Catalyst 8.1 final released!

[AliG]

How can you be sure?

That was the first thing I guessed it was, but that doesn't explain why it works just fine in 3dMark06. I've also tried it with the onboard soundcard disabled and the X-Fi removed and uninstalled, to see if it was a sound issue, and that didn't do anything.

Quite simple, you have a p35 mobo, the bandwidth of the second pci_e lane is only x4 while the first is x16, that means that you'll get somewhat of a boost, but not near where you could be, and that's why people are getting x38 over p35 even though there are reports about long term stability issues

[mascaras]

I went to AMD knowledge base, clicked on HD3850, and there was a link to this hotfix. I guess it is for HD3xx0 series, but they forgot to write it.

i dont think they would forget to write Only the last gen. graphics cards @ best seller


regards

[Truckchase!]

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/K...estionID=31715

[Thesavage]

The firefox colour bug is easy to fix simply goto display properties,appearance,effects, font smoothing select ClearType. Also the small square can be closed by exiting the ati control icon on your task/tool bar.

[peterpiper]

Anyone having any luck with multiview with crossfire enabled? When I enable CF second monitor still goes blank. I have one monitor on one 3870 and the second monitor on the second 3870. I found previously that this was the best way to control CF and individual overdrive features.
Oh, I have the white box too...?

[Brother Esau]

Bro. Esau,

I see you are using Powercolor 3870s. I only have one but it has that core 860 limit. Do yours and if so, did you flash them? And if so, did that take care of the problem? My friends Sapphire didn't have the problem, yet the Powercolor tech tells me that all the companies get the same bios from ATI.

thanks

Don't know mate have not really leaned into them yet I have a subtle approach I take it easy on hardware and gradually break it in as not to pop the cherry to soon. I don't start with High Voltage approach or high O.C at first I teach it to be a respectful biatch then I throw the hammer down


CATALYST 7.12 Color Bug in Firefox was only present when utilizing one card , but was not present when both were enabled in CROSSFIRE

[peterpiper]

I'm also getting mmloaddrv.exe failed to start on bootup? WTF?

[HKPolice]

The firefox colour bug is easy to fix simply goto display properties,appearance,effects, font smoothing select ClearType. Also the small square can be closed by exiting the ati control icon on your task/tool bar.

Cleartype sucks cuz it makes the fonts bigger.

[TRG]

I'm also getting mmloaddrv.exe failed to start on bootup? WTF?

Same here, I just installed 8.1 and getting 2 MMLoadDrv errors on Vista startup. I'm running Vista 64bit with P5B Deluxe, Q6600 and 3850.

[Syn.]

Same here, I just installed 8.1 and getting 2 MMLoadDrv errors on Vista startup. I'm running Vista 64bit with P5B Deluxe, Q6600 and 3850.

lol did a search for mmloaddrv.exe on google to find out what it is and this thread was the first search result.

Try and see what that exe is.

[peterpiper]

Is it another bug? doesn't happen every time now. But I've also disabled CCC running in Sys Tray..
Apparently the square in the corner of the desktop is an official Bug according to Ati Knowledge Base..

[v0dka]

It's a problem with control center loading. It doesnt decrease performance or anything. You can try to install a newer version of dotnet and install iit again.

[Unbornchild]

Now wassup?!


1. Brought Overdrive clocks down to standard.
2. Undid Rivatuner fan-setting.
3. Uninstalled ATI drivers from Control Panel/software
4. rebooted
5. Installed Cat 8.1. Deselected Earthism, Steam games offer, ATI registration. ONLY drivers and CCC.

During install: error message "Installshield encountered a problem".
I clicked OK. Installation then proceeded anyway.

6. rebooted.
7. Defragmented
8. Opened CCC > Overdrive > Unlock. Put in the overclocks i was used to. But no matter what i change it to, the TEST button stays greyed out.

9. Uninstalled Cat 8.1.
10. This time, used CCleaner to remove remaining crumbs.
11. rebooted
12. Reinstalled Cat 8.1
13. Opened CCC > Overdrive > Unlock. Again no matter what i change the settings to, the TEST button stays greyed out.
I set it to 855/1246, click Apply.
14. For test, launched 3DMark06. D3D:9 Error during startup.
15. Reinstalled DirectX9.0c (Nov 2007)
16. defragmented, rebooted
17. For test, launched 3DMark06. Again D3D:9 Error during startup.
18. Uninstalled Cat 8.1
19. rebooted
20. installed Cat 7.12, no errors, CCC working normally, 3DM06 running like normal, no problem whatsoever.

Wassup???

[Brother Esau]

Well CRYSIS is acting up again! This time much much further into the game at after leaving Alien caverns and descending down the mountain it starts to get funky again and now when in Jet fighter I get the save check point game freeze and save game freeze where you need to shut down via task manager

LOL....This is utterly ridiculous I guess I have to wait until CATALYST 8.2 and Patch 1.2 to be able to finish the bloody game.

[Unbornchild]

Huh?! Crysis never freezes here, nowhere in the game. I played it 3 times now (on Cat 7.12). XP pro.

[Brother Esau]

Well it aint isolated to me thats for sure! There are reports all over the forum of Cysis in game issues

[cadaveca]

No issues here in Crysis.

This time let's blame...




*rolls dice*







RAIDCARD!!!

[Unbornchild]

Oh to add i would like to emphasise i play the legal game. I buy all my games.

[STaRGaZeR]

Oh to add i would like to emphasise i play the legal game. I buy all my games.

That doesn't matter here. The copies are exactly the same with the exception of the boot block. So the game instalation is the same. The cracks only bypass the DVD check, nothing else. You will get exact same problems that anyone with an illegal copy of the game.

[Brother Esau]

Where do you get Raid Card from? If it were Raid Card anything (Which its not) then why would these problems not be present during all stages of the game?
Its a driver issue BIOSHOCK jams all the way through on highest setting .....whoops ...RAID CARD........NOT!

[cadaveca]

But the problem is when saving? Writing data to disk?

Did you properly format your RAID after you built it, or did you do a "quick format"?

And, uh, in case you missed it, I was just tossing that out there...looked at you sig, saw nothing odd but the controller, it got chosen. Hence the dice roll...




Can you not see smilies, or what?

[Brother Esau]

Hey, no need to do quick format on these cards as the regular format is just as fast as a quick format its actually blistering