Still Having ATI Troubles

Greetings, fellow CBers.... seems like this patch hasn't solved all the ATI problems.

I've got an ATI Rage 128 Pro video card, and the driver installation package has driver for support for 3 cards: The Rage 128 Pro, the Xpert 98/2000, and the Xpert 2000. With ether of the Xpert drivers, No Limits won't even load (it crashes when it loads the OpenGL driver), and with the Rage drivers, I get a frame rate of 1 fps.

I'm running WinXP, I've got the most recent drivers and all patches/updates for DirectX, motherboard drivers, sound card drivers... ALL drivers are up to date.

Any thoughts, then? I've got a ful page of options in my OpenGL preferences, and here's how they're set right now:

Optimization Preference: (Quality or Performance)? Quality.
Convert 32 bit textures to 16 bit? No.
Enable KTX buffer? Yes
Enable page flipping? Yes
Force 16 bit Z-buffer? No
Disable dithering when alpha blending? No
Wait for vertical sync? No
Subpixel Precision? (2 or 4)... 4

See anything wrong here? I don't either.

I've tried running the simulator and editor's executables in XP's Compatibility Mode, and I still get the same thing.

I'm out of ideas. Help!

-Ken

The only thing I can recommend is looking into getting a new video card.  You can get a GeForce 2 MX400 for pretty cheap.  If you want higher performance, I'd look into a GeForce3 Ti200.

-Jeff

http://americacoasters.com

I e-mailed Ole recently and he said that if you're hacing problems like this to get the drivers directly from the manu. and to not rely on Windows' drivers.  if you haven't done this, try it.  if you have then you might have to get a new vid card.  I know Ole's advice helped me, but I have a GeForce2.  good luck.
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Drivers from ATI would be your best bet, but there in lies the problem:  you're relying on ATI to produce good drivers which they don't.  nVidia are still the reigning champs at building drivers, and as mentioned a GeForce card is really the way to go for NoLimits and gaming in general.

-Ride_Op

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I've got ATI's drivers. They still suck.

And getting a new video card is not really an option, as I'm trying to afford college, too.

I was hoping I could do this on the software side, not the hardware one. Anyone know any 3rd party OpenGL drivers?