Links 2003 On Vista Home Premium and Dual ATI HD 3870's

[Squash]

Hello...

I have recently purchased a new Machine. Dell XPS 630i, Vista Home Premium, Dual HD 3870 - ATI videoa boards.
The video on this machines mackes the game unuseable.

Please see attached screen print. Video does not revreash screen. It`s a mess.

I have loaded the 1.07 patch set but it does not seem to make a bifference. This was happening with 1.05 as well.

Any ideas would be appricated. I link this game and play it a fair bit. Would hate to lose it.

Thanks in advance
Paul

[BruceWallace]

The only way to get the 3870 to work in Links is to have the graphic slider all the way to the left. It is the same thing with the 3850 card.

You will also notice, in the Golfer settings, that the option in Golfer's Shadow, for Translucent, is not available.

[Rehit]

go into the control panel and disable the Catalyst AI.
Links hates SLI and Crossfire.
be sure you have AA turned off and set anything you can to use application settings.
i am running a 3870X2 and a 3870 in Crossfire X with the graphics at highest settings without issues.
the shadow option is indeed not available.

[Squash]

Rehit...

Turned off the Crossfire in the CCC panel and I am good to go.
Thanks so much for this.
Have a great day.

Paul

[BruceWallace]

Rehit...

Turned off the Crossfire in the CCC panel and I am good to go.
Thanks so much for this.
Have a great day.

Paul

You're lucky, then. No matter what I have previously tried with AA, and other things, I can't get rid of artifacts at higher quality settings.

I can get rid of them, but then my ani disappears.

[Rehit]

you cannot usee AA with an ATI device.
you never have been able to do so.
it may have run without artifacts with AA on ATI in the past, but AA did not work.
you only need to disable the Catalyst AI on a dual, triple or quad card system.
it does not exist in a single card application.
go thru all the settings in the control panel and be sure you have all AA disabled and everything else set to application.
if you still have trouble running with the performance bar all the way to the right, i will need to know your video configuration to assist further.

[BruceWallace]

you cannot usee AA with an ATI device.
you never have been able to do so.
it may have run without artifacts with AA on ATI in the past, but AA did not work.
you only need to disable the Catalyst AI on a dual, triple or quad card system.
it does not exist in a single card application.
go thru all the settings in the control panel and be sure you have all AA disabled and everything else set to application.
if you still have trouble running with the performance bar all the way to the right, i will need to know your video configuration to assist further.

I do have whatever I can, to applications control. Here are my settings, under 3D:

1. Standard Settings: Set 1 tick from right end. (Quality) I have tried all different places on the slide bar, here.

2. Anti-Aliasing: Use application settings is checked.

3. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing: Enable Adaptive Anti-Aliasing is unchecked.

4. Anisitropic Filter: Use application settings is checked.

5. Catalyst AI: Disable Catalyst AI box is checked.

6. Mitmap Detail Level: Slider is all the way right to Quality.

7. All Setting: Shows the settings I set in 2., 4., and 5.

8. More Setting: Support DXT Textures format box is the only box checked.

I am not getting the trailing artifacts, as shown above. I get some block artifacts when the slider is on any setting but all the way to the left.

Here are my system specs. I am running this card in a PCI-e 16 slot, but it is not a PCI-e2 slot. I also only have 1 video card, so I am not running it SLI.

AMD Athlon 4600+ Dual-Core CPU
Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe Motherboard
2Gig Corsair 3500 LLPro DDR Ram
BenQ DW 1655 DVD Burner
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 3870 PCIe Video Card - 512MB
Creative Labs Audigy2 Platinum Sound Card
2 Each - 320GB Seagate SATA2 Hard Drives
Windows XP Home Edition w/SP2
Monitor is Samsung SyncMaster 245BW 24" widescreen connected via digital cable, and running at native resolution of 1920x1200.

And thank you, for trying to help.

[Rehit]

the blocks cannot be resolved...
they do not appear on all courses and i have not been able to isolate the common factor at this point.
i think it may be the pano, or the sky bleeding thru since they are comprised of many small blocks.
the only cure for the blocks is to hope a new driver comes along that solves the issue, or to buy an Nvidia card.
i am using the 2nd option in the next box i build.
i only bought the ATI cards to run triple Crossfire X in a benchmark competition.

[BruceWallace]

the blocks cannot be resolved...
they do not appear on all courses and i have not been able to isolate the common factor at this point.
i think it may be the pano, or the sky bleeding thru since they are comprised of many small blocks.
the only cure for the blocks is to hope a new driver comes along that solves the issue, or to buy an Nvidia card.
i am using the 2nd option in the next box i build.
i only bought the ATI cards to run triple Crossfire X in a benchmark competition.

Thanks for the help. I figured that it could only be resolved in future drivers, but with the games for which the video card manufacturers are making their cards, I doubt that they are even looking at old games.