NGOHQ 7.3 no Ati Smart installed

Shadow Lady · April 28th, 2007, 06:56 AM

welll after some months on not having updated drivers I went from a normal 6.12 drivers to 7.3 everything was going ok, but when I got to change AAGP to 4x, there was no SMARTGART tab anywhere so I intalled ATT to change it, after I did so I restarted and there was no hardware acceleration, went to ATI CP and found out the SMARTGART was there now but when I tried to use it I got "ATI Smart isnt available please reinstall display drivers" and I did many times without any luck, no idea what is wrong

gonna try to install 7.2 and 7.1 if available and see if i get better luck

Dyre Straits · April 28th, 2007, 08:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Shadow Lady

welll after some months on not having updated drivers I went from a normal 6.12 drivers to 7.3 everything was going ok, but when I got to change AAGP to 4x, there was no SMARTGART tab anywhere so I intalled ATT to change it, after I did so I restarted and there was no hardware acceleration, went to ATI CP and found out the SMARTGART was there now but when I tried to use it I got "ATI Smart isnt available please reinstall display drivers" and I did many times without any luck, no idea what is wrong

gonna try to install 7.2 and 7.1 if available and see if i get better luck

You've been away awhile I assume.

Regeneration has removed the SMARTGART from the drivers since "AGP is Dead".

You're not the only one fussing about it.

IModIntel · April 29th, 2007, 05:27 AM

Thats not RIGHT. I have PCI-Express but i still think we sould keep up support for AGP because there is a lot of people with excellent systems and AGP slots.

Shadow Lady · April 29th, 2007, 07:45 AM

ya as i said i hadnt even updated drivers since 6.12, need to run 4x agp or else my pc dies after 15mins use >.<

welll I guess that's it for me and NGO drivers, i seriously dont want to upgrade my machine just for driver update heh...

was fun till it lasted :P

Alnath · June 12th, 2007, 05:14 PM

Looks like i am shafted as well, the NGO drivers are the best i have used i must be honest but now i cannot install any other driver at all as no AGP speed is being reported and fast writes are turned off what seems like permanantly.

I have run various driver cleaners and registry cleaners to no avail

Dyre Straits · June 13th, 2007, 08:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Alnath

Looks like i am shafted as well, the NGO drivers are the best i have used i must be honest but now i cannot install any other driver at all as no AGP speed is being reported and fast writes are turned off what seems like permanantly.

I have run various driver cleaners and registry cleaners to no avail

You should try the latest Omegadrivers. There's an option to turn ON or OFF the Fast Writes and I'm sure the SmartGart is still present, too. But, I'm not using AGP based systems to test that on at present.

OmegaDrivers.net - Home of the Omega Drivers for ATI & NVIDIA desktop/laptop cards. By: Omegadrive

Or, go to the Files here and look for the latest ones. Rege even posted about them yesterday in the News section.

Alnath · June 13th, 2007, 05:38 PM

It was trying them that made me see the problem mate, the AGP speed is simply reported as off, i did get fastwrites to be on but to be honest i am not overly bothered in them being on or off, i cant say i have noticed much difference eitherway. Installing the latest DNA drivers just fails to do anything at all and the latest cats just go in to a loop turning the monitor on and off

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The NGO drivers install first go everytime though so at least i can have decent performance still so its not all bad

Dyre Straits · June 14th, 2007, 07:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Alnath

It was trying them that made me see the problem mate, the AGP speed is simply reported as off, i did get fastwrites to be on but to be honest i am not overly bothered in them being on or off, i cant say i have noticed much difference eitherway. Installing the latest DNA drivers just fails to do anything at all and the latest cats just go in to a loop turning the monitor on and off

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The NGO drivers install first go everytime though so at least i can have decent performance still so its not all bad

Have you checked for updated motherboard BIOS and Chipset drivers for your system?

Mac Daddy · June 14th, 2007, 12:22 PM

Just stepping in quick as Alnath and Dyre mentioned Omega Drivers. If you are using them make sure your Bios settings are set as he suggested all drivers are a bit different and he mentioned this to me years ago

OmegaDrivers.net

Go to Quick Menu / Mother Board BIOS optimizations

Best of luck with your issue

Alnath · June 19th, 2007, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Have you checked for updated motherboard BIOS and Chipset drivers for your system?

Yup, everything is bang up to date with the latest stable releases.

The NGO drivers have always performed better then the Omega drivers for me anyway so with some look the good people that do the business will release a new optimised NGO driver soon.