Ati driver problems, and Agp acceleration

G-Uni7

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Seeing Hl2 is nearing, it'd be great if some of you could answer some of these noob questions ;\

I have the default catalyst's for my 9600 SE, therefore dl'ed the 4.11 Catalysts. I uninstalled the old defaults, and went through the installation for the 4.11's. I got 2 errors;

"INF error
Video driver not found."

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"Setup was unable to complete the installation.
Try to setup your display adapter with a standard VGA
driver before running setup."

After that, I just said screw it, and system restore back to my defaults. I got no problem with them, and get like 50-100 fps on Cs:S.. but many people claim to have 10fps boost etc. from drivers. Just anyone know what's wrong, though?

Also, when I install the 4in1 VIA drivers, AGP Texture Acceleration then enables.. But when I enter ANY game, after bout 10 seconds of playing it'll put my monitor on standby claiming 'Input not supported', making me have to hard reboot. That REALLY sucks, so anyone got an answer?

Sorry for the sucky questions, but I want Hl2 to run to the max if possible ;(

If ya need Specs:

AMD Athlon 64 3.1GHz
768Mb RAM ~ DDR, PC2700 - I think 2700..
Sapphire Radeon 9600 Atlantis SE.

Cheers for any replies.
 
Sorry i cant answer your questions (try asking on rage3d.com if you cant get an answer here) but...
G-Uni7 said:
AMD Athlon 64 3.1GHz
Surely you mean 3100+ (1.8ghz)? Imo, your video card is really holding your system back. Just get rid of it if you can afford an upgrade.
 
Reaktor4 said:
Sorry i cant answer your questions (try asking on rage3d.com if you cant get an answer here) but...

Surely you mean 3100+ (1.8ghz)? Imo, your video card is really holding your system back. Just get rid of it if you can afford an upgrade.

Sorry, typo there. 1.8Ghz, yup. :o

I'll try Rage3d, cheers. Umm, I just upgraded my processor, fan, and ram and I'm not exactly rich so I might wait off until Christmas for a 9800 pro 256mb or so? I don't know, I'll see. Thanks for the help :thumbs:
 
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