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HalOfBorg
21 Mar 2004, 04:07pm
System Specs:

Shuttle Barebone PC for Socket 478 at 533/800MHz FSB Model SB75G2
Shuttle Motherboard with Socket 478 at 533/800MHz FSB
Intel Pentium 4 3.0GHz 512KB 800 MHz FSB With Hyper-Threading
2 of Corsair 512MB PC-3200 DDR400 C2 XMS | (Extreme Memory Speed series)
Sapphire Radeon 9800 PRO 128MB DDR DVI/TV-out 8X AGP (powered by ATI)
Western Digital 120GB SATA WD1200JD 7200 RPM 8MB Hard Drive
Integrated 5.1 Channel sound
Lite-On 48x24x48 CD-RW and 16x DVD-ROM Combo Drive - (Black)
Samsung External USB Floppy Drive
Microsoft Windows XP Home with Service Pack 1a

Half Life Platinum Edition 2 - PC Game Retail (ITEM#ABS32128103


I set the bundled HL games seperate because they are the problem - switching between 2D (menus) and 3D (game) screens.
I have the latest drivers for the vid card - 4. something, just DLd 'em.
HL is updated as far as it goes.

Windows Update included this in the Drivers section:
http://www.stratuswave.net/~ackman/ATI_WIN_UPD.jpg


Anyone know what this is, where to find out, should I install it, will it mess things up?

I normally stay away from WinUpdate drivers, but their XP drivers for my Voodoo5 DID make it much better. No tools, but OpenGL worked.

kryyst
21 Mar 2004, 05:59pm
It's just windows certified ATI drivers. They will be the bare drivers without most of the tweakable extra's that come with the real ATI drivers. Also it's going to be several version behind. So if you install it, it may or may not screw up your settings. But it'll definitely be older drivers that you are running.

HalOfBorg
21 Mar 2004, 08:37pm
Thanks. :)