ATI Catalyst 10.12 driver issues

[Nintendesert]

I had issues with my card freezing up with certain things like playing movies and hardware acceleration of flash. I kept blaming the card but it turned out to be the firmware on my mobo. I updated it and the problems went away. It was very frustrating however for as long as it persisted.

You need to check your other components as well.

 

[saratoga172]

Very finicky drivers. I had no problems with my 5770 on 10.12. Just got a 6950 though and Black Ops multi-player will usually freeze after about 20-30 minutes of gameplay. Starcraft 2 however has no problems.

Also of note I flashed the bios to the 6970. Same thing. Maybe slightly less so now though.

 

[dakU7]

I actually have the same problem using 6850 in CFX with 10.12.
Screen will blink black for a few sec every 20 mins or so. I thought it's a defective card before this thread.. Guess i'll give 10.10e a try.

 

[james1701]

I have never had a problem until last week, when I did a fresh install of Windows 7 64 Ultimate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gta9DlUD6Gk

This happens randomly when I play BC2. I also found I could not use Windows Movie Maker. For some weird reason, It would start to save a file in wmv format for a finished product, both my graphics cards would shoot up to 99% usage, and ramp the fans up, but the program would not save. It would stay stuck on 1% or something really low. Even though nothing is going on on screen, it heats up my 5870's. I did not think that program uses video cards for anything.

I have had my 5870's since last July, and have not had any problems other than the occasional flicker on BC2. I even had the 10.12's installed before the format, and did not have any problem out of it.

Could there be something in a Windows update causing problems?

 

[Modular]

I trust that you're all using Driver Sweeper after you uninstall your drivers? If not, then you're not really fixing the problem.

 

[poohbear]

i tried with 10.10e and problems show up much sooner now. The system even rebooted after a freeze twice.

Have to try and reinstall windows and try again. Then RMA the card.

Ure not overclocking anything?

 

[Rhentno]

10.12 made my 4890 unusable. Went back to 10.10 and all is great.

 

[fffblackmage]

Wow. I just reformatted yesterday and installed 10.12. Got a BSOD today and it was caused by ATI display driver. Maybe I'll just go back to 10.11.

 

[Obsoleet]

OP, I use 10.6 for now.. I play a LOT of different games and use my 5870 to the max as far as CCC features are concerned.. I generally find any bugs that come along. Most of the releases are very good but for me, 10.6 works best. If you find frustration with different versions, I suggest giving those a try. I'm 100% pleased with 10.6 and don't want to change unless I'm forced to somehow.

When will people learn ATIAMD can not make, and dont know how to make bug free drivers.

Even their All In Wonder 15 years ago had corrupt driver desktop issues.

For this reas after my x800 I went 8800GT ,,,, and CCC bloatware doesnt help. I will never be with the red ,, Im with the blue and green imo

15 years ago eh. NV and AMD drivers are equal today if you care to actually investigate. Yes, Nvidia drivers, also have bugs. I guess we should say NV does not know how to make bug free drivers. When will people learn.

 

[Spike]

I'm using the 10.12 hotfix ('a' I think) with all three of my main setups in my sig (excluding the HPTC which I rarely update) and have had no issues gaming with any of them. All three are new installs and I've only done extended gaming on my main one but I have put in 30+ hours of gaming in the last few weeks since the install (of the 6970).

Still, I'm looking forward to 11.1. The only issue with 10.12 I've seen at all is my second screen going blank when starting a game. This has happened ~4 times and by restarting the game it goes away. Otherwise things are going well.

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Yes, Nvidia drivers, also have bugs. I guess we should say NV does not know how to make bug free drivers. When will people learn.

I know everyone's experience is different but what you said is true. The only major bugs in any GPU drivers I have ever experience were early nVidia vista drivers that gave me constant BSODs. Does that turn me off from nVidia? Nah, I figure it was just my luck. Right now I happen to be on an ATI run but previously I had almost all nVidia cards (8800GTS 512, 8600 GTS, 7800GT, and 9600 GSO all at the same time). It's sorta luck of the draw. I figure 10.12 drivers are especially buggy as the 69xx series support was rushed out to make it in time for the holidays (barely).

 

[Obsoleet]

I'm not going to pretend I haven't had problems with AMD's drivers, but I'm also not going to pretend I haven't had problems with NV's drivers. I also won't lie in saying that back in the day NV did have better drivers. There's just too much propaganda by fanboys and NV employees that this is still the case. It's about money and loyalty to corporations which have no loyalty to you or your family (the definition of foolishness). Not truth or being honest with people. NV was on top for a long time, but since the 4870/5870 AMD/ATI has been on top, times change.

Wishful thinking won't change the fact that the last I investigated it, one of my favorite games is UNPLAYABLE on NV drivers, and works with my Radeon. Even if NV fixes it, doesn't change the fact they've had many driver releases with this problem, but you won't see most of these guys admitting NV driver problems.

 

[james1701]

I am right there with you Obsoleet, I had the same problem with my 8800GT once the drivers hit the 175's or so. Both are about the same, from time to time, but I never dropped over $800.00 on a set of Nvidia cards at one time either lol.

 

[AstroGuardian]

Ure not overclocking anything?

I was, but i disabled every overclock. I even cleared CMOS just to make sure. Overclocked or not, the problems persist. I ordered a new Gigabyte 5770 which should arive in few days to test my theory that the card is faulty, since all other logical steps failed to solve the issue...

Will post the results in few days when i have the new card.

 

[Refreshment]

Hi guys.

I don't see the MLAA option for the 5800 series, supposedly this drives would support them.
Any suggestions?

 

[blckgrffn]

Must we go through these periods of suckiness? I remember installing different drivers for different games way back with my 8500, then with the Cats it got better... then about the time I had my 7900GTO with nvidia I was applying drivers almost weekly to get things settled down. Now we are back to this with ATI - I have been rolling back their drivers quite frequently lately...

I rebuilt a LAN box last night and I just installed the AMD drivers from Windows Update because I don't want to take the crap shoot that the current ones will work... what a PITA. Figure it out, dammit.

*muttering darkly to myself*

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Must we go through these periods of suckiness?

Makes me glad I stuck with my 4890 for awhile, though I just upped to a 6950 now so I'm in the same boat.

 

[AstroGuardian]

Update: I got the new card. Inserted it, played for half an hour and there goes the same problem.
What i did was enter bios, changed CPU voltage from auto to 1,212v for the i5-760, turned off Turbo and no problem at all with my old card.

So i guess Turbo or incompatible voltage might cause the onboard memory or pci-e controller to fail sometimes...
Will post back if some other problem appears