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Have stuttering issues with ATI cards...EASY FIX!

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Turns out after 3 billion different drivers / reboots / restores etc

Its the windows 7 sidebar, for some reason it REALLY winds up Catalyst and makes it run like a bag of spanners. just switched it off and re ran Pro Street, jerky mess is now 70FPS
 
phatboy said:
Turns out after 3 billion different drivers / reboots / restores etc

Its the windows 7 sidebar, for some reason it REALLY winds up Catalyst and makes it run like a bag of spanners. just switched it off and re ran Pro Street, jerky mess is now 70FPS
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Interesting dude. Thanks for sharing this with us :)

BTW: for people who dont know how to disable this:

Click start -> run
Type msconfig -> hit enter
Look under the "command" colomn.
The entry will be :
C:\Program Files\Windows Sidebar\sidebar.exe /autorun
You need to uncheck the corresponding entry.
 
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i had it on for monitoring tools, but it seems it totally trashes everything, DIRT 2 is now perfect with the 10.3 drivers with good gains in Crossfire :)

'Wes i would from now on say thats the best way mate lol

Cheers for putting the instructions up Dissy :D
 
Interesting, i wonder if it fixes the screen flicker with eyefinity, as i only had the flicker now and again in windows mode, never in games.
Thanks, Ill give it a go.

Jay
 
GPU Observer did this to me. When I turned it off, leaving my other gadgets on, I stopped having issues and have had no issues since.

It was quite strange as it worked flawlessly for awhile.
 
Did you have a GPU monitoring tool? if so it was most likely that add-on rather than the side bar itself, the MSI Afterburner deveoloper found that using ATI's own SDK for hardware monitoring was extremely costly so wrote his own instead.
 
up2nogooduk said:
Did that,

Click on it but nothing happends ?
Whats it do, and how do i tell if it's on ;)

Cheers.
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If you see a sidebar with gadgets in it then you can tell it's on :p Also, to get to it's properties, it'll be under Windows Sidebar Properties in the search results.
 
Thanks for this..... I too have noticed that performance under Windows 7 as a bit jerky at times.. I put it down to Cat 10.3 drivers being installed before 10.2, so I removed 10.3 and installed 10.2 first, then 10.3 and it helped..

Disabled sidebar.exe using task manager, bingo... Need for Speed Shift with latest patch ran at 60fps solid... As did Batman and overall system performance was good before, but now its better...

I don't need sidebar anyhow. Its just eyecandy... lol
 
Similar to this, but I was getting stuttering when running Crossfire (but not single card) from GPUz running! After closing that I was sorted :)
 
I use control panel programs uninstall windows features and untick gadget platform.Reboot.
 
I don’t know about how much worse or better ATI are at writing drivers then Nvidia, all I know is that they aren’t all that good..!! To be honest, not overly impressed by neither company at the moment….

However, after turning the whole of the sidebar off, Need for Speed finally had some speed, and even the unigine demos run a whole lot smoother then before…. I thought something was a bit iffy. I just put it down to the fact the system was shifting around a heck of a lot of graphics at such a high res…. Plus I had v sync on, thought that might have been the issue….
 
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