Known Issues
The following sections provide last minute information on issues that may be experienced when using the ATI Radeon™ Software driver version 8.37.4.3 with the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT series product. AMD Engineering is aware of these issues and is investigating. Updates to these issues may already be available at: www.ati.amd.com.
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced when using the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT and CrossFire™
- Battlefield 2142: Setting the in game graphics options to high and enabling CrossFire™ may result in flashing being noticed within the game
- City of Heroes: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the display resolution to 2560×1536 and the in game graphics options to the maximum settings may result in the game failing to respond
- Dark Messiah: Making certain changes to the in game graphics option may result in corruption being noticed in the game menu when CrossFire™ is enabled
- Elder's Scroll: Oblivion: Corruption may be noticed during the opening cinematic when attempting to play the game with CrossFire™ enabled
- Hitman Blood Money: Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp and enabling CrossFire™ may result in corruption being noticed when certain in game graphics options are set
- Serious Sam 2: Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp and enabling CrossFire™ may result in corruption being noticed when setting the in game graphics options to 1600×1200, AA to high, and Texture Filtering to 8x
- Splinter Cell Double Agent: Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp and enabling CrossFire™ may result in corruption being noticed when certain in game graphics options are set
- Setting the display resolution to 1600×1200 or above on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT no longer results in the card using 3D clock settings
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced when playing certain games with the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT.
- Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil: Setting AA 4x and AF to 8x may result in the game demo failing to respond
- El Matador: Setting the display resolution to 640×480 and disabling all in game graphics options may result in corruption being noticed when playing the game
- Godfather The Game: Corruption may be noticed when setting certain in game graphics options
- Rainbow Six Lockdown: Setting the display resolution to 1024×768 32bpp may result in flashing being noticed when setting the in game graphics options to 1600×1200, AA to high, and Texture Filtering to 8x
- Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2: Corruption may be noticed when disabling the in game video option for frame-buffer and soft-shadow. This issue may be experienced when setting the display resolution to either 800×600 or 1600×1200
- Supreme Commander: Setting the in game display option to 1280×960 may result in the game failing to respond when zooming in and out of the Sentry Point map
- Call of Juarez: The shaded areas on the ground may appear corrupted when moving the game player forward
- Tomb Raider: Legend: Setting the display resolution to 1600×1200 and enabling AA may result in white flashing being noticed on the water
- Heroes of Might & Magic V: Setting the display resolution to 1600×1200 and enabling AA may result in blue horizontal and vertical lines being noticed within the water
- Company of Heroes: Setting the in game options to 1024×768, AA to disable, and Shadow details to high, may result in corruption being noticed when playing the game
- FEAR: Lighting and shadows may appear incorrect in some areas of the game
- Caesar IV: Setting the display resolution to 1920×1200 and AA to 6x may result in corruption being noticed in some areas of the game during the night time scenes
- Grand Theft Auto: San Adreas (GTA): Playing the game on a system running Windows Vista may result in missing video when enabling the in-game AA option
- Black & White 2: Setting the in-game display resolution to 1600×1200 and AA to low may result in corruption being noticed if leaving the game on without any action for an extended period of time
- Sims2: Corruption may be noticed on the Sim family clothing when starting a new game
This section provides information on known issues that may be experienced when using multimedia applications with the ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT.
- Cyberlink PowerDVD: Enabling hardware acceleration in the player followed by playing an h.264 movie may result in brief corruption being noticed just before movie playback starts
- Cyberlink PowerDVD: Setting the display resolution to 2650×1600 and enabling hardware acceleration in the player may result in corruption being noticed on the Windows desktop
- Catalyst Control Center->Monitor Properties->Adjustments: Making changes to the screen position followed by rebooting the system may result in the display changes failing to be retained