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In the interest of keeping up to date, I refreshed windows update and checked for new ATI drivers, tonight. The "Catalyst 9.1" thing for my ATI caused considerable setbacks. Pirates would not run until I uninstalled Catalyst (which is just fluff anyhow; it is a tool to adjust video driver parameters and check for updates.) Once it was uninstalled from "Add/Remove Programs," I was able to run pirates again. Furthermore, once the 8.12 series of software drivers was active, I was able to adjust many parameters for best performance (weakest graphics rendering) for slightly better performance using OpenGL. (Ironically, last year, switching to DirectX9 showed a benefit; now OpenGL seems much faster.)
So, it was either very lucky, or very very smart, that you reloaded the original ATI drivers, instead of the "most" up-to-date. :-)
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