ATI AIW 8500 Driver/Video Woes.

[{PMS}fishy]

ATI AWI is giving me a heck of a time with drivers.

I tried both the 3.7 and 3.9 Cats

The problem is that certian parts of the monitor wave back and forth, its really easy to tell if its the side of an open window.

Setup is exactly the same that I used an 8500 on with no problems.

Also the TV quality is crap. If I connect the same coax to the TV its atleast twice as clear. On the AIW its granulated, and washed out. Im using MCC 8.5 cause 8.7 was giving me problems. Said the CPU didn't have MMX support. I had to reinstall Windows to fix that.

Anyways this card has been doing nothing but waste my time and make me mad. Please help.

Thanks.

 

[juliendogg]

Hey Fishy, sorry you're having troubles. I do not have an AIW myself, nor have i ever had one. I did however build a very nice rig for a friend of mine, and he purchased a 128MB 8500 AIW retail, back when they were the bomb. Now this fella, he's learning but he's still pretty much illiterate, so if there's new vid drivers to be installed you can bet i'm at his place putting them on. I have had some of the same experiences as you are speaking of it seems. the only fix i know is to run cat-uninstaller, or use driver cleaner, whichever your preferece, and get rid of every last ATI file. Start from scratch. 3.8's ended up working excellent on his rig, and the TV out quality is good so far as that goes, just don't expect digital clarity from it. The text will still appear grainy, it's just that way. But the capture quality is quite nice, the picture comes over nice and clear on the monitor. Much better than the television.

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/misc/catalystutils.html

there is a link the the cat uninstaller, it works excellent.

good luck,

J.

 

[{PMS}fishy]

Humm. I know the 3.8s are safe for the 8500s. There were just so many problems with them. I not sure if I want to use those. Thanks though.

 

[Yuriman]

I had tons of problems on my 8500 with cat 3.8's. Distortion in games, instability, ect. Try the 3.9's.

 

[shortbus_]

i used mmc 7.6 when i had it. w/latest cat video driver