The X850 was launched as ATI's flagship part in 2004 and is the last ATI video card with [beta] driver support for Windows 9x. This is noted in the Catalyst 6.2 release notes. The 2600 was a low-mid product launched in 2007. Windows XP came out in 2001 and Windows Vista was out around the end of 2006.
I have Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO graphics card in my Windows Server 2008 x64 machine. It has two outputs a VGA and a DVI. I have connected the DVI to my Dell 24" monitor with 1900x1200 resolution and it works 100%. The VGA I have connected to my second monitor a Samsung 22" with native resolution of 1680x1050. But the ATI driver and Catalyst control centre doesn't show this resolution as an option. If I choose a lower resolution like 1280x1024 it looks really bad and fuzzy. I searched in google and downloaded the powerstrip tool that allowed me to create a custom resolution of 1680x1050 and then this option shows up in Catalyst control centre and my 2nd monitor works fine now.
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I hate to say it but back in the day, this card was super poorly supported. The HD series of cards did not get very stable software in AGP configuration. My friend got the same HD2600 (HIS) new back in the day and it ran so badly back then he thought it was the card that was defective. Turned out it was the drivers. You might find more luck trying some older Catalyst drivers. I remember my old X800 Sapphire AGP card was picky and I had to use I think v6.12 to work correctly IIRC...
I have a HIS AGP HD2600 and I think there are no good rivers for the HDMI sound when using an AMD motherboard under Xp. Seems to work ok on an Intel P4 board (not using the drivers on the original CD). Pretty sure you needed specific AGP drivers for that card Think mine are XP_8.501 .
Strangely my HD4670 AGP worked just fine on my own Athlon XP and so does his AGP HD4670 on his own Athlon XP. Too bad I misplaced it's driver disk, no idea if those drivers would work with the HD2600 anyway.
The Purple Pill tool issue, which could allow unsigned drivers to be loaded into Windows Vista and tamper with the operating system kernel,[38] was resolved in the Catalyst 7.8 release (version 8.401).[39] The AVIVO video converter for Windows Vista, and color temperature control in Catalyst Control Center was added with the release of Catalyst 7.9, package version 8.411. Software CrossFire was enabled for HD 2600 and HD 2400 series video cards with the release of Catalyst 7.10 (package version 8.421)
Method 4. : Re-install radeon drivers without Radeon Relive recording software (works 100% but you loose gameplay recording capability). Radeon Re-live IS THE CULPRIT OF THIS, especially on older polaris cards.
Method 5. -Ditch AMD (ex Ati) Radeon brand get nVIDIA card (you'll be da*mn right that my next GPU will be from nvidia, I'm tired of this ATi sh*t since radeon 9500 pro back in 2000's. AMD/ATi drivers are simply I-N-F-E-R-I-O-R, what you save in $, you pay with headache's). When nvidia f*cks something up, they driver R&D team fix it in no time, simply because their company invest more money in driver development and have more qualified manpower at their disposal. Nvidia doesnt bother with updating it's "old-style" control panel (what aint broken don't fix it philosophy), they bother at performance and bugfixes.
So I have the same problem on the RX 580 in any game on Vulkan and dx 12. games like Red Dead Redemption 2, Cyberpunk 2077, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, fixes if you run some video player in full screen, or restart the computer. in the minimum driver this problem is not present.I noticed that this occurs when applying the logo first game, or overlay, if you turn off the overlay overlay then everything is fine but may reappearmy computer// OC Windows 10.// Motherboard: Asus TUF B450M-PLUS GAMING// Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 2600 3.4 (3.9) GHz// Video card: Asus Radeon RX 580 8GB DDR5 DUAL OC// RAM. 16 GB// Hard disk: 2 TB.
Kinda could reproduce it, it's enough to fire up Unreal Tournament 2004 and just quit it as soon as you arein the menu lol. Once again dragging windows was choppy.. clicking on the windows button will bring up the menu also kinda choppy. However performance isn't really affected. There isn't any process that uses high CPU or GPU Utilization, nor is RAM filling up. Only windows Menus/Windows feel really choppy. Restarting graphics drivers as you discribed did indeed fixes the problem.But i also think it's worth mentioning again that also just starting another game will fix it as well. 2ff7e9595c
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