RADEON 9200 video card question.

[FalconSS]

Just purchased this card installed loaded Aces High, and wow awesome graphics, took off to get an air view of these graphics, when approaching enemy field I see parts of the runway disapearing and reapearing the objects on the field all stayed in place and looked great, can some one help please and thanks.

[FalconSS]

Please.

[Skuzzy]

Did you load the drivers from ATI's WEB site, or from the CD which came with the card?

What in-game settings are you using?

[FalconSS]

I used the CD, Graphic Detail is at default, Resolution is 1280x1024 and Max texture size is set at 512, these two settings were done by the card, also I don't have any of the preloads set.                                                                                                    P.S. I've found that unchecking the Hardware Vertex Proccessing  box solves the problem of the disapearing runway but effects the graphics, makes things square and blotchy.

[Skuzzy]

Turn the resolution back to 1024x768, set the maximum texture size to 256, get the latest drivers from ATI's WEB site, and in the ATI control panel set the slider in the '3D' tab to one notch left of center.
Also note, do not install the Catalyst Control Center.

That card is basically an ATI 8500 card. only slightly slower.  With the settings you are running, the card will be thrashing a bit.

[Tilt]

ATI  latest drivers do not support this card (9200) under Win 98SE and Win Me.

This exact problem was discussed at length in the early AH2 bug forum and eventually HT stated he could not find a fix.

The symptom is one where runways and other ground objects continually redraw them selves as you move over them or fly over them........

In the end  I dumped this card from Shifts PC for an equally cheap but significantly more effective GForce 5700 128 LE.

So it seems that if you have XP then download the latest drivers.........if you do not then go get a better card.............

[Skuzzy]

Ahhh.  I did not catch it was 98/ME.  Most companies are stopping driver updates for those two operating systems.

[FalconSS]

I have XP Installed drivers from website, fixes the runway problem but turns the horizon black any suggestions?

[Skuzzy]

This is odd.  That used to happen on my old 8500 I have here.

I just realized ATI has released new drivers.  I wonder if that bug crept back in.  Falcon,..I checked my old 8500 and it has the Catalyst 4.4 drivers installed.

Give them a try and see what they yeild.

EDIT;  At home, I think I am using the Catalyst 4.12 driver with my X800XT card.  I'll have to check when I get home.

[FalconSS]

Its working great now, 4.4 drivers were it, Thank you Skuzzy. <>

[Skuzzy]

So that old bug has crept back in.  I wonder if it effects all ATI Radeons, or just the 92xx cards.

[Kanawa]

I have a Radeon 9250 card here.  Just reinstalled the game after reformatting and I have the some problem.   Black horizon and black dots instead of reds and green.   I I go into ingame settings and look at coulor for teams and ennemies the big square stays black no matter what I do.

[Skuzzy]

Which Catalyst drivers are you using Kan?  I would like to know if the 4.12's cause the problem as well.  The 4.12's work fine with the X800 family.
Kan, you might have to go back to the 4.4's as well, but let me know which drivers you are running first, thank you.

[Kanawa]

Here Skuz

Catalyst_51_Suite then updated to wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-10-050119a-020581c but no change

[FalconSS]

Skuzzy I just noticed last night that the shoreline and transitions between tiles flicker and disapear, I tried rolling back to earlier drivers but they all have the same effect, funny thing to that everthing was working just fine till last night any ideas?