Anyone with a 5850 on x64 Windows 7?

[LiE]

There seems to be an issue with the driver crashing often, enlarged cursor and sometimes blue screening. Does anyone else get this? I'm using the latest drivers, perhaps someone has found using an older driver helped? Cheers.

 

['Wes]

Nope, i don't get this.

 

[Orangey]

It is related to Powerplay. Basically you need to make the 2D clocks higher.

You can use AMD GPU Clock Tool to disable Powerplay or MSI Afterburner to set up a desktop clockspeed profile and gaming profile. You can also try updating the BIOS of your graphics card, there is a fix for this built into the latest ones IIRC.

 

[gareth170]

i've had problems before but 10.3 beta drivers seem to of fixed it..

 

[Phage]

No it's not anything to do with Powerplay. This is the famous 'grey screen of death' or GSOD. Google it up but there are a lot of threads here, and on other forums.
http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...hreadid=124747
Or this one.
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=114322
The 10.3 drivers are supposed to fix this issue when they are released in the lasrt week of March. If you like to try - the 10.3 betas are widely available through Google.

 

[Orangey]

He didn't mention anything about grey screens. He DID mention enlarged cursor, driver crashing etc which are all related to Powerplay / 2D clocks.

 

[UKDTweak]

Not had any crashes since I installed My 5850, Only installed the 10.2 cats, not tried any other drivers.

 

[rhysduck]

I used to get the "ATI Display driver has stopped responding" but haven't seen that since updating to 10.2.
Still getting the massive cursor mind
Will try the 10.3 beta's and report back.

 

[Phage]

The enlarged cursor is an indicative symoptom of the GSOD issue that were supposed to have been solved in the 10.2 release. (see the release notes), but has continued to occur in a number of cases. See the links I posted earlier.
Flashing BIOS will void any warranty. I have been advised by ATi that they are working in 10.3 to remove these crashes. If they continue to occur after 10.3, then RMA the card whilst it's still in the warranty period.

 

[dmsims]

Not had any crashes since I installed My 5850, Only installed the 10.2 cats, not tried any other drivers.

Me too

 

[Phage]

Me too

Not everyone gets them.

 

[Orangey]

Flashing BIOS will void any warranty.

I thought there was an exception for these sorts of cases? Not sure where I heard that but it seems common sense.

 

[Phage]

I'd get it in writing first !

 

[xnusense]

I had the exact same problem, im on win 7 64 bit i changed to 10.1 drivers now pc aint crashed in days trust me try 10.1 drivers

 

[RBL]

Absolutely no problems with my 5850 and win 7 64bit.

 

[MeMeMeMe]

No problems here either.

 

[albert]

...im onto my 3rd card .... after 2 cards crashing i ended up changing from an Asus to Sapphire and so far everything is running ok ......

 

[EGuitarStar]

Im on 10.2 with Windows 7 Ultimate x64, I have no issues here. Will go onto10.3 later and let you knwo if I have any issues.

 

[twitch]

On Win 7 64 here and not had that..

Had a flickering issue, but 10.3's seem to have fixed that

 

[Corasik]

Only problem I had was the 10.1 drivers didnt let my screen go into power saving. 10.2 beta (and 10.2 release) fixed that problem. Absolutely no problems since. No grey screen, no funny cursors.. no problems of any kind.. Powerplay is working just fine and I love it.. PC uses so much less power compared to my old 8800GTX especially in idle, but a good saving at full load too.

I have a single 5850, a Q6700 processor on an old Intel 975XBX (which officially doesnt even support quads, but works fine up to about 3.4Ghz) 6GB ram and Windows 7 64bit.