Radeon 9200 wrecking my emulators

[Daniel Thomas]

I have a problem I hope y'all can help me solve, because I'm just about out of ideas. I just got a new computer with a Radeon 9200 128mb video card. For some reason, I can't get my emulators to run properly. Most of them don't work in fullscreen (ZSNES, Gens, FCE Ultra, newer MAME games), and others won't work in windowed mode (Project 64, Gens, Project Jaguar) without getting glitchy or missing part of the screen. Giri Giri works in a window, but fullscreen is, again, a no-go.

Naturally, I've assumed it's a driver issue (my last video card was a cheap bare-bones model that ran everything perfectly), and I've tried not only the default drivers that came with the 9200, I've downloaded the latest ATI drivers, as well as Catalyst ver. 4.5. I've even tried a couple unofficial drivers, without avail.

Is there something obvious that's staring me in the face? What am I overlooking here? I'm not eager to pay more cash for a newer card, so I hope there's a better solution. Any clues, Scooby Doo?

[Funkenstein]

It's not a perfect solution, but try setting your display to 16 bit and see if that works for the time being.

[Daniel Thomas]

It's not a perfect solution, but try setting your display to 16 bit and see if that works for the time being.

Ya know, I'm a freakin' idiot. That's the one thing I didn't try (I kept thinking that 32-bit color worked before), and, yeah, it worked. I tried that after playing Halo, and getting pissed at how choppy the game was running. I bought a new video card, and Halo gets choppy.

So, I'm just dumb. Video drivers are a pain, and desktops should be in 16-bit color mode. I knew I shoulda gone out drinking tonight.