My dxdiag tests run fine. I also don't get any errors that directx won't work. The VPU might restart itself, but that's it. I really want to try those but I'm worried about the scaling still being broken and not being able to reinstall the disk drivers again if it doesn't work. I think when they say it doesn't work at all they mean if your card has a different ID number than the normal cat drivers will recognize. The hotfixes include the right codes or something. Well, I'll think about this for a moment...EECH possibly working or screw up Open GL again. Hmmm...

8.6 didn't fix EECH. Open GL still works. Scaling issues that cropped up in 8.5 but the Sapphire 8.4 disk didn't have are also fixed. Total Air War improved and got worse. See TAW thread. FA-18 and F-15 still the same.

just an idea, but maybe the Omega Drivers could help?

The Omega Drivers are sort of old, though, right?

yes, based on Cat. 7.12 AFAIK
but nevertheless worth a try, especially because some of the folks here said they got EECH running with older ATI-drivers...

I would try it myself, but have no spare time at the moment

I've got an ATI Radeon HD 3870, got the game today and am also experiencing graphics problems with only the HUD, blue sky above the horizon and white below.

There was also a similar problem in Battle of Britain 2: WoV where the ground did not appear with ATI HD cards, however that was fixed with the 8.6 Drivers which is what I'm on now.

Maybe we should all do the Team ATI/Catalyst thing? How many are there of us that could reference Enemy Engaged? Janes FA-18 is the other one that's still messed up for me with less than half the framerates it had with the 800xt.

Same problem here! I've got exactly the same errors on my Radeon HD 4850 under Vista x64.

What can we do? I wanna play EECH again, especially when arneh's new Hind cockpit will be out!

You'd be walking out of the frying pan and into the fire on this issue. EECH doesn't work on NVidia 8XXX or 9XXX series cards. For me atleast I have 2 options. 1) EECH is going to require a legacy box or 2) Move to EECH2.

Cheers

EECH works with my 260 with some random issues. See the other thread - we have to unite and complain to Nvidia and ATI.

Hi,

i bought a ATI RADEON HD3450, and I haven't 3D graphic displayed in EECH? in mission and in menu. I tried the catalyst 8.2 but no result.

My Hidden & Dangerous (an old game), work normaly.

I tried reinstall EEAH, and it working, but I installed EECH and it's broken.

Help us (AMD what do you do??)

Longbow2, work normaly, sorry for EECH....

Still no go for me. Sorry. My advise is tell ATI about it. If enough people put in reports of it, they will fix the issue in their drivers.

Near to get off my window this ATI HD 3850 512 Mb Agp ( cost 189 euros ) to buy a Nvidia card .

I have the same issue , reduced to running EECH on my laptop !
Warping sky in F4AF as well and to add insult to injury my old AGP 6800 Ultra ran both just as well , I may stick the 3850 on ebay unless I can get this resolved

Here goes another poor bloke.
MSI ATI 4870 T2D512 O.C. with 8.8 Cat, no textures only the wonderful clear blue sky.
Same with cat 8.7.

Had the same issues on my notebook (Nvidia 7600 mobile), disabling FSAA in an 95.xx driver helped to fix it.

Cheers mates,

sharkfin

Update: Cat 8.9 installed, no change so far.

Okay, now that i finally managed to try out EE1 on my second system (Athlon 64 3400+, Radeon HD 3850 AGP, 1024 MB RAM), i have bad news.

I tried for hours with different versions of the Catalyst, starting with version 8.2. Nothing at all works. It is not just that the game shows no textures... no... as soon as i want to enter the cockpit, the whole system freezes and i have to reboot windows...

I give up... maybe someday i'll try again, when a Radeon X1950 AGP crosses my way, but ATM i just see no chance to get this game running...

So I also played the install game yesterday before I found this thread. I have an Sapphire HD3850 AGP, Stock CAT 8.9 on an Intel P875 MB, P4 EE with WinXP SP3, 2GB Ram PAT, 2-3-3-6 DDR.

I have the same issues - no sky/ground etc... Other games working great (BF2142, CS2, Bioshock, UT2004, Oblivion, FSX, GTR2, SOSE. 3DMark2006 runs fine as well.

What else can I try?

Thanks,
Bod

Little update:

I tried the Cat 8.10 betas last night, including several reinstalls of EECH and the mod package / patches... still no joy!

At least the 8.10's will have a fan control.

Still any ideas welcome.

sharkfin

Oh, does it really work again??? It was too long that the forum was down!!

But now i have important news: In the meantime, i kinda "solved" my problems with EE1. I changed my HD 3850 for a X1950 Pro, which works perfectly with EECH 1.10.2, even with the newest Cat 8.10 drivers. On my main machine (in my signature), i saw no chance of getting EE1 running. But i still had my second system, an Athlon 3400+, Radeon HD 3850 AGP, 24" Samsung TFT 245B.

Due to my intention of playing EE1 again, i also had to buy/build up a second HOTAS + TrackIR.
This being my second system, i did not want to spend too much into new components, and so i built up a new low-cost HOTAS, and a low-cost TrackIR (Freetrack).

- The HOTAS is with CH components. First, a CH Throttle, identical to the one in my main system. They both work via a BU0836 USB device, and do have 36 buttons!! Along with a rebuilt CH Combatstick (USB, Logitech -technique, 12 buttons + POV-hat), and CH Pedals (regrettably not Pro Pedals), i now have a complete low-cost HOTAS.

- The Freetrack-system was built up using a Microsoft VX-3000 webcam, and a 3 point cap system. I didn't think it would work so flawlessly!!!!!! Nice 6DOF for low-cost!

Now, that everything works great (it was a lot of work), i report back fully operational for EE1, and can't wait to get arneh's Mi-24 in my hands!!!!!!!!!!!!