ATI HotKey Poller screws up BF2

[VanTheMan]

ATI Hotkey Poller causes my controls to stick in BF2. I eliminated all the other variables and it's definitely AHKP. When playing BF2 with AHKP running, the controls sometimes "stick". For example: I'm running forward and let go of W, but my character keeps running forward for 2-7 seconds.

The game runs fine if I kill AHKP, but then my X1950XT won't switch into 3D mode. The game doesn't look terrible with the clocks at 2D speed, but I don't want to play it that way. I tried using RivaTuner, ATT and ATI Tool to force the normal 3D mode clock speeds while AHKP wasn't running, but it locked my computer up and I had to reboot. I've been at this for 2 days and haven't found anything, so I'll take any help I can get. Thanks!

 

[postmortemIA]

Doesn't ati tray tools have some way to disable ati hotkey poller?

and yes, ati drivers tech sucks... now running 2x faster on 2d since CCC is gone.

 

[LittleNemoNES]

Catalyst Control center is working very well for me -- especially with 7.6

I don't know what could be causing your BF2 issues but I play that game daily and don't have any problems.

something must be making your CPU usage spike or if you are using a wireless mouse, you may have interference issues.

good luck:thumbsup:

 

[Capt Caveman]

No issues with BF2 and 7.6/ATI Tool

 

[VanTheMan]

ATT can disable Hotkey poller and I tried that, but then the card won't go into 3D mode. Also, when I try to force 3D clock speeds with any overclocker while AHKP is disabled, the card acts weird and sometimes locks up my system. I'm using 7.6 drivers, but is there a chance a downgrade would help? Was there a point where AHKP didn't control 2D/3D switching?

I am using a wireless mouse, but I can still aim with it and do everything fine when the keys stick. The only problem is with keyboard keys acting like they're stuck.

I've read about several people having this problem, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation of a solution. I guess I'll keep messing around with it.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Both the newest versions of ATI Tool and ATI Tray Tools require that you keep ATI Hotkey Poller enabled. Older versions required you to disabled it.

 

[postmortemIA]

<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote>Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
Both the newest versions of ATI Tool and ATI Tray Tools require that you keep ATI Hotkey Poller enabled. Older versions required you to disabled it.</end quote></div>

what a mess: ATi's optional helper service suddenly became driver.