ATI RADEON 9800

[Exxccessive 0]

I just bought a new pc with an ASUS board and ATI Radeon 128

everytime i fire up a game (I.E. NBA LIVE 2005) it just keeps on loading and then nothing happens and loading... loading... loading... and then freezes (something did happend. it freezes!!! yes!!! argh)... grrrrrrr..... i tried to load dx diag, fired the test, enabled this disabled that etc etc, every test returns good. i tried to play a movie and "whew, catherine zeta jones realy rocks." the movie went well, catherine went well.

 

oh please can anyone give me a helping hand

 

please

 

send me an angel.............

 

thanx in advance

 

NOBLE SOULS

[Malaris 0]

DOes this happen with other games, or is it just NBA 2005?

[Exxccessive 0]

ALL Games... my friend....

[Malaris 0]

First stop would be to download the latest drivers

[ScinteX 0]

If Directx is a happy bunny (in dxdiag) then I guess there are 2 things to do:

 

1 - Verify what version of DirectX your games need (usually 8 but some newer ones need 9, 9b or 9c), and check this version in dxdiag.

 

2- Go over to ATI.com and download the latest drivers. On my 9800XT I use the driver below. This one doesn't use Catalyst as I find Catalyst comes with a load of bloat and needs the .NET framework.

 

Visit (For Windows XP):

 

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=27

 

And download the driver next to "Display Driver, Control Panel, WDM Integrated Driver".

 

Install that and it might play ball.

 

 

EDIT: If you follow the link above, it doesnt take you to the driver. Therefore:

 

Click the above link

Select your OS (XP in my case)

Select Radeon

Select CATALYST 5.4 Windows XP - Driver Download

Then download the driver described above. At time of writing it's 24.6Mb in size.

 

[bdf1215 0]

Hi there guys, I have a very similar problem, but can't seem to get my card to work. I likewise have a Radeon 128 (Sapphire 1024-1C47 and am having driver issues. I am running an Athlon 2400 on a VIA motherboard with KT266/A and KT333/A chipset. I am using 2x256 memory (speed unknown) and am using XP Home Edition.

 

After installation, my computer automatically installed a generic driver. After downloading the driver for my Radeon card, I installed Microsoft netFX and then ran the installation program for the driver and rebooted. My system still says I am using a generic driver, however.

 

I have run dxdiag and it passes the DirectDraw test, but disables DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture Acceleration because it claims that I am using a generic driver (vga.dll). Catalyst does not recognize a graphics adapter, but my device manager shows that I have the latest driver.

 

It also is using the Radeon 9800-secondary device instead of the Radeon 9800 device. Both of these are using the lastest drivers. I have tried earlier drivers and I have also tried a different hard drive swiped clean.

 

Can anyone help me? Hopefully there is an obvious oversight I can fix. Thanks.

 

 

P.S. Congratulations, you have just read the longest post in the history of the internet (sorry for the very long post)

[theefool 0]

Hmmm, APK use to have huge posts.

[ScinteX 0]

lol APK sure did!! I am getting there lol (not this one tho its qute a short one) hehe

[Shadow64Bt 0]

Well, that's a new one to me. You say it's running of the secondary for the card? Are you using the TV-out? A flat panel? Try reinstalling the drivers as well.

[thatsteveguy 0]

Originally posted by bdf1215:

Quote:

Hi there guys, I have a very similar problem, but can't seem to get my card to work. I likewise have a Radeon 128 (Sapphire 1024-1C47 and am having driver issues. I am running an Athlon 2400 on a VIA motherboard with KT266/A and KT333/A chipset. I am using 2x256 memory (speed unknown) and am using XP Home Edition.

 

After installation, my computer automatically installed a generic driver. After downloading the driver for my Radeon card, I installed Microsoft netFX and then ran the installation program for the driver and rebooted. My system still says I am using a generic driver, however.

 

I have run dxdiag and it passes the DirectDraw test, but disables DirectDraw, Direct3D, and AGP Texture Acceleration because it claims that I am using a generic driver (vga.dll). Catalyst does not recognize a graphics adapter, but my device manager shows that I have the latest driver.

 

It also is using the Radeon 9800-secondary device instead of the Radeon 9800 device. Both of these are using the lastest drivers. I have tried earlier drivers and I have also tried a different hard drive swiped clean.

 

Can anyone help me? Hopefully there is an obvious oversight I can fix. Thanks.

 

 

P.S. Congratulations, you have just read the longest post in the history of the internet (sorry for the very long post)

 

 

 

Did you install the via hyperion drivers (those are the via driver chipset drivers which includes the AGP bridge)

I used to get errors like that if I forgot to install the via drivers before the video drivers.

 

S