ATI Radeon 8500 and GPL

Ladies and Gentlemen, I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today, and the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those screensavers that melts your desktop. I have of course been messing around in the ATI display property menus trying out all the new gadgets avail to me. But seeing this problem come up, I have attempted to put everything back to default. No go. Anyone have any clue as to what I have done and how to correct it? MRSisson -- LOAD "GPL",8,1 RUN

"Michael R Sisson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:MPG.1668c0ca2a2ea6bf989686@nntp... : Ladies and Gentlemen, : : I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all : the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today, and : the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those : screensavers that melts your desktop. I've seen something similar once with my Radeon 32DDR... the display font is messed up. But in my case it was an immediate effect not as you describe. If you get into the game with the D3D renderer you may also notice a black speedo with a fat white needle. Anyway... what I did: What I had to do was uninstall the card from Device Manager, uninstall the ATi software, boot into safe mode delete every ATi file in the system directory (they all start ati*, IIRC). Delete any inf file including the ones Windows caches away, delete the entire ATI tree from the registry. Reboot and reinstall the drivers. In my situation the new drivers interacted badly with some remnant of a previous driver version. HTH, Dale.

That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... Hope that helps.. "Michael R Sisson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:MPG.1668c0ca2a2ea6bf989686@nntp...

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> Ladies and Gentlemen, > > I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all > the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today, and > the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those > screensavers that melts your desktop. > > I have of course been messing around in the ATI display property > menus trying out all the new gadgets avail to me. But seeing this problem > come up, I have attempted to put everything back to default. No go. > > Anyone have any clue as to what I have done and how to correct it? > > MRSisson > > -- > > LOAD "GPL",8,1 > RUN

"tsrf900r" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:WeDL7.16650$[email hidden]... > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... > > Hope that helps.. Yea, I get that problem in a couple of flight-sims too if I turn on Smoothvision. Looks like your screen is melting. Cool effect ATI, but I somehow don't think that is what was intended.

In article <WeDL7.16650$[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says... > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... > > Hope that helps.. > > That was it, thank you. The re-boot was the part I didn't think to do. MRSisson -- LOAD "GPL",8,1 RUN

"tsrf900r" <[email hidden]> writes: > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... Does that mean that GPL and Smoothvision is not a working combination ? I have the R8500 on order, but if it doesn't work properly with GPL it's cancelled.

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> Hope that helps.. > > > "Michael R Sisson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:MPG.1668c0ca2a2ea6bf989686@nntp... > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > > > I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all > > the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today, and > > the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those > > screensavers that melts your desktop. > > > > I have of course been messing around in the ATI display property > > menus trying out all the new gadgets avail to me. But seeing this problem > > come up, I have attempted to put everything back to default. No go. > > > > Anyone have any clue as to what I have done and how to correct it? > > > > MRSisson > > > > -- > > > > LOAD "GPL",8,1 > > RUN > >

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So for some ridiculous reason smoothvision not being compatible with GPL is a deal breaker for you? -- Biz "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and the....." - Ash Olav K. Malmin <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]... > "tsrf900r" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... > > Does that mean that GPL and Smoothvision is not a working combination > ? > > I have the R8500 on order, but if it doesn't work properly with GPL > it's cancelled. > > > Hope that helps.. > > > > > > "Michael R Sisson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:MPG.1668c0ca2a2ea6bf989686@nntp... > > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > > > > > I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all > > > the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today, and > > > the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those > > > screensavers that melts your desktop. > > > > > > I have of course been messing around in the ATI display property > > > menus trying out all the new gadgets avail to me. But seeing this problem > > > come up, I have attempted to put everything back to default. No go. > > > > > > Anyone have any clue as to what I have done and how to correct it? > > > > > > MRSisson > > > > > > -- > > > > > > LOAD "GPL",8,1 > > > RUN > > > > > > -- > Olav K. Malmin > remove .spam when replying

"Biz" <[email hidden]> writes: > So for some ridiculous reason smoothvision not being compatible with GPL is > a deal breaker for you? Don't know yet, but I'm spoiled with the V5's FSAA.

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> -- > Biz > > "Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand > alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and > the....." - Ash > > > Olav K. Malmin <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:[email hidden]... > > "tsrf900r" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > > > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > > > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... > > > > Does that mean that GPL and Smoothvision is not a working combination > > ? > > > > I have the R8500 on order, but if it doesn't work properly with GPL > > it's cancelled. > > > > > Hope that helps.. > > > > > > > > > "Michael R Sisson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > > news:MPG.1668c0ca2a2ea6bf989686@nntp... > > > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > > > > > > > I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all > > > > the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today, > and > > > > the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those > > > > screensavers that melts your desktop. > > > > > > > > I have of course been messing around in the ATI display property > > > > menus trying out all the new gadgets avail to me. But seeing this > problem > > > > come up, I have attempted to put everything back to default. No go. > > > > > > > > Anyone have any clue as to what I have done and how to correct it? > > > > > > > > MRSisson > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > LOAD "GPL",8,1 > > > > RUN > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Olav K. Malmin > > remove .spam when replying > >

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> "tsrf900r" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... > > Does that mean that GPL and Smoothvision is not a working combination > ? > > I have the R8500 on order, but if it doesn't work properly with GPL > it's cancelled. >

Using the Omega 1306 drivers (which are modified versions of the Smoothvision enabled ATI drivers) I got the menu corruption problem in GPL. In my case the menus slowly slide sideways to the left leaving a series of vertical lines. When actually in game raceing around a track everything was fine and looked better than I've ever seen GPL look before with the stock textures. The slideing effect goes away if Smoothvision is left off and GPL still looks excellent. In my case I don't have to reboot between switching Smoothvision on and off. David

Hardly ridiculous if a: GPL is your favourite sim, and / or b: You like having good FSAA -- Ian P <email invalid due to spam> Biz <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:yiQL7.220180$[email hidden]... > So for some ridiculous reason smoothvision not being compatible with GPL is > a deal breaker for you? > > -- > Biz

"Ian P" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:9tomd6$sve$[email hidden]... > Hardly ridiculous if > a: GPL is your favourite sim, and / or > b: You like having good FSAA > Smoothvision doesn't work correctly in a few games, ATI will fix it eventually. If I remember correctly the first V5 drivers also had some problems in games when using FSAA. I'm certainly not returning my R8500 because of it. I rarely use FSAA anyway.

Gforce cards had a similar problem when they first came out. Drivers fixed it so ATI will fix this problem too. Vintook "Olav K. Malmin" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:[email hidden]...

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> "tsrf900r" <[email hidden]> writes: > > > That happens if you have Smoothvision on.. You have to turn it off, and > > re-boot... If you don't re-boot it'll still smear... > > Does that mean that GPL and Smoothvision is not a working combination > ? > > I have the R8500 on order, but if it doesn't work properly with GPL > it's cancelled. > > > Hope that helps.. > > > > > > "Michael R Sisson" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > > news:MPG.1668c0ca2a2ea6bf989686@nntp... > > > Ladies and Gentlemen, > > > > > > I just bought a Radeon 8500 last friday, set it up and tried all > > > the games on it. GPL was working fine. I just tried it again today,

and > > > the menu screens are melting. It looks just like one of those > > > screensavers that melts your desktop. > > > > > > I have of course been messing around in the ATI display property > > > menus trying out all the new gadgets avail to me. But seeing thisproblem

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> > > come up, I have attempted to put everything back to default. No go. > > > > > > Anyone have any clue as to what I have done and how to correct it? > > > > > > MRSisson > > > > > > -- > > > > > > LOAD "GPL",8,1 > > > RUN > > > > > > -- > Olav K. Malmin > remove .spam when replying