3dmark2001,RadeonDDR,7089 Artifacts. help!

[Shades]

Hi

Well, I finally upgraded my 3063 to the 7089 drivers.

There are however problems I'm having with 3dmark2001 after driver upgrade...

I can't seem to complete the last benchmark, 3dmark just give me a black screen and later give me an ilegal operation.

There are artifacts during the max payne demo. For example when the bad guys gets shot and falls to be ground, his body goes down but his clothe stay at mid air?! And dead bodies lieing on the ground seems to be morphing.

Also I can't seem to enable compressed texture with my Radeon. Tried enabling it in registry and display settings but no go.

Also when I first ran 3dmark2001 after the driver upgrade, I can't see the statue in the demo. After some registry tweaking I got it to appear.

Anyway, 3dmark2001 was performing quite stable but rather slow with the 3063s. (butterfly bug was the only bug), Now with the 7089s 3dmark2001 is very unstable and with more bugs than 3063! but yea performance wise it has increased about 50%.

So, is there anyone else having the these problems?

Damn I hate ATi drivers. Ati you're pushing me man! Don't make me buy the Geforce3!!

Thank you for any help.

AMD750mhz classic
ABit KA7 VIA 4.25a
Radeon32MBDDR, 7089, No OC
Windows98

[This message has been edited by Shades (edited March 17, 2001).]

[Shades]

Just did another reinstall.

I have the compressed textures working now, seems like by changing the desktop display from 16 bit to 32 bit did the trick.

The max payne morphing seems to only happen in the high detail bench. Low detail I notice no weird bugs.

The point sprite bench is just a black screen. Atleast now 3dmark2001 completes.
My screen is only 2401.

If I don't do any tweaking after driver upgrade the statue in the demo will not show up. Which is also why the point sprite test is just an black screen.

I'm baffled, I did all the routine driver upgrade procedures I do. (registry cleaning etc). Yet there is still problems, maybe is the driver itself?

What I really want to know is, if anyone is also having/had these problems. If so what did you do to fix it?

Thank you.

Atleast everything seems to be faster now!

[Humus]

Try the 7078 drivers, they work much better.


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[Shades]

Thanks Humus, I will try the 7078 ones tomorrow.

If the 7078s works ok, I think we all know the 7089s doesn't live up to it's hype. :/