I have a Hercules Radeon 9800 pro, which has proven to be a right nice card... but I have a problem.
I installed an overclocking/tweaking utility, and I have now lost the ability to enable/disable fast write... it's just disappeared from the options. I wouldn't really have noticed accept for Max Payne 2, which reminded me that I had not got it on and could only play the game with reduced performance... not that it seemed to be a problem
I think I may have lost other features as well.
It now seems that fullscreen antialiasing only works when the game has that feature in the options, as in aforemention MP2. Games such as Raven Shield, Unreal 2 and GTA Vice city no longer seem to use it, even with them all turned on.
Anyone else out there had this problem?


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Right well fastwrites is about as much use as AGP8x or 256MB of gfx RAM. Along with Sideband it was touted as the next big thing but only held theoretical improvements and you really won't notice any real diff whether it's on or off. You can try diff mobo and gfx drivers as well as checking the mobo BIOS for any Fast Writes options. Perhaps trawl through o/c'ing sw if you wish too.
The drivers should be able to force AA+AF on in virtually any game, perhaps fully remove then (re)install the latest drivers and see if it helps, may help FW too. Try running a game in 640x480 as that should be VERY evident whether AA is on or not. Try the drivers with AA=OFF and AA=4xAA.


