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Problems with new hardware

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afirawker

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I just received my sapphire Radeon 9600XT in the mail today so i popped it in and loaded into BIOS and put "AGP Aperture Size (MB) to 128(MB) and made sure that AGP 8x support was enabled. I then loaded XP and downloaded the new catalyst drivers and rebooted. Now I cannot run Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory and it says failed to load Open GL drivers. Everything is laggy when minimizing and opening windows and this is becoming irritating.

Any ideas?? Thanks in advance:)
 
This might not fix anything but doublecheck your monitor driver to make sure your specific monitor is listed and not "default monitor" or "plug and play monitor". you can look this up in the ati driver console or hardware manager.

Uninstall any refresh force software and test.

Did you have an nvidia card before this new one? if yes then get NV residual driver cleaner software at www.guru3d.com. If that still didn't help then you might want to reformat C

Definitely set agp to 4X since 8X has been known to cause problems for many.

Disable "vpu recover" via ati control panel

disable fastwrites via bios and ati control panel

disable "video shadow" via bios

If all else fails then drop back down to a previous driver. Many people like the 3.7's so it wouldn't hurt to test them out. You have to uninstall driver and control panel before updating to a different driver.

i forget everything else

good luck ;)
 
OK I did as suggested above and now I can load Enemy Territory so i set it to the highest settings and the graphics seems alot smoother and gameplay is smooth as well but every 10 seconds or so it jitters. I also dont know why I have to turn off so many settings when my rig is pretty good for today's standards(see sig).

Any other suggestions?
 
Most of the settings that you turned off were ones that should never have been on in the first place. They are either outdated or not supported properly by ATI, and definitely have nothing to do with "how good your system is by todays standards". Most ATI owners have followed the advice i listed above.

The jitters every 10 seconds can be a few things. Try disabling your firewall and antivirus before jumping into a game since they may be pinging your system or the internet. Theres a chance that its a little known network adapter problem. The way to find out is update your nic driver or better yet install a different nic card to test.

report back here with your findings

good luck too
 
Forgot to mention. Remember to disable vsync and set 2xAA and 4XAF only to test. If it works great, then you've discovered either a fix or a hint to a different problem (driver).
 
I uninstalled the drivers and installed the 3.7 drivers and there doesnt seem to be any problems other then the occasionaly jitter in a game but still not that great. Ive also noticed that now my sound does not work. I dont use the onboard sound I use a crappy sound blaster card/ Any ideas why my sound got messed?
 
No idea why your sound cut out but have you tried reinstalling the same sound driver via device manager? Can you still see the creative driver in add/remove programs? If its still in there try uninstalling it. Get updated drivers from creative (don't download the extra creative bloatware), install new creative drivers and test.
 
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