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>I never run the uninstaller and have had no problems. Still, it may be a
> good idea since you are making a rather large jump in driver versions. I
> am not actually sure if it will affect the driver rollback. You could
> certianly use the drivers disk that came with your Gateway to reinstall
> the original drivers though.
Thanks again, Tweek. Hopefully things should proceed smoothly.
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> "Don Cohen" <doncohen@lens-cap.alltel.net> wrote in message
> news:RaGdnWUhwPhbBr3eRVn-pw@adelphia.com...
>> Hi Tweek,
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>> "Tweek" <shawnwinget@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:9Y_Te.2152$hB2.1512@trnddc08...
>>> It is unlikely you have an Mpact anything as they went out of business
>>> several years ago and were hardware decoders that some gateways had.
>>> There wer never even any drivers for it beyond windows 98. As far as
>>> your drivers go, the ATI drivers should work fine. Windows XP has a neat
>>> driver rollback feature that will take it back to the previous driver if
>>> you need to. I have been updating my dad's gateway with the 8500 with
>>> the catalyst drivers for quite a while now and have had no issues.
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>> Thanks for the reply and info. Now that I think of it, it may have been
>> my prior Gateway that had the Mpact stuff.
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>> Do you use the Catalyst Uninstaller before running the executable for the
>> new driver? If so, does this undo the ability to use XP's driver
>> rollback? Or do you just run the executable without any prior
>> preparation?
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>>
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>> Don
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>>> "Don Cohen" <doncohen@lens-cap.alltel.net> wrote in message
>>> news:vaednZ2dnZ1hwVDjnZ2dnV_ovd6dnZ2dRVn-052dnZ0@adelphia.com...
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm troubleshooting sluggish performance with the most recent version
>>>> of Street Atlas (2006), and as always, the video driver is always a
>>>> possible cause.
>>>>
>>>> The system is a 2.2 GHz Pentium 4 700XL, purchased in spring of 2002,
>>>> with 1 gb RAM, and ATI Radeon 8500 64 mb videocard, currently running
>>>> driver 6.14.10.6414 Catalyst 4.1 as the AIDA32 utility. It is my
>>>> understanding that this also drives the DVD player the system has, and
>>>> I vaguely recall something about "MPact" drivers, but can't currently
>>>> reference these.
>>>>
>>>> When checking Gateway's support for drivers for this card, it actually
>>>> shows a driver 6.13... which is presumably older than what I currently
>>>> have. ATI's website shows Catalyst 5.8, for their own Radeon 8500/64 mb
>>>> cards, but since I have a Gateway OEM, I'm a little uncertain if this
>>>> can be used.
>>>>
>>>> Any advice on updating this driver would be appreciated, including
>>>> whether or not the Catalyst 5.8 will also properly run my DVD
>>>> drive/player.
>>>>
>>>> Finally, ATI has a Catalyst Uninstaller, which they recommend running
>>>> before installing 5.8. Does this advice apply to my situation? Or am
>>>> I just asking for trouble?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
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>>>> Don
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