Just bought a Radeon 9600 pro... seemed fine. Can finally run bf42 fast!
But then I tried mapping. If I've got HL and Hammer running simultaneously, then I quit HL, the puter hangs for about 5sec on a black screen, and 20% of the time it locks up completely and I need to kick the reset.
Any ideas? It works fine if I havent got Hammer running.
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AMD Duron 1ghz, 512mb sdram, 40gb hdd, MSI mobo 4xAGP
Card is PowerColor Radeon 9600pro 256mb with TV/DVI
I'm using the drivers that came with the card... theyre fairly recent though. I think theyre Cat 4.1, but I'm not sure.
Other than this prob, the card works great. Much better than my old GF2 mx200!
[addsig]Although ATI drivers have gotten better, Omega drivers still seem better and more stable.
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Thanks, I'll try those omega drivers.
I'm running HL in opengl, is that significant? I know hammer uses opengl for the 3d view, so maybe theres a conflict there? I'll try running HL in different modes, see what that does.
[addsig]Ah...that's right, still there are cards that don't like running 2 OpenGL apps at the same time. Yes, make sure you're not running WC/Hammer/AnyOtherOpenGLApp, while running HL
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Yeah, that seems to be it Edge.
Will the omega drivers fix this, or is it a problem on the actual card?
I tried it with HL in d3d and software modes, it does the same thing.
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