Conan_NA

Well, as per an earlier suggestion in the thread, I updated my drivers to the 7.12 Omega build, and so far that seems to be doing ok. This is, of course, per the Radeon HD2600 PRO AGP card as listed in my previous post. YMMV with whatever folks have.

The colors are normal for now, and I can finally access the other in-game options that I knew the card was capable of handling, but that I assume CCC wasn't letting me use, even with the disabling of the Cat A.I. Namely, Depth of Field, Bloom and Desat are useable now.

Not sure about AA yet. I've turned it on in the 3rd party 3D option prog., but I'll do some further experimenting to see what I get. I'll also update and let folks know whether things change (for better or worse) or stay the same. Only time will tell!

Now if I can only get WoW working right...

Just wanted to add my 2 cents worth of experiences to the thread here...

Running an HD2600 Pro AGP card 256mb on Windows XP Pro SP2 with 3gb of RAM.

Getting the same probs as other folks. Strange colors abound, but ONLY in effects such as character powers, sprint trails, flashlights (on Clockwork, police, etc.). As one poster said, hooray for pink spectral demons!

AA (set in CCC) was working for a bit for me, but something has happened so now it works UNTIL I am actually logged into the game. The character models in the selection screen are AA'ed fine, but once I actually get into the game, it's gone.

Fiddling with settings in the CCC and in the game seems to have little to no effect for the most part on these problems. It almost seems to be completely random whether or not the glitches stay or go. When they're not there, the game looks and plays wonderfully. I am convinced that the Catalyst A.I. is evil, also.

So far the only driver versions I have been able to test are 7.7 (came with the install CD) and 7.11. No other versions that I have tried will install properly (7.8, 7.9, 7.10, 7.12). Just get error messages that "suitable hardware/system could not be found". Ok then! As a side note, the 7.7 drivers have crashed CoX once, and that crash proceeded to crash/restart my whole system, so...

This card has also been giving me problems with World of Warcraft, on an (un)related note. Massive UI glitching and funky texture overlays.

I'll PvP more when they decide to try and fix their horribly broken PvP system.

Until then, PvE is fine by me.

Woo, that was great I remember doing that a while back hehehe. Didn't have any cash for anything else LOL. It sure was nice and cozy though!

Thankfully these new changes have made it nice and easy for small SGs and SGs with lower activity to have a nice, functional base relatively soon, woo!

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Aid Self is MANDATORY for /SR scrappers & stalkers.

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No, it's not.

A column of Respites carried me all the way from level 1 to level 50 on my MA/SR. I finally took Aid Self at level 49 just because there really wasn't anything else that I wanted, but it is in no way mandatory.

Have to say I really like the new animations for claws.

Now, I liked the old slash animation, but it was long. Now, claws feels a LOT faster, just how that set should be.

Thanks much for a good change!

woooo!!!! <clap clap clap> Very nice!