Problems With Radeon 9600 Solved!

[Psychobabble 0]

I wanted to let everyone know a fix I found for owners of Radeon 9600 Pro cards who have a problem with lock ups, especially when you go to the Options screen. Apparently, lots of owners with this card had prob with lock ups. Mine would lock up in any of the choices from the main menu except the Quick FLY buttons, but I would lock up if I crashed or tried to end teh mission by hitting the ESC key. I found the solution in a thread at Ubi.soft's LOMAC tech forum site. One way is to lower the hardware acceleration on the ATI display settings advanced troubleshoot section just 1 scale (disable cursor acceleration). You get a blinking cursor but no lockups! The other way is to enable fastwrites in BIOS, but I'm not that computer saavy to know how to do this. I just wanted to pass this info on because it took me a week to figure this out!!!

[PaiN 0]

Using Catalyst driivers You can easily enable/disable Fastwrites from the "SmartGART" tab under advanced display properties.

But first, make sure you have a mainboard that supports Fastwrites and its enabled in bios.