI are more finicky. A year ago at work, this new hire, a ambitious prick type of coworker tell me he could do our inventory management cheaper.
So the boss fell for his pitch and he bought 100 ATI cards and AMD chipsets. He builds them using the cpu fans and PSU's we used for our normal builds (intel based). I told him he'd need a new PSU wattages and better cooler fans.
I told the boss the new machines would have issues and we didn't test ATI's with the graphics programs.
The AMD's keep crashing due to heat and low wattage. One even cooks the motherboard. ATI's work fine except for our graphic designer / architect depts, so eventually I find a driver that works.
The guy didn't even do one build to test (Normally we research a build, then build one, run it for a year or six mo's, then order sets of 100).
So boss goes back to our usual builds. He Ebays + gives away some to IT the ATI + AMD sets, fires the new guy. Then he busts a Goering on Galland and lets me go for not warning him and for conspiring to get IT to get free goods.
yay economy