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Offline LHN91

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #20 on: July 04, 2011, 01:01:33 pm
You're running on a laptop... and the only experience I have with that series of laptop gpu was in a dell with an i5. However, I've had some minor issues with the latest ATI drivers on a 6200 series laptop chip, might be a trouble point.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #21 on: July 04, 2011, 03:25:07 pm
The drivers on it are factory standard, a couple of years old. I never got around to updating.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline LHN91

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #22 on: July 04, 2011, 05:55:06 pm
Then you definitely should consider updating them. Factory drivers are notorious for being buggy at best.
 

Offline Kosh

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #23 on: July 04, 2011, 11:39:53 pm
Ok, so if the newest drivers are buggard which catalyst release do you suggest I update to?
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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Offline LHN91

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #24 on: July 05, 2011, 12:07:00 am
Well the majority of the issues I have been having relate more to DXVA than anything, but the second or third most recent catalyst is running flawlessly on my 4870 on my desktop, which would be either 11.4 or 11.5. And I was more curious to see if you were using 11.6 (as I hadn't tested much openGL on it yet due to lack of time) than to imply that they were totally buggered, YMMV, you most likely will find they work fine as you have a much more mature driver support with a 4000 series than I do with the 6000 series in my cheap C-50 based laptop.

(Texting POSTING from a cell while distracted before = disjointed sounding messages)

Either way, I highly doubt you will make anything worse by updating to 11.6. 2 year old drivers for a then-new 4000 series are definitely going to have more issues than any newer release.

Give it a shot and let us know how it goes. ATI was always worse at openGL support. Especially in their older drivers.
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Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #25 on: July 05, 2011, 12:22:18 am
It's a 4500 so I don't know what 11.6 would do, but on 5800 Series 11.6 makes glass.dds on FSPort and goldglass.dds on MediaVPs opaque.
 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #26 on: July 05, 2011, 02:48:31 am
On 5700 series (at least in my case) no problemo.
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Offline Kosh

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Re: Disco Freespace!!!!!
Reply #27 on: July 10, 2011, 01:23:48 am
I haven't forgotten about this but my ISP recently has been cutting off large files before they are finished downloading (so I only get 4 or 5 MB of a 50 MB file and it says it is done), I'm still trying to get ahold of them.
"The reason for this is that the original Fortran got so convoluted and extensive (10's of millions of lines of code) that no-one can actually figure out how it works, there's a massive project going on to decode the original Fortran and write a more modern system, but until then, the UK communication network is actually relying heavily on 35 year old Fortran that nobody understands." - Flipside

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