Help! Ati 1950 pro problems

Christ! I’m doomed to never fly again!

I tried updating the drivers but on trying I got a window up titled “SEVERE!” and a message saying either the hardware or OS wasn’t compatible with the drivers and installation ceased!?! Anyone??

You aren’t by any chance using Vista, are you Blaze? Burn it now!!

I’m on XP SP2, and ATI Driver 8.351.0.0, no problems at all.

You don’t happen to be using a HP version of XP (or Vista)? That is common behaviour for HP computers who need HP versions of most drivers and refuse to install the usual graphics drivers.
No problems with Vista. I have used that card on both 32 and 64 bits versions, no problems whatsoever.

And have you installed eventual drivers that you got with the mobo?

VISTA? Christ, it took me 2 years before I trusted XP enough to install it, LOL.

It won’t take the ATi site drivers at all but I managed to get the updated ASUS ones and I’m now seeing figures more in line with you guys…glad to see them but concerned that this shows an underlying problem with the motherboard.

Anyhoo, almost at the flying stage of things at last! Just need some more info…my setup: -

Mobo: - ASRock SATA2-GLAN am2
CPU: - AMD X2 4800+
Memory: - 2 gig (4 x Crucial 512 matched pairs in dual channel mode)
GPU: - ASUS Radeon EAX1950pro 256M

What do you guys suggest as optimal settings bith via IL2 Setup and tweaking the conf.ini file?

What are the “must have” add ons? You know, IL2 stab type stuff etc

Who’s got an old TrackIR since I gave mine away (doh!!)

Cheers for all your help to date friends; look forward to chatting soon!

With the graph settings from il2 setup at max my x1950 pro runs geat…other settings i got streaks all over the screen.