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Re: Driver Question. Is this advice right?

#93590
From: N
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:58
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Marcus Torrent wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure what you mean. I get the load screen for the next level, 
but the little progress bar never starts, it kicks over to the main 
(begining) level.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
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