Radeon 9700->9800 hack question

vanyar · Oct 4, 2003, 12:09 PM

I know there are some Radeon 9500 that don't support the soft hack to 9700, but, Are there 9700s that don't support the 9800 hack?

I have a Club-3D Radeon 9700 (no pro). From the beggining I was having system hangs when playing some games, so I changed my 300W PSU to an Enermax 456W PSU. Since that change I was playing games without any problem, always using the official Catalyst drivers. Yesterday I downloaded the last Omega drivers and I installed it with the 9800 hack. After five minutes in Tomb Raider: AoD the system hanged, so I went back to the official 3.7 drivers. Then I played for one hour until I was tired.
Is it a driver problem or a card problem?

BTW, I uninstalled Control Panel before installing Omega's drivers, but I didn't uninstall the old drivers. I don't know if a fresh install will solve the problem, but I don't think that is the problem.

Sorry for my english.

sunrise · Oct 8, 2003, 03:51 AM

I've had driver problems with the omega driver causing instability in games too.

toddsmack2k · Oct 8, 2003, 02:58 PM

Try a clean driver install first using Drivercleaner here, then you might try a fresh OS install.

Bleach · Oct 8, 2003, 10:00 PM

Try the omegas based on the 3.5's. I also had problems with the newer omegas

Draco [BDS] · Oct 8, 2003, 10:10 PM

Is it just me or isnt the 9700->9800 hack completely useless now. This hack was used in the release before the Cat 3.4's. In that release it was found that the 9700's would run faster using hte 9800 codepath. So when Cat 3.4 came out guess what......... the 9700's now used the same codepath, which is why there was such a big hype over the 3.4's. Doing the hack with any driver after 3.4 is pointless as its already on the same codepath. Any difference between the cards now is hardware related and will not function on the 9700 series of cards.

Oct 4, 2003, 12:09 PM	#1
vanyar DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Radeon 9700->9800 hack question I know there are some Radeon 9500 that don't support the soft hack to 9700, but, Are there 9700s that don't support the 9800 hack? I have a Club-3D Radeon 9700 (no pro). From the beggining I was having system hangs when playing some games, so I changed my 300W PSU to an Enermax 456W PSU. Since that change I was playing games without any problem, always using the official Catalyst drivers. Yesterday I downloaded the last Omega drivers and I installed it with the 9800 hack. After five minutes in Tomb Raider: AoD the system hanged, so I went back to the official 3.7 drivers. Then I played for one hour until I was tired. Is it a driver problem or a card problem? BTW, I uninstalled Control Panel before installing Omega's drivers, but I didn't uninstall the old drivers. I don't know if a fresh install will solve the problem, but I don't think that is the problem. Sorry for my english. __________________ My system specs: Athlon XP 2200+ MSI KT4 Ultra Club-3d Radeon 9700 Sound Blaster Audigy 2 512MB DDR 333 Seagate ATA 100 80Gb 7200rpm Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM Pioneer 107D DVD+-RW

Oct 8, 2003, 02:58 PM	#3
toddsmack2k It Never..... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,173 Rep Power: 0	Try a clean driver install first using Drivercleaner here, then you might try a fresh OS install. __________________ [color=blue]*Bleeding From the Inside Pouring Out, The* *DriverHeaven* Spiral, We Shall Never Let Go Of.[/color]

Oct 8, 2003, 03:51 AM	#2
sunrise DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 54 Rep Power: 0	I've had driver problems with the omega driver causing instability in games too.

Oct 8, 2003, 10:00 PM	#4
Bleach DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Try the omegas based on the 3.5's. I also had problems with the newer omegas

Oct 8, 2003, 10:10 PM	#5
Draco [BDS] DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Brandon, Manitoba Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	Is it just me or isnt the 9700->9800 hack completely useless now. This hack was used in the release before the Cat 3.4's. In that release it was found that the 9700's would run faster using hte 9800 codepath. So when Cat 3.4 came out guess what......... the 9700's now used the same codepath, which is why there was such a big hype over the 3.4's. Doing the hack with any driver after 3.4 is pointless as its already on the same codepath. Any difference between the cards now is hardware related and will not function on the 9700 series of cards.