What catalyst drivers for 9800 pro?

[Mindwarper]

Hi,
I got a new ati 9800 pro at compusa for 199$. I flashed bios with newest bios.I did a fresh install of xp pro. I got newest drivers for all cards. I even disabled almost everything on my game os drive. The raid card and aardvark were causing problems. But I still crash in command and conquer zero hour and warcraft 3. And my 3dmark03 score is only 5579 and my aquamark is 37,779. I think I should be getting a better score. I run a stock system. I've heard the catalyst 3.7 was better then the 3.8 or something like that. What driver would you use and do you have any suggestions on what else I can do to make system more stable. Nunchal
ps I have a removable system drive setup. One for video capture and editing, one for gaming and porn, and a third to be for audio multi tracking. Do I just have too much on my system? I don't want to remove pci cards everytime I play a game. But the crashes are driving me buggy.

Asus p4533c 2.53,4x512 1066,40gb system ,240Gb RAID A/V Drive,80 Gb Export,Radeon 9800 Pro,Matrox Rt.X100,Santa Cruz Turtle Beach,Aardvark Aark 20,Ricoh Mp5125a,Samsung 40x cd,Antec w/400,Xp pro

 

[agcheavin]

I too have a 9800 pro with a 2700 AMD chip, my aquamark scores for a stock system are 39000.

I use the 3.9 drivers. Did you D/L and install your chipset drivers ( it looks like you have by those scores) But it looks like your PSU may be having a hard time of it with the extra load caused by the card.

Gary

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[Crashman]

I still use the 3.7 because it's compatable with all my programs.

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[Mindwarper]

Hi,
I have a antec true power 400 watt power supply, so I don't think its power. I also have 2 extra case fans in a large case, so I don't think its temp. But something is making two games crash. Either driver or video card setup, pci raid controller, games software, or too many pci slots used. Or so I think. I'm just trying how to fix it. Nunchal

Asus p4533c 2.53,4x512 1066,40gb system ,240Gb RAID A/V Drive,80 Gb Export,Radeon 9800 Pro,Matrox Rt.X100,Santa Cruz Turtle Beach,Aardvark Aark 20,Ricoh Mp5125a,Samsung 40x cd,Antec w/400,Xp pro

 

[GeneticWeapon]

I'm using the 3.10's

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[agcheavin]

Have you tried the 4.2's as yet. Have a look at the "fixed in this release" to see if they have patched the drivers for those games, also do the same for the 4.1's

Gary

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<font color=red>AMD 2700 XP<font color=red>
<font color=red>Gecube 9800 pro Extreme<font color=red>
<font color=blue>ASUS A7N8X deluxe<font color=blue>
<font color=blue>1024 meg Dual Channel DDR 3200<font color=blue>
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[Kronos]

You might want to check for hardware conflicts. I formatted my hardrive only to find the problem was with a sound and video card conflict that didnt register with windowsXP. It caused the sound to stutter and my 9800PRO to freeze and occasionally crash the system at random times. Since I rolled back my AC97 drivers to the previous version, the video and sound has run flawlessly. Goodluck!

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