SillyDog701

[mr.Steak]

I've been jerking around with win7 (32bit) for a while and I still haven't figured out how you
take your installed drivers to use. I've been installing ATI catalyst and other (ATI Radeon 9600 series) thingys for several times and trying to put it on in various ways, but it just keeps the same old window's drivers. When I tried to update or choose another driver it says "Windows has determinded the driver software for your device up to date". And this is the part where I get confused.

I'm not good with computers at all, I don't understand complicated talking about system and other stuff so if someone of you got some free time, please make me a clear guidance.
Like this for example: http://i46.tinypic.com/zydr7t.png

I'd really appreciate!

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[iJohnE]

I'm a little lost as to your questions, but I'm going to try my best.

What I would reccommend is for you to go to the ATI website here:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

Download the drivers for your card, and then you should be using the ones from AMD. If your looking for Catalyst then you'll need to get those drivers from here:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Installing the drives direct from the ATI websites should override the Windows default used.

Post your results.

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[mr.Steak]

For ATI Radeon 9600 Series, I believe this is the right one:
http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/w ... ng=English

Downloaded option 2, installed and then reboot (when required).
And no changes. My question comes here:
Do I need to activate it now somehow, to make it work?

My root problem is 3D games not being working.
I mostly get this "Failed to load opengl32.dll" error message.
Some rare ones does work, but with very bad FPS.

With my equipment it should run these games just fine.

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[iJohnE]

An opengl32.dll error message I'm pretty sure has nothing to do with your graphics card.
That looks like a straight up windows seven error.

Technically if you installed them, they are already activated. The Microsoft stuff I believe is just a certification, but I'm not sure. I'm going to wait for Mandrake and the other users to come by with more advice and probably better knowledge.

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[Mandrake]

There's most likely a problem with your video card drivers. Go into the control panel, uninstall all the ATI drivers and reboot. Then run Driver Sweeper and clean out all the remaining ATI software remnants. Reboot once more and then perform a clean install of the latest drivers for your card. The AMD link above seems to be the right drivers. Just run the EXE to extract the drivers then choose express install when prompted. You'll have to reboot afterwards.

What are the rest of your system specs? What games are you are trying to play?

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[mr.Steak]

Quake 3 or Quake Live. Neither one works now. But when I had xp they worked just fine and I have more memory along with better graphics card now. I had this same problem with my previous card too. I'll take a try on the Driver Sweeper.

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[mr.Steak]

Problem solved, looks like the thing I've tried to install many times earlier has been updated or something. Earlier it didn't do anything, but now it works.

Thanks for your time!

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