Cats 4.8 with SOF2 problems

[digiram]

Just finished putting together the a64 setup that's in my sig. After reinstalling windows, the latest 4.8 cats, and sof2, I decided to give the new machine a test run. I run the game, like normal, with 2xaa and 8xaf @ 1200x1024, and ran into problems with the game intermittently crashing. However, it doesn't crash all the way. Only for about 4 secs, and runs fine for about 5mins and the cycle continues. So I decide to to turn off aa and af, and drop the res to 1024X something, and same problem happens. So I drop the res down some more to 800x600, and, holy fuck, same problem.

Initially, I installed the drivers from omega, which is pretty much the same as the cats but with oc'ing features and stuff, so I uninstalled that and installed the drivers from ati. Same friggin problem occurred.

Luckily, I had an older version of cats 3.1 saved on my back up hdd and installed that. Now, I have no more intermittent crashes. The game plays perfectly again at the resolutions and iq settings that I preferred.

Just wondering if anybody else is running into, or has run into the same type of problem that I'm having with ati's latest drivers. Btw, I had ut2k4 demo installed and that ran fine with ati's latest drivers.

any response would be helpfule, and thanks in advance

Ram

 

[theelviscerator]

just sounds like the older card likes older drivers.

 

[Three D. Marks]

I'd stick with the 4.7's or better yet the 4.6's or earlier for SoF2. I installed the 4.8's and liked the boosts I got in todays games and benches, but older games like SoF2 acted funny. Some stuttering and weird pauses. Rolling back to the 4.7's, smooth as butta.

 

[digiram]

hey three d marks, do you think you can hook me up with 4.6 or .7??? Do you think you can ftp it for me?? I can give you the user/pass for my host.