Catalyst 10.1 Available now !

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Originally Posted by EagleRock

They didn't fix the problems with CODMW2 :down:

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What problems? :confused:
I played through the SP 3 times already on my 5870.. no issues whatsoever :shrug:

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Originally Posted by HelixPC

a driver killing hardware? thats a first, i wouldnt really take that seriously besides a couple of isolated incidents. And im sure it didnt take months to fix it.

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:shakes:

That all started with that stupid Evga thread with like four people who admit to having stability issues before installing 191.07 blaming the driver for "killing" their hardware.

I loved 191.07, it was actually really good to me. I found it to be very stable.

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Originally Posted by SKYMTL

True.

However, what ATI needs is a company like EVGA (maybe XFX can do this?) which delivers dual card "enhancement" patches and then filters their info down to the main driver development team. That decreases the work for the driver dev team while allowing more resources to be dedicated to other issues.

From my conversations with Terry, it is more than evident that his team is a well-oiled machine. I just find it unrealistic to expect a new driver every month from ATI. I would rather see drivers released every 2 months or every quarter which would give them time to polish things a bit more before release. Let's face it, being under the gun of a monthly driver release schedule can't be easy, especially when it comes to submitting them for WHQL status.

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No, ATI need something like nHancer. I love that program.

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Originally Posted by jcool

What problems? :confused:
I played through the SP 3 times already on my 5870.. no issues whatsoever :shrug:

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When you get flashed the screen will flickr.

You mean a flashbang? Eh lol.. that's how it's supposed to look like, same for CoD4 :D

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Originally Posted by Pontos

Hot fix released. It fixes a problem with forcing AA on Mass Effect 2 when using Crossfire

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles...Crossfire.aspx

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Standard 10.1 = 70MB

10.1 Hotfix = 111MB


??????? :shrug:

I can't even install it. It gets stuck at the HDMI part. :(

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Originally Posted by SKYMTL

Standard 10.1 = 70MB

10.1 Hotfix = 111MB


??????? :shrug:

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The 10.1 beta was 300mb because it had a lot of other stuff (Avivo, ATI capture card drivers, etc).
Maybe this one has some more stuff than the normal package as well...

Yeah, the hotfix has more stuff in it, same as the previous, 9.12 one.
Hydravision, AVIVO, etc...

Lost 50mhz off my core overclock with 10.1 vs 9.12 on my 5850 :(

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Originally Posted by Bojamijams

Lost 50mhz off my core overclock with 10.1 vs 9.12 on my 5850 :(

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Weird, some people are reporting gains. At least I recall someone from 5xxx OCing thread here gaining 10MHz.

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Originally Posted by SKYMTL

True.

However, what ATI needs is a company like EVGA (maybe XFX can do this?) which delivers dual card "enhancement" patches and then filters their info down to the main driver development team. That decreases the work for the driver dev team while allowing more resources to be dedicated to other issues.

From my conversations with Terry, it is more than evident that his team is a well-oiled machine. I just find it unrealistic to expect a new driver every month from ATI. I would rather see drivers released every 2 months or every quarter which would give them time to polish things a bit more before release. Let's face it, being under the gun of a monthly driver release schedule can't be easy, especially when it comes to submitting them for WHQL status.

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Last I heard, there are actually three teams concurrently working on drivers. That means drivers are on three month development cycles.

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Originally Posted by cegras

Last I heard, there are actually three teams concurrently working on drivers. That means drivers are on three month development cycles.

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3 Teams, which divided to

1. Improve performance
2. Bug fixing
3. New feature

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Originally Posted by Frananta

3 Teams, which divided to

1. Improve performance
2. Bug fixing
3. New feature

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Haha at least thers not six teams

1. Improve performance
2. Bug fixing
3. New feature
4. New bug
5. Improve fixing
6. Feature performance

had tooo , just had tooo.....

Patiently awaiting 10.2/10.3

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Originally Posted by jcool

You mean a flashbang? Eh lol.. that's how it's supposed to look like, same for CoD4 :D

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No it is a problem with the driver:mad: try 9.1 and you will see what i mean ;)

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Originally Posted by EagleRock

No it is a problem with the driver:mad: try 9.1 and you will see what i mean ;)

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Maybe it's an X2 problem and not a driver problem or a little of both. When I had my 4850 crossfire setups flash bangs looked nuts for me in both CS and CoD. It's a simlar effect even though they are different games and it almost made me sick to look at it.

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Originally Posted by TheBlueChanell

Maybe it's an X2 problem and not a driver problem or a little of both. When I had my 4850 crossfire setups flash bangs looked nuts for me in both CS and CoD. It's a simlar effect even though they are different games and it almost made me sick to look at it.

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Here is the link from ATI forums: http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...y&keyword1=cod

Now flikers with Divx, when using gl - of course, works just fine with D3D but i need gl.

hey, i was just snooping around the driver files till i found a file "CH_94296" i looked around and stumbled upon "RS880"

The RS880 was rumored to be an ION challenger but hasn't been released...according to the file its DX11 compatible...

[AMD_Service_Inst_RS880]
AddReg = ati2mtag_SoftwareDeviceSettings
AddReg = ati2mtag_RS880_SoftwareDeviceSettings
AddReg = ati2mtag_Desktop_SoftwareDeviceSettings
AddReg = ati2mtag_ProxySettings_DX10
AddReg = ati2mtag_ProxySettings_DX10_PXAA
AddReg = ati2mtag_PXAA
AddReg = ati2mtag_DX11
DelReg = ati2mtag_RemoveDeviceSettings
ServiceType = 1 ; SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER
StartType = 3 ; SERVICE_DEMAND_START
ErrorControl = 0 ; SERVICE_ERROR_IGNORE
LoadOrderGroup = Video
ServiceBinary = %12%\atipmdag.sys



4000 series with DX11?? For tessellation maybe?

[AMD_Service_Inst_RV7X]
AddReg = ati2mtag_SoftwareDeviceSettings
AddReg = ati2mtag_R7x_SoftwareDeviceSettings
AddReg = ati2mtag_Desktop_SoftwareDeviceSettings
AddReg = ati2mtag_ProxySettings_DX10
AddReg = ati2mtag_ProxySettings_DX10_PXAA
AddReg = ati2mtag_PXAA
AddReg = ati2mtag_DX11
DelReg = ati2mtag_RemoveDeviceSettings
ServiceType = 1 ; SERVICE_KERNEL_DRIVER
StartType = 3 ; SERVICE_DEMAND_START
ErrorControl = 0 ; SERVICE_ERROR_IGNORE
LoadOrderGroup = Video
ServiceBinary = %12%\atipmdag.sys

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Originally Posted by Lokinhow

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
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Intermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on the
screen


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
not fixed yet :shakes::shakes:

at least they said "WE KNOW THIS EXIST...", but the "may randomly appear" says to me "..BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHY THIS HAPPENS"
:p:

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I'm mainly seeing this on overclocked systems, I've had customers complain and return cards for this. For example, run Prime95 overnight fine, run furmark overnight fine, run both together and it GSODs within a couple of hours. My inclination is to blame memory compatibility as it's similar to a problem I had with nVidia and certain memory brands during the 8800 epoch. Come to think of it 4870x2 and 3870x2 could behave like that.

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Originally Posted by initialised

I'm mainly seeing this on overclocked systems, I've had customers complain and return cards for this. For example, run Prime95 overnight fine, run furmark overnight fine, run both together and it GSODs within a couple of hours. My inclination is to blame memory compatibility as it's similar to a problem I had with nVidia and certain memory brands during the 8800 epoch. Come to think of it 4870x2 and 3870x2 could behave like that.

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I was getting green screens for a while when I got my 5870, then I fixed the stability issues on my CPU/Mobo and haven't seen one in weeks...even after a play all the way through Warhead at 1060/1350.

--Matt

Problem is I can't see the stability issues unless I'm running GPU and CPU stress.

The other trend I'm trying to verify is that the cards that GSOD are the ones that give 6.0, 6.0 in Windex.

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Originally Posted by initialised

I'm mainly seeing this on overclocked systems, I've had customers complain and return cards for this. For example, run Prime95 overnight fine, run furmark overnight fine, run both together and it GSODs within a couple of hours. My inclination is to blame memory compatibility as it's similar to a problem I had with nVidia and certain memory brands during the 8800 epoch. Come to think of it 4870x2 and 3870x2 could behave like that.

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After my RAM arrived DOA (and I spent days trying to figure out what settings of my OC were wrong) I stopped overclocking and I had this issue nevertheless. It does not depend on the load. It happened in Windows, without any load, while playing GTA IV or while server change on TF2 or ...

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Originally Posted by Monkeywoman

hey, i was just snooping around the driver files till i found a file "CH_94296" i looked around and stumbled upon "RS880"

The RS880 was rumored to be an ION challenger but hasn't been released...according to the file its DX11 compatible...

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AFAIK, RS880 is 785G.

So far so good with these drivers and their Hotfix counterparts. The one issue I have over the 9.12 drivers is a rendering problem in Dragon Age: Origins which makes fire pits look like someone smeared Vaseline between the logs.