Off topic... I love this forum.
O.k., I wanted to know if there's any split-screen first-person shooter
games for PC like Serious Sam. I tried googling for some, but no luck.
I would do a network, but my friend has a crap computer and he can't

i have sound but it keeps changing volume, loud for a while then quite
for awhile then loud for awhile etc.  This is when I am watching tv
and also recording tv, so it appears to be a tv tuner specific
problem, any ideas? TIA

Does anyone have a clue when the ALL-IN-WONDER X800 will be really on
sale. I can't believe ATI announced this card in Sept. and have still
not produced even one for sale or review! The last rumour I heard was
late December. Well its late December....and nothing. I have the

I'm starting to get random crashes to the desktop while racing online in
Need For Speed Underground 2. No error message on my screen but in my
Windows XP event viewer it says this when it happens:
"The description for Event ID ( 0 ) in Source (   ) cannot be found. The

Had some one give me a P4 that clocks to 1.8 easily (its actually a 1.5 I
believe) It already has a dual head ati card in it a RV-100. I want to use
it for my sons machine to play games. It can't be a very fast machine as it
still uses the PC-133 but I have a half gig of memory ...

I bought a PEAK ATi 9600 Pro, a few weeks ago and the fan is now making a
right racket!  Talk about a pile of crap for a fan !
Does anyone know where I might be able to buy a new fan to fit onto the
card?  I have been told that the Artic Coolers are overkill for these cards

I have the non-L shaped memory on an Ati 9500 pro.  I have the infineon 3.0
ram.  I lost my link and a kind email from someone who said that I can flash
this card to 9700 stats without worry.  Im still interested in doing so If
someone has some help for me.

What is DVI output used for on the 9800 pro?
I am building a system with an Flat Panel LCD monitor and want to get
the best picture and gaming.
Thanks

ATI customer care replied to my query and confirmed that "there are no plans
to produce the X850 in AGP format", but then hedged their bets by saying
"maybe later in 2005". There's only $50 between the X800XT PE AGP and the
X850XT PE PE, but add to that a new mobo, 1 MB of RAM and a ...

Beening planning my system for months. Got an extremely tight budget to work
too(?200). these are pretty much my final choices, what do you think?
2.4 Ghz Celeron 533mhz FB 256kb l2 cache
512mb DDR 3200

After some really helpful advice, especially from thomas. I reworked the
system budget to give me a more sizeble amount to go shopping for gfx cards,
and learnt an important lesson about amd vs intel when it comes to budgets.
the new set up is

The newest Omega drivers are out now.
http://www.omegadrivers.net 

Just wondering if this is a fad or something ATI is looking into. Thoughts?
Ron

i have nothing but problems with my Radeon 9600 and VPU crashes... After
having tried all these things:
1) Disabled fastwrite (bios + software)
2) AGPX4

I was very happy to finally see a built-in refresh override feature in the
4.12 drivers, and it seems to work just fine. However, after a reboot the 3d
Refresh Rate Override setting reverts to Same as desktop, instead of the
specific refresh rate value I set it to.