OK I know I should post this in Technical but more of you will see it here.
ATI have put a new version of their Catalyst 5.4 video driver for all Radeon cards. I believe it's a direct response from ATI to the crashes some [including me] have been having with Poser6 and Radeon cards.
The new version that you should install is 6.14.10.6525.

thefixer
poser coordinator

Message edited on: 04/10/2005 04:23

scratching head and thinking I've never updated my video drivers on my Radeon card and I'm scared to because everything works. What if I update the driver and start having crashes? Hmm. Will have to think about this one a bit longer.

Kristta, if all is ok with your system then I would also be inclined to leave well alone. It's just a heads up for those that may need it! thefixer poser coordinator

Well, I tried the new drivers. My review is mixed. The Catalyst version was horrible. All kinds of errors, that could not be fixed. So I did a system restore and got rid of them.

I tried the plain drivers then (no Catalyst), and they seem to be working well. The previous version did weird things to my text size. This version restores the text to what it use to look like before. The Poser library looks a lot better. Still too much wasted space, but not as bad as with last month's drivers.

Here's the thing: If you installed the card yourself, then you probably should go to the ATI website for Drivers. If you have a card that came with your system, Go to the computer manfacturer. I have an ACER Notebook with a ATI Mobility Card. ATI recommends going to the Manfacturer in this case.

I used to do that, but gave up. Dell takes forever to put new drivers on their page. The ones from ATI work better, and are updated much faster.

And I used to have an Intergraph card. They make great industrial-quality graphics hardware, but just weren't prepared for the consumer market. I ended up using other companies' drivers for my card. (Worked fine.)

Decided against the driver update. As stated earlier, system runs great without the update. Not going to mess with a good thing. No manufacturer as I put machine together about a year ago

I used lat month's catalysts with P6 when it was released, and it works fine here on a ati radeon all in wonder 9600xt I also installed the new ones 2 days ago, and the only issue I had with them, is that they turned direct3d off for some reason.. I turned it back on for gaming, and have had no issues at all. Can't really tell if there's any speed increase, or stability, but this version is the first certified with microsoft in a LONG time...

garee whats the secret in getting opengl to work on your 9600xt. it works for me with dazstudio but not poser 6

I just have the latest drivers, xp home, and sr2. (they released 04/05 drivers a few days ago.) Also, don't use that stupid "ati control panel" garbage..grab the smaller of the new driver downloads. I also have my opengl quality set to highest, with no visible slowdown. I'm running a pent 4 2600 as well, with 1 gig ram, and a static 2 gig cache on a different physical HD then my boot drive.

This guy does a bunch of tweaking on ATI and Nvdia drivers, gamers swear by his tweaks... http://www.omegadrivers.net/ Maybe this will help someone out. I use the drivers and it helps my gaming.

Yeah the Omegas as killer.. they are optimised for gaming, so I don't know if we'll get any more perfomance for P6, since it doesn't even push opengl at all. It might help some with compatibility issues, and the omega drivers are just tweaked versions of the new catalyst drivers, so they are safe to use.