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[Doorman]

I press F12 and CS quits neat as sixpence! Does that have anything to do with anything? Except of course that TL's right again. F12 is bound to 'quit'.....shuffles off.

[A Twig]

My F12 now buys me smoke grenades, so that wouldnt work for me!!!

[Benny]

aye but I'm not really quitting, i just go back to the join game bit, then resume and it gets my screen back normally.
Anyhoo, gonna try the newer drivers. I thought they were but I tried last night and there are newerererer ones. see you online tonight...hopefully

[Dr Sadako]

aye but I'm not really quitting, i just go back to the join game bit, then resume and it gets my screen back normally.
Anyhoo, gonna try the newer drivers. I thought they were but I tried last night and there are newerererer ones. see you online tonight...hopefully

Long time no see. Hope to see you on.
Smite misses you.

[Cadaver]

I get the "press ESC playing Half-Life and your entire PC croaks" error with my 9700 Pro Haven't found a fix for it yet either

9700 Pro - nice card! (guess which one I have  :wink:)

What version of the Catalyst drivers are you running?  This ESC (and also ALT+TAB) lock-up  is a known bug with the version 3.2 drivers and the Half-Life engine  :roll:. Only solution is to completely uninstall the drivers and roll-back to v3.1 (fine for Half-Life/CS/etc), or upgrade to v3.4 - there is no v3.3 as ATi were too late in getting it out before v3.4 came along.

Version 3.4 drivers cure this annoying problem, but they've stuffed in a kludge for Half-Life whereby it takes about 3-to-4 clicks (and about 5 seconds) from the monitor before it selects the right screen resolution.  But, at least your PC won't hang anymore when you press ESC.

The 3.4 drivers will give a nice performance boost to your 9700 Pro, which you'll see in more modern games, and if you like doing those 3DMark benchmarks.  But, if all you play are games based on the Half-Life engine, the best drivers to have are the v3.1 IMHO.

Other issues they've got:

1) some users are experiencing FPS drops down to the low teens whenever the action hots up a bit.  
2) the screen shot function just dumping out black screens.

I can't say I've had either of those things happen, so they do seem dependant on your PC configuration.

ATi hope to have this all fixed in v3.5.  They are currently getting a lot of stick from the worldwide gaming community for this.  Understandable really, when your £250 leading-edge graphics card won't play your favourite four year-old game as well as an older GeForce3.

[Anonymous]

That is one thing I like about Nvidia - their drivers are excellent!

[Cadaver]

Yeah, I can't believe ATi dropped such a clanger by introducing a bug like that between driver revisions.  Especially as it was all working okay beforehand.  Muppets.

OTOH, at least they haven't been splashed all over the press recently like *cough* nVidia, for fudging their driver code to make their new FX graphics cards look more powerful than they really are with 3DMark2003  :oops:

And don't even get me started on the nVidia nForce 2.41 chipset drivers that they pulled two days after releasing them to the masses, after they'ed screwed loads of perfectly working systems in the process.  Yeah, those nVidia boys do great drivers...  :lol:

[Gh0st Face Killah]

Actually ATI have already been caught doing that which was why there was a 2nd revision of 3dmark2003

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I can't believe ATi dropped such a clanger by introducing a bug like that between driver revisions.  Especially as it was all working okay beforehand.  Muppets.

OTOH, at least they haven't been splashed all over the press recently like *cough* nVidia, for fudging their driver code to make their new FX graphics cards look more powerful than they really are with 3DMark2003  :oops:

And don't even get me started on the nVidia nForce 2.41 chipset drivers that they pulled two days after releasing them to the masses, after they'ed screwed loads of perfectly working systems in the process.  Yeah, those nVidia boys do great drivers...  :lol:

eh? sorry but they have, they got caught earlier this year IIRC.
Anyway, I do not want an ATI v Nvidia argument. I have 4 PCs in the house, 2 have nvidia cards and 2 have ATI. Nuff said

[Cadaver]

Ah yes.  But there's twas but a minor infraction.  Honest m'lud.

And at least they owned up to it, rather than totally deny it, like wot brand N did.

Anyway, apologies if it sounded like an anti-nVidia rant (it probably did, I've been known to rant a lot on many things).  I'm completely with you on not having an ATi/nVidia argument.  Totally pointless, and been done to death in many other forums.  Personally, I haven't got anything against either company, I do own products from both of them, after all.  Just so long as they both get their issues fixed is what's important.

PC's ... fun aren't they?  

[OldBloke]

This can all be settled soon.

The winner will be the one that can play both HL2 AND DoomIII flawlessly.  

[Anonymous]

that'll be frenzy then!!!!

[Anonymous]

Ah yes.  But there's twas but a minor infraction.  Honest m'lud.

And at least they owned up to it, rather than totally deny it, like wot brand N did.

Anyway, apologies if it sounded like an anti-nVidia rant (it probably did, I've been known to rant a lot on many things).  I'm completely with you on not having an ATi/nVidia argument.  Totally pointless, and been done to death in many other forums.  Personally, I haven't got anything against either company, I do own products from both of them, after all.  Just so long as they both get their issues fixed is what's important.

PC's ... fun aren't they?  

Couldn't agree moe. It doesn't matter what card you have as long as it does what you need at a price you can afford.

[Tutonic]

I'm running 3.4 atm, but i've had the problem ever since I got the card (started on catalyst 3.0 i think)...

As for ATI v Nvidia...... ATI have better image quality, and are faster, plus they're name is alot easier to pronounce