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Driver errors since 10.8

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I have an HD 5850 and have had driver errors with the last few drivers.

At first it was all out restarts, though with 10.9 my game would mainly crash.

I have tried 10.6 to see if it was a problem with the most recent, game wouldnt even start.

I uninstall, driver sweep, install etc but no luck as yet.

I can play for a full day with no problems to get hit the next day.

My hardware is enough for the game and I have checked temps. On the last crash it read 59deg.

I have ran Window Memory Diag (which came out fine) and i am about to see if there any MB updates.

Does anyone know anything I can try after this? (i am currently using one of the driver patches)

Thanks.
 
I uninstall, driver sweep, install etc but no luck as yet.

That'll be your problem.

I would reinstall windows and start from fresh and never run driver sweeper unless you absolutely have to, and even then with the understanding there is a chance it will probably b0rk your install.

For normal driver upgrades using the same card or generation of card you should just install over the top of the old version. This applies to ATi and Nvidia.
 
That'll be your problem.

I would reinstall windows and start from fresh and never run driver sweeper unless you absolutely have to, and even then with the understanding there is a chance it will probably b0rk your install.

For normal driver upgrades using the same card or generation of card you should just install over the top of the old version. This applies to ATi and Nvidia.

Yes. I was going to say the same. Back up yout data, reformat hdd and reinstall windows. download and install latets ATI drivers and you should be good to go.

Never use driver cleaner. Totally unneccessary and will generally cuase more issues than it fixes.

A 5850 is still a very good card, to own. No need to upgrade yet......

however in my experinece I wouldnt install over the top of prexisting drivers. Express unistall all gpu related softare, reboot if neccessary. Delete any left over Nvidia or ATI folders, then reinstall new drivers.

Thats the clean way to do it.
 
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OP said they were having problems before using driver sweeper..? :rolleyes:

I've been having problems not with ati display driver crashes but warning occuring during installs... annoying, but not annoying enough to warrant a clean install of windows..

OP however, might be your only option.. :(
 
Thansk for the replies, but there is no way I am re-installing W7. Only if I bought a new HHD I would do that. It could give me even more problems.

I have had a day without problems so far. If it happens again, will try again minus sweeper.
 
Well, I have since found out that atikmpag.sys is what is causing these problems. Going to look on th internet to see if there is any answers.

ADD: Lots of different info. Starting to wish i could jsut retutn it, but had it nearly a year now. I am out of ideas.
 
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