Problem with ati drivers in general

Originally Posted by Midicow

I have an old ati x1300pro agp 256mb card on 8x, windows xp pro with omega drivers 3.8.330.

Since installing omega drivers 3.8.330, I have experianced issues with some games

crashing and experiancing odd glitches. I had upgraded from 7.1 catalyst to omega, and

noticed that after a bit of gameplay glitches involving transperant textures start

appearing on games like: Anarchy online, CnC3, planetside, supreme commander, and

other games that use d3d. In CnC3 particularly, black boxes apear on things that get

alphaed sprites/shaders applied to them, usually right before the program crashes with

an "E_out_of_memory" error.

In anarchy online, I can usually play for a while, but if I load enough areas my renderer

bugs out and I must restart my computer to avoid seeing a constant flashy screen of doom(tm).

Other games just randomly freeze.

It brings me to wonder if the problem involves the alpha buffer, but I am not sure quite what to do about it.

There are d3d games I have that also play without incidence, like Bf2142 or halflife 2.

I've uninstalled omega drivers, and installed 7.2 catylst, without change in the problem.

I am going to attempt to install the latest ngo drivers to see if anything changes.


Edit: Ngo drivers solve a few issues, Alpha issue is still there, but dosen't allways cause a crash.. Instead after a while the computer does that unique xp "restart without warning like someone bumped the restart button" crash.