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Current "stable" ATI Driver recommendations needed

Doublehelix

By Doublehelix,
Posted on: 2009-05-30 19:59 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs

 

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Ok. Just got a new computer with Vista 64-bit, 6 Gb RAM, and an ATI HD 4850 512 Mb video card. I keep locking up continually, even after tweaking the settings per BillZ's stickied post. I've tried some other tweaking as well, but can't stay in the game for more than a few minutes, sometimes less than a minute.

What is the most "stable" driver that people are using for the new cards? Since I've not seen anything said recently on driver versions, I'm very loathe to start the driver wipe and install process.

Also, since Driver Cleaner is no longer free, can anyone recommend a good replacement that is compatible with Vista 64 bit?

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

Posted

The only unstable driver in a long time was the 8.10's iirc, so if you have anything else its OK.

Your problem likely has more to do with Vista and its ongoing graphics instability, I think SP2 or some hotfixes may help with that.

 

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SP2 didn't help.

I couldn't get TweakCoH to set all of my graphics right, but finally got stable enough in windowed mode to get in and start tinkering.

I dropped my resolution down a bit, apparently it didn't like running at 1920x 1280. Now I've just gotten my first crash in hours, and it was due to some base editing and trying to stack items.

I still likely need to update my video drivers, but I'll take my time now that I can run the game without continual crashes.

If the game spit out 20 dollar bills people would complain that they weren't sequentially numbered. If they were sequentially numbered people would complain that they weren't random enough.

Black Pebble is my new hero.

 

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Im using the 8.591 drivers .... then again im a special case because I run an AGP 3850 card. These drivers have been perfectly stable so if you feel its the issue I can vouch for these being stable.