Topic: Device failure in windows xp home (Read 9470 times)

Dash Jones · « **Reply #40 on:** February 10, 2003, 04:05:27 pm »

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i have got an LCD moniter, but i can run SFC 2 Orion Pirates, i have got another pc that it works on but i'd rather play it on this one

Now that is funny. Yes, there is a bug with certain actions with LCD monitors that cause something akin to what you are talking about. Don't know if that's what is causing your problem or not. You'll be happy to know I have no clue what the solution is. Sorry bout that if that truly is the cause.

PS: Thought I should add, not funny as in humorous, more of the ironic sort, as I was just reading about this type of bug recently, which is why I asked about the LCD monitor thing. Can't recall the exact context, but it had some relation to SFC3 if I recall in chancewise of what it could be. Very very ironic. Once again, sorry, didn't do enough research and reading into it to find out if anyone had found a solution or workaround for it yet. I don't have one if you were unfortunate to actually have that as what you are experiencing. You could verify if it's your monitor or something else perhaps by trying a different monitor and/or drivers.

USSDelta · « **Reply #42 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:01:15 am »

the other pc i can play it on has an lcd to, but that has no prblems, it does sometime freeze but thats just the pc being stupid

and i dunno how to downgrade them drivers

USSDelta · « **Reply #45 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:01:52 pm »

ah, i done the direct x diagnostic thing, and tried direct3d test, and it came up that the display driver isn't compatable with direct3d 9

that could be the problem

also, how do i attach a file on here, i'v no experince with ubb

[RS]Cincinnatus · « **Reply #46 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:31:04 pm »

HEHE, the past few posts since my post have been boggling because of various responses to MY problem and to USSDelta's problem.

Anyway... about -my- problem

Here are the results of various tests people have presented:
I followed the "uninstall drivers, reinstall dx9, reinstall drivers" procedure. Same error

I tried downgrading to the latest reference drivers for Catalyst (2.5). No go.

I then tried DX 8.1 and Catalyst 2.5 (by doing a massive system restore back to December 17th.) The problem was fixed, but the reason I upgraded to DX9 and Catalyst 3.0 is because I needed them to fix several errors and enable several features. If reverting to ancient drivers that do not incorporate the following necessities...

run Armada 2
use truform
use fast writes
play Asheron's Call 2 and Serious Sam 2 without SERIOUS display corruption
allow 16x Anisotropic Filtering
run things 24% slower according to all benchmarks and tests
allow over and underclocking
properly display vid card and RAM temperatures
properly read my video RAM as 128mb ddr instead of 64mb sdr
stop the random hard drive demounts (yes- ouch )

....is the only way I can get my system to stop crashing, I may as well reformat my hard drive to clear out the ATI drivers and pop my (slower) GeForce 3 in, as it will probably end up running faster than the Radeon 9700 on Catalyst 2.5, and the GeForce will CERTAINLY have fewer bugs (I used the Geforce 3 for almost 2 years and after the very first driver patch I never had any graphics-related performance OR stability issues, anywhere, and I am a hardcore gamer and graphics editor. Perhaps what I need is a "faster" GeForce, as long as the same rock-solid stability remains.)

So please, what is your secret? How can I get these "WHQL certified" [ha! hahahahahaha!] Catalyst 3.0 drivers to work?!

BTW: to try one last suggestion by a poster, I will include the dxdiag readout now. Edited to reduce the length of this already long post. Hey, considering the size of some peoples' signatures+pics, this isn't TOO bad.

Many thanks to any who have actually read the DxDiag report even if you don't have any suggestions

EDIT:There is a problem with attaching files here. Apparently, according to the FAQ, you can't.

I'm not going to post it here because it is gigantic, it will take up almost an entire page of this thread. Ridding myself of frustration is not worth a whole page.

But on the other hand.. if anyone really would like to help I can email it to you... post your email here if interested... TIA!

USSDelta · « **Reply #47 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:41:11 pm »

goto start - run then type in dxdiag, when the bar at the bottem of the screen has vanished goto the display part, then click on test direct3d, if it comes up about something about your display drivers not being compatable with direct3d 9 then goto your graphics card manufacturers website and download the latest drivers, install them and run the test again, you shouldn't have any problem with direct3d, that may have been the problem, i'll get back to you on that

USSDelta · « **Reply #48 on:** February 11, 2003, 02:55:29 pm »

IT WORKS!!!!

Rod O'neal · « **Reply #49 on:** February 11, 2003, 03:06:16 pm »

After reading this post I went to ATI's site and found that there are newer drivers and control panel available. Released yesterday. Seems like USSDelta allready found them though. Anybody else having probs might want to check it out

USSDelta · « **Reply #50 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:19:21 pm »

mine aren't the most upto date, but they work fine, so does SFC 3, that works perectly(finaly)

Dash Jones · « **Reply #51 on:** February 11, 2003, 06:30:28 pm »

Glad to hear they work. My drivers have been working fine on the ATI...but I also have refrained from upgrading to DX 9 yet due to some things I had heard concerning it. If the new drivers are clearing things up, I might finally upgrade to it...maybe.

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