What could it be?

August 12th, 2005, 09:04 PM

First of all, hello.... this is my first post here, though I've been reading extensively for a while.

I have installed the 1.5.7 drivers from here, after trying the Catalyst drivers and mobility modder, and the Omega drivers. So far, these seem to work really well. I get excellent frame rates in Doom 3, Call of Duty, Brothers in Arms, Halo PC, and other games I have tried.

I also get great frame rates in Battlefield 2... until I get artifacts, a black screen, or a frozen computer. No other game does this. Now... I've read here about the 60 hz refresh issue, and from what I can see, I have that disabled. The only place I can edit that is under the REFRESH LOCK setting on the ATI Tools control panel. I read somewhere about looking under display settings, but I get a "Your device is not supported," error. Not sure why that is.

Before I installed the drivers, I did a complete uninstall of the old ones, including using drive cleaner, removing directories related to the drivers, cleaning out the registry, and doing the normal control panel uninstall things... so that's not likely going to be the issue.

I have an Acer Ferrari 4005 notebook with the mobility radeon X700 card. 2 GHZ, 1G Ram, 100 GB Hard Drive.... I have spent a lot of time on notebookforums.com, and talked to other Ferrari owners. Most of them seem to have managed to get BF2 running somehow, but are not particularly adept at explaining how.

So, basically, Help! Is there something else I can check, or something I'm not doing in regards to the settings of 60Hz thing?

August 12th, 2005, 09:06 PM

Oh... one other thing. I have done not modding or overclocking to the card. Everything is running stock from the factory, other than the new drivers.

**Regeneration** · August 12th, 2005, 09:38 PM

Try to use RefreshForce for the 60hz bug. About the Artifacts try to watch the GPU temps. oh and btw BF has alot of bugs.

August 12th, 2005, 10:42 PM

Isn't the 60hz bug the thing that has to remain unfixed in order for BF2 to work?

Here's another thing... Far Cry refuses to run most of the time, and when it does, solid colours are in place of textures in a few areas, and the colours and lighting are totally whacked. Then it goes black and hangs the system.

**Regeneration** · August 12th, 2005, 10:50 PM

Sounds like GPU issue, Try to disable Fast rewrites and reduce AGP to X4. if it doesnt work, try to underclock the GPU core/memory.

August 12th, 2005, 11:57 PM

I had disabled Fast rewrites on install... I think. I don't see where I can reduce the AGP though. Where would those two settings be? Is it somewhere in the ATI Tray Tools?

I managed to underclock the GPU a bit and drop down hardware acceleration by two notches. That allowed Far Cry to stay alive on the options screen and the video demo, but it dies the second it tries to load a level and run it.

**Regeneration** · August 13th, 2005, 12:05 AM

This problem occurs only with the NGO modified driver or with all of them?

August 13th, 2005, 12:34 AM

All of them. On reading about the Omega drivers and problems, it mentions that if things are not working, to check if the SmartGart features are set up or not. When I look at that, I get a "No AGP card could be found," error message. Since I'm running an Acer Ferrari 4005 notebook with Mobility Radeon X700.. should this be working on mine? If so, what do I need to get this portion working, cause that may be the answer and the reason why all drivers are not working properly.

I should mention, that at one time I had the Omega drivers installed and running fine in BF 2... no crashes or anything. But then I tried to change some settings and totally bunged something up. So I've been trying to get them or others back in place ever since. They have refused to install, so I've moved onto the ones here, as they seemed really good and work grand in other games and applications. Once again, is this related to the AGP issue?

August 13th, 2005, 02:01 AM

Here's an example of what the game does, just before it dies on me.

http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/5628/bf18qg.jpg

Chaos · August 13th, 2005, 02:23 AM

That looks like it may be heat related, make sure you have good air circulation in you case or pop the side off the case and aim a fan at the inside of the case and see if it still happens