X1800XT

[fliguy84]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Already tried that. ATI Tray Tools won't start. It doesn't appear to recognize the card.

Are you running Catalyst 5.12 with the latest version of ATi Tray Tools?

I've got the Cat 5.12 and the latest version of ATI Tray Tools from guru3d. Says it can't read the BIOS info and fails at launch.

Even the included readme says that is supports the X1000's. Odd... CCC works fine, I'll just stick with that.

My friend used to have this problem too with his GTO. But at last I figured out it was the Sapphire's Trixx program that was underneath this problem. Uninstall it in a heartbeat and then ATI Tray Tools can detect the BIOS just fine

 

[GOREGRINDER]

Originally posted by: videoclone

Originally posted by: redbox
thanks for the info. I have a 7800gt and before I decided to go Nvidia I was waiting for these cards for a long time just like everyone else, in the end the wait got to me and i don't think it was a bad decision. I am planing a move to a larger screen and I was wondering what screen you game on. I would love to see what the new part from ATi is capable of doing at high res. I don't think the 7800gt will cut it on a 2405fpw and i don't like sli at the moment.

I don?t know what?s wrong with all you guys I play ALL my games at 1920x1200rez on FEAR, Quake4, COD2, HL2 no problems on a X800GTO Overclocked to 625/620

You must have pretty badly tweaked pc?s

copy\paste from videoclones rig profile:

"videoclone's System Rig

Component Description
Rig Name: Tini Tiny Computer


CPU: AMD Athlon X2 2800+ 2000MHz @ 2400MHz


Motherboard: Gigabyte K8N51GMF-9


Memory: 2000 MB of Team Group PC3200


Video Card: ATi Sapphire X800GTO 575Mhz Core 1100Mhz Mem


Hard Drive: Seagate 8Mb 250.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS


Monitor: Dell 24" Widescreen 2405FPW


CDR/CDRW Manufacturer & Model: LG 16x DVD-R


Storage Interface: IDE


Sound Card: Onboard 7.1


Internet Connection: Netspace xDSL @ 1500k


Operating System: Windows XP Pro SP2 "




*cough*cough*Bullshit!*cough*cough*


btw nice thread mullet!,glad you grabbed an XT,i usually grab one from each manufacturer every gen,but like you said SLi is pricey as f#k,...so that took up my 2 cards this gen,..actually my last ATI card was a 128mb 9800pro and a few months later i grabbed a 5950ultra,.both nice cards,..the only FX that was worth its tag

i play f.e.a.r. ALOT and theres no way im goin back to 1024x768 for anything in any game screw that thats some fugly shiat right there..lol

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: RobertR1
CCC isn't bad at all. Try it out before knocking it. Also, you can just right click on the ATI taskbar icon and do most of the CCC options from there (similar to ATI tools).

Yeah, that's what I've been using, and it isn't bad at all. The total boot time for my PC with the CCC and .NET is almost twice that of my PC with SLI and NV drivers though. When I uninstall the CCC and just have the ATI drivers installed (with no ability to tweak), the PC boots up quickly like it always has. The CCC + .NET just feels unnecessarily bloated IMO. That being said, once it's loaded, the PC runs fine though, and the CCC is actually pretty well thought out in terms of usability. Overall, the CCC and the NV control panel aren't that different, but I like the fact thet you can enable Overdrive without having to run a registry mod like you have to with NV drivers. Even if you don't OC, you have to run coolbits just to view your clockspeeds with the NV drivers.

I think I'm going to stick with the CCC for now... I get to it by right-clicking the desktop (I don't display the tray icon)...

 

[wpeng]

Does CCC have an option to use fixed aspect ratio scaling? I know Nvidia drivers do, but I've been hard-pressed to find anything like that on the regular ATI control panel. The ATI control panel options are nowhere near as customizable as the Nvidia ones.

 

[rcabor]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: RobertR1
CCC isn't bad at all. Try it out before knocking it. Also, you can just right click on the ATI taskbar icon and do most of the CCC options from there (similar to ATI tools).

Yeah, that's what I've been using, and it isn't bad at all. The total boot time for my PC with the CCC and .NET is almost twice that of my PC with SLI and NV drivers though. When I uninstall the CCC and just have the ATI drivers installed (with no ability to tweak), the PC boots up quickly like it always has. The CCC + .NET just feels unnecessarily bloated IMO. That being said, once it's loaded, the PC runs fine though, and the CCC is actually pretty well thought out in terms of usability. Overall, the CCC and the NV control panel aren't that different, but I like the fact thet you can enable Overdrive without having to run a registry mod like you have to with NV drivers. Even if you don't OC, you have to run coolbits just to view your clockspeeds with the NV drivers.

I think I'm going to stick with the CCC for now... I get to it by right-clicking the desktop (I don't display the tray icon)...

I have heard if you turn off the skin in CCC it boots faster, but then it just looks like any other window.

Edit:
its HERE
Post #66

 

[Apple740]

Originally posted by: nitromullet
I've got the Cat 5.12 and the latest version of ATI Tray Tools from guru3d. Says it can't read the BIOS info and fails at launch.

If you disable OC support during ATT installation then it works fine.

 

[nitromullet]

Thanks for the tip. I'm going to stick with the CCC though, it works pretty well even if it is a bit bloated.

 

[nitromullet]

Originally posted by: wpeng
Does CCC have an option to use fixed aspect ratio scaling? I know Nvidia drivers do, but I've been hard-pressed to find anything like that on the regular ATI control panel. The ATI control panel options are nowhere near as customizable as the Nvidia ones.

Yes, it does.

I use an LCD, so I have "Digital Panel Properties". On that screen, there is a section called Image Scaling, which lets you decide if you want the image to scale or not.

 

[RobertR1]

Originally posted by: rcabor

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: RobertR1
CCC isn't bad at all. Try it out before knocking it. Also, you can just right click on the ATI taskbar icon and do most of the CCC options from there (similar to ATI tools).

Yeah, that's what I've been using, and it isn't bad at all. The total boot time for my PC with the CCC and .NET is almost twice that of my PC with SLI and NV drivers though. When I uninstall the CCC and just have the ATI drivers installed (with no ability to tweak), the PC boots up quickly like it always has. The CCC + .NET just feels unnecessarily bloated IMO. That being said, once it's loaded, the PC runs fine though, and the CCC is actually pretty well thought out in terms of usability. Overall, the CCC and the NV control panel aren't that different, but I like the fact thet you can enable Overdrive without having to run a registry mod like you have to with NV drivers. Even if you don't OC, you have to run coolbits just to view your clockspeeds with the NV drivers.

I think I'm going to stick with the CCC for now... I get to it by right-clicking the desktop (I don't display the tray icon)...

I have heard if you turn off the skin in CCC it boots faster, but then it just looks like any other window.

Edit:
its HERE
Post #66

Thanks for the link! It works great. CCC pops up in under 2 seconds after changing the skin the "system skin" and doing the "Hide splash" screen option.

 

[Apple740]

Originally posted by: nitromullet

Originally posted by: wpeng
Does CCC have an option to use fixed aspect ratio scaling? I know Nvidia drivers do, but I've been hard-pressed to find anything like that on the regular ATI control panel. The ATI control panel options are nowhere near as customizable as the Nvidia ones.

Yes, it does.

I use an LCD, so I have "Digital Panel Properties". On that screen, there is a section called Image Scaling, which lets you decide if you want the image to scale or not.

I run LCD too, but it's a non-dvi one, so no "digital panel properties" for me.

Does it mean in your case that you can run 1280x1024 with black borders on a 1600x1200 LCD? (even if the osd of the LCD doesn't support this?)

 

[nitromullet]

Yes, that's exactly what it does.