oh dear, what a shambles.

I'll test Crysus to see if hotfix changes anything
on the other hand ... 8.1 brings some major drop in 3DMark06 ... not very good

later:
nope ... no improvement ... AMD/ATi did a cr*p job with this driver release ... I'm feeling it's getting worse by the month

where download i can't download ?? help

Click the download link in Rege's post or got yo the files section here


http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=F...&dwn_cat_id=18

amazing..

This is bollocks, i am sick to the back teeth of ATI and the shit service they have offered AGP owners, my X1950 Pro has not worked right since day one and i am bloody sick ot it.

Smartgart my fat arse, dumbgart more like.



I am putting my 6800GT back in cos at least it works unlike this bag of shite.

Goodbye ATi and VIA and welcome back Nvidia from next week

I have never used SMARTGART .... the X1950 I used is PCI-E based not AGP ... what exactly are the issues you are having ?

No AGP as shown in the image mate, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. I know i will never buy ATI or VIA as long as i live, it is a nightmare combo.

VIA has always been a PITA with ATI cards bro and one thing I had to do with the X1950 even the PCI-E version is go to the ASrock site and update the VIA drivers and also my BIOS on my mainboard.

I was getting like 600 on 3Dmark6 until then and afterwards I was getting around 2500 on this old Prescott based Celeron .. it made a huge difference if you haven't tried that do so

Oddly since i ordered the new mobo last week this Ati and VIA combo has worked a treat and on the odd occation it does start with no AGP it is a simple tell it to retest and it works again rather than spending half an hour to get it going, talk about ghosts in the machine

I am sending the new stuff back cos i have no need for it if this is going to work like it has been doing over the last few days, the only thing i have done is install the latest omega driver with the new icons, installing the same version but with the old icons made no difference to the AGP nonsence.

I am slightly confiused but at the same time quite happy LOL

LOL thats the way it goes but on AGP / ATI and VIA I always look after VIA first ........