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Ati driver issues

ghost41

ghost41

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Ok so I get my new HIS 5770 card on Tuesday installed 9.12 drivers start playing COD4 and all seems fine, next day it crashes to a black screen and stays like that and the game stops in the background as I can hear it, but all I can do is a hard re-boot as nothing works to get back to desktop.

Ok so uninstall 9.12 and use driver sweeper uninstall all ATI folders from everywhere and I mean everywhere and try the 9.12 hotfix ones with the same results, so I go through the uninstall process again and install the 9.11 drivers and boot into COD4 online and within 30 seconds it black screens on me again and I have to hard boot once more ? Any ideas shall I try 9.10 drivers or earlier.

What cheeses me off is I brought an ATI card about 5 years ago and sent it back because the drivers were crap and I have had Nvidia cards ever since and had no problems what so ever and as I had heard good things about these new ATI cards and everyone telling me yeah ATI have sorted their driver problems out I am beginning to think this is deja vue
 
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May have found a solution, tested last night and worked ok will test some more to be certain this is with the re-installed 9.12 drivers but I saw a post to do with creating a new folder to install into instead of C:/Programs/ATI install in C:/Programs/NewATI when the installer gives the option to browse to a folder.


Fingers crossed it will stay that way or it will be RMA and back to Nvidia for me.:rolleyes:
 
Right well before you start judging me driver sweeper I only use as a visual guide to identify any remnants remaining after normal uninstall, I then go to the remaining file/s directly and uninstall such as the hidden Ace files in user apps.

The 5770 cards seem to be having at lot of these issues currently in windows 7 64 bit even on clean installs.

My guess is as someone suggested and I was thinking this last night is that while my previous card a Nvidea 8600gt and E8400 was adequate for my cheapo PSu this card upgrade has pushed it to its limit and I will check it's ampage when I get home.
 
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