really? im going to watch the rerun at 12EST

hey i saw it, it was at the end of the show. and he was talking about the x8 to x4 or w/e pretty cool

i am the one that asked them that, i was so stoked that they answered, but, i dont have that smartgear tab. this is what i have...
http://photobucket.com/albums/v412/J...ticatalyst.jpg
please help me out because i need battlefield 2 to work also

specs...
ATI Radeon 9250 PCI
1 GB Ram
2.93 Ghz Processor

according to the first post, i need the smartgear thing to lower my agp settings.

thanks.

hi, i found a very nice workout to fix ati cards here:
http://www.gamecrashes.com/4-22-15.htm
http://www.gamecrashes.com/fix1.htm Hope you will find useful.

on one of those links, they were talking about how lowering the agp setting worked. i need that smartgear tab, anyone know where it is? i only have the tabs on the picture i posted 2 posts up.

Please Help!

did you try uninstalling latest derivers and install 2004 drivers? It just might work. The following link also might be userful to you http://www.techsupportforum.com/comp...c/57340-1.html considering your 9250 PCI. Since its your PCI card, i dont think it is possible to override the agp speed.

hey, i was wondering which driver does the 9200 have to be on for the game to work, right now i think im running my video card on a catalyst 5.6

theres a couple new 1's released but i dont know which 1 im supposed to get
can u help me?

Thanks u a lot i ve the same problem than u ive search also hours to get that problem THANK U can u tell me what i have to do at last :angel:

In theory latest catalyst drivers are always the best in terms of performance although they do sometimes cause problems particularly with older cards. I use catalyst 6.1 with a Radeon 9250 myself without any problems. 6.3 is the latest version Get it here: https://support.ati.com/ics/support/...questionID=640
You'll need Microsoft .net framework 1.1 which is included in the full catalyst package for which you'll need either broadband access or the patience of a saint on dial-up.Technically this Catalyst is only supposed to support cards X700 or higher but it should still work. Confirm your current driver in case you need to revert to it.

The first post above from Rodex describes my problem. But, when I try to change the AGP to 4x, it won't work. The box isn't able to be changed from the ATI Control Center. I'm not sure how to change it another way. Help??

The 9200 can run BF2 just fine. My dad's PC has a JetWay Radeon 128MB 9200SE and 1GB of RAM. He runs BF2 on the lowest settings with no lag at all. Plus it has a 1.7 Ghz P4 processor, so I don't think anybody needs to upgrade(except for RAM), unless they wanna play games with all the eye candy and all(like I do). But it did have this problem before, where it used to freeze when he was in the game and he tried to go to the menu by pressing Esc. But thats gone after I formatted his HDD and re-intalled the game.
And mailpup, the list of cards that comes with BF2 is crap. Check out I'm putting it straight from the readme file:

- CPU
Battlefield 2 supports the following processors:
Intel Pentium 4
Intel Xeon
Intel Pentium Extreme Edition
Intel Celeron D
AMD Athlon XP
AMD Athlon 64
AMD Athlon 64-FX
AMD Sempron processor

- Minimum Specification:
CPU: 1.7 Ghz
RAM: 512 Mb
Video Card: NVidia GeForce FX 5700, ATI Radeon 8500 or ATI Radeon 9500
with 128 Mb of RAM

- Recommended Specification:
CPU: 2.4 Ghz
RAM: 1 Gb
Video Card with at least 256 Mb of RAM

- Video Cards
Battlefield 2 only supports the following video cards:
Radeon X700 (PCIe)
Radeon X600 (PCIe)
GeForce 6600 (PCIe)
GeForce PCX 5900 (PCIe)
GeForce 5800 Series (AGP)
ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition
ATI Radeon X800 PRO
ATI Radeon 9800 Series
ATI Radeon 9600 Series
ATI Radeon 9550 (RV350LX)
ATI Radeon 9500 / 9700 Series
ATI Radeon 8500 Series
ATI Radeon X300 Series
NVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra
NVidia GeForce 6800 GT
NVidia GeForce 6800
NVidia GeForce FX 5950 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5900 Series
NVidia GeForce FX 5700 Series

How do you set you AGP from 8x to 4x in the Catlyst Control Center program? I click Smartgart on the left side of the screen... and in that panel there is the AGP settings, but it is greyed out. I can't select anything in it. Also, I don't know how to do it with BIOS, I don't see it listed on there to change the AGP from 8x to 4x.

I'm not sure how to format the HDD either^^

americanidiot, that pic u posted tells me that u don't have the latest Catalyst drivers installed. U need to have Microsoft .NET Framework and Catalyst 6.3 drivers. That would guarantee best performance and make ur job easier.The links have been given above by notcorn. I'm telling u this bcoz my Dad uses those drivers and he hasn't had problems thus far.
Ydobon, maybe the options on ur screen are greyed out because ur card might be a PCI? Could u post ur system specs?

you just have to klick the enable in the control center VpU recover

Well, can you play BF2 with a Radeon 9250 and these system specs?:
And it's a PCI card^^^


Dell Dimension 3000
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00 GHz
512 MB of RAM

You should be able to play Battlefield as you have enough RAM a fast Cpu and
I play it with an AGP 9250 myself and it runs quite well.

If you want to change from AGP 8x to 4x, change it in the BIOS.

PCI cards don't respond kindly enough to new games like BF2 unfortunately. So I think a PCI card will most likely not run BF2 at all and even if it does run it, in the end, it will tax the card so much u might end up with a dead one. notcorn says that he has an AGP card but AGP cards behave differently from PCI ones, the latter being the worse performer. SO I think an upgrade is in order.
Just to make a point, I'm posting this link. Check it out and decide for urself.
http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windo...lefield-2.html

Rodex, thank you very much. Your advice worked perfectly for me. You're da man!