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ATIHD 2600 pro, not another driver problem...

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Old 06-12-2008   #1 (permalink)
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ATIHD 2600 pro, not another driver problem...

Not long had this card , i downloaded some drivers of i site which where referred 2 as agp ati hd 2600 512mb vista 64 drivers.
They turned out 2 be msi drivers for the same card mine is the sapphire version of the card , all seemed fine and dandy at first.
I was playing bioshock on full settings with playable good fps a vista score of 5.6 for aero and 5.2 for gaming etc.

Anyway after a good few hours of gaming i booted down for a few hours but when i booted back up again later that day my games started freezing up on me all the time.
I could game for about 10 mins if i was lucky b4 everything freezes i could not shut down my pc properly it would just not respond.
I then went to the sapphire site and downloaded the latest 8.5 agp hotfix i uninstalled the msi drivers and used drivercleaner etc and although they seemed to install they did not work at all. Vista still had me down as a generic vga driver and there was no cat center to be found ?
I also tried the non agp hotfix drivers with the same results.
I just installed the driver that came with the card and they have installed and seem ok so far, the only problem is now that when i play games like bioshock the frame rates have dropped down to almost unplayable fps which sucks, now i have 2 lower the settings quite abit and my vista score is now 5.5 for aero and 5.0 for gaming.

Im guessing this is because im using older drivers ? Does any1 know were i can get agp 8.5 drivers that will install ?
Ati or more so sapphire as they make the agp cards still need 2 get there act together if there going 2 sell these agp cards still then they should make sure they function properly by supplying drivers that work.

Last edited by jay22; 06-12-2008 at 03:59 PM. Reason: mistake
Old 06-30-2008   #2 (permalink)
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Re: ATIHD 2600 pro, not another driver problem...

Here is your link to find drivers for your card. The first post has it : DNA 8.5 VISTA (AGP hotfix version) BETA's - DriverHeaven.net
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Re: ATIHD 2600 pro, not another driver problem...

cheers.
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