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newest Drivers for ATI9500 pro?

Postby codered » Mon May 12, 2003 11:47 pm

Would anyone be able to let me know what the newest drivers would be for the ATI9500 pro.  Just picked it up yesterday and went to www.guru3d.com to get the latest and was unable to figure out the numbering system.  Nothing said ATI9500.  

Thank you for the assistance..
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Re: newest Drivers for ATI9500 pro?

Postby ATI_7500 » Tue May 13, 2003 6:12 am

this driver should be the newest one (catalyst 3.2): wxp-w2k-radeon-7-84-030228a1-008041c

it surely supports your ATI 9500.
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Re: newest Drivers for ATI9500 pro?

Postby codered » Tue May 13, 2003 9:02 am

Thank you ATI_9700.  Judging by your call sign you seem to be in the know....

Thanks again I will head out to see what new drivers will do for me...

This is my first ATI card, is there any tips on what I can do to get the best performance out of it, while not loosing too much detail?

Thanks....
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Processor: AMD XP2500 Barton CPU
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Re: newest Drivers for ATI9500 pro?

Postby ATI_7500 » Wed May 14, 2003 6:35 am

humm...
the best thing ,you could do is switching off v-sync (driver options "direct 3d"), you should get a much better performance now.
and set "texture settings" and "mipmap details" to the right ,it should give you a better image quality without losing too much performance. i suggest playing around with the sliders,until you've got a good mix of performance and image quality.

if you've got questions on your ati card,contact me. ;)
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Re: newest Drivers for ATI9500 pro?

Postby codered » Thu May 15, 2003 11:15 am

Thanks ATI_9700,

I appreciate your advice. I have been tinkering with the sliders on the card and I think I am getting close to understanding my card better.   I used to always use Nvidia, but now I am starting to think that ATI might have something pretty good here.  Atleast it is not as expensive as the Nvidia cards, and the performance seems to be just as good if not better.

Anyway, thanks again.  I will be sure to contact you if I have any more questions....
Windows XP SP1
Motherboard: Epox 8RDA + main board
Processor: AMD XP2500 Barton CPU
Memory: PC2700 1gb Geil DDR
Hard Drive: SEA HDD IDE 40GB 7M 40GPP
Hard Drive: Western Digital 40gb 8mb cache
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Re: newest Drivers for ATI9500 pro?

Postby ATI_7500 » Thu May 15, 2003 11:26 am

yeah,the 9500pro is very cheap and powerful, even more powerful than a Geforce 4 Ti 4600 !!
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