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N wrote:
> I was late to join the Doom 3 bandwagon and just recently picked up
> the game. It's been fun until today. I got to the end of Alpha Lab 4
> (?), killed the big spider thing and exited the level. After the
> little screen shot comes up describing the next level, where the 
> little bar
> of the top would show the progress in loading the next level, the
> screen goes back to the main menu.

If drivers do not help you: to upgrade or downgrade then I guess it is 
the known ATIs Fast Writing setting what is enable by default in theirs 
driver and disable in Omega drivers, and why Omega drivers works and 
ATI's own not.

So, Fast Writing sounds like you get huge speed or this is important 
setting and _need_ to be enable. But in seriously it is a relic in 
dinosaurus dynasty when ppl had only AGP X1 speed. By 3DMarkxx benchmark 
you can get 2 - 4 marks better number when Fast Write is enable but in 
ATIs case it is better to disable.

This blank screen what you get is like "you lost video signal". Right? 
Or in other way you got delay, black screen, back to Desktop and then 
some pop-up window tell that ATI's genius corretion stealth or something 
is protecting you and after pressing this you can get back to your game. 
I do not remember its name. You can let it be enable. It is better evil 
than crass directly to Desktop.

Where to find then this Fast Write? Some BIOS had this setting but now I 
am talking ATI display menus. I have know 6800 GT and cannot help the 
right place. But I have had 9600 Pro (Club 3D shit) and I remember very 
good this ATI bug. I waste 3 month to correct it. I played and cryed why 
any game didn't work. After this Fast Write to disable games worked 
fine - in 9600 Pro poor speed of course.