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Sovetskeey

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Edmonton, AB

Gotta Be Four Twenty Somewhere

14 Jul 2005 at 21:58 - 1

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I just installed the Catalyst 5.7s (didn't even get the e-mail from ATi yet) with the Control Panel. I ran the cat-uninstaller beforehand and it says it resets all of your configs and so on and so forth. I went into my Advanced settings to set my 3D and SmartGART settings but when I try and set the slider to 8x, it asks to restart the computer. I do it and when I check on it, it's gone back to off. Also, why are the fast-write buttons grayed out?

EternalTempest

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2005

United States

Dark Side Ofthe Moon [DSM]

E/

14 Jul 2005 at 23:48 - 2

Check your mother board bios setting to see if it's disabled.

Also is your an "on-board" ati video card. if there greyed out they may not be supported on your system.

How well does GW play on your system. Fast Writes doesn't give you a noticable increase.

Sovetskeey

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Edmonton, AB

Gotta Be Four Twenty Somewhere

15 Jul 2005 at 01:27 - 3

Look at the title bar. They don't make X800s onboard. I'll check my BIOS.

Guild Wars plays great on it though.

Sovetskeey

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Edmonton, AB

Gotta Be Four Twenty Somewhere

15 Jul 2005 at 01:40 - 4

Okay... So the AGP setting is enabled and so is the fast write setting. That's not it.

Sleazy_D

Academy Page

Join Date: Jun 2005

Central Massachusetts

Legion of Gweep

Mo/Me

15 Jul 2005 at 13:45 - 5

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sovetskeey

I just installed the Catalyst 5.7s (didn't even get the e-mail from ATi yet) with the Control Panel. I ran the cat-uninstaller beforehand and it says it resets all of your configs and so on and so forth. I went into my Advanced settings to set my 3D and SmartGART settings but when I try and set the slider to 8x, it asks to restart the computer. I do it and when I check on it, it's gone back to off. Also, why are the fast-write buttons grayed out?

Isn't the X800 PCI Express?

Lerxst_of_Syrinx

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Apr 2005

Mo/R

15 Jul 2005 at 15:43 - 6

If your card is PCI Express, you won't have AGP speed or Fast Writes.

Sovetskeey

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: May 2005

Edmonton, AB

Gotta Be Four Twenty Somewhere

15 Jul 2005 at 21:35 - 7

Haha my motherboard is worth $90CDN, not to mention it's 3 years old. It's an AGP card. Any real ideas on what's going on that aren't stupidly obvious?

Algren Cole

Banned

Join Date: Jun 2005

16 Jul 2005 at 05:49 - 8

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sovetskeey

Haha my motherboard is worth $90CDN, not to mention it's 3 years old. It's an AGP card. Any real ideas on what's going on that aren't stupidly obvious?

actually...I know exactly what's wrong...and how'd you go about fixing it.

but it's stupidly obvious so I'll let you figure it out on your own