RE:Problems running Mafia

[kohkohnut]

"Playing the game Mafia, with the display set to 1024x768 32bpp and details set to high, no longer results in the graphics flickering and display corruption"
well....i read this sentence frm www.ati.com n downloaded the latest catalyst drivers(3.1).but it did not help one bit.while playing Mafia i still suffer frm display corruption when i press the button for 'objectives'
anybody has the same prob or any idea wats wrong?

Athlon XP 1700+(1.47ghz)
ABIT KR7A KT266A DDR ATA 100m/b
384mb Kingston PC-2100 DDR RAM
ATI Radeon 8500 64mb(Org)
40gb ATA100 7200RPM 2mb buffer(WD400BB)
WinXP with SP1

 

[Pescara]

Ok, I don’t know if this will be of any help but my cousin had similar problem.
Did you download DirectX 9? Because if you did it, might be just that? And if you are the type that installs and uninstalls frequently you might need to reformat, XP starts to flip when you install and uninstall often, but don’t do that, wait for others to help you. For now only if you did install directX 9, try to reinstall 8.0a or 8.1 DirectX, but I am telling you, if after you wait and try some stuff from me or others, from my cousin’s Xperience the only way was to reformat and no other question asked (it worked). But we will never Know if it was actually that the problem? But it started doing that right after his installation of the frea…. DirectX 9? By logic??????
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