Ati driver conflict with msn??

[vincent]

How can it be.......

i've recently got my A64 pc running and happlily snapped up a Sapphire Ati Radeon 9800 Pro for £91 incl. delivery @Overclockers.co.uk because they had used it in a display pc......

i bung the drivers fire the gpu in and leave msn running in the background accidently while playing a game....

the thing i've really noticed is that is does it on these games....

-MOHAA
-MOHAA:SH
-MOHAA:BT
-COD
-COD:UO

and what do all them games above have in common

they use the QIII engine (aka .Pk3 files) .....

so why does Ati drivers conflict with Quake 3 engine ?

does anyone know ?

or has anyone else looked at it in this perspective?

[scotty6435]

I'm sorry, what happens? Crashing? MSn has had lots of problems recently and it's only just up to 100% again.

[vincent]

it depends what game you play....

on MOHAA.SH, AND BT -your contact comes online ,and makes the game flash like a wall hack :-| then when it goes down,it goes darker...

on COD and UO -your contact comes online and flashes the game screen then once they has gone down,it makes the game darker

[Steve]

Some 3D programs don't like MSN rendering over the top of them. It happens a lot in OpenGL stuff, didn't realise D3D was the same.

It happens in the original half life too.

[speedy_s]

It happens in a lot of games. When u have a popup or something the game really darkens which i really hate

[exAndrzej]

...happens in a lot of games...

If you can be specific, then I will definitely raise this with the driver team

In your reply, please try and tie-down exactly what tehhardware/software set-up is...

...as well as the steps necessary to get this to happen

[MD]

do you have MSN set to always be on top?

I have seen this issue you talk about if MSN is set to always ontop.

m@: