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Help and Support Forums => Technical Support => Topic started by: Swoop on August 31, 2007, 07:25:47 PM
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My clouds look like this:
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Read that enabling hardware vertex wossnaming cure's it. Trouble is with that enabled I get random freezes that require a cold reboot to resolve.
system:
AMD 64 dual core 4200
2Gb RAM
Radeon X1950 w/ catalyst 6.14
P.S. Ello Skuzzy, long time no see.
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punt
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Swoop, have you tried newer drivers? There are about 8 newer versions of the driver for that video card. Perhaps one of them will fix it. Just make sure you keep the installer for your current version.
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The curious thing is......I downloaded and installed the latest drivers for the 1950 about 3 weeks ago. But the driver version as shown in control panel never changes.
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if the driver number doesn't change it isn't uninstalling them correctly.
Swoop do a search for driver cleaner. This program helps clear out some of the leftover files when swapping between different drivers.
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http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_3.html
Read the entire page, then follow the steps 1 by 1 and you should have no problem.
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Got around to cleaning driver completely as described and reinstalling.
Most def now have catalyst 7.6 installed.
nuthin has changed.
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With hardward vertex wossname enabled the following appears in event viewer:
Event Type: Error
Event Source: Application Hang
Event Category: (101)
Event ID: 1002
Date: 07/09/2007
Time: 18:34:27
User: N/A
Computer: *****
Description:
Hanging application aceshigh.exe, version 0.0.0.0, hang module hungapp, version 0.0.0.0, hang address 0x00000000.
For more information, see Help and Support Center at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/events.asp.
Data:
0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74 Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 48 61 6e 67 ion Hang
0010: 20 20 61 63 65 73 68 69 aceshi
0018: 67 68 2e 65 78 65 20 30 gh.exe 0
0020: 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20 69 .0.0.0 i
0028: 6e 20 68 75 6e 67 61 70 n hungap
0030: 70 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e p 0.0.0.
0038: 30 20 61 74 20 6f 66 66 0 at off
0040: 73 65 74 20 30 30 30 30 set 0000
0048: 30 30 30 30 0000
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Ok, more PD:
Ive found that now if I set hardware vertex wossname on I can fly in the session that's active. If I then quit AH and run it again later I get hard freezes as described. Seems if I open video settings, turn off hardware wossname, log in and fly a sortie....then quit back out to the main screen, back to video settings and turn hardware wossname back on.....everything is fine.
Skuzzy?
(http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2002-8/48257/Swoop2.gif)
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Ello?
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Swoop, I need to see the output of DXDIAG.
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no worries. Emailed cos it was huge.
Appreciate the assistance.
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Swoop,
A lot of the times video drivers don't uninstall gracefully when you update and you get stuck with mixed versions. I would say go to guru3d and get their driver cleaner http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1275
and reinstall the catalyst drivers... not sure I would use the latest ones, I've had mixed results with NVidia drivers and am using some older ones.
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man thats trippy.. is your pilot on acid or something cuz i think they have strict rules on pilots being on drugs or something...
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I noticed you have a dual core processor Swoop. Can't remember but wasn't it the dual or quad core that was required to be restricted to one core to correctly run Aces High?
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I beginning to think heat or power problems, possibly. Or the video card is on the fritz. This looks like memory artifact problems with the video card.
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installed MBM5. Dont see any heat issues. Not using the overclock facility that comes with the catalyst control center either cos the heat increases pretty quick when ya do.
AH is the only app I get any graphical issues in at all and, as I say, if I screw around with the settings I can get it to run perfectly ok for hours at a time. I just have to switch back and forth on vertex wossnaming to do so.
Havn't tried running AH on just the one core yet, will do so when I get a sec and let you know.
And as per email, I do have the AMD dual core fix installed.
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here Swoop , (stolen from another thread)
Originally posted by Spatula
I tried the cats that came with my X1950pro and they were producing some odd black-out transitions in AH2. Tried the latest, and i got a different odd black-out transition.
Someone suggested to use the NGO drivers. And they worked perfectly, and i got about 25-30% increase in framerates to boot!
Im using the 1.7.2 version, and it comes without the crappy new control panel too :)
http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=9&go=giveme&dwn_id=388
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That's intersting Rosco. I would like to hear the results of this Swoop, that is, if you decide to try it.