SAPPHIRE 100176L Radeon X1950PRO 256MB. Which driver?

Use the drivers found on the disk that comes with the card. If you have any problems, update to the latest drivers.

Before installing your card, uninstall all the current display drivers.

I too have an x1950Pro, and have found the best drivers to use with it are ATi Catalyst 6.12.

Basically every Catalyst higher than 6.12 (i.e. 7.1,7.2 etc) cause flickering of your desktop if you overclock the card even by 1 hz...

Plus, all Catalyst since 6.9 have the "Oblivion" patch, so that you can use HDR and Anti-Aliasing in Oblivion and some other games.

And, in tests the 6.12 driver is faster than the 7.x series drivers...

All of the Catalyst drivers, including old drivers can be found at
http://ati.de/support/drivers/xp/r [...] us-xp.html

Enjoy your sweet card...

You can always install and test different drivers and see which one is best or good for you. From my experiance every newer driver that i installed on my previous ati x1900xtx card i got improved results (fps). I see you dont plan to oc so just install any driver and if it works and you dont have problems leave it at that driver.

-bad game play
-freeze ups
-low ocing
-games not playing or starting up
-error messages

GL.

By the way... I have done testing of Catalyst drivers from 5.8 all the way up to the latest. Guess which works best overall? The newest. And if the drivers are installed correctly and if you have problems, look somewhere else.

This article compares performance accross five diffent drivers...

http://www.firingsquad.com/matrix/ [...] ER_ROUNDUP

Although they are using an x800, so not based on x1950Pro performance.

Am going to do some benching with 6.12 / 7.2 / 7.3... Plus we will find out if they cured the overclocking-flicker bug that is in 7.1 and 7.2...

I completely disagree. Install the Catalyst 7.3 drivers directly from ATi.

may i know why you disagree??

cause a few people have been having problems installing drivers first time directly from the site as they have specific files missing in windows.

When you use the cd, it updates all these missing files and then you can just upgrade from the site afterwards.

Iv seen quite a few posts about driver not installing properly that were resolved just by using the original cd and installing everything, then updating like normal.

Sure thing,

Just ran with the 7.1 Omega driver.

Very disappointing, although well within the scope of the other drivers tested.

CS:S 152.27, Lost Coast 84.49, F.E.A.R. 59, Comapny Of Heroes 44...

In every game tested, the ATi 7.1 and 7.2 drivers beat the Omega drivers...

Gonna go back to 7.2 though, as the 7.3 driver seems to limit me to 2x Anti-Aliasing in the Control Centre...

Yup, that would make sense

i generally use FRAPS. dunno what MrSiko used. though FEAR and company of heroes has an inbuilt benchmark system.

In my experience, the Omega drivers have been more stable (sometimes the Catalyst refuses to activate) and unlock additional resolutions. When I format I always start with the Catalyst drivers, but I always find myself going back to Omega drivers after a while.