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10.10's Display Driver not responding

thecremeegg

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Anyone else getting this? Got it with all iterations of the 10.10 driver and its utter rubbish! Once the driver stops responding then my frame rate goes to pot in all games until I reinstall the driver. This has happened to a mate who has the same card as me (Asus 5870) and he had to reformat to get performance back.

Anyone else having this issue? I'm going back to 10.9!
 
Ive been getting the same thing for the last 6 moths of driver updates but always when in 2d reading forums never in a game.Also used to get this lots with my old sli rig so both have problems with this its not just a ATI thing.
 
Yep, this happened yestaday for me with the 10.10's... and got a few BSOD lately aswell, must be the drivers because i've had no issues what so ever until now.
 
Before you have a go at me, and try to defend your self.

The first thing to do with BSOD's is to look at your own hardware, and ask the question:

1. Are my overclocks all stable?

2. Could it be another peice of hardware/driver that is causing the BSOD?


The ATI / Nvidia drivers, have to pass windows certification, so they are going to be of high quality..... Im not saying that bugs and other graphical issues wont be present, but they should be 100% stable etc...

ATI / Nvidia arent the only ones that test their drivers, as Microsoft have to sign them as well.


I admit it maybe frustrating to be told, that its your hardware, if you'v tested it and your pretty sure, everything is stable. But in my experience I'v only ever had issues with one driver from ATI over the last 4 years and that was 10.6 with my 3870x2.

It wasnt BSODing, I was just getting black screens and black flashing on some maps in BFBC2 so I swithed back to 10.5 and then used 10.7 when they came out.

BSOD's are hardware/driver related.... so take of any overclocks and then investigate.
 
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From my own experience ATI drivers are poor. Remember also this is windows we are also talking about :P How many hotfixes to bugs and loopholes do we constantly see coming from them.
 
When installing graphics drivers, set screen to standard VGA (640 x 480), reboot, uninstall old drivers, delete all driver folders (AMD, ATI or Nvidia), reboot, install new drivers.
 
One of the 10.10 hotfixes had given me a few driver crashes recently, I moved on to 10.11 when it was released in Windows Update. No driver related errors ever since.
 
opethdisciple said:
The problem is the overclock notthe driver.

Maybe just like with bios, a driver update, might mean having to re jig gpu overclock?
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No the problem is the driver, perfectly fine at 900/1300 on 10.9, no if I click the "enable overdrive" button -> instacrash. That's before I've changed the clocks,
 
Mr Krugga said:
I moved on to 10.11 when it was released in Windows Update.
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is this the recommended way to update ATI drivers via windows update? (currently on catalyst 10.8)

asking because i just saw that an update was available on my windows update, but in the past i manually install the updates (ie delete old, reboot and install new)
 
lunarwolf said:
is this the recommended way to update ATI drivers via windows update? (currently on catalyst 10.8)

asking because i just saw that an update was available on my windows update, but in the past i manually install the updates (ie delete old, reboot and install new)
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I only uninstall manually if I encounter any problems with the drivers set. Custom uninstall using one of the Catalyst installers - twice, because Windows 7 automatically restores to the previous working driver.

I haven't had any major issues recently thus installing over the top works best for me. Mind you, the 10.11 in Windows update is only a driver update. I recommend installing the latest 10.10e hotfix Catalysts with included software but the driver and 10.10 application profiles.

Installing over the top is generally regarded as an approved method in Win7. It deals with drivers in a proper way and rarely causes problems.
 
lunarwolf said:
is this the recommended way to update ATI drivers via windows update? (currently on catalyst 10.8)

asking because i just saw that an update was available on my windows update, but in the past i manually install the updates (ie delete old, reboot and install new)
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No this is not the proper way to install ATI / Nvidia drivers....

I would wait for the officials to appear on the ATI website.
 
Minstadave said:
No the problem is the driver, perfectly fine at 900/1300 on 10.9, no if I click the "enable overdrive" button -> instacrash. That's before I've changed the clocks,
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The only thing official here is the driver. Go back to stock frequency and see if it crashes. If it doesnt with new driver, then issue is overclock.

I understand the frustration. If overclock works with 10.9 but not with 10.10 then its driver.... but alas this isntthe case. Your overclock has not been tested by ATI/Microsoft. It has not been signed of as officially 100% and worthy of WHQL.

So try at stock frequencies. Always look at your own system before blaming drivers.
 
Well I uninstalled teh 10.10s and replaced them with the 10.11 from windows update...so far so good, Black Ops runs smooth as silk now and no crashes :)
 
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