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Silverdagger · 01-22-2003, 04:46 PM

I've been running v1.1 on Win XP with no problems until the last few days, when I decided to intall the latest drivers for my ATI Radeon 8500 64Mb (Catalyst 3.0). I did the usual uninstall of the previous drivers but found the new drivers wouldn't install fully. I could get the aquarium to run but the FPS was very low and the bubbles weren't displayed correctly. On advice from the guys at alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati I did the following:

Uninstalled the ATI control panel & display driver, opting not to reboot when prompted.

Remove all leftover .inf files in C:\Windows\Inf - do a search for ati*.inf files but only delete those in C:\Windows\Inf.

Reboot the computer and choose no to the loading of any ATI drivers. The default VGA adapter driver will then be loaded.

Run regedit and delete the keys for ATI Technologies and ATI in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE

Close regedit and install the Catalyst drivers.

Obviously I did a system resore point before messing around with all the above and backed up the registry

Anyway it worked a treat (luckily)

S.

01-22-2003, 04:46 PM	#1
Silverdagger Registered Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: UK Posts: 2	New here, some observations re ATI Radeon 8500 I've been running v1.1 on Win XP with no problems until the last few days, when I decided to intall the latest drivers for my ATI Radeon 8500 64Mb (Catalyst 3.0). I did the usual uninstall of the previous drivers but found the new drivers wouldn't install fully. I could get the aquarium to run but the FPS was very low and the bubbles weren't displayed correctly. On advice from the guys at alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati I did the following: Uninstalled the ATI control panel & display driver, opting not to reboot when prompted. Remove all leftover .inf files in C:\Windows\Inf - do a search for ati*.inf files but only delete those in C:\Windows\Inf. Reboot the computer and choose no to the loading of any ATI drivers. The default VGA adapter driver will then be loaded. Run regedit and delete the keys for ATI Technologies and ATI in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE Close regedit and install the Catalyst drivers. Obviously I did a system resore point before messing around with all the above and backed up the registry Anyway it worked a treat (luckily) S.