Galnospoke wrote...
2) ATi/AMD drivers are simply piece of sh*t.
Well, they perform wonderfully for the rendering systems they were designed to process... not so well for outdated hard and soft components.
The only one that seems to work reliably for the more recent ATi cards is the version 11.4 for Catalyst. However, on the older Radeon cards, the Catalyst doesn't work at all, not that you really need it with an older, adequate driver at your disposal (as JustMe inferred above) but in an attempt to grab a leading edge driver package I and others with legacy cards have attempted to install the Catalyst series with no success.
Also, the demands of the newer OSs like Win7 & Win2K et al. forces one to migrate to high-capacity graphics hardware that pretty much assures a future of driver juggling and adjustments to get these old games to perform as intended. With all the possible permutations of OS-processor-box generations, it should become obvious that acceptable performance on the newer systems is more the exception than the rule and the reason for the threads dedicated to investigating which graphics components work within the current community.
As has been mentioned in another thread, unless you can hang onto the legacy boxes and run splitter cabling for the monitor and keyboard (or a suitable wireless switch) , those ancient games are doomed to be used as beverage coasters, eventually.
Just remember: NWN's omni-persistent popularly will never be equaled, thanks in large part to the easy-to-use toolset, diverse on-line environments and staunch community that has wrung every possible application out of the basic game dynamic. The game just refuses to give up the ghost.
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Modifié par HipMaestro, 28 octobre 2012 - 09:46 .
