Radeon 9500 pro/Homeworld 2 Demo

Wow, reposting for the sake of a demo. Are you worried about your hardware
(only reason I can assume that this is so important to you)? I would not
hinge 'any' hardware decisions/analysis based on demos....real world use it
the best demo.

Please elaborate on why it's so important that you run this demo...or,
conversely, why it bothers you that the demo won't run. ****ty code is
nothing to lose sleep over, unless you happen to the the '****ty code
writer' and are worrying about how you are gonna pay alimony when you get
canned

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Waz stood up at show-n-tell, in ,
and said:

I recently tried running the homeworld 2 demo.
It complained about finding an obsolete radeon driver (catalyst 3.5)
but I was able to complete the training level.
The game crashed during the animated sequence prior to starting a
level. It crashed just after the hyperdrive core is installed in
mothership.
Anyhow, this is not the problem.

I decided to make everything happy and install the newest radeon
driver. Uninstalled 3.5, installed 3.7.
The homeworld demo now comes up as a black screen when I start it.
There is some music but that's all I get.
Alt/Tab will cause a split second view of what must be the main menu
before I get dumped to the desktop.
Clicking on the taskbar icon for homeworld either gives a blank
screen or a very very diagonally distorted (with several bits of
mouse pointer all over the place) of the main menu.

Is this the driver, or the demo's fault?

Asus A7v8x, 512 Meg of 333
radeon 9500 pro.

Thanks

--
Strontium

"It's no surprise, to me. I am my own worst enemy. `Cause every
now, and then, I kick the livin' **** `outta me." - Lit

Just as a note, would you be so kind as to set your computers clock. Unless
of course you are sending your message from the future.

"Waz" wrote in message
...
I recently tried running the homeworld 2 demo.
It complained about finding an obsolete radeon driver (catalyst 3.5) but
I
was able to complete the training level.
The game crashed during the animated sequence prior to starting a level.
It
crashed just after the hyperdrive core is installed in mothership.
Anyhow, this is not the problem.

I decided to make everything happy and install the newest radeon driver.
Uninstalled 3.5, installed 3.7.
The homeworld demo now comes up as a black screen when I start it. There
is
some music but that's all I get.
Alt/Tab will cause a split second view of what must be the main menu
before
I get dumped to the desktop.
Clicking on the taskbar icon for homeworld either gives a blank screen or
a
very very diagonally distorted (with several bits of mouse pointer all
over
the place) of the main menu.

Is this the driver, or the demo's fault?

Asus A7v8x, 512 Meg of 333
radeon 9500 pro.

Thanks

Nice message from the future. Your post is dated 9/7/2009




"Waz" wrote in message
...
I recently tried running the homeworld 2 demo.
It complained about finding an obsolete radeon driver (catalyst 3.5) but
I
was able to complete the training level.
The game crashed during the animated sequence prior to starting a level.
It
crashed just after the hyperdrive core is installed in mothership.
Anyhow, this is not the problem.

I decided to make everything happy and install the newest radeon driver.
Uninstalled 3.5, installed 3.7.
The homeworld demo now comes up as a black screen when I start it. There
is
some music but that's all I get.
Alt/Tab will cause a split second view of what must be the main menu
before
I get dumped to the desktop.
Clicking on the taskbar icon for homeworld either gives a blank screen or
a
very very diagonally distorted (with several bits of mouse pointer all
over
the place) of the main menu.

Is this the driver, or the demo's fault?

Asus A7v8x, 512 Meg of 333
radeon 9500 pro.

Thanks

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 09:08:11 -0500, "Robert J. Gonzalez"
wrote:

Nice message from the future. Your post is dated 9/7/2009

Nice newsreader software of the present. (see mangled quote below).
Search for "OE quotefix".

"Waz" wrote in message
.. .
I recently tried running the homeworld 2 demo.
It complained about finding an obsolete radeon driver (catalyst 3.5) but
I
was able to complete the training level.
The game crashed during the animated sequence prior to starting a level.
It
crashed just after the hyperdrive core is installed in mothership.
Anyhow, this is not the problem.

I recently tried running the homeworld 2 demo.
It complained about finding an obsolete radeon driver (catalyst 3.5) but I
was able to complete the training level.
The game crashed during the animated sequence prior to starting a level. It
crashed just after the hyperdrive core is installed in mothership.
Anyhow, this is not the problem.

I decided to make everything happy and install the newest radeon driver.
Uninstalled 3.5, installed 3.7.
The homeworld demo now comes up as a black screen when I start it. There is
some music but that's all I get.
Alt/Tab will cause a split second view of what must be the main menu before
I get dumped to the desktop.
Clicking on the taskbar icon for homeworld either gives a blank screen or a
very very diagonally distorted (with several bits of mouse pointer all over
the place) of the main menu.

Is this the driver, or the demo's fault?

Asus A7v8x, 512 Meg of 333
radeon 9500 pro.

Thanks