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A little confused on video driver????

post #1 of 9
9/5/04 at 3:09pm
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Hey everyone, I received my laptop yesterday and I love it. My only complaint is the bag that I ordered with it to carry it in. Why would you make a bag that is to small. You can barely stuff the laptop in that bag, and about the top 3 inches of the laptop are not protected by the padding inside. Is the backpack any better????? The only question I have about the performance of my laptop is conderning the video driver. I have the ati 9700 card and the driver it cam installed with was 6. something. I downloaded the latest omega driver and installed that over the top of the one already on there, it said you could do that. I then installed farcry, and the only settings I could play it on where low. When I tried increasing all of the settings to high, the gameplay was VERY slow. Does anyone have any ideas on what driver I shoud use and hints on how to configure the video card, as far as all the settings go.
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post #2 of 9
9/5/04 at 3:35pm
You need to completely uninstall drivers (Add/Remove Programs), reboot to native XP driver support and re-install the new ones.

From my review:
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Specifically, in Far Cry, I was able to max out the LCD’s resolution (1680x1050) and set all settings to “Medium” and still maintain a fluid, thirty frames per second (fps). Setting it to “High” drops the frame-rate to about twenty, but it is a stable, fluid, very-playable twenty. Lowering the resolution to 1280x1024 enables you to run the game at “very high” at a stable 25-35 fps, while decreasing it even more to 1024x768 lets you play at 45-60 fps.
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post #3 of 9
9/5/04 at 3:39pm
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thinkjose

Thanks for the response. When you say install the new ones, what driver are you talking about. Like I said, the omega driver said you could install it without uninstalling the old one. Should I uninstall just the omega driver now, or should I uninstall all drivers for the video card and download which one???
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post #4 of 9
9/5/04 at 3:44pm
uninstall all video drivers, then install the omegas (dont forget to uninstall the ati control panel as well)
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post #5 of 9
9/5/04 at 3:55pm
Yea. As Seph said, uninstall the stock and omegas, then run this program: http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/ to make sure everything is gone the re-install Omegas.
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post #6 of 9
9/5/04 at 4:03pm
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Ok, Ill do that, thanks again for the help.
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post #7 of 9
9/5/04 at 4:32pm
We're here to help
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post #8 of 9
9/5/04 at 4:48pm
You know when all ini and registry entries have gone once u installe beacuse when u reboot windows will do "found new hardware" just cancel that and carrry on installing the new drivers.
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post #9 of 9
9/5/04 at 5:05pm
I think we should also remember that Far Cry does not run on high settings on these laptops...or any other for that matter. Its a very resource hungry program.
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