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ATi Catalyst 10.1's This Thursday

I too have never had an issue with any of ATi's drivers beyond 9.6 I believe it was, where openGL was all messed up, but I think that a much wider ranged issue.

Looking forward to the new drivers indeed.
 
With my new Asus 5970 I'm averaging 7 FPS within IL-2 1946 using Open GL (Xp & Win 7). Have the latest drivers and Hotfix, also dissapointed that Vsync is not supported using FSX with Win7. The last issue is really bugging me and I would love to know if anyone has Vysnc working using a 5 series card with Win 7.;)



Asus PT6 V2, 6 Gig Corsair 1866 RAM, i7 920 OC @ 4.2, Asus 5970.
 
So yeah, I hope this fixes the light blue screen issue (occasional), the driver not responding and has recovered issue (occasional), the L4D2 needing to be alt-tabbed for full performance (always) and the Anno 1404 bug with flickering and poor performance over certain rock textures.
 
I've been runnig a 5850 on Win7 64 since early November (I think) with no problems at all bar some rare and minor graphical glitches. Usually these seem to be caused by depth-buffer inaccuracy/z-fighting.

But then I've pretty much never had a problem with my PC that wasn't either trivial to fix or my own fault. Given that I've been PC gaming for 15 years it does make me wonder sometimes, but maybe I'm just lucky :)
 
I had my 5850 BSOD, driver stopped responding, vertical lines crashing, blue/green/grey screen crashes, and complete system freezes due to a shorted motherboard pin that eventually burnt off (CPU seems fine, luckily)!

Replaced the motherboard and have not had a single niggle so far with 9.11 ... didn't upgrade to 9.12 as couldn't find a reason. Will see how 10.1 pans out.

I traced the initial problems down to voltage changes in the CPU cores when running at low clocks, crashing the system. So the problem mostly occurred web browsing. Running benchmarks or games was normally fine for the duration, as the cores locked at one speed/voltage.

I wonder if a lot of the compatibility issues are down to hardware configuration more than drivers. Perhaps the 58x0 cards are more susceptible to power fluctuations, or BIOS updates aren't properly utilising the cards. I don't know, just interesting that I seem to have replicated all the possible crash scenarios experienced with these cards by having voltage pins on the motherboard/cpu shorting. Stabilised that, and no further issues. I’ll shut up now!
 
Never had a single problem since i switched to ati cards although used to have a lot of problems with nvidia drivers so for me ati have been better. I think both companys are about even on quality of drivers with only the fanboys making out otherwise but i do think both driver sets have their little problems with the odd bit of hardware only reason i can think why some people have problems with either companys drivers when so many others don't.
 
Bradmax57 said:
lucky you i couldnt even get the 9.12's to install full stop on my 5850...........
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Don't use driversweepers. Ever.

Go to Control Panel - System - Advanced System Settings - Hardware (tab) - Device Installation Settings, choose "Never install a driver from Windows Update and apply.

Uninstall Driversweeper and slap your forehead.

Express uninstall all ATI software from add remove programs.

Reboot.

Let Windows install WDDM drivers automatically.

Reboot if asked.

Go to device manager and remove your card from there selecting delete driver software from this pc as you go.

Roboot

If windows installs WDDM drivers again repeat above step until windows stops auto installing drivers and asks you for them instead.

This should reset your borked driver profile in Windows, and you should be able to install the 9.12's now.

Once you've done this you will find you can update drivers without uninstalling first with no issues. Every time you uninstall drivers now Windows will load in VGA mode and ask you for drivers which is how it should be.
 
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