re: Radeon 7000 not allowing hardware acceleration
Sunday, January 6, 2008 at 2:28 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by steven
(17 messages posted)
It's not a bad machine. It has a athlon xp 2gig and 512mb ram I think. It uses a
jetway V2MDMP motherboard. I'm 100% sure the drivers are correct because I've downloaded
them from jetway and the file name says it for win9x. Although the board has onboard
VGA I need a TV out.
I've already tried the graphics drivers from jetway but it doesn't work. How can
I be sure next time I don't buy such crippled graphics cards? Do ATI make cards themselves?
I believe the TV out doesn't work without their control panel software.
On Saturday, January 5, 2008 at 5:35 pm, C K wrote:
>It only has the Radeon graphics chip. It isn't made by ATI so you can't use ATI
drivers
>from the ATI Radeon 7000 as these cutrate manufacturers will NOT enable all the
options
>in the chip. It's one way they can keep their costs down. Cripple the chips and
>sell them cheaper. I don't know about anyone elses Jetway experience but every
one
>I have come across and tried to get working eventually ended up on the scrap pile.
> There are a lot of reasons that hardware acceleration will not work from motherboard
>issues (not being fast enough, BIOS/setting issues, memory etc etc), to drivers,
>to just a plain defective card.
>
>Either way, you need to use the drivers from Jetway on this one. If the rest of
>your machines specs are weak, that can be a big issue for video problems and settings..
>
>Just out of curiousity, what are the specs on your system?? Maybe that will help..
>
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