O(V)eGA_l2el) Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 I currently have a Radeon 8500--64mb video card. I have had some trouble with the drivers on certain games (ex: UT2k3) I have heard alot of people having trouble with Radeon drivers. When will ATI make their drivers stable and compatible with most of the programs and games? I also have a Geoforce4 MX 440 --64mb DDR/OpenGl 1.3/DirectX8.1/ in my closet, im thinking of using that for awhile until ATI get their drivers stable...what do you think? I need to find out the clock speeds of the Geoforce4 MX 440 first to see which is better, my Radeon 8500 or Geoforce MX 440 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calyco Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 Which driver version are you using? If it is under 3.2 upgrade to the 3.4. Those are the newest from ATI. Try those if you don't have them and see if they give you problems. Other than that tell me more info buddy. And I think the 8500 is a better card off the top of my head. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxrider623 Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 Their newer cards: 9700 and above don't have driver issues but I don't know if you can get good drivers for that card. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LobbDogg Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 Your ATI 8500 is DEFINITELY better than the Geforce 4 Mx440. Yeah try the 3.4 drivers. I'm surprised your having problems with it, when I had mine I didn't have any problems with the card. Except when I OC'd it too much and then it was toast. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVE Posted May 26, 2003 Posted May 26, 2003 I need to find out the clock speeds of the Geoforce4 MX 440 first to see which is better, my Radeon 8500 or Geoforce MX 440 Just because the clock speed is higher doesn't mean that it's better. Look at the 5800 Ultra and the 5900 Ultra. The 5800 has higher core and memory frequencies, but the 5900 0wns it. There's a lot more that determines a cards performance than just clock speeds. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
O(V)eGA_l2el) Posted May 27, 2003 Posted May 27, 2003 I agree with you. There are alot of things to take in account such as the type of ram(ex:sdram,ddr), amount of ram, cooling, chipset, drivers and other features. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Djaxxx Posted May 27, 2003 Posted May 27, 2003 Truth is that ATI still hasn't been able to release decent drivers for any of their cards...I work as a test-engineer in a multimedia test-lab, and we encounter difficulties with ATI drivers on a daily basis. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Citation4444 Posted May 27, 2003 Posted May 27, 2003 Truth is that ATI still hasn't been able to release decent drivers for any of their cards...I work as a test-engineer in a multimedia test-lab, and we encounter difficulties with ATI drivers on a daily basis. Oh boy, a techie trashing ATI drivers. (by the way, I'm a techie too. Want to compare credentials?) Care to give up any more details of your discoveries, or do you just want to throw this in and run. For my take, and I've used 3dfx, Matrox, nVidia, ATI and other cards of all sorts, I find the latest ATI drivers among the best I've used. I do gaming, not multimedia. But from what I've read, the ATI multimedia stuff blows the nVidia multimedia stuff away. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsfan Posted June 2, 2003 Posted June 2, 2003 the download site says the 3.4 drivers have issues running with the 9000 pro............which sadly is what i have, no update for me Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayvio Posted June 7, 2003 Posted June 7, 2003 i have an 9700 and when i updated to the most recent drivers on the net. i started having problems. so i had to go back to the origanal ones that came with the card Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingsfan Posted June 9, 2003 Posted June 9, 2003 you could've done driver rollback if the last set of drivers weren't having problems either Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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