Recent content by Brian48

Just wondering what type of OpenGL performance you were getting under Vista. I know supposedly the 7.2 really improved OpenGL for X1000 series cards, but my X800XT PE has taken a really sharp nosedive. In fact Q4 and D3 are completely unplayable at 1280x1024 even without FSAA. After...

It's a little hard to get used to seeing all the "AMD green" dominate the web pages where the color scheme used to be "ATI red". You'd think they'd at least keep the old ATI logo to maintain the product line identity. I dunno, maybe it's just me not being able to get with the times. :no:

You can download them at the usual place, although the servers are running a bit slow right now.

Look down at the 5/1/06 transactions. See what rookie Nigel Thatch was traded for. http://www.northernleague.com/transactions/

Especially if you have kids? Someone emailed me link. It was a real eye openner. http://www12.familywatchdog.us/

Every now and then whenever I start up the game or move into a room with a lot of lights, I get weird, broken (often flashing) textures. In the past, these types of problems generally mean a heat issue, but I'm not sure this is the case. Reason being is that if I continue past the area where...

I just noticed today that my default clock speeds seem a little lower than advertised (625/750?). Running roughly at 595/695. Now I know that there's always a slight variance and rounding of clock speeds, but this seems way off from what was first spec'd. Has ATI changed their official specs...

It looks like bit-tech.net was allowed to release the drivers a little earlier than usual.

Just for sh*ts and grins, I wanted to see how bad this game would bring down this old card. To my surprise, it actually runs fairly well. Albeit set at 800x600 with most settings at MEDIUM and some at MINIMUM. Played through the first 4 levels so far and haven't encountered a single crash...

Caught this over at ngohq.com, but I can't seem to download the file. They have it named as "Cat 5.10b", but I can't seem to find this file on ATI's site. Has anyone heard of this?

I downloaded it, but I'm at work right now so I can't test it. Has anyone given these a whirl yet? Cat 5.11 beta from Station Drivers

OK, I decided to give CCC another chance again since ATI has determined that we won't have a choice in the matter in a few months. After a few random, spontaneous reboots, I ran the debugger on the .dmp files. At first I was blaming everything on .NET, but it looks like this may be still be...

Hard to believe this card is already a year old. Normally, I upgrade my "showcase" box fairly quickly so me having a card this long is very unusual. It sure doesn't feel like year :)

All my searches keep turning up the SE version. I'm looking for something in the low $300+ if possible.

I've been fighting with the ATI rebate center for a while now regarding the $20 I was suppose to get back by purchasing one of their TV Tuners. I bought the x800xt PE from CompUSA back in mid-June. It came with the promo that included the t-shirt, Ruby CD and coupon for $20 off any of their TV...