zme-ul

I don't know at the moment who's to blame but ... I have major issues with this release
in BF2 with resolution set to 1280x1024, the ground textures goes black, also tail rotor on choppers is a black square, smoke from a "injured" aircraft is a trail of solid black (not smoke), the text (when I press tab) it's black and unreadable ... and it crashes alot (BSOD)
but ... in 1024x768 I had none of this issues

I'm now testing the Omega's release of 6.7 and see how it goes

laster edit:
with older Catalyst I do not have the issues I described above
the current driver seems to have some bugs

T1125P

Hi anyone try to dowloand the ATI 6.8 with just the CP? I been trying since friday, but it seems the link has been down, keep getting page not found. Maybe theres an alternative link?

zme-ul

today I should get the AC Accelero X2 and redo the tests
I find out that day (sunday) was the hottest day of the year ... the GPU temp got to an awsome 70+ degrees Celcius

zme-ul

although I can't put my finger on it ... there is something wrong with this release

here and now I make a recommendation to Regen': do ot use this release for an future ATi NGO modded drivers

Mac Daddy

Good call Lyno and good advise Rege

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prockp

Ok, this is weird, but since upgrading to the ATI Catalyst 6.8 with CP drivers, my login screen for Windows 2000 sometimes makes me login twice. Yes, you heard right... login once, then login screen appears again, and have to login a seond time before getting to desktop.

This was happening on my old computer for a few weeks (and the second login would cause a cpu 100% loop which required a reboot to try to login again) and I thought it was virus, trojan, etc. related, but low and behold, it's now occuring on a brand new computer build / install. Both systems have been through extensive virus, worm, trojan checking and nothing wrong on either. All I can think of is that it's these Catalyst 6.8 drivers. Nothing like this problem has ever occured on any machine I've repaired or built, so it's gotta narrow down to something installed recently.

On the new build, recently = 2 days ago on fresh hard drive / system install. Anyway, I'm gonna dump these 6.8's with CP and go with Omega 6.6 or something and report back.

Ok, UPDATE:

I got rid of the 6.8's with Classic Control Panel and grabbed the NGO Driver 1.6.6, installed them on both comps, and the odd login twice problem has disappeared from both computers. So strange when glitches like these take a few days to start developing on your rig; makes tracking stuff down ambiguous to say the least. Anyhow, something very odd going on with either the 6.8's in general, or the 6.8's with Classic Control Panel... buyer beware.

wsmaal

Started with ATI Catalyst 6.8 and Catalyst 6.9 (recently) I have increasing problems (suddenly random halting my XP/SP2 system and ran in bigger problems) with the ATI Radeon drivers for the X1300 Pro (purchase august 10th). The XP system event viewer thinks that there is a problem with the display driver (ati2mtag) or malfunction of the X1300 Pro:

The driver %3 for the %2 device %1 got stuck in an infinite loop. This usually indicates a problem with the device itself or with the device driver programming the hardware incorrectly. Please check with your hardware device vendor for any driver updates.

I have uninstalled now any ATI drivers from my system and installed the Omega Radeon driver, based on Catalyst 6.7, for my X1300 Pro (rad_w2kxp_omega_38273). When I ran again in the previous mentioned problems then I think that the X1300 Pro has a problem..