Radeon8500LE issue

[OnoSendai]

Or perhaps it has something to do with Directx?

[spacefrog]

I heard lot's of bad thinks with consumer ATI-crads and OpenGL

back in the days of RagePro 128 ( or what it was called )
i had an ATI card and Max showed exactly the same symptoms like you describe.
Maybe their ATI-Pro cards have a better OGL implementation,
but i can only say that Nvidias OpenGL is unbeatable.
Even when today ATI hardware is faster and more advanced i'll stick with Nvidia cause of the Opengl drivers...

[OnoSendai]

Ok then. Things are getting really desperate here
so which card would you buy right now?

[shimra]

okay i had a problem when i upgraded the drivers for my 8500 LE i could not play games or do anything that was high in poly counts like modeling, it would crash or just freeze.

i found out that the newest driver versions for radeon are for Direct X 9 and that if you do not upgrade to DX9 then it will cause those problems. that was the case with me.

i to reformated my comp cause that was the only way to fix it. try running dxdiag in the run command and check your DX settings. i did not want to be bothered with it so i just reformatted to the orig settings and installed the catalyst drivers that were non DX 9 supportive and just kept DX 8.1 and i have not had a problem with max since but if you want to upgrade to your Vid drivers then i would suggest you upgrading DX 9 to and that should help you out.

[OnoSendai]

I switched to a FX5600Ultra. A lot of people comfirmed
what spacefrog said about ATI-cards so I didn`t want
to bother anymore. Thanks anyway. (;

[shimra]

np man. just trying to give you some advice before you went and bought a new card. actually i am amazed cause i have dx 9 on my comp and i know that i did not put it there. i am puzzeled by how it is on my comp but o well it works and that is what matters. well i hope your troubles are over.:applause:

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