skeeter
05-14-2002, 01:35 PM
I have been playing with my Radeon 8500 for about a week now. I am not sure that I am using the right driver though? Using one off Disc that came with card. Card is a Power Color 8500 275/275.
Have downloaded but not yet tried 1. Driver from manufacturers website for Win98(My operating system) for this specific card.
2. Driver from ATI website for ATI Powered (ref. 768-02013-3013c)
3. Driver for ATI built (4.13.01.9031)
According to Sandra I am using 4.13.01.9009 reference drivers.
Are any of these the driver I should use or is there another one and where?
Reasons for questions are two. 1. In 3DMark 2000 the card I replaced used in my backup computer is faster than the Radeon by a large margin. Backup computer uses BX chipset, 800e p3 processor and 128mb RAM. Main computer uses 815EB chipset, Celeron 1.1 gig processor and 256 MB RAM.
2. I downloaded Radeon Tweeker and according to it (???) clock speed is 140. Haven't changed it but shoudn't it read 275??
Have downloaded but not yet tried 1. Driver from manufacturers website for Win98(My operating system) for this specific card.
2. Driver from ATI website for ATI Powered (ref. 768-02013-3013c)
3. Driver for ATI built (4.13.01.9031)
According to Sandra I am using 4.13.01.9009 reference drivers.
Are any of these the driver I should use or is there another one and where?
Reasons for questions are two. 1. In 3DMark 2000 the card I replaced used in my backup computer is faster than the Radeon by a large margin. Backup computer uses BX chipset, 800e p3 processor and 128mb RAM. Main computer uses 815EB chipset, Celeron 1.1 gig processor and 256 MB RAM.
2. I downloaded Radeon Tweeker and according to it (???) clock speed is 140. Haven't changed it but shoudn't it read 275??