ATI drivers suck THE MOST cock of all

Hey 4chan

The GF's computer is running a 256mb Radeon 9200 and I can't get the damn thing to stop locking up. The system is my old 1.2ghz celeron box running on some old Via motherboard. Randomly, no matter what the AGP acceleration is set on (1x, 2x, or 4x) the card crashes and tries a VPU recover, ultimately just turning off graphics acceleration.

I'm almost sure this is a driver issue. I'm using the latest Catalyst driver version without the shitty multimedia center, so it's just the control panel and the driver.

No matter what I do, I can't forcibly replicate the problem. It just happens randomly.

What do I do, /comp/? I am going to hear a lot of shit if I can't fix this.

it could just be overheating, you sure it has sufficient cooling?

Obviously one isolated case of computer failiure means that all software/hardware involved is inferior.  Way to be a faggot.

On my old GeForce2, if I overclocked it too high (read: more than 5MHz), it tended to make the computer hang.  I vote for heat.

My ATI card was locking up a lot, turned out it was the AGP slot that was fucked up, not the card or drivers.

have you tried the omega drivers?

>>1
See if it's not what >>2 said.
Then try what >>5 said.
Then make sure you have the latest Service Pack (it does matter!) and VIA 4in1 drivers.

I'm trying the Omega drivers now. Thanks for that, >>5, I didn't know there were any good third-party drivers.

I am sure there's sufficient cooling. The AGP slot might be bad, but since that's extremely difficult to diagnose I'm just going to assume it isn't.

>>3
OBVIOUSLY this is the only ATI card I have ever owned in my entire life and I've never EVER had problems with ANY other ATI card EVER. I am basing my ENTIRE opinion on this ONE isolated incident. I am not being sarcastic. You are a cunt, amirite?

Why does everyone else seem to have problems with ATI cards, and not me? Have you been a good little gamer and "tweaked" it?

FYI, I've heard that VPU recover tends to decrease stability, not the opposite. Also check that fast writes are off.

I've never had a problem with my ATi card, either.  I kept up on the latest Omega drivers for my card, and I've yet to have a problem with it, even when overclocking within reason.

Then again, I've never had a chronic problem with any particular brand of hardware anyway.

Msot people I talk to who have problems with ATi video cards NEVER FUCKING READ THE MOTHERBOARD SETUP SECTION.

They either have fast write enabled, or on a rare occasion have IRQ sharing going on. If your video card is sharing an IRQ with just about any other device, you're going to get constant lockups.

>>8

I, too, have been using ATI cards since the first Radeon (no number on the end), no problems.  And I use ATI's drivers.  Shrug.

omega driver didnt do shit for me. so i just use the official catalyst