Catalyst Drivers screw up my gfx?

[fox09]

Ok, before anyone starts bitching about me not searching, I did search, I found a bunch of topics about new drivers screwing up VC's graphics, but I don't think those really help me. I seem to have a different problem:

 

It loads up fine. But when I start playing, I get some sort of "ghost" effect. When I enter a car, it'll say like, Cheetah, or whatever, but then about halfway across the screen there'll be Cheetah, but it's kinda faded. Also, when driving around, I notice the same thing with scenery, I'll see a building on one side of the screen, and the same building on the other side, kinda faded.

 

Also, I never really thought that a driver could decrease preformance. I downloaded it, every other game I have works awesome, but for some reason it killed Vice. For the first 5 minutes of playing, it's laggy as hell. And it has trouble loading stuff.

 

Anyways, I think is a compatability issue. But I looked through the Readme, and it didn't say anything about my gfx card(Radeon X300).

 

All help will be greatly appreciated.

 

 

BTW: Yes, I do have the latest driver. (I think)

[Demarest]

So go with a less then updated driver. The way I read the above, it worked at one point. You should've left it. Our mistakes give us a chance to learn

[Mr Killer]

Exactly the same thing happened to me, I have a Raedon 9200 series 128mb gfx card and I downloaded the latest Catylyst driver and trails appeared almost everywhere on the screen.

 

The way I fixed it, was to reinstall Vice City .

[Demarest]

Rather than go through all that, delete My Documents/Vice City User Files/gta-vc.set and if you have them: txd.dir and txd.img from your models folder. The game will rebuild both and depending on how radical a change the drivers are, both are a good idea to nuke between upgrades anyways.

 

For the record, I've used a 9700 Pro for almost 2 years now and the drivers I use for it are about that old. Never any issues whatsoever

[muppetmaster]

Hmm, to me, that sounds like a problem with Vsync, go to your driver display properties, find the Direct X/compatibility section, and make sure Vsync is set to Always on, or a similar option. Vice Needs Vsync.

 

 

May not be the problem but it's a logical solution.

[fox09]

Rather than go through all that, delete My Documents/Vice City User Files/gta-vc.set and if you have them: txd.dir and txd.img from your models folder. The game will rebuild both and depending on how radical a change the drivers are, both are a good idea to nuke between upgrades anyways.

 

For the record, I've used a 9700 Pro for almost 2 years now and the drivers I use for it are about that old. Never any issues whatsoever

Thanks Dem. I deleted the gta-vc.set, and now everything is back to normal.