ATI Driver Advice/Hot Fixes
By
je_saist,
Posted on: 2010-02-11 11:22 in ALL ACCESS Gameplay Technical Issues Bugs
I installed ATI Catalyst 10.1 on my machine 2 days ago and have yet to see a single issue. Prior to that I was getting all sorts of rendering issues, especially after Alt+Tabbing another window on top of CoX, usually culminating in a crash. AMD site
Red, were you experiencing the same crashes I described?
[edit] Looking at the link you posted, I should probably let you know that I am running on Vista 32.
@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.
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The 9.12 driver release had a couple of serious OpenGL regressions. There was a hotfix for that driver, and I have not experienced the problems on the 10.1 release.
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Originally Posted by Rylas
Red, were you experiencing the same crashes I described?
[edit] Looking at the link you posted, I should probably let you know that I am running on Vista 32. |
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Good to know. I did have the hotfix for the 9.12, but I don't think it took care of what was causing issues for me. I'll try installing the 10.1 release when I get home. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by je_saist
The 9.12 driver release had a couple of serious OpenGL regressions. There was a hotfix for that driver, and I have not experienced the problems on the 10.1 release.
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@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.
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I was not getting the exact same visual issue that you were getting, but there were times where I would see totally messed up surfaces and artifacting. I have a screenie around here somewhere. But yes, I would also crash.|
Originally Posted by Rylas
Red, were you experiencing the same crashes I described?
[edit] Looking at the link you posted, I should probably let you know that I am running on Vista 32. |
As for the the Vista driver, it's in the menu right above the link I posted or here.
Don't forget to run Drive Sweeper in Safe Mode after uninstalling your previous Catalyst/video drivers. It's located in the same menu.
Edit: Here is some of what I was going through.
It wasn't always like that, when I started up the game everything would look normal, then I'd see some surfaces start to mess up, or my power bars repeated at the top of the screen.
10.1 fixed it for me, I had the same issues as everyone else, but on a XFX 5850.
Didn't have issues with the 9.12 w/hotfix, except for the slightly offset screen when alt-tabbing. 10.1 seems to have fixed even that now, and I don't have any similar graphical issues anymore.
5850 on Win7 64, in case it matters.
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Hmm. I uninstalled 9.12. Then I ran drive sweeper in safe mode and got rid of all ATI drivers. Then I went here and downloaded 10.1 and installed it. When I go to the control center and look at the Information Center, it says that it is Catalyst Version 09.12. |
Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja
As for the the Vista driver, it's in the menu right above the link I posted or here.
Don't forget to run Drive Sweeper in Safe Mode after uninstalling your previous Catalyst/video drivers. It's located in the same menu. |
What gives?
@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.
No idea why that's happening. I'd ask Bill Z Bubba but I've not seen him post in a while. Perhaps one of the other resident guru's can give us a clue.
I'm at work and currently unable to check to see if my machine is showing the same thing.
Downloaded the 10.1 hotfix and it now displays the correct version number. No crashes in the past 10 hours. I'll be looking out for the next week to see if it stays that way.
@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.
I recently picked up an XFX Radeon 5770. The card works phenomenally (except with CoH until Ultra-Mode) when it comes to graphics. The performance and quality are a huge step up from the nVidia 8600 I had. BUT! I've run into an issue with occasional crashes that I know are related to the card. I get these "brownish" vertical lines (sometimes bluish) that fill up the screen and require me to reboot.
It doesn't happen all the time. It doesn't happen from over heating. It doesn't happen just in games, it can happen when I'm just opening up a browser. Its not that the drivers aren't up to date, unless 9.12 is no longer the latest. It's not that old drivers are in the way (ran drive sweeper).
I've done some searching on the interwebs, and it seems that plenty of people with all types of builds and OS's have run into this as well. Most have agreed that it's a driver issue, and ATI just needs to put out a fix. I thought I'd see if anyone on these forums has run into the same issue and has found temporary fixes that have worked for them. Any advice is welcome, and thank in advance!
@Rylas
Kill 'em all. Let XP sort 'em out.