Problem with ATI RADEON 9600 LE 256MB VID CARD AND SIMS-2

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I am having problems with ATI Radeon 9600LE 256mb vid card.
After several minutes use in SIMS2 game the video appears to loose
sync. The card is not being overclocked. I have looked for a
replacement video driver, all I can find are ATI Radeon 9600 pro or Se
but not LE.
I found this printed on the actual card.
"ATI RADEON 9600 LE 256mb TV OUT DVI:11CTDV10404001264"
Can some one please give me a url to try and find drivers. The main
board is a Gigabyte c/w 1gb ram, and pent4-3.2gb.
A friend of mine has exactly the same system and exactly the same
problems so I dont think the video card is faulty.
I am running Win Xp Pro incl SP2.
TIA.
Jim McCardle jmccardl@remove.bigpond.net.au

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In article <4RX_d.56565$KI2.339@clgrps12>, augustus@wrtt.net says...
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>"J-McC" <jmccardl@bigpond.net.au> wrote in message
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>>I am having problems with ATI Radeon 9600LE 256mb vid card.
>> After several minutes use in SIMS2 game the video appears to loose
>> sync. The card is not being overclocked. I have looked for a
>> replacement video driver, all I can find are ATI Radeon 9600 pro or Se
>> but not LE.
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>Try turning off vsync in the game and see if this helps. (ctrl-shift-c then
>enter vsync off) All desktop Radeon cards, from the 7000 series to the X850
>series use the same unified Catalyst drivers. Current version is 5.3 from
>www.ati.com. If this is what you're using, try an older version. I've seen
>it run without any issues on a 9800 Pro and 8500 card.
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This worked for me when Radeon 9600 XT frooze up while viewing this newsgroup.
It transferred rendering from hardware to software. I was going to call ATI
anyway, now I have a positive suggestions. Anyone else have "screen freeze,
mouse and computer hang" problems with 9600 Xt (Powercolor). Already unloaded
and reloaded latest drivers.

blackcat