Anyone with a 48xx and Vista 64?

TNA · 27 Aug 2008 at 12:37

MR.B said:
Yeah and more than once, but read the original thread post, i've listed everything i've tried there...

Will do mate. Cheers.

CraigN · 27 Aug 2008 at 13:24

have you looked at posible compatibility issues with other hardware you have. I see you have swapped your ram and tried the card in a new PC and it does the same which points 99% at a faulty card but did the other system have any other common factors.

Sound card for example.

Try a different PCIe slot

stock bios settings instead of overclocked settings etc.

MR.B · 27 Aug 2008 at 13:38

CraigN said:
have you looked at posible compatibility issues with other hardware you have. I see you have swapped your ram and tried the card in a new PC and it does the same which points 99% at a faulty card but did the other system have any other common factors.

Sound card for example.

Try a different PCIe slot

stock bios settings instead of overclocked settings etc.

Well both a 4870 and 4870X2 do it, the X2 was the card that was tried in another system, and being as many other people get it on multiple forums, it definitely points to drivers.

The only things both systems had in common was: Quad-core CPU's (Q9450, and Q6600), both used Intel motherboard chipsets (X38 and X48), and both had Vista 64-Bit.
My main system has the X-Fi and the other system has some onboard sound rubbish. I even tried the cards without any other drivers installed, on a clean Vista install, not even motherboard drivers. Have tried default BIOS settings on both systems.
I didn't try a different PCI-E slot though... but the X2 has now died (would no longer run anything 3D without crashing, seems like a unrelated problem, a fault that developed with the actual hardware) and has gone back for a refund.

See you have a X2... what OS are you using?

radlord · 28 Aug 2008 at 00:16

i can't play any 3d games with my 4850 on Vista 64 for more than a few minutes without the screen either going black and the app crashing with an 'atikmdag' message or just a straight BSOD going on about a 'pagefile' or something. Nightmare.

willhub · 28 Aug 2008 at 00:20

I'm getting odd problems with my 4800 now.

Furmark, Vantage and 3DMark06 all stutter badly, Vantage or 3DMark dont in XP.

All games however are working fine :confused:

MR.B · 28 Aug 2008 at 12:49

Just updated my original thread post with a load of links to other forum threads regarding this problem.
MAYBE in one of them someone has actually found a fix... but unlikely.

And come on people!

Fill in driver feedback form (top of page) on the AMD site if you have this problem. Dont take long.

mmj_uk · 28 Aug 2008 at 13:13

Is anybody having these probs with Vista 32bit?

From what I've been seeing most complaints are from users running a 64bit OS.

d3sbo · 28 Aug 2008 at 22:05

i get it in xp desktop more than vista 64 desktop

MR.B · 29 Aug 2008 at 11:15

d3sbo said:
i get it in xp desktop more than vista 64 desktop

Thats really odd, XP does not use the GPU to render the desktop, it would be the same as Vista with Aero turned off. And i didn't get it on the desktop with Aero off (although i didnt try it for long).... so maybe with XP it's a unrelated problem?

d3sbo · 29 Aug 2008 at 15:06

i have been using power dvd on xp and drivers fail when you use time seek with the mouse wheel
you have to do it for some time

Robert · 30 Aug 2008 at 08:06

Any progress guys?

Thankfully it'll be a about a month before I get mine - so the drivers should be little better

Paradiso · 30 Aug 2008 at 09:04

I doubt this will be resolved any time soon, if ever. Its been around for so long now I gave up hope :/

Defiant306 · 31 Aug 2008 at 22:46

Im considering moving to a GTX280 now and selling my 4870x2, same old **** with ATI cards where if another screen has a animated part, the other screen stutters. Also I have noticed a lot of stutters in World of Warcraft in some zones. Very annoying, didnt have these issues with the 8800GTX.

d3sbo · 31 Aug 2008 at 23:24

just out of intrest who can run occt
i cannot but can prime95

d3sbo · 1 Sep 2008 at 23:59

have a look at this i done it and i fix the crashing in xp have not tryed vista yet
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=98139&enterthread=y

d3sbo · 2 Sep 2008 at 00:05

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/244617

i still dont know what is dose
cannot wail to do some more testing

willhub · 2 Sep 2008 at 00:08

Use the EDIT button so you dont make multiple posts in a row...

What happens when you run occt? If its failing the CPU is unstable.

mr griffin · 2 Sep 2008 at 00:11

Im considering moving to a GTX280 now and selling my 4870x2, same old **** with ATI cards where if another screen has a animated part, the other screen stutters. Also I have noticed a lot of stutters in World of Warcraft in some zones. Very annoying, didnt have these issues with the 8800GTX

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Thats exactly how I felt till I got it working properly :cool:

marc2003 · 2 Sep 2008 at 02:51

d3sbo said:
have a look at this i done it and i fix the crashing in xp have not tryed vista yet
http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=98139&enterthread=y

interesting. i can't figure how out it would stop drivers crashing though. it just looks like a reporting tool to me?? but i'll dig out my 2nd screen and give it a bash.

edit: nope, still crashes when doing absolutely bugger all.

Fire Wizard · 2 Sep 2008 at 13:03

I'm back....... from Hosptial.

Anyway, just a little update. Having played Call Of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, I still receive the annoying "Display driver stopped responding" error message. I have also ran 3DMark 06 a number of times without any problems and have also played Bioshock for quite a while and didn't experience any issues. I am just installing Crysis to see if I get any problems.

I have also tried what d3sbo has posted and as marc2003 has already mentioned, there is no improvement.

I am extremely reluctant to send the ATI 4870 back to Overclockers because I just have a feeling that when they test the graphics card, they won't have any problems.