Strange Visual Problem on Radeon

outlawmoon

Hi.

First, thanks very much for tinkering around and making improved drivers available to us schlubs.

I just got a Dell Inspiron 8600, 1.4 Ghz Pentium M, 512 MB RAM, 128 MB Radeon card.

I've been playing City of Heroes on it, and it was crashing over and over and over. Their reps were next to useless. So I dug around in the forums and saw that folks with my exact problem were saying they'd switched to your Omegas and solved it.

So I installed the Omegas. And it did solve the problem: now, I can play smoothly, with only the occasional crash (which, at this stage in CoH's release, I'm expecting).

The only thing is, running under Omega I lose a good deal of distance detail in the game. In fact, it often looks as if a really pernicious cloud of smog has settled in over Paragon City.

When I switching back to ATI's straight drivers, I end up crashing as before, but it looks better. Not fogged in, distant colors more vibrant.

But I'd like to both be able to play and to appreciate the graphics of the game fully.

Is there some setting I can change that's controlling this? I'd love to use your drivers but be able to turn up the distance stuff to see it better. I realize it might turn out that by bringing up that detail, I only wind up crashing again, but I'd like to try it.

I should also say I had managed to log quite a few hours of play in the game over the days I was playing prior to the problem really getting bad, so at least in principle my machine is capable of allowing play at high graphics levels.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Tim