Don't want to open a new thread....I don't know if this has been answered before but when trying out devinfo i get the following info which i can't believe to be true as my card is running fine with pixel and vertex shaders 2.0

Anybody? Software error or is ATI actually ripping its customers?



Driver: ati2dvag.dll
Description: RADEON 9600 SERIES
DriverVersion: 661827
VendorId: 4098
DeviceId: 16722
SubSysId: 2083067723
Revision: 0

DeviceType: 1
AdapterOrdinal: 0
Caps: READ_SCANLINE
Caps2: CANRENDERWINDOWED FULLSCREENGAMMA DYNAMICTEXTURES
Caps3: ALPHA_FULLSCREEN_FLIP_OR_DISCARD
Presentation Intervals: IMMEDIATE ONE
Cursor Caps: COLOR
Dev Caps: EXECUTESYSTEMMEMORY EXECUTEVIDEOMEMORY TLVERTEXSYSTEMMEMORY TLVERTEXVIDEOMEMORY
TEXTUREVIDEOMEMORY DRAWPRIMTLVERTEX CANRENDERAFTERFLIP TEXTURENONLOCALVIDMEM
DRAWPRIMITIVES2 DRAWPRIMITIVES2EX HWTRANSFORMANDLIGHT CANBLTSYSTONONLOCAL
HWRASTERIZATION PUREDEVICE
Primitive Misc Caps: MASKZ CULLNONE CULLCW CULLCCW COLORWRITEENABLE TSSARGTEMP BLENDOP
Raster Caps: DITHER ZTEST FOGVERTEX FOGTABLE MIPMAPLODBIAS ZBIAS FOGRANGE ANISOTROPY WFOG
ZFOG COLORPERSPECTIVE
Z Cmp Caps: NEVER LESS EQUAL LESSEQUAL GREATER NOTEQUAL GREATEREQUAL ALWAYS
Src Blend Caps: ZERO ONE SRCCOLOR INVSRCCOLOR SRCALPHA INVSRCALPHA DESTALPHA INVDESTALPHA
DESTCOLOR INVDESTCOLOR SRCALPHASAT BOTHSRCALPHA BOTHNVSRCALPHA
Dest Blend Caps: ZERO ONE SRCCOLOR INVSRCCOLOR SRCALPHA INVSRCALPHA DESTALPHA INVDESTALPHA
DESTCOLOR INVDESTCOLOR BOTHSRCALPHA BOTHNVSRCALPHA
Alpha Cmp Caps: NEVER LESS EQUAL LESSEQUAL GREATER NOTEQUAL GREATEREQUAL ALWAYS
Shade Caps: COLORGOURAUDRGB SPECULARGOURAUDRGB ALPHAGOURAUDBLEND FOGGOURAUD
Texture Caps: PERSPECTIVE POW2 ALPHA TEXREPEATNOTSCALEDBYSIZE NONPOW2CONDITIONAL PROJECTED
CUBEMAP VOLUMEMAP MIPMAP MIPVOLUMEMAP MIPCUBEMAP CUBEMAP_POW2 VOLUMEMAP_POW2
Texture Filter Caps: MINFPOINT MINFLINEAR MINFANISOTROPIC MIPFPOINT MIPFLINEAR MAGFPOINT MAGFLINEAR
MAGFANISOTROPIC
Cube Texture Filter Caps: MINFPOINT MINFLINEAR MIPFPOINT MIPFLINEAR MAGFPOINT MAGFLINEAR
Volume Texture Filter Caps: MINFPOINT MINFLINEAR MIPFPOINT MIPFLINEAR MAGFPOINT MAGFLINEAR
Texture Address Caps: WRAP MIRROR CLAMP INDEPENDENTUV MIRRORONCE
Volume Texture Address Caps: WRAP MIRROR CLAMP INDEPENDENTUV MIRRORONCE
Line Caps: TEXTURE ZTEST BLEND ALPHACMP FOG
MaxTextureSize: 2048x2048
Max Volume Extent: 1024
Max Texture Repeat: 2048
Max Texture Aspect Ratio: 2048
Max Anisotropy: 16
Max Vertex W: 10000000000.000000
GuardBand L/T/R/B: -960.000000 / -960.000000 / 2880.000000 / 2880.000000
Extents Adjust: 0.000000
Stencil Caps: KEEP ZERO REPLACE INCRSAT DECRSAT INVERT INCR DECR
FVF Caps: TEXCOORDCOUNTMASK PSIZE
Texture Op Caps: DISABLE SELECTARG1 SELECTARG2 MODULATE MODULATE2X MODULATE4X ADD ADDSIGNED
ADDSIGNED2X SUBTRACT ADDSMOOTH BLENDDIFFUSEALPHA BLENDTEXTUREALPHA
BLENDFACTORALPHA BLENDTEXTUREALPHAPM BLENDCURRENTALPHA PREMODULATE
MODULATEALPHA_ADDCOLOR MODULATECOLOR_ADDALPHA MODULATEINVALPHA_ADDCOLOR
MODULATEINVCOLOR_ADDALPHA BUMPENVMAP BUMPENVMAPLUMINANCE DOTPRODUCT3
MULTIPLYADD LERP
Max Texture Blend Stages: 8
Max Simultaneous Textures: 8
Vertex Processing Caps: TEXGEN MATERIALSOURCE7 DIRECTIONALLIGHTS POSITIONALLIGHTS LOCALVIEWER TWEENING
Max Active Lights: 8
Max User Clip Planes: 6
Max Vertex Blend Matrices: 4
Max Vertex Blend Matrix Index: 37
Max Point Size: 256.000000
Max Primitive Count: 1048575
Max Vertex Index: 16777215
Max Streams: 16
Max Stream Stride: 1024
Vertex Shader Version: 1.1
Max Vertex Shader Const: 256
Pixel Shader Version: 1.4
Max Pixel Shader Value: 340282346638528860000000000000000000000.000000