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thanks.....you have been a huge help...... :thumbsup:Since I bought my 9800xt in early feb, I never dreamed the cats would be that old...I figured the 9800xt's would sell through the old cats and I would get a newer driver set with my board...oh well I should have not presumed

I have a 9800xt. I figured out that I am running on cat version 3.7, circa 9/4/03. Anyway, I noticed cat 3.8, circa 10/8/03, has a boatload of new features. The biggest one being ATI'S Overdrive function. My question is this: do I need to install every cat update since 3.7, or can I install cat 4.2 and that will include all the updates since 3.7?..thanks.....

...yep...it ain't a bad idea....any thought on how I can monitor the 9800xt's temp/fan speed?.....I looked through manual........thanks.....

well, I think the problem of no AGP texture acceleration is fixed. I reinstalled the MB drivers. I then discovered that the 9800 XT has a "utility" called smart cart or something like that. At the top are options for the PCI, but at the bottom are functions for the AGP slot. One was for read and one was for write, options being on or off. Of course both selections for AGP were set to off. I switched them to on and the next dxdiag I ran, AGP texture acceleration was enabled. Check this out. Before I did any of the above, I was making some adjustments in the 9800xt's control panel under ope

thanks...I appreciate your help...I'll let you know how it goes.....

thanks.....just one final question..since the K8V Deluxe board is based on a VIA chip, will I be able to tell the drivers apart?

it was a VIA KL133 chipset / board made by Trigem....HP XT 933.....

....don't recall formatting it....remembered to remove the old video and sound card drivers, but not the drivers for the old motherboard....yeah, thats kinda important ....can I simply uninstall the old MB drivers and then reinstall the drivers for the new MB?

I think I may have found an issue...when I run dxdiag, under dx features, AGP texture acceleration is not enabled....nor can it be, meaning I don't have the option to simply hit enable..... ....hmmmmm...

thanks....I'll check it out

can I simply reinstall 8.1?....will it write cleanly overtop of 9.0a?....

I found one issue on the pc I just built. It is only associated with, sigh...I know...I know....beat me now over the head ...the MOHAA games. .....here are the specs: windows me....yeah, slap me for this one too dx 9.0a amd 64 bit 3200 asus k8v deluxe 1 gig kingston ram ddr 400-2 sticks 512 lite on cd-r lite on cdrw western digital 80 gig-7200 rpm/8 mb cache radeon 9800xt sound blaster audigy 2 zs enermax 460 watt thermaltake xaser case 19' NEC mutlisync monitor The medal of honor games will start up fine...console flashes by as the files are intialized....but then not

thanks...just posted over there...I'll let you guys know what info I get......

cool...thanks everyone....Windows ME has never given me any trouble....except that I notice that when I run msconfig and uncheck the bottom three items in the selective startup, my system will register system resources 99% free...then I'll play a game or something and shut that application down and check the resources...and it'll be like 90% free...so what is hogging up the 9% when nothing is running?...yeah..I need to consider XP....that'll be awhile....as I am now officially poor..... I ran 3DMark03 and got a score of like 5450 I think it was....not sure what is good or bad for a setup li

I got my new system together and running with hardly any trouble. Managing the wires was a pain. I have two questions. First, I notice that dxdiag shows my 9800XT at only 255 mb of memory and system memory only shows 1022 mb...when they should be 256 and 1024 respectively....why doesn't the system recognize all the video and system memory?....is it kinda like the hard drice capacity deal where you may have an 80 gig drive but it only truly has a capacity of 76 gig?....just wondering...secondly, can anyone advise me on some tweaking?.....I don't want to do any overclocking....any suggestions w

Raven Shield is very good....awesome graphics...pretty good a.i., both friendly and enemy...if you are into detailed in depth planning....you got that here...as does all the Rainbow 6 series...runs pretty good...it runs very well on my Geforce Mx 420 64 mb...and my Radeon 9800 XT runs it like lighting...as it should.....weapons...what an awesome selection of weapons, both primary and secondary....one drawback....the objectives are repetitive...but...it just does not have the feel of GR.....can't put my finger on it......

ok, what gives....I am on the mission where you have to capture the general in the train tunnel...I have done that....I have killed everyone and taken the papers from the officer that was with the colonel....but it still won't complete...I have tried running out the far end of the tunnel, but you can't was you get slapped with a leaving the mission area message....I read somewhere you have to leave the area and something about a wagon....what do I have to do to get this to end?!

...gonna download the benchmarking software today from futuremark.com...I am new at running these tests..heck, this was the first rig I built...I am learning all kinds of stuff!!!!

.....I have looked at the fx 5950 vs the 9800 xt for a while...while the 5950 does have higher clock speeds, the 9800 xt makes up for it by having more piplelines...in the end I looked at tests rated in fps, like at toms hardware....and about 70%-75% of the time the 9800 xt came out on top...when the quality adjustments/resolution goes up, the 5950 really takes a big fps nose dive compared to the 9800 xt....I finished, mostly, my rig last night and the installation was a snap for the 9800 xt...don't have any numbers yet, but damn....its fast!!!!!...

I finally broke down after about a year of looking at specs, benchmarks, prices...this is what I ended up with...tell me what you guys think Case:Aluminum X Super Alien with see thru window/neon light-500 watt power supply cpu: AMD 64 3200 board: Asus K8V Deluxe ram: 1gig of 400 mhz ddr hard drive: Western Digital 80 gig 7200 rpm / 8 mb cache video: ATI Radeon 9800 XT sound: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 7.1 optical drive 1: Sony cd-r optical drive 2: Sony cdrw speakers: creative labs5.1 surrond subwoofer speaker system misc: thermal temp lcd display with fan control I do have t

yeah...rtcw is one of the best shooters out there....I play it a few times a week.....

from what I can tell, its just a shade faster. I have been at motherboards.org and tomshardware.com reading up on all the info.I was thinking about getting the fx 5950, but after taking an objective look at the 9800xt and the fx 5950, to me, the 9800xt is better. The bench mark tests show the 9800 xt being faster in, ball park terms, perhaps 70% of the tests.Image quality wise, the two are very close.When you consider that the 9800 xt only takes up one open slot, instead of both an agp and a pci for the fx 5950 and it comes with a coupon for half life 2, its hard to pick the fx 5950. The c

I was playing mission 5 last night. The first thing I done was slip around the back side of the hill top that the artillery was on and knock it out. A few minutes later I noticed that some of the kurdish fighters were being killed by artillery fire. Just wondering if I was missing something. If I klnocked out the artillery thus completing that objective, how can the artillery then go active and bring fire done on me? Am I missing something? By the way, the kit/weapons selection in this mod is second to none.....

fantastic mod!!!! ....I have only played and completed the first mission, but wow....insertion was really cool!!! " ....but on my first attempt, my team made land and was working on going around the hill to the right...we had taken out 2 enemies and were aiming at a third when it CTD.....I played it again from the start, praying to the gods of computers and games, and I finished it with no further issues...oh by the way, the guy at the end on the dirt bike near the extraction was cool!!!... especially when I shot him and his bike blew up!!!

I was looking at the AMD Athlon 64 3200 processor. It runs at 2 gig, but with a fsb at 1600 mhz! " Now, the question is which is faster? This new AMD chip or say a Pentium 4 at 2.8 gig, but with a fsb at 800 mhz HT?