Radeon 9700 PRO SI problems

[pekachup]

I just got R9700 PRO (ATI's own card). I get the same results with it than with gf3 and gf4ti4600. FPS is pretty sucky and water effects are still buggy. And I can't even launch the normal classic daoc anymore, I double click it and nothing happens.

Ideas?

 

[Dramatis]

got the radeon 9000pro yesterday myself, seeing very little improvement in frames apart from in the most tight spaces such as dungeon corridors. The card really doesnt seem to like the new tree textures, im certain the fps is actually worse in camelot hills, the new water doesnt look like the screenshots at least, and you can forget turning on shadows

On a non-DAoC note i haven't tested it in many other games but it's running Battlefield1942 no better than my previous card (a GF2 ultra TI), infact it seems to be causing it to crash quite regularly.

I'm using win2000 and the latest drivers off the maker's website.
so, not so much a reply as letting you know you're not alone pekachup

 

[Tranquil-]

Have you upgraded to the latest drivers? I'm running the ATI Radeon 9700 Pro just fine, no problems whatsoever. Newest drivers from www.ati.com and directx9.

Try to turn off Anti Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering in the displayproperties->settings->advanced->direct3d and opengl(game probably runs on direct3d, but turn all of it off).
Put the sliders to 2x on both and check the 'Application Preference' checkboxes.

....That stuff has given some people some problems atleast.