ATI's radion ve problem with mp

[tinman]

installed max payne and it was freezing at the start of the game so i went to the faq's in tech support and they sayed something about the sound card aureal vortex and driver issues .....so i found a site called www.vortexofsound.com... (http://www.vortexofsound.com...)
and that fixed the freezing problem
but now i've got the ati radion ve card problem with slight glitching and max going invisable on the higher resolution.
i was looking at the tech support and it sugested that i put the (D3D HARDWARE s+L) on but i've only got the software s+l to select from in pm setup... does the ati card accually have hardware s+l ?

[tinman]

i also upgraded to the bata driver version but it conflicts with the dvd drivers ...so i switched back to the recomended driver from ati

[Hamster]

I don't have your card, but I have the radeon64DDR, wich should have the same chipset,
so it should support HW T&L. I have used the beta drivers since I bought it half a year ago, and Max has been perfect on it, as has most new games.

That thing there about conflict with DVD, is right. I use the old DVD drivers ver.3.2.0.1.
I must, since I run win98.

They can, and should, be installed separate to fit your system. Go for the latest betas, I say. It's common knownledge the official ATI drivers that came with the radeon was crappy.

[SamiV]

Actually the Radeon VE (Value Edition) doesn't support HWTL.

SamiV.

[Hamster]

Not? Well, that don't give them much value.

[Guest]

if the games keeps freezing, disable agp acceleration in directx 8.0 (or higher)

[Guest]

Actually the Radeon VE is a goddamn business card with a gaming performance you better not speak about.