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Graphics card (ATI Radeon) problems (Read 693 times)

May 12^th, 2003 at 2:19am

Neil Offline
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Can anyone help me?

I have just bought an ATI Radeon 9200 (128mb)graphics card, but it just doesn't want to work with flight sim (2003). Whenever I check the accelarated hardware checkbox, I get a message telling me that my PC won't support the graphics settings I have chosen and then switches to safe mode. In addition to this, with the graphics settings all the way down, it is not nearly as smooth as when I was using the onboard graphics on my Mainboard. The graphics card seems to work fine with any other game or application, just not with flight sim.

I would really appreciate some help with this...
Thanx

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Reply #1 - May 12^th, 2003 at 3:19am

emh8 Offline
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Neil,

There's a possibility that your system cannot accomodate a 128MB graphics card............

So I ask, what type of processor and how much RAM do you have?

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Reply #2 - May 12^th, 2003 at 4:07am

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Sounds to me like your motherboard is quite elderly (relatively speaking), and won't allow a graphics card.

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Reply #3 - May 12^th, 2003 at 1:08pm

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try to deactivate the on-board graphics-chip by using the settings in the BIOS. then,reinstall Direct-X 9 and be sure that you use the newest drivers (Catalyst 3.2). if it doesn't work,inform me.

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Reply #4 - May 12^th, 2003 at 3:37pm

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Just out of curiosity, how do you find out how high of a card your system will take.
I have a ECS K7S5A mainbord with a 4X AGP pipeline, a 950mhz Duron, and 512mb sdram.

I only pretend to know what I'm talking about. Heck, that's what lawyers, car mechanics, and IT professionals do everyday. Wink

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Reply #5 - May 13^th, 2003 at 7:09am

ATI_9700pro Ex Member

i think ,your mainboard can handle a 9700pro without problems,but i'm not sure about the 9800pro.

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