ATI Silencer 1 Rev. 2

[raublekick]

Originally Posted by GT2000

Not sure what to tell you Raub...besides the lock ups...do you ever see any tearing or artifacts in your graphics...or do they otherwise look pretty good?

Have you tried different drivers?

Do you know what your case and cpu temps are like?
(The locking up isn't always graphics card related..)

No tearing or artifacts whatsoever. It always looks super nice. My case and CPU temps are MUCH lower than my old computer.

The games I've tried are: Morrowind, KOTOR, and Doom 3. Each have slightly different problems, but similar enough. Morrowind ran pretty much fine on my old Athlon 1.6GHz (256DDR, GeForce2 64MB) other than crashing to the desktop which is a problem with the game, but it locks up a lot on my P4 2.8GHz (756DDR, Radeon9600 256MB). KOTOR locks up to the point where I have to hard reset and it eventually led to the corruption of my saved data. Doom 3 has various problems, locking up included. Because Morrowind runs worse on a system with specs twice as good and loads cooler, I suspect it is the videocard.

What other ATI drivers are available? I tried the KX Audio drivers for my Audigy 2, but they didn't work as well as the Creative drivers so I'm kinda weray about using third party drivers.

[GT2000]

Weary about using 3rd party drivers...I understand that, but, give the omega ati drivers a shot..here's a link, make sure you uninstall the old ones first...I'll link you to a program for that as well. If you still have the problem, the omega drivers include an overclocking feature, which you may want to actually try underclocking your card some on both the gpu and the mem.

Omega drivers
http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

Driver Cleaner
http://www.drivercleaner.net/

Give that a whir, if still nothing...and you still have that old geforce handy, pop that in and see what happens.

[raublekick]

Ohyeah I remember reading about those. Right now I have 0 games installed with no intentions (or time) to install and play any. But next time I do I'll give them a shot.

How important is it to use DriverCleaner? It's such a long process, I don't know if I buy into it too much.

[GT2000]

Heh..you'll more than likely be ok, but there's always that small percent chance that an old file could conflict with a newer one. But...it only took me about 5 minutes to do when I did it, run it, reboot into safe mode...forget what you do there, only takes a minute, then reboot while not connected to the net still, and then install new drivers.