BF1942+RtR+v1.5+R97ooPro(CAT 3.9)=Not fixed...

[Sphinx]

sry to say had a new fresh installed System now

->Win2k Prof.
->Intel Chipset Set Driver 1003 (i850E P4_2.80 512 MB Rambus 32 Bit)
->Catalyst 3.7 "old" Now -> 3.9
->Battlefield 1942 + Road to Rome + Patch 1.5

Hardware: R9700Pro (HIS) 8003 Bios Original - Tried 8004 not helped...

-> The only Driver wich work or have not this issue = CAT3.7 and ASUS 6392 Drivers...

Error exist since CAT 3.8 and now with 3.9.

Following Error exist :
Start Game = OK
Loading Map = OK
But during Gameplay back to Menu => Menu Screen broken (Texture and Mousepointer broken) and again back to Gameplay Triangles all around complete Texture Corruption...

I am not dump to install drivers - or setup system correctly.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1# Time Playing MAP - FINE



2# Switch to Menu - Broken
2# 1st Time i switch from Gameplay into the Selection Menu...




3# Switch to Gameplay back - HARD Broken

[5150 Joker]

Re: BF1942+RtR+v1.5+R97ooPro(CAT 3.9)=Not fixed...

Originally posted by Sphinx
sry to say had a new fresh installed System now

->Win2k Prof.
->Intel Chipset Set Driver 1003 (i850E P4_2.80 512 MB Rambus 32 Bit)
->Catalyst 3.7 "old" Now -> 3.9
->Battlefield 1942 + Road to Rome + Patch 1.5

Hardware: R9700Pro (HIS) 8003 Bios Original - Tried 8004 not helped...

-> The only Driver wich work or have not this issue = CAT3.7 and ASUS 6392 Drivers...

Error exist since CAT 3.8 and now with 3.9.

Following Error exist :
Start Game = OK
Loading Map = OK
But during Gameplay back to Menu => Menu Screen broken (Texture and Mousepointer broken) and again back to Gameplay Triangles all around complete Texture Corruption...

I am not dump to install drivers - or setup system correctly.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1# Time Playing MAP - FINE



2# Switch to Menu - Broken
2# 1st Time i switch from Gameplay into the Selection Menu...




3# Switch to Gameplay back - HARD Broken

Looks like your card is messing up or an incorrect driver install. I have a 9800 pro and don't get those issues in BF1942.

[gwar]

Thats not the drivers dude,sorry too say..your card is eating dirt..

[Sphinx]

then tell me why it works with Catalyst 3.7 ?

[Dirk Diggler]

Originally posted by gwar
Thats not the drivers dude,sorry too say..your card is eating dirt..

There is nothing at all wrong with his card. cat3.9 are broken as far as I'm concerned, Cat3.8 had severe issues (which I reported to ATi) and now 3.9 are worse

linky

cats 3.7 are once again going on my rig......4 months down the line since release and they are the only ones that work the best

[Emilee]

Re: BF1942+RtR+v1.5+R97ooPro(CAT 3.9)=Not fixed...

Originally posted by Sphinx


I am not dump to install drivers - or setup system correctly.

Sorry, this was just too funny I guess you ment, "I am not dumb to install drivers"... ?

[Sphinx]

np ,) - but i had great hopes that ATi fixed this compatibility because the game worked with CAT 3.7 but with CAT 3.8 + CAT 3.9 = Broken -> i feel me a little behind Service with my R9700Pro (wich had cost 480Euro ~ 450 $ as i bought it ~8 month)

[vegetto34]

Originally posted by Dirk Diggler
There is nothing at all wrong with his card. cat3.9 are broken as far as I'm concerned, Cat3.8 had severe issues (which I reported to ATi) and now 3.9 are worse

linky

cats 3.7 are once again going on my rig......4 months down the line since release and they are the only ones that work the best

Hm... and I was fixing to install the 3.9 to see if it fixed this problem. Looks like I'll be sticking with the 3.7 drivers a little longer. How could you ATi? You've had more than a month and it isn't fixed?

[magila]

Yep BF1942 is still broken for me too, seems to be the same problem except I can't even get into the came without the corruption happening (corruption starts after first resolution change, which always happens going from 800x600 (menu) to game and even seems to happen when starting from ASE). I've also recreated this bug in Freelancer by changing the resolution in the config. Here's some sshots

http://www.uccs.edu/~ssiloti/images/cat39borked.jpg (texture coruption happens on some maps, triangle corruption seems to originate from vehicles)

http://www.uccs.edu/~ssiloti/images/cat39freelancer.png (after changing the resolution and navagating the badly corupted menu I get this in-game, it flickers fullscreen but as soon as an avatar pops up (radio message) in the upper right the entire game screen appears to be compressed into the area the avatar occupies)

[Beak]

I was getting those same results all last night if i exited a game to the control menu and my card is far from broken works great. Was gunna get some screen shots but its not happening now. The other was i would get real bad artifacts where you coudnt even see the screen once i went back into the game but in the menu screen id get what you have up there in teh screens. x16 aniso is the only buff i have while playing.

Well the 3.9s are out and i dont want to upgeade go figure.

[Raven737]

i have the same issues, and it's not the card, maybe the bios on the card makes it work different then some cards...

but going to 3.7 fixes it, so it's not the card, also it's not a heat/overclocking issue since i can play one map for 8 hours without a problem.. problem ONLY occures AFTER going into the menu

btw i love the thread name

[Sphinx]

I replaced 4 Files currently from the original CATALYST 3.9 Files from set of the CAT(6392) Release where from this release i have not this Bug...

So my 1# research was that "ONE" of these 4 Files Broke my R9700Pro Compatibility...

-> The Files are

>ati3d1ag.dl_ (from 6392)
>ati3d2ag.dl_ (from 6392)
>ati3duag.dl_ (from 6392)
>atiddc.dl_ (from 6392)

->After installing the original CAT3.9 with these replaced Driver Files from Asus Set The Texture Corruptions are Gone and Fixed...

More Research is coming to help other Peoples... and to Provide them with my findings...

Must sleep now -> women ,) -> work

[Tec]

This is a real problem. It was introduced with the Cat 3.8s. It has nothing to do with overclocking, overheating, or anything of the like. Perhaps it's 9700 (Pro?) Specific?

[Gumpngreen]

Oddly enough, I had the Cat 3.8's installed and played BF1942 several times without this occuring. Then one day it started. Reinstalling the drivers and wiping out all driver settings in the registry has not helped. Fortunatelly, the corruption is only in the menus and actual gameplay is not effected.

[magila]

Originally posted by Tec
This is a real problem. It was introduced with the Cat 3.8s. It has nothing to do with overclocking, overheating, or anything of the like. Perhaps it's 9700 (Pro?) Specific?

It's not 9700 specific, here's my specs:
Windows 2000 SP4, DX9.0b
built by ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB Retail
Viewsonic G90F
Abit KG7-RAID (AMD 761)
AthlonXP 1.4Ghz
512MB registered PC2100

[Tseng Labs]

I've never had any issues with BF 1942 on any Radeon driver. It did have a graphic hitch a couple of times, but Nvidia users also had the same issue as well.

[steeda]

Looks like your card is messing up or an incorrect driver install.

How does one incorrectly double click setup.exe and press next a few times? Tell us your 1337 driver installation t3kn33k.

[tEd]

I never had this problem with my radeon9700pro with any cat. driver. though i used only battlefield version 1.40.

I have a radeon9800pro with cat3.9 now and updated battlefield to version 1.50 and still everything is ok , don't experience this problem

[citywok]

i can play bf1942 w/ every driver before 3.9s just fine

9700pro, nforce2

6x16x i get 100fps or so @ 1280x960

[MeanE]

I had these same issues with the 3.8's...but I won't be trying the 3.9's to see if it fixes it as I have an 9700Pro AIW and I hear it breaks all openGL games....

sheesh. Please ATI....be careful with the next driver release.

[tiredguy]

I too have experienced this problem with Catalyst 3.8 and BF1942.

And as with your situation , it didn't happen with Catalyst 3.7.

I was totally surprised when it happened as it reminded me of the bad old days of Ati drivers where totally weird and unexpected driver issues reared their ugly head.

Like one with my old Rage Fury Pro where Unreal Tournament would become a collage of a bunch of what appeared to be little gif avatars after each game - and with each extra game I would get more of them.

For the first 2 months of use I couldn't let my monitor go into standby or I wouldn't be able to wake it up again , and I would have to hit the reset button.

2 driver revisions later all problems were solved , but my God it was hell for a while.

[Slappy THM]

Same problem. Had it first with the 3.8's, & now 3.9 continues the trend. Sphinx, you mentioned a fix to me last time around, but I haven't tried that yet.

Here's what I'm running:

BF1942 1.5 + RtR, everything max, 4xAA, 8xAF.

(Built by ATI) Radeon 9500 Pro, No OC
P4B 2.4
Asus P4S8X
2x 512 Samsung DDR 333
Sony G400 @ 1152x864x32 / 85 Hertz
Windows 2000 SP4

Since the 3.8's I went from SP2 to SP4 & BF1942 1.45 to 1.5. No differance...

/ Edit: System specs...

[MeanE]

I think the problem is Windows 2000 specific. Anyone having the problem and running XP?

[Tec]

Just switched from my 9700Pro to my 9500 and the same graphic corruption is present, so scratch that 9700-only comment. I am however running Win2K (SP3)

[Sphinx]

It could be a only Win2k R3oo Problem only... other conclusions why some have this damn bug and others not...

[Beak]

Forgot to add that i can play games fine as long as i dont exit to the menu then everything screws up and i have to run the alt-ctr-tab to end game. Also any fsaa make the game so jittery that you cannot shoot anything.

[Raven737]

yup i'm using windows 2000 too,

i thought it was also specific to r300, but someone said they had a 9800 and he had the same problem.

i thought it might also be the bios, still investigating that.

anyway i'm now back using Cat3.6 drivers and they work perfect for BF.

[tiredguy]

I just went from Win2k to XP so I will know soon enough if the problem exists with XP.

As with the others here , for me the problem didn't occur in-game and it only occured if I went to the menu's screen.

[Sphinx]

Originally posted by tiredguy
I just went from Win2k to XP so I will know soon enough if the problem exists with XP.

As with the others here , for me the problem didn't occur in-game and it only occured if I went to the menu's screen.

Yes like i wrote it happened if you switch back to menu...

Reproduce : Set GameResolution Higher or other than [email protected] Bit

Save it...

Start Gameplay -> Press ESC (For Menu) -> Everything is broken...

Ati plz look @ it ! it could be something thats Broke the Win2k Compatibility for us R300 User...

[Raysusan]

i has a feeling is the card not working properly

[Sphinx]

It is working nice ! With catalyst 3.7 and or Asus Leaked 6392 Drivers (Cat3.9 is 6396~same DellLeaked)... Card is working Perfect ! The Error introduced since CAT3.8 !

[B_Jones]

Our cards are NOT broken. I get the EXACT same texture corruption problems when ESC'ing to the main menu then back to the game in BF1942 and Desert Combat, with CAT3.8 and CAT3.9...3.7's were fine.

Windows 2000Pro (SP4) and Radeon 9800NP (flashed to pro, BUT running at DEFAULT NP Speeds...dont need to OC it until HalfLife2).

This is a 3.8 and 3.9 and maybe Win2000 specific problem.

Has anyone told ATI?

[spine]

Yup, count me as another with this problem, occurs exactly in the same fashion with BF1942;

1. Start game, menu and everything is fine,
2. Load map and everything loads and runs fine,
3. Press escape to bring up menu and the graphics are corrupt, mouse pointer can't be seen so menu navigation is impossible;



4. Press escape to go back into the game and the graphics are COMPLETELY borked. Game crashes after a few seconds so the only way out is to quickly bring up the console (which is garbled) and blindly type "quit", enter.



Specs;
Crucial radeon 9700pro,
Athlon XP 2000+
KT266A mobo
Windows XP


Things I've tried to solve the problem

1. Fiddle with the 3d hardware troubleshooter slider. I can only put it down as far as two steps otherwise BF won't even load.

Doesn't solve it.

2. Disable 'write combining'

Doesn't solve it

3. Don't overclock

Doesn't solve it, exactly the same symptoms.

4. Fiddle with options in 'display' tab, disable/enable 'use dcc info'

Doesn't solve it

5. Run the game in the same resolution as the menu screen (800x600)

Solves it! But with a card this powerful, I don't want to play in 800x600 thankyou very much.



So it appears to be related to something screwing up whenever the drivers change the resolution.

This is a blatant case of a driver bug and is not a case of user error. I've spent more than enough time diagnosing this and so ATI should get to work and fix this. I was kinda hoping that this cat 3.9 'bugfix' release would solve this problem, but it hasn't.

Anyone remember my 'ATI catalyst manifesto; why you shouldn't expect game fixes anytime soon' post?

Yeah, still don't believe what I was saying?

[MeanE]

Argg Spine...you ruined my whole "only on windows 2000" theory

[ThaiMaiShu]

Well at least its not just me...

I get this problem on win2k with battlefield 1.5 and desertcombat .40
with CAT 3.8 and 3.9
I guess ill add my screenshots too.

this one is before I push ESC, that black box shouldnt be there but it is!?:


respawn, player select menu:


after respawn player:


yea I really enjoy playing like this :sarcasm:

it looks like back to CAT 3.7 for me even though I still have that black box like the first screenshot(only in DesertCombat so it probably is a bug in the mod itself)
corruption still exists in bf1942

[MeanE]

@ThaiMaiShu

You can fix that box problem by doing the following:

"You can allow all refresh rates that your monitor supports by changing the "renderer.allowallrefreshrates 0" to "renderer.allowallrefreshrates 1" in your "videodefault.con" file."

[ThaiMaiShu]

since Ive had win2k, I always use renderer.allowallrefreshrates 1
because games at 60hz is no fun and when using refreshforce
bf1942 wont even start without allowrefreshrates 1
and the box is still there

[MeanE]

Ohh sorry. It's just what I always did to get rid of it.

[jspark]

Disableing (ati hotkey poller) in services fixed it for me win2k pro

[booboo]

i have 9500pro ran the 3.8's with bf42 no problems. halo i needed to revet back to 3.7's. ran these no problems installed the 3.9's as stated how to and bf1942 crash to desktop with error beep on load up(yes my refresh rate is fixed in game). after installing the 3.9's i went into the panel and set everything up the same way i do for every driver. had to go back to the 3.7's again.