Ok, I recently bought a ati 2600 xt, to replace my geforce 7025 on board video card. Works great except for 16-bit and 24-bit games, my question is can i use my geforce 7025 for old games but send the output of the card to my 2600 xt?
No dithering, so there banding on the textures. Thief 1 and 2, system shock 2, and half-life (doesn't matter if I use dx,software, or gl they all have the problems) are all the ones I know are affected, theres probably more that are effected.
Some great classics there. Ok, to the problems. What driver version are you using, with what operating system (and sp if applicable) and are your games patched to date? also, what version of DX are you running (run dxdiag, its on the main page at the bottem, the long number from inside the brackets?)
I'm running driver version 8.1, Windows XP SP1, SS2 is upto date, half-life is version 1.1.10 , thief 1 & 2 arn't installed but I know they have the problem. DX version is 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904). http://www.ttlg.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=153 They know about the problem with ss2, t1, t2 a long time but I don't think that they know about half-life being broken.
Sounds like a strange issue to me - try disabling WZC. SP2 should be fine tbh, and it offers a lot of improvement over SP1.
SP2 has awesome wireless support! Can you borrow an Nvidia card just to check it isn't the poor driver support by ATI? Much respect to you for quality old school action though.
Ok I'll go and try my onboard nvidia card. I think that the onboard card will work, but the question is do the 8x00 series have this problem?
Haven't seen it so far. If you are switching cards between vendors, make sure you do a proper driver removal between each one - i.e. remove the drivers -> full restart (i.e. boot without drivers, then reboot again to make sure everything has gone) -> install new drivers. nVidia-> ATi switching can be hard work if you haven't removed the drivers properly, and often ends in a bluescreening nightmare.
I can't get the onboard to work properly unless I remove my 2600xt, perhaps some one else can do some testing?
Remove the 2600XT? Is it that much trouble? Someone else could test, but probably wouldn't encounter the same problems as you - it's not always a hard-and-fast law, even if they have identical hardware to you.
Ok I went took a video of the game with fraps and it looked fine, weird. If i had a hex editer and i knew how to change the renderer from 24-bit to 32-bit i could fix it.
I've not read deeply into your problems, but... perhaps a silly question, but have you tried running both the installer (from what I read very important) and the game in compatibility mode - for either 95 or 98? have you tried using vmware to setup a 98 virtual machine? http://www.sshock2.com/ has fans doing texture updates. Have you tried these?
I sit half life, or the half life engine - ie does it happen with mods, or are you trying to play the original..?
