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Damn you AMD!!!! *shakes fist*

Nelly said:
People say Driver Sweeper is crap, but thats only because when you search for Driver Sweeper using google for example it brings up Guru3D website they still have the 2009 2.10 version on there.

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Heh, i thought driver sweeper was abandoned ages ago due to that dodgy Guru3D link, it's the frst one that comes up in a search too!. It's so old a build of DS it doesn't update properly either!
 
MatteH Oxford said:
Interesting link, thanks!.

FWIW the new driver cleaner works flawlessly on my win7 pc, ATI 5770 & AMD phenom II X4 965 BE.
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I've used it to switch from AMD/ATI to Nvidia Drivers, back to AMD/ATI and updated last 3 months worth of AMD/ATI drivers without any problems, Driver Sweeper working great.
 
Right, I played Mass effect for a couple of hours last night, so I'm fairly sure that the actual drivers are OK.

Its just the CCC, I have the problem with. When I try to load the Vision Control centre from the task bar, it comes up with a crash window, saying the Catalyst Control Centre: Host application has stopped working.

As for using windows update, well thats a bit dodgy as well. Everything is up to date, apart from:
Security Update for Windows 7 for x64-Based Systems (KB2509553)
Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 4 on Windows XP, Windows Server.... Windows 7.... for x64 based Systems (KB2446708)
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 for x64-based Systems (KB976932)
 
In all honesty, I'd just bin my Windows install and start again. Who knows what has been ruined and how many more hours will need to be wasted in an attempt to fix.

I'm amazed at the number of people still using driver cleaning utilities.
It just isn't needed.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
In all honesty, I'd just bin my Windows install and start again. Who knows what has been ruined and how many more hours will need to be wasted in an attempt to fix.

I'm amazed at the number of people still using driver cleaning utilities.
It just isn't needed.
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Still! I'm in the club of never using them either kept 3 gaming rigs going over 14 years, ok they've been upgraded. Lots!

Judgeneo i think i'd go with a reinstall and start again. ;)
 
I think I'm going to wait for the next driver update and see if that fixes it, if not I'll do a system wipe and treat it better :S

I've never done a wipe on a multi hard drive machine before, what happens to the programs I've installed on my secondary drives?
 
Try this.
Go into safe mode, remove drivers and CCC, run driver cleaner twice, reboot into normal mode, reinstal the "mobo chipset drivers", instal latest amd drivers, reboot.
have a go at that and see how you get on.
if that doesn't work, then you've probably borked the windows installation by letting driver cleaner wipe out some essential files by accident, so you'd be looking at an operating system reinstal unfortunately
 
You do have to feel for AMD here, look at the title for this thread yet as the thread has progressed we find out that the fault isn't down to them as all the issues here have been caused by a combination of user error and dodgy 3rd party software.

Judgeneo said:
I've never done a wipe on a multi hard drive machine before, what happens to the programs I've installed on my secondary drives?
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It depends on how the drives are configured, RAID 0/1/5 and how there partitioned etc. Ideally if you have a large STEAM games folder like a lot of have you would keep that on a separate partition or physical drive so if you did have to wipe the OS clean your games would be save and wouldn't have to be redownload. You could just try installing Windows 7 over the top and see if that fixes the problems it's worth a shot since I seem to remember Windows 7 only took about 20 minutes or so to install.
 
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Have you, by any chance, removed the .NET framework? That'll make CCC throw a massive hissy fit.
 
i have never ever had any problem from ati's driver or ccc,everytime a new version is out i download it then go to control panel & delete ccc & driver once done & rebooted i then install the newer version !!! :)
 
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