Catalyst 10.6 released

[BuBBle.D]

I was just playing a little with BC2 and with CF enabled i get around 30FPS less than with CF disabled. And that is with the new profiles.

[klataa]

that "texture error" is usually due to overheating GPU or memory, or too tight memory timings for the video card...

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i have tested my system and there was no artifacts

[Hornet331]

As it stands, their Game.AMD.com site doesn't have the update to the 10.6 drivers listed.

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

[SoulsCollective]

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

That link clearly does not have the June 18th update to the 10.6 release package, only the June 7th, so I'm not sure why you're confused...

[Silver Bullet]

No BSOD for me .. installed without driver sweeping. Just installed over top of existing. (lazy)

Ok so upon further inspection looks like idle clock is 400mhz instead of ~128mhz. Going to try clean install .. if not then back to 10.5 for me.

Update: After full uninstall and driver sweeper .. idle is back to where it should be (158mhz). So I guess 10.6 is ok for me now.

[Eastcoasthandle]

Er...what? Lots of posters here complaining about it, lots of posters over at AMD forums complaining about it, Google reveals more.
AMD forums, more AMD forums, more AMD forums, more AMD forums. Google reveals more.

The problem has existed since the OpenGL update (so in 10.5 as well). First thread, more, more, mpre, more. Plus, again, Google.

I'm still not seeing the masses of complaints. Sure there are threads but after looking at them there are only a few with multiple responses.
Be that as it may I went ahead and got into Quake Live and found no problem.
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If I am not seeing these issues, I cannot believe I'm the only one.

[zalbard]

That link clearly does not have the June 18th update to the 10.6 release package, only the June 7th, so I'm not sure why you're confused...

Package Includes | File Size | Version | Date Posted
Display Driver Only (?) | 50.2MB | 10.6 | 6/16/2010
Or perhaps I get you wrong...

[blindbox]

He was talking about the Catalyst profiles.

[SoulsCollective]

I'm still not seeing the masses of complaints. Sure there are threads but after looking at them there are only a few with multiple responses.
Be that as it may I went ahead and got into Quake Live and found no problem.
*pic snip*
If I am not seeing these issues, I cannot believe I'm the only one.

There are multiple posters seeing the same bug/problem in each linked thread. Noone has insisted that the problems affect all users, but they're affecting a significant proportion - if these posters and posters here are seeing these issues, you can't believe that they're not the only ones

Package Includes | File Size | Version | Date Posted
Display Driver Only (?) | 50.2MB | 10.6 | 6/16/2010
Or perhaps I get you wrong...

SKYMTL was talking about the Catalyst profile update, which is not yet available on ATi's website.

[STEvil]

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i have tested my system and there was no artifacts

I said usually.

Your temps were not maxed out yet and the "fur" style rendering benchmarks are poor at showing these "vector" type errors sometimes.

Also your temps dont look like they were maxed out yet.

[klataa]

I said usually.

Your temps were not maxed out yet and the "fur" style rendering benchmarks are poor at showing these "vector" type errors sometimes.

Also your temps dont look like they were maxed out yet.

They were almost maxed up but still my 5870 had in BFBC2 88c MAX! im usually playing with real temp in background so i know max and min temp. My problem is with drivers cause this textures and flicking screen i can see in 2 maps and rest with ASSAULT only. I have Fresh windows and Fresh game. 10.6 sucks

[FinBenton]

10.6 + new crossfirex profile + HD5970 = still its rubbish, super low fps BFBC2 compared to older catalyst, Its not really playable now.

[Mungri]

I didnt get any vantage improvement going from 10.4 - 10.6, and only did because my drivers were corrupt and producing crappy FPS.

Hence I did go from 30-80 FPS in Lotro to 100-150, and from 30-60 FPS in guildwars back up to 120-150 :p

But thats because my installed drivers messed up.

[Gen]

I had no problems installing, no bsods or anything with a 4870x2. One thing I did notice is there was texture problems with APB KTTC build (33). Some players clothes and bodies did not show up leaving a mouth and eyes walking about lol, was prety funny. Also some players clothes were bright white, this happened on a new install of APB as well. Went back to 10.4a and everything was good again.

[M.Beier]

Swapped from 10.3 to 10.6.... 3x HD5870.... The vantage gain was.... 2400

[M.Beier]

And score climbed 3500 in a short time

[Dainas]

these drivers are hilarious, first time I've come across drivers that are capable of bricking your install of windows if you are soo unlucky as to not have .NET completely updated (like say right after a system build). A whole new meaning to black screen of death. Monitor is still on, videocard is still outputting, just showing a black screen. Safe mode, VGA mode, pci back up cards from ati and nvidia, no difference 10.6 bricked my windows install. 10.5's were just peachy so my fault for updating but jeebus. Someone needs to be fired for this at ati driver HQ.

[STEvil]

Needing .NET is a joke anyways..

[damha]

no problems installing 10.6 cats here, they seem quite ok. 4870 512mb, cut down bfbc2 loading times to 15-20 sec max which is sweet, but I am noticing more choppiness now. My guess is they cut down on the shader precalculations to improve map loading times but now the experience isn't as great. It was great being second on a map for once.

PS I think this is my 100th catalyst install without problems. I might as well make it infinite because I have never had problems installing them on countless machines.

[revenant]

anyone able to get CF + EF with vsync working with these.... or at all?

[Hell Hound]

No prob for me,Use drive sweeper and drive cleaner pro and go clean reg manually if need be and try try again.

[Erklat]

I had random freezes in SC Conviction with 10.5., which miraculously
evolved into BSODs now and then with 10.6.

GG ATi

Anyone managed to play this game without issues on CF systems?

[3NZ0]

these drivers are hilarious, first time I've come across drivers that are capable of bricking your install of windows if you are soo unlucky as to not have .NET completely updated (like say right after a system build). A whole new meaning to black screen of death. Monitor is still on, videocard is still outputting, just showing a black screen. Safe mode, VGA mode, pci back up cards from ati and nvidia, no difference 10.6 bricked my windows install. 10.5's were just peachy so my fault for updating but jeebus. Someone needs to be fired for this at ati driver HQ.

If that happens you can just remote desktop into your pc and uninstall/fix/whatever to solve the problem. I've had to do it a few times for both ati/nv.

Needing .NET is a joke anyways..

Complaining about it needing it is even funnier. W7 comes with it, xp was the only os I needed the .net redist and that's 10 years old now.

[Solus Corvus]

I just installed over the old version and it works fine with this 5970. I was actually having more problems with ATI drivers when I'd uninstall and run driver sweeper before installing new drivers.

Bad Company 2 is unplayable for me with the last few driver releases. Guess i need to go back to 10.4.
I am starting to hate ATI. Never had any issues with their drivers but now it seems like they just cant get their together and fix their drivers for a game, they are advertising(BF:BC2).
I am running 2 5870s in CF.

Both ATI and Nvidia need to get their act together with their drivers. I just reinstalled this 5970 after running a 285 for a while. Recent Nvidia drivers have been breaking old games for me. These games are working with these ATI drivers, but they have their own set of issues.

I started noticing problems with NV drivers during the final stages of development of Fermi. I wonder if these ATI drivers are having issues for the same reason (ie. incorporating features from unreleased hardware during the run up to release).

[Soultaker52]

these drivers are hilarious, first time I've come across drivers that are capable of bricking your install of windows if you are soo unlucky as to not have .NET completely updated (like say right after a system build). A whole new meaning to black screen of death. Monitor is still on, videocard is still outputting, just showing a black screen. Safe mode, VGA mode, pci back up cards from ati and nvidia, no difference 10.6 bricked my windows install. 10.5's were just peachy so my fault for updating but jeebus. Someone needs to be fired for this at ati driver HQ.

Really now? I installed these drivers on a clean windows 7 install with no problems. Secondary PC with a 4870 in it, works just fine. No black screen, no crashes. Maybe there was something else wrong with your install/card? Installing the graphics drivers is usually the first thing I do, as I can't stand operating my computers at a low resolution/choppy video performance.