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Ati drivers: which one should I go for 10.7 or 10.8b, or stick with 10.5
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What games are you playing at the moment? I'm never in rush to upgrade drivers expecially when everything is stable.
dirt 2, battlefield bad company 2, crysis warhead, AvP, and dungeons dragons online sometimes, might get mass effect 2, crysis 2, and the new star wars games coming out.
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There were some level loading issues with one of the ATI drivers with BF:BC2 but they have been fixed for a while now but if loading times are an issue then I would say its time to update, you might even get a small performance boost as well.
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The general rule is leave your graphics drivers alone unless you have a confirmed reason to update them.
No offence, but why would you try to run 10.6 on that card anyway? I'd be more inclined to find the best driver from that era and then stick with that....
10.6 and 10.8b were fine for me - found 10.6 gave a big boost in performance. Also found 10.7 lagged windows starting up for some reason, be interested in seeing what you get when you try them, sure its probably something weird with my configuration that caused it as don't hear anyone else with the same problem!
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Anyhting but 10.3, 10.4 or 10.6. Especially 10.6.
That's completely false, because your basically stating don't update drivers at all unless you really need to. Up to date hardware or software is a necessity.
Just installed 10.7 over 10.6 yesterday. I'd always normally clean the old ones out then install new, but I thought I'd give it a try.
Last night, my computer crashed. Oh joy. I've had a lot of trouble with crashes over the last few months though, but 10 days ago I read about the Logitech setpoint software causing them, uninstalled it and it's been fine since. (My computer is regularly on for 10 hours a day or more).
Last night, my computer crashed. Oh joy. I've had a lot of trouble with crashes over the last few months though, but 10 days ago I read about the Logitech setpoint software causing them, uninstalled it and it's been fine since. (My computer is regularly on for 10 hours a day or more).
I was having an issue with dynamic looping not working in a shader I was programming. I was advised to update my drivers.
To be honest the cards only 3 years old, only two generations really as the 3xxx was not exactly a new architecture. It's not too much to expect current drivers not to kill the card. I don't blame the drivers really, I shouldn't have fired the card back up to the old OC I had it at without testing first.
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Well, you probably not the only one. I recall someone else also mentioned that 10.6 killed his card or something. Think it was a 4670.
10.7 showed some performance increased (in minimum FPS anyway) in one review I saw and they're working fine here.
Although the first install didn't work! It said something like: 'CCC was not compatible with the driver, please update driver' hmm I was updating the driver. Bizzare, anyway second install worked fine and 10.7 now working fine.
Although the first install didn't work! It said something like: 'CCC was not compatible with the driver, please update driver' hmm I was updating the driver. Bizzare, anyway second install worked fine and 10.7 now working fine.