ATi Catalsyt 9.8 HOTFIX Win 7/Vista - XP

[LoadsaMoney]

This articles provides a hotfix solution for game applications, (Resident Evil 5, Company of Heroes, Ghostbusters & Sims 3) that experience graphics corruption during game play.

It also provides a resolution to intermittent crashes that may occur when graphics settings are set to Ultra while playing a skirmish game versus the computer in the “Angonville map”.

Symptoms:

The following errors may occur during game play of the above mentioned games:

o No Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters

o Graphics corruption when playing Sims 3

o No support for CrossfireX when playing Resident Evil 5.

Furthermore, an intermittent crash may occur when playing Company of Heroes – Tales of Valor expansion pack, specifically when:

1) The graphic’s settings are set to Ultra in the options menu

2) The user enters a 1 vs. 1 skirmish game against the computer on Angoville

3) The user plays the game against the computer until a crash occurs (This can occur after 20 minutes of game play)

Resolution:
In order to resolve the issues related to the 3D games, please download and install the applicable hotfix. This hotfix provides solutions for the following issues:



o Anti-Aliasing support for Ghostbusters

o ATI CrossFireX™ support for Resident Evil 5

o Graphics corruption fix for Sims 3

o Bug fix for Company of Heroes – Tales of Valor expansion pack

Full Driver Package :-

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Hotfixfor3DGames.aspx

 

[rapid64k]

Good post loadsamoney.

 

[Mr Paul]

Cool, how do you enable AA for Ghostbusters then? Via CCC?

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Good post loadsamoney.

Thanks, it makes a change from the usual crap i post

 

[Alexrose1uk]

Ah, thanks Loadsa; DX10 RE5 benchmark crashes for me every time I try to run with 9.8s so perhaps these will work better, will get them MobModded and see

 

[Stonedofmoo]

Good to see AMD's usual quality control in action

I'm glad you posted this. I'm just about to build my sister a PC with an AMD HD4770 in so she can play Sims 3, and I'd have installed the 9.8 drivers too.

 

[Robert]

Does anyone else get slow performance in source based games?

 

[mmj_uk]

Sims 3 has been out for months.

 

[Final8y]

Sims 3 has been out for months.

The following errors may occur during game play of the above mentioned games:

That means its not happening all the time to everyone & had to reach a percentage before it was deemed it is indeed down to the drivers & not a bug in the game or other hardware issues for the effected people & only revised drivers will cure it.

 

[ViRuS2k]

Resident Evil 5 with these drivers is still broken in dx10 mode under area 3, LAG CENTRAL.

but Dx9 path mode runs perfectly now.
no flashing textures
no lag on any area, works perfect.

all they need to work on now is the dx10.

 

[gareth170]

i get flashing textures/objects in most dx10 games in crossfire mode, it seems they haven't fixed it with 9.8, but am on holiday now so i can't try this hotfix so when i get home on saturday ill try this hotfix

 

[kylew]

Resident Evil 5 with these drivers is still broken in dx10 mode under area 3, LAG CENTRAL.

but Dx9 path mode runs perfectly now.
no flashing textures
no lag on any area, works perfect.

all they need to work on now is the dx10.

Lag? I didn't know you could play RE5 online...

 

[CaptainRAVE]

Havent noticed any problems in Sims 3. Maybe specific cards cause it?

 

[mmj_uk]

The following errors may occur during game play of the above mentioned games:

That means its not happening all the time to everyone & had to reach a percentage before it was deemed it is indeed down to the drivers & not a bug in the game or other hardware issues for the effected people & only revised drivers will cure it.

That's not really any consolation for those affected by it who have had to wait months and however many "official" releases without it being fixed.

 

[Final8y]

That's not really any consolation for those affected by it who have had to wait months and however many "official" releases without it being fixed.

Its has to effect a certain number of users before it gets looked into that how most things work in this world or things would get bogged down & nothing would get done at all with the amount of user errors & failing hardware, bugs in games that can lead to gaming problem that are not related to the drivers but get blamed on them at first chance. ATI or others on the PC platform cant afford to waste time chasing problems that may not be down to them because someone said so.
The fact it took as long as it did could be down to so few people were having the problem.

No consolation is part of the fact that you can never keep everyone happy & instantly solve everyone's problem as soon as they arise no matter how hard you try.

 

[gareth170]

well i've just tryed this hotfix and im still getting flashing textures/objects in most dx10 games in crossfire mode, in dx9 its fine...

now it's ******* me off..

any ideas?