Catalyst 10.1 Available now !

[zanzabar]

mine still says 9.12

the hdmi HDTV support is much better now

[Monkeywoman]

UPDATE: uninstalled a 2nd time and removed EVERY ATI registry key i could find, restarted, ran ccleaner and re-downloaded the driver from ati game site and installed, after reboot cat still says 9.12...wtf ati, 4 days before the end of the month and still drivers not up to par


going to have to change my avatar....

[BenchZowner]

UPDATE: uninstalled a 2nd time and removed EVERY ATI registry key i could find, restarted, ran ccleaner and re-downloaded the driver from ati game site and installed, after reboot cat still says 9.12...wtf ati, 4 days before the end of the month and still drivers not up to par


going to have to change my avatar....

The boss of the driver development monkeys posted at twitter that the drivers are fine, somebody forgot to change the driver revision entry, they incorrectly recognize themselves as 9.12

[Monkeywoman]

The boss of the driver development monkeys posted at twitter that the drivers are fine, somebody forgot to change the driver revision entry, they incorrectly recognize themselves as 9.12

FAIL on their part, thanks for the clear up

[Zorlac]

Release notes PROVE they are aware of the gray screen/vertical line crash and it is NOT fixed. Nice...

Glad I bought a eVGA GTX 285 that I will step-up to a Fermi. XFX wont fix my 5870 because they say its a driver issue. I cant do anything on my computer with the 5870 because of the Gray Screen Of Death (GSOD).

Anyone want to buy my 5870? (might have to stick it on ebay). /sigh

[Humminn55]

FAIL on their part, thanks for the clear up

But you could fix your avatar.....the word you're looking for in it is THAN, not THEN.

Than is a comparative word, then is a time/sequence word.

[Pontos]

Is this a screenshot posted before from the final 10.1 driver released today?
http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.ph...4&postcount=92

Because i just checked the 10.1 beta that was leaked not too long ago and every version is newer...


Notice how here they typoed it as 9.10

[illidan]

UPDATE: uninstalled a 2nd time and removed EVERY ATI registry key i could find, restarted, ran ccleaner and re-downloaded the driver from ati game site and installed, after reboot cat still says 9.12...wtf ati, 4 days before the end of the month and still drivers not up to par


going to have to change my avatar....

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...2&postcount=11

monkey business






start installation, when installer unpack files and ask to continue, find and edit file (x64 example):

for Win 7

c:\ATI\Support\10-1_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu\Driver\Packages\D rivers\Display\W76A_INF\C7_94296.inf

for Vista

c:\ATI\Support\10-1_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu\Driver\Packages\D rivers\Display\W76A_INF\CH_94296.inf

find section

[ati2mtag_SoftwareDeviceSettings]

add new line below

HKR,, Catalyst_Version,,"enter any text that will be displayed CCC"

click next in installer

[X.T.R.E.M.E_ICE]

UPDATE: uninstalled a 2nd time and removed EVERY ATI registry key i could find, restarted, ran ccleaner and re-downloaded the driver from ati game site and installed, after reboot cat still says 9.12...wtf ati, 4 days before the end of the month and still drivers not up to par


going to have to change my avatar....

I uninstalled the drivers and installed 10.1 drivers from AMD.


They show as 9.0

[Nedjo]

I uninstalled the drivers and installed 10.1 drivers from AMD.


They show as 9.0

they might as well show 101.1 or "CO2" it makes no difference! What counts is 8.69! That's true software revision number! 9.12, 10.1 etc... is only marketing name!

I find it funny that people are biatching about this totally irrelevant number!

[Piotrsama]

they might as well show 101.1 or "CO2" it makes no difference! What counts is 8.69! That's true software revision number! 9.12, 10.1 etc... is only marketing name!

I find it funny that people are biatching about this totally irrelevant number!

It's logical that people complain, because it's confusing.
Why can't ATI just stop with this parallel numbering?
They should just use one of those, whichever.... I don't care. But just one.

BTW, AMD should hire more people for the ATI driver team.

As for this numbering "detail", well, just patch the damn driver and release 10.1b NOW, don't wait 1 month for that. Can't be that hard....

[XSAlliN]

It's logical that people complain, because it's confusing.
Why can't ATI just stop with this parallel numbering?
They should just use one of those, whichever.... I don't care. But just one.

BTW, AMD should hire more people for the ATI driver team.

As for this numbering "detail", well, just patch the damn driver and release 10.1b NOW, don't wait 1 month for that. Can't be that hard....

Yeah, sure, more quantity instead of quality... They don't need more people, maybe 1 or 2 that are very skilled at this but that's really hard to find since VGA's are really complex compared to other hardware and ATi (AMD), nVidia are top companies for that. In worst case, they might end up with some that worked at Creative, that should thing interesting in a more problematic way...

It's easy to talk, I do it myself from time to time... But when it comes to the real work behind this and so many things that could go wrong, since they're so many things that are VGA dependent (especially today)... And let's not forget, they have no TWIMTBP and beyond that, they could try to cheat like nVidia but that doesn't help much cause the real results are important (really important), since most of us are not benching fanatics.

Some nVidia users might contradict me, as in NO - they're not as good as nVidia when it comes to cheating... well, they are mistaken, they already proved they could do that with Furmark - forcing the cards to render at predefined FPS rates, which is more complicated then showing some fake FPS results in some applications.

But beyond this mambo jumbo benching which I don't really care, i aim for stability and improvement. If I use a Futuremark product I use it to test the stability of my card and a game for fun, not FPS scores...

[HelixPC]

they might as well show 101.1 or "CO2" it makes no difference! What counts is 8.69! That's true software revision number! 9.12, 10.1 etc... is only marketing name!

I find it funny that people are biatching about this totally irrelevant number!

DO you work for AMD/ATI? just curious.

[STaRGaZeR]

DO you work for AMD/ATI? just curious.

Yep, he does.

[Truckchase!]

UPDATE: uninstalled a 2nd time and removed EVERY ATI registry key i could find, restarted, ran ccleaner and re-downloaded the driver from ati game site and installed, after reboot cat still says 9.12...wtf ati, 4 days before the end of the month and still drivers not up to par

http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker

He made a post regarding that issue. They are 10.1.

[Lokinhow]

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
......

Intermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on the
screen


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
not fixed yet

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

[FischOderAal]

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
......

Intermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on the
screen


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
not fixed yet

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

Well, it's not limited to grey screens... On a forum we've found nearly all colours of the rainbow... I myself had blue. So I'll stick with 9.11 kthxbai.

[initialised]

Known Issues Under All Windows Operating Systems
......

Intermittent grey screen or vertical line corruption may randomly appear on the
screen


ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
not fixed yet

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

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.

[mattkosem]

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.

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

[initialised]

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.

[Chickenfeed]

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.

Mine gets 7.8, 7.8 in Win7 so scratch that theory The thing is though I still get the problem in 2-3 games without any overclocks anywhere which to me again points towards drivers / hardware and not instability with clocks / voltage.

[PaganII]

10.1 is stable enough for me to raise my CPU clock 300Mhz and play Crysis all nite.

[FischOderAal]

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.

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 ...