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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:
 
Which 9.12 did you end up using? the hotfix?

Also when you were having the problems woudl it let you install catalyst or did it stop responding?
 
ghost41 said:
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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Just like to add most problems are down to the user and an unstable system.
But ofc there will be dud cards, 'even' Nvidia.

You could possibly try updating the rest of your system, my 5870 has been running flawlessly since release.
The 3d clocks could possibly be screwed?

I know this always gets said but is your PSU up to standard? and your rig not too hot?
 
Another driver sweeper user with driver issues... when will people learn :o

edit: just realised that I am contributing nothing to this thread with the above, let me elaborate... Ati and Nvidia both have uninstall routines in there driver packages for good reason, by using third party apps you are introducing somewhere else for things to go wrong and making a mockery of their hard work. Im not blaming driver sweeper outright but its more than a coincidence that people who are having issues are also people using third party apps to "clean drivers".
 
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For example say a vendor changes the name or location of a registry entry on a new release, do the good people who code driver sweeper take into account a small change such as this? Do they account for every eventuality between driver releases?

My gut instinct tells me no... More than that, the amount of times people use the words driver issue and driver sweeper, driver cleaner or the name of some other obscure driver programme in the same sentence seems too often an occurrence to be coincidence.

My advice is sack off the 3rd party apps, simply installing one driver over the other how the manufacturer intended seems to be the best option.
 
trouble is people are too quick to shoot down ati's driver because of past problems when in reality it's user error or a 3rd party app which has caused the issue as it seems the case here with Driver Sweeper messing it up.

hope it's now sorted for you
 
Still can't get ccc 9.11 or 9.12 to install or work properly. However the one fomr Asus's website works a charm. Just updated to one they released yesterday, driver 8.80 I think. Odd the ATI package won't work?
 
the only issue i've ever encountered is when ccc wouldn't recognise my card.

found out it was Kaspersky blocking it from being installed so now i have to turn off Kaspersky before installing anything to do with ATI.

other than that it's worked extremely well.
 
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.
 
Mmmm, I'm running Kaspersky aswell..........................if that turns out to be the problem after all my blood sweat and tears I may just explode in a flash of blinding light
 
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Just like to add most problems are down to the user and an unstable system.
But ofc there will be dud cards, 'even' Nvidia.

You could possibly try updating the rest of your system, my 5870 has been running flawlessly since release.
The 3d clocks could possibly be screwed?

I know this always gets said but is your PSU up to standard? and your rig not too hot?
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same here, no problem here
 
unknownsock said:
Just like to add most problems are down to the user and an unstable system.
But ofc there will be dud cards, 'even' Nvidia.

You could possibly try updating the rest of your system, my 5870 has been running flawlessly since release.
The 3d clocks could possibly be screwed?

I know this always gets said but is your PSU up to standard? and your rig not too hot?
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Agreed, having struggled to fix my problems for ages I think I just solved them by replacing what seems to have been a bad stick of RAM. Fingers crossed, all seems to be working.
 
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