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Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: whels on June 02, 2004, 05:31:06 PM

i just got a 9800 Pro. having trouble  installing Cat 4.5s, the CD with 3.5s installed fine. everytime i try 4.5s it goes to low res 4  bit mode and wont change.


any tricks to installing new Cats?

Whels

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: TequilaChaser on June 02, 2004, 05:45:25 PM

did you follow instructions on ati website and remove all existing cat drivers and extras first then reboot then install and reboot again?

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: whels on June 02, 2004, 06:05:32 PM

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Originally posted by TequilaChaser
did you follow instructions on ati website and remove all existing cat drivers and extras first then reboot then install and reboot again?

yep , ill try again.


Whels

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: TequilaChaser on June 02, 2004, 06:06:57 PM

delete the new drivers ( 4.5 ) and redownload them may have got a bad file transfer

Title: Re: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: DAVENRINO on June 02, 2004, 06:14:14 PM

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Originally posted by whels
i just got a 9800 Pro. having trouble  installing Cat 4.5s, the CD with 3.5s installed fine. everytime i try 4.5s it goes to low res 4  bit mode and wont change.


any tricks to installing new Cats?

Whels

You can use Driver Cleaner 3 -
http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/
I just used DC installing the Cat 4.5 and Nforce 4.24s.
It works great, just follow the instructions exactly and I use the included Cab cleaner option, as well.

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

Title: Re: Re: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: whels on June 02, 2004, 07:20:47 PM

Quote

Originally posted by DAVENRINO
You can use Driver Cleaner 3 -
http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/
I just used DC installing the Cat 4.5 and Nforce 4.24s.
It works great, just follow the instructions exactly and I use the included Cab cleaner option, as well.

DJ229 - AIR MAFIA

thanks for help guys, got 4.5s in finally.

now in AH1(prob be same AH2)  when i turn up AA the
chat text and video/fps into at top gets hard to read.
is there a way to make it more readable? its fine no AA.

Title: Re: Re: Re: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: TequilaChaser on June 02, 2004, 07:27:46 PM

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Originally posted by whels
thanks for help guys, got 4.5s in finally.

now in AH1(prob be same AH2)  when i turn up AA the
chat text and video/fps into at top gets hard to read.
is there a way to make it more readable? its fine no AA.

Whels,
did you transfer your settings from AH1? or not? maybe need to check which font size you have loaded in AH2, just a suggestion, you may have already done this.

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: DAVENRINO on June 02, 2004, 09:28:40 PM

WHELS,
Make sure you are looking under the Direct 3D options.  AF makes my text blurry, so it is set to App pref but text looks great with AA x 4.

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: 214thCavalier on June 03, 2004, 09:17:05 AM

AF in AH1 definitely makes the text blurry with Radeons.

For me at least in AH2 AF actually makes the text better.

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: Eagler on June 03, 2004, 09:55:35 AM

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Originally posted by 214thCavalier
AF in AH1 definitely makes the text blurry with Radeons.

For me at least in AH2 AF actually makes the text better.

what card, res, video settings?

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: whels on June 03, 2004, 10:52:11 AM

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Originally posted by Eagler
what card, res, video settings?

thanks for auggestions and help.  as it turned out Ansitropic
was the culprit. turned it off and both AH1 n 2 text cleared back
to normal even with AA @ 6x.

Eagle its a ATI 9800 pro 128ddr Cat 4.5s  running AH 1 n 2 @ 1280 res. getting 60 to 100+ in AH2 (think i need more tweaking
on vid settings) to get more out of it.

whels

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: Eagler on June 03, 2004, 10:57:41 AM

whels

same here, I was wondering about 214thCavalier's setup as he claims he can use AF

Title: Cat 4.5 drivers
Post by: SunKing on June 03, 2004, 11:22:38 PM

I was able to get the text cleared up when using AA and AF maxed in Aces High. I was using Rage 3DTweak (http://view.atdmt.com/VON/iview/ntshlvon00700657von/direct/01?click=http://netshelter.adtrix.com/click.cgi?c=VON120X600Q204%26pid=RAGE3D%26b=1%26id=380554625762)  and then I followed this Guide (http://atiguide.ionichost.com/the_guide/the_guide.htm)
to optimize my settings. The game and text looked awesome once I did that.