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I have always bought ATI cards, and difficulities getting a Radeon to
work with Direct x 9 have led me to discover that consumer support at
ATI has completely collapsed.

Is there any video card manufacturer that provides drivers that work
and and will fix them when they don't?

 

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bagdad wrote:

> I have always bought ATI cards, and difficulities getting a Radeon to
> work with Direct x 9 have led me to discover that consumer support at
> ATI has completely collapsed.
>
> Is there any video card manufacturer that provides drivers that work
> and and will fix them when they don't?

Funny, the rest of the world doesn't seem to be having any problems getting
ATI boards to work with DirectX 9. Perhaps if you stated the problem
someone could help you.

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J. Clarke wrote:
> bagdad wrote:
>
>
>>I have always bought ATI cards, and difficulities getting a Radeon to
>>work with Direct x 9 have led me to discover that consumer support at
>>ATI has completely collapsed.
>>
>>Is there any video card manufacturer that provides drivers that work
>>and and will fix them when they don't?
>
>
> Funny, the rest of the world doesn't seem to be having any problems getting
> ATI boards to work with DirectX 9. Perhaps if you stated the problem
> someone could help you.
>
Well I'm not bagdad, nor according to your comment above am I part of
the rest of the world because I'm having terrible trouble getting my AIW
8500DV to work with DX9. I think the problem is an incompatibility with
the VIA KT266 chip set but I'm not certain. Basically with DX8
everything runs fine. When I install DX 9 I get no sound from recording
TV. I temporarily swapped motherboards with one at the office and the
problem went away. But of course that doesn't really tell me if it's
the motherboard or some other incompatibility. I also have a Promise
raid controller and a Creative Audigy (1) Platinum in my system.

dick

 

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Dick Sidbury wrote:

> J. Clarke wrote:
>> bagdad wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have always bought ATI cards, and difficulities getting a Radeon to
>>>work with Direct x 9 have led me to discover that consumer support at
>>>ATI has completely collapsed.
>>>
>>>Is there any video card manufacturer that provides drivers that work
>>>and and will fix them when they don't?
>>
>>
>> Funny, the rest of the world doesn't seem to be having any problems
>> getting
>> ATI boards to work with DirectX 9. Perhaps if you stated the problem
>> someone could help you.
>>
> Well I'm not bagdad, nor according to your comment above am I part of
> the rest of the world because I'm having terrible trouble getting my AIW
> 8500DV to work with DX9. I think the problem is an incompatibility with
> the VIA KT266 chip set but I'm not certain. Basically with DX8
> everything runs fine. When I install DX 9 I get no sound from recording
> TV. I temporarily swapped motherboards with one at the office and the
> problem went away. But of course that doesn't really tell me if it's
> the motherboard or some other incompatibility. I also have a Promise
> raid controller and a Creative Audigy (1) Platinum in my system.

Generally speaking, if you swap one component for another and the problem
goes away you've found the problem. So the question then becomes whether
is that the particular combination of components you are using simply does
not like that motherboard or if it's something in the motherboard
configuration.

Do you have a spare disk and does the motherboard have onboard sound? If
so, try a clean installation on the spare disk using the onboard sound,
without the Promise or the Audigy and see what happens.

Before you do that get the latest drivers for the 8500DV and your
motherboard, flash the latest BIOS, and set all timings to the most
conservative settings.


>
> dick

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On Wed, 02 Jun 2004 09:45:41 -0400, Dick Sidbury
<drjamessidbury@hotmail.com> wrote:

>J. Clarke wrote:
>> bagdad wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I have always bought ATI cards, and difficulities getting a Radeon to
>>>work with Direct x 9 have led me to discover that consumer support at
>>>ATI has completely collapsed.
>>>
>>>Is there any video card manufacturer that provides drivers that work
>>>and and will fix them when they don't?
>>
>>
>> Funny, the rest of the world doesn't seem to be having any problems getting
>> ATI boards to work with DirectX 9. Perhaps if you stated the problem
>> someone could help you.
>>
>Well I'm not bagdad, nor according to your comment above am I part of
>the rest of the world because I'm having terrible trouble getting my AIW
>8500DV to work with DX9. I think the problem is an incompatibility with
>the VIA KT266 chip set but I'm not certain. Basically with DX8
>everything runs fine. When I install DX 9 I get no sound from recording
>TV. I temporarily swapped motherboards with one at the office and the
>problem went away. But of course that doesn't really tell me if it's
>the motherboard or some other incompatibility. I also have a Promise
>raid controller and a Creative Audigy (1) Platinum in my system.
>
>dick

This is a problem caused by Microsoft screwing up DirectX 9.0b. It's
a known problem and easily solved. I have an 8500DV and it works
perfectly once a 'fix' is applied. Post your problem to
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati and you'll get an answer in short
order. You'll need to obtain a package with a fixed kstvtune.ax file.
I can't remember where to download it from. Alternatively reinstall
your PC and only put DirectX 9.0a on it and not 9.0b.

Nvidia drivers are no better. The latest one stops roaming profiles
updating on a Windows 2000 AD network.

Gone, I think, are the days of bug free video drivers 🙁.