Zebulon Pleasure Beast

Ooo, need a tester for a beta patch? (ATI/Vista issue)

Nothing wrong with ATI cards per se, it's just that I haven't heard of anyone getting the game to work proper on Vista with an ATI card. Not me on the two computers I tried on, not my friend on his nor people on this forum. People have reported it works on XP & ATI just fine. (Steve didn't explicitly mention the presence of Vista&ATI combos )

That's good news.

I did a QB as Republican Guard (or whatever) Heavy mix and got 4 UAZs and 4 Forward Observers with no artillery or air support on call. Nothing else. The US player had 9 Strykers and a metric asston of infantry. Do I need to specifically mention that I lost that game?

Made no noticeable difference at all.

Ok, I take back my statement about the game being playable, whenever I try to use commands other than move the game crashes.

Use Ventrilo instead of calling someone, rune? If you have a microphone that is...save buxxx.

OK, I am reporting improvement. With 7.8 the screen no longer flickers randomly. If I left-click a unit it will still freeze the game and possibly crash, but I found that using SHIFT to lasso units, even single units, will prevent this from happening. I was able to complete ATGM ambush scenario this way. EDIT: Using WASD to move the camera caused the game to crash...this is a band-aid fix, I am sort of remotely able to play the game.

I'm installing 7.8 as I write this.

Has anyone tried the Catalyst 7.8 leaked beta?

Computer won't boot Vista with those drivers installed and you have to remove them in safe mode. The search continues...

I have an X800, which is old, but is it old enough? Anyway, downloading the driver...it does say it's for XP/2000 though.

rune, was the game tested on Vista & Catalyst?

(This is all based on wild googling that resulted in 6 months old posts, I am unsure of the current status of the ATI OpenGL driver but one thing is sure, it doesn't work properly on Vista) So, my amateur research has brought me to the conclusion that the problem might be caused by ATI's Vista drivers lacking OpenGL ICD (whatever this means) which means OpenGL on an ATI card is somehow layered ontop of Direct3d and thus works like **** and crashes all the time. Now, on one forum I picked this up: "If you really want opengl in vista and don’t care or don’t have support for AERO interface, you can just install the xp driver and go on as normal. You just won’t get the 3D effects or transparency (thats the best part of vista!)" Apparently it might be somehow possible to force Vista to run on older drivers, but I'm unsure on how exactly to go about doing this and whether CMSF would run is a mystery. Just thought I'd give a heads-up since apparently the Vista/ATI connection is being neglected and dualcore processors are being blamed. Ofcos I might be wrong in which case shoot me. I have a fresh Vista install on a single processor with the newest Catalysts and the exact same problem that is being reported by Vista/ATI users all over the forum manifests itself. I haven't yet seen a single person with Vista&ATI card reporting that CMSF works properly on his machine, dual core or not. Correct me if I am wrong, just trying to help.

I don't have dual core, so it is not that what is causing the problem.