Radeon 9800, 3.1 Catalyst- 'Open as' window issues

Hey everyone,

I just recently upgraded my old Geforce3 Ti 500 to a Radeon 9800. I backed down my drivers to the catalyst 3.1 drivers as recommended, but I'm experiencing a glitch that I can't find posted on the boards as a problem.

When I'm in world everything is fine, but when I need to load anything that requires an 'open file' window from XP to pop up over my SL game client (such as to u/l and image or sound), everything on my screen Glitches out. My SL window either A) Goes completely black with the XP 'open as' window visible on top, or B) Goes multicolor strips with the XP 'open as' window visible on top.

When I was running my Geforce, this did not happen, as the window would simply 'pop over' the SL client, and everything going on in world would be completely visible to me.

Anyone else seen this problem? It's very annoying, and makes it hard to u/l any files and still interact with people in world.

My system specs:
P4 1.5 Ghz
512 RAM
Windows XP
ATI Radeon 9800 running catalyst 3.1 drivers
Runnin game full screen, local lighting turned on


Thanks
-Bone

Hi Bonecrusher,

I haven't seen this problem, but I can tell you that Catalyst 3.1 is no longer the recommeded driver for Second Life.

We're now recommending Catalyst 3.5 + OGL Hotfix, available from the Downloads section of Secondlife.com.

I use a 9800 as well, and the new drivers are much, much better.

Daniel,

Thanks for the update, I must have missed the post about the new recommended combination. I'll try them out and see if it fixes the problem.

-Bone