I'm thinking of doing 90% miniDV editing and 10% gaming (Microsoft FS). Do I really need to worry if my card has 8, 12 or 16 pixel pipelines? As for memory, does 256 vs 128 really make that much difference? FWIW, I'm leaning towards the Ati 9800 Pro w/256 megs for around...

I really did it this time... So I was looking up new drivers for KOTOR2 on omega's site cause I heard they handled KOTOR best. Well I also came across their collection of BIOS'. I saw there was a newer one then mine and said 'screw it, ill upgrade'. Well things didn't go as planned, I run the...

Hi, I'm putting together a system that's going to be located in a bedroom and frequently used for watching TV on. Accordingly, it's in a Sonata case with 120mm fans and doesn't make much noise. I've got all the components selected apart from the graphics card. Bang for buck is the main objective,...

Is a 9800 pro overclocked to a 9800xt equal in performance?

My fully patched UT2004 crashes whenever there's too many dynamic-light-generating objects around. Whenever it crashes, the screen cycles a while between grey and blue, then turns to black and returns to BIOS POST. There's no BSOD, just plain blue. Whatever sounds were playing before the crash...

So what's up with these Catalysts? With all of them I get the same kind of checkered texture corruption in several games (Silent Storm, Mafia, UT2003) which only gets worse the longer I play. This seems to occur only if I use high...

System info: WinXP Pro/SP2, AIW 9800 Pro So I upgrade MMC to 9.06.1 and first time I try to run the TV tuner, the machine reboots. So I upgrade to the latest Catalyst driver. Now I'm getting a "Cannot initialize video" problem. So I reinstall the MMC update...

Here's my setup: Epox EP-9NDA3+ AMD 3000+ CPU 1 Gig DDR400 (2x512) 2 Matrox 160 Gig SATA Drives (RAID 0) on SATA 1 & 2 Matrox 60 Gig ATA133 Drive on Primary IDE Sony DVD RW on Secondary IDE ATI Radeon X700 Pro Windows XP Pro w/SP2

Hello, I'm thinking about upgrading my 9600 AGP video card. I see there is a big price difference between the 9800 pro and x800 pro. Is there much of a performance difference on the two 256mB AGP versions? Thanks

I've decided to go with a Radeon 9700 Pro for my newest build, and I have been wondering if it's necessary to use the y-cable that shipped with the card, or if I can simply plug in an unused power connector for a 3.5" floppy? I can save a considerable amount of money buying a card without the...

I have seen numerous posts about this, but I just wanted to see if I was right in diagnosing this issue My specs are listed at the bottom of this post. In Doom3 (the demo), I get little 'pauses' quite often, more so when opening doors etc but also just when moving along with no real change (that I...

Anybody else find that ATI video cards' TV output ability unsatisfying? Smyptom: - image does not fill the whole screen of TV, - image greyish, color not vivid - subtle rolling bars moving cyclically from bottom of TV screen to the top Video cards: AIW9000 pro, 9800 pro. (NOT used at the same...

The graphics is worse than on a Commodore 64, better buy one of the much superiour nvidia cards! ATI = Assholes Try It !

I have WINXP and recently installed an ATI Radeon video card 64mb. When I try to play a dvd it says: "Windows Media Player (v.9)cannot play this DVD because a compatible DVD decoder is not installed on your computer." Nero 5.5 says nearly the same thing. I had an Nvidia card previous to this one...

I have an Abit 9600XT 256mb VIVO card. When I start up the computer cold, the video output has mass quantities of horizontal white lines that garble the display. After about 5 minutes, these go away and the display is ghosting with small black horizontal lines. After about 30 minutes, the...

Hi, i recently bought an Excalibur Radeon 9600 (256 mb), but no matter which Motherboard (Asus A7N8X-E, Asus A7v880) I try it on - it crashes (VPU overload) the same second I install Catalyst Drivers.. Anyone had simular experinces ? Perhaps even a solution ? Thanks jorgen

I run a Sapphire 9600 Pro All-In-Wonder on a XP Pro with SP1 machine,I have no plans to install SP2. I'm also just about to format so thought I'd get latest drivers and software from ATI's site but I notice the latest one (4.11) needs SP2 to be installed, so does anyone know what is the latest...

Can someone tell me how to tell if my X800 Pro is VIVO? (supposedly you can overclock it to XT stats only IF it is a VIVO) I read about doing this on a website ... and that site said to insure you have a VIVO look for a YELLOW connector on the inside edge of the card. If it is there, then it is a...

I have put together a new machine consisting of... Intel D865PERL + 3.0ghz P4 w/800mhz FSB + newest drivers 2gb Corsair TwinX XMS 2-2-2-5 4 WD 74gb 10krpm Raptors (2-raid 1=C:-System, 2-raid 0=E:-Temp) 2 WD 200gb 7200rpm (raid 1=D:-Data) 2 Plextor 712 DVD burners 1 Mitsumi card reader...

I thought this would be the card to beat the complex Heathrow + 100% Ultimate Traffic + real weather setup in FS2004. My 9800 Pro got about 6-8 FPS in that situation. Guess what - after spending my hard earnt dosh (£325) on this new card - my FPS is the same 6-8FPS! I can't believe it, this...