Radeon 9600 Problems

[vibraphone]

Hey, I have a computer with a Pentium IV 2.8 ghz processor, some form of Asus motherboard, Radeon 9600 XT(?) video card, 512 Ram,Windows XP, and 80 Gb hard-drive. I was playing a game through STEAM the other day when i got notice that said I needed to install drivers for my card. i followed the link and installed the new catalyst driver. I restarted my computer, and when i tried to play the game, it started to start up, then gave me a small error message that said, "Error: Unable to init shaders" or something close to that. Anyone know how to help?

 

[fookum]

go and download the cat driver from ati.com 5.6 is the one you want

 

[BlazingWolf]

Your probably just need to reinstall the drivers and that error will go away. It might also be Direct X make sure you have 9.0c. Start>>Run>>type "dxdiag" no qoutes and that will tell you what version you have.

I recommend the Omega Drivers(http://www.omegadrivers.net). They are just a tweaked version of the Catalyst drivers and they give me at least 5-10 extra FPS.

But when you go to install make sure you uninstall the old driver first.

Restart and then install the new driver.

 

[vibraphone]

Ummm, how do i unistall my current drivers?

 

[Elvandil]

Uninstall them from Add/Remove. Boot into Safe Mode to install the 5.6 or Omega.