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ATI, Bad Drivers?

Tiamat

Tiamat

Tiamat

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So after getting my system to work after a faulty Motherboard I've started to regret buying an HD4890.

The drivers for this thing seem utterly useless. I cannot for the life of me force any 3D setting in the control panel....when I do it does not have any effect in any game.

The worst thing is, games that support AntiAliasing natively show no signs of any AA even when the Catalyst Control Center is set to 'Application Mode'.

I'm not blaming the card itself, I'm blaming the drivers. Anyone else had this issue?

I tried placing my old NVidia card back in and everything worked fine, NVCPL profiles and everything. I'm starting to think I made a hideous mistake choosing ATI
 
yeah, AMD drivers seem to be made by noobs these days, and no it does not force you have to do it in game if it does not support than tough, have to play without :o:mad:
 
Did you do a clean install of windows, eg getting rid of the nVidia drivers properly?

That seems the be the most common driver issue...

I've used ATi cards now for 6-7 years (since the 9700 Pro release) and never had a single problem, various motherboards/cpu's/os's and drivers used during that period...
 
sounds like you are having problems with your old drives, make sure you uninstall and clear up the old drivers properly as thisis probably the cause
 
I despise ATI's drivers, they are buggy liitle timebombs. But, once you learn what issues this weeks version has, they are at least predictable and non panic inducing (like the old "every N reboots you get no display" "feature" that they seem to pull now and then, or the "bink32 video=death" "feature", which I had on my rad9800, and have also seen on a 4850!). And also, they should allow forcing of AA, at least the launch drivers for the 4850 worked in that respect which is the last time I even bothered messing with them.....now when I build an ATI based box for someone, I install the drivers from it's CD, run aquamark to check there IS a 3d display, and leave all the other fun to the owner.


I've seen mention of some other tool.....ATT is it? something a little bit like Nhancer I think, maybe that would help.

As for cross pollenating of drivers......why would NV and ATI have common filenames? a .inf file just tells windos which files drive which kit. Then again, windows IS a dribbling imbecile of an OS, so maybe it's the one with the problems?
 
thegoonden said:
I've seen mention of some other tool.....ATT is it? something a little bit like Nhancer I think, maybe that would help.
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Ati Tray Tools. Basically catalyst control centre out of you tray. However I have found no advantage of using it over CCC. Never once had a problem with ATI drivers. Nvidia however, a lot of the time when I booted it would load at 640x480, and I would have to reinstall the drivers.
 
From my experience, they just seem to be a month or 3 behind what Nvidia puts out. I remember Nvidia saying they had an 80% increase in performance for 1 game, then ATI's driver release 2 months later with a similar bump for that game.

With Crysis Warhead, when i originally got a 4870, it was horrible playing it on DX10, very stuttery. 2 months later, the drivers release notes said performance increases for Warhead in DX10 mode, which basically just made the game run as its supposed to imo.
 
Tiamat said:
So after getting my system to work after a faulty Motherboard I've started to regret buying an HD4890.

The drivers for this thing seem utterly useless. I cannot for the life of me force any 3D setting in the control panel....when I do it does not have any effect in any game.

The worst thing is, games that support AntiAliasing natively show no signs of any AA even when the Catalyst Control Center is set to 'Application Mode'.

I'm not blaming the card itself, I'm blaming the drivers. Anyone else had this issue?

I tried placing my old NVidia card back in and everything worked fine, NVCPL profiles and everything. I'm starting to think I made a hideous mistake choosing ATI
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This is the first time that i have seen a user have AA problem in all games & is very likely down to the fact that you have not got ridden of your NV drivers fully.
 
I think that tbh they are as bad as each other in some respects, e.g I play a lot of coh using a gtx 260, the game will crash if I try to use ultra shaders and most annoyingly if I alt-tab out the resolution changes. I never had these problems using a 4870.

Also when playing cryostasis the game will continually crash, it is literally unplayable.

Like I say I think both companies have certain problems with their drivers.
 
So all of you here complaining instead of helping had the specific issue that the
OP is having?
Even with a clean OS install & no chance of user error?.

Lucky for you i don't go running into NV problem threads to use the opportunity to have a dig.
 
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As has been said, clean install.


Don't think that uninstalling from control panel is anywhere near good enough.

I had tons of issues going from an 8800gt to 4870 Xfire without a fresh install, same when going from the 4870s to a gtx280.
 
I dont understand the hatred of ATIs drivers. Currently running windows 7, all games running fine. Have a mate with Nvidia card and he's struggling - one set of drivers causes one game to crash and another to work fine, whereas with another set itts the other way round
 
I've not had a problem with ATI drivers in Windows for years. Linux ones however.....they're a different story. I've never once had trouble with Nvidia drivers under Linux, but I've never yet had any real success with ATI. Right now I've given completely up on getting Ubuntu working with my ATI card and I'm just running the Win7 RC.
 
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