ATI Rage Fury 8MB (Xpert 99)
ATI

Installation:

The first thing I did was to download the newest drivers from ATIs homepage. After removing my old I740 card from the AGP slot and replacing it with the Rage Fury 8MB card I restarted my computer. When windows started it found new hardware and asked for the drivers. Because the drivers I downloaded came with an setup file i pressed cancel and then ran the setup file instead. And after a second reboot the card was installed.

I then started Quake 2 to do some benchmarking and it worked without any need of fiddeling around in the options and so on. But a strange thing happened when I tried running 3Dmark 99, after the second test the program crashed with an error message saying something like "error in ddhelp.exe". As you all might know ddhelp.exe is a directx component. So therefore I tried reinstalling directx6.1 a couple of times but the error remained. When I tested the card in another computer 3Dmark 99 ran just fine. I figure it might have something to do with some drivers from my old card that hasn't been fully removed. But otherwise all other directx applications and games seemed to work fine.

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