IL-2 Random Crashes,ATI video card

[KG26_Alpha]

There's a problem with OGL in the latest ATI drivers.

[workky]

with me it happens with 9.8's.Not so much but also happens with 9.7's.I try and go back to the original ones i had,i think they were 9.5"s.I dont like the new control panel anyway

[hiro]

Yeah usually I got back to another driver.

I remember the old school diamond stealth would only work for games with its beta drivers.

My friend has ATI card, and it hates IL-2. He swapped it for a Nvidia, and it works fine.

My 256 ATI won't run ROF, but my Nvidia will.


My X1650 I had to get certain driver for IL-2 to work.


Lets just say for my next PC build, its going to have Nvidia SLI or PCIe . . .

[Petey the 3rd]

Originally Posted by hiro

My X1650 I had to get certain driver for IL-2 to work.

Do you remember which driver you used? Maybe it could help me.

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[KG26_Alpha]

The 7.11 cat was the best for the older cards IIRC

x1950 pro
x1650

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

The 7.11 cat was the best for the older cards IIRC

x1950 pro
x1650

Does anyone have any idea which Ati drivers are best for more modern cards? I mean, in respect to the gunfiring graphical glitches, and Open GL compatibility?

[rakinroll]

Guys, i am using x1950 Pro and really need to know best Catalys settings pls. Thanks...

[brando]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

Does anyone have any idea which Ati drivers are best for more modern cards? I mean, in respect to the gunfiring graphical glitches, and Open GL compatibility?

I have a 4890 and was experiencing all the bad effects like artefacts, blue lighting and worst of all, the FMB crashing! I just went back to the Catalyst 9.5s and everything is just fine.

B

[hiro]

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

[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by hiro

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

That suxs I would have taken him to court... And taken his job...Gone over his head with the owners...