Hey,

I just installed the newest driver for my ATI Radeon 128.mb 9600 pro, and I can't watch videos now. Their is sound but then it just crashs after 5 secs, I use windows media player, and showtime 3. It worked perfect before, but I had to upgrade it for my sister for The Sims 2, which by the way im still having problems with

Heres the update site:
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonx-xp.html

7-1_xp_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_40211.exe

I tryed reinstalling it but, still the same.

Anyways if someone could suggest some ideas it would be great.

Hi A7X.

First thing to do is uninstall the ATI drivers you have now, and then go HERE and pick the vid card you have, and d/l-install the driver.

Next thing to do is update DIRECTX, and see if everything works ok then.

I have used 'omega drivers' for years, and never had a problem. Basically, the site owner strips down drivers and rebuilds them, taking out all the junk and tweaking them for better performance.

Scorp.

I agree with scorp. In addition to using Control Panel to remove, go into the C drive/Windows and find all the ATI driver files and manually delete them. Most of the time the remover doesn't delete these. Then, IF you have experience and feel confident, search your register for any ATI entrys and manually remove them. Then reinstall.

\**Hey Scorp ... I went to your linked page, but never did find the link to his drivers. Everything is only advertising "Buy Me, Buy Me" stuff. Where's the link to the drivers?

Another issue once you update the drivers (of which I too have used Omega for years now) is if your videos used codecs there is the slim possibility that you may need to reinstall the codecs.

Ok, I uninstalled all ATI Drivers, and everything else. After doing so I scanned the windows folder for anything to do with ATI, and found nothing. I proceed and installed the Omega Driver:

http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php

When I restarted and logged on, I noticed a big difference in speed, and it was smooth(thank-you). But again my videos are all still locking up:(

Now I did put my old drivers on yesterday and it went back to normal, so it is the conflict with the new driver.

Any suggests on getting this to work, because I love the way my computer is running now just from the new driver.

Ya, danged adverts now...but you just click the 'skip this ad' in top right, then click ATI, then the O/S, XP in his case.

A7X, it's great that it's running smooth...but it still locks with vids. Did you try the DirectX update etc?

And when you say 'Now I did put my old drivers on yesterday and it went back to normal, so it is the conflict with the new driver', what do you mean? I don't quite understand.

Scorp.

I already have Direct X 9.0c, but I did reinstall, and still no go on the videos.

Let me try to explain again about my old drivers, sorry about that:

A CD came with my graphics card, but its out of date. So I decided to update it for games. Which lead to the new drivers being installed, and the new driver locks up videos. I wanted to find out for sure if it was the new drivers, so I reinstalled the old ones from the CD, and my videos started to work again. But of course I want the new Omega drives, the PC runs amazing with it.

Hey, no problem. Thanks for explaining.

Ok, just to remove any weird possibilities, install the Omega drivers again (if not already done), then d/l and install THIS codec pack. That will make sure you have everything needed to play most vid files etc.

I'm sorry that this is going to sorta be a one step at a time thing....only way to do it I'm afraid.

Scorp.

I know these problems can take a long time, i'm just glad we have forums like this with people that offer to help.

Anyways i've i already got the K-lite pack, but I reinstalled it anyways, and no luck. It just keeps freezing my computer.

Ok.

Time to look at the media player settings. I assume you have WMP 11?

Click on Tools, then Options. (If you can't see the File, View, Play, Tools, Help buttons at the top, click on the 'Layout Options box next to the search box at top left, then click 'Show Classic Menus). From the 'Performance' tab, in the video acceleration box click the advanced button. In there, on the right, make sure that 'Turn on DirectX Video Acceleration' is checked, along with 'Use Video smoothing'. Then ok out of them all and try it.

Like I said, one step at a time.....

Let us know.

I'm using Windows Media Player 10, since 11 requires Service Pack 2, and I honestly don't wanna touch Service Pack 2. I heard a lot of nasty things about it.

But Media 10 has everything up to the checking off Direct X and Smoothing video. I messed around a little with the settings, nothing went my way, haha.

But I don't think its a Media player problem since I also use showtime 3, and that also kicks me out when watching a movie.

The weirdest thing is, if I go up and watch a video on the internet, which uses media player, it works! But that just makes me more confussed...

Hmm...why do you not want to install SP2? It does fix a lot of issues. I know some ppl have had a bad experience, but for most, it's fine.

Did you try all settings on low?

Scorp.

Yeah I've tryed it on all settings.

Ok I think i'm going to research some SP2, and make a restore for if anything screws up. I downloaded it a long time ago, when it first came out. And it really messed up my computer and I was forced to format. But ill see what happens and post my results.