Greetings,

After my journey with video drivers for 9X, and once hearing that stuff like newer NVIDIA drivers broke stuff in games such as Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, I am making this thread to ask the experts on the best drivers for an ATI Radeon 9600 XT, just so I don't run into any sort of issues, once the card gets in.

The machine is going to be a Pentium 4 Northwood build, with 2GB of RAM, a Sound Blaster Audigy, and the mentioned GPU. I plan on installing the latest version of Direct X, since I've never had issues with that on XP, but I also don't know if there are any issues, like how 9X has with it. With the computers I build, I tend to make a big DVD with all of the drivers and software I want and need. At the moment, I have the latest Catalyst drivers in it, since all of the advice on best drivers for it, are from around 2004-2006, and I'm not sure if much has changed between then and 2010, in regards to which driver will work best.

I would appreciate anyone's input here. While I don't expect to have the major headaches I was having with 9X on the Pentium 3 build, I still want to try and prepare as much as I can, to get things as smooth as I can.