catalyst 10.2 driver officialy out

[Mem]

10.2s running fine with my Win7 x64/ ATi 4870 combo.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

10.2s running fine with my Win7 x64/ ATi 4870 combo.

Isn't the problem mainly for folks with the 5xxx cards? 9.12, 10.1 and 10.2 all have run well for my 4890 under Win7 x64 Ultimate.

 

[BAMAVOO]

Run a gpu clock program and see what your 2d clocks are showing up as my are still 167 or what ever runs for a like 4 mins and locks up.

Still going strong at 960/1400 oc'd and 157/300 on 2d idle power.

I am on Win7 64bit and have a 5770...

 

[E6700]

it fixed grey stripes for me when watching movies,thankgod!

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Yes, gray screens seem to be fixed (xp pro sp3, 5870 10.2)

 

[n7]

Ummm, they work for me. Enabling them is a nice process of dicking about though. You have to change your resolution to something lower before the settings become available, and the GPU scaling options are hidden, almost like they don't want you to find them. There's also this little fixer app that worked for me in 9.12. Skipped 10.1 and now with 10.2 I was able to get centered timings through CCC using the lower resolution trick.

Only way it works is to set a lower than native resolution, which i do not want.

I want native resolution, but centered timings to be enabled for games, so i can play select games w/ black bars around the sides.

That has worked perfectly in XP/Vista for many years now.
I cannot understand how they cannot have that work in 7.

I don't want to have to be running a third party tool for something that should function in the drivers.

Thank you for the tips though.

I'm going to continue to stick with Vista though, as this whole BS pisses me off greatly, & i'm not a big fan of 7 over Vista anyway.

 

[AbsoluteParadigm]

For some reason, 10.2 broke idling of the secondary gfx card for me.

With 9.12, I was at 157/300 on both cards at idle. With 10.2, the primary gfx card idles normally 157/300 but the secondary gfx card is at 850/1200. Could be because the secondary is a HIS reference 5770 while the primary is a Sapphire Vapor-X 5770.

I might need to update the firmware of the HIS or something. Back to 9.12 for me for now. Hopefully 10.3 will be better for me.

 

[aigomorla]

10.1 fixed that for me.

are you on xfire?

I get a funky mouse cursor...its not enlarged, but its a bunch of arrows which point up, and its annoying as hell.

10.1 didnt fix jack except if i move the mouse pointer around really fast, i can shake it back to a normal pointer. (funny huh? but im not kidding...)

But on suspend and resume, i get that funky cursor.

 

[Occ]

Only way it works is to set a lower than native resolution, which i do not want.

I want native resolution, but centered timings to be enabled for games, so i can play select games w/ black bars around the sides.

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I don't want to have to be running a third party tool for something that should function in the drivers.

Once you set the centered scaling setting in a lower resolution, it will stay when you move back to your normal resolution, providing exactly the behavior you are looking for. As for the tool, you would have just had to run it once and then delete. It's a one time operation. Your attitude perplexes me, it's like you don't even want to try a solution ~

i'm not a big fan of 7 over Vista anyway.

oic

 

[Maximilian]

Didnt fix distortion when playing some HD movies in WMP. Had this issue since 9.12, movies work fine in MPC however.

 

[gmjimmy]

Newbie question! Should I run driver sweeper or a similar program after I uninstall the 10.1 drivers? And if I need to, do I do it in safe mode (Win 7 64) ?? Also I found X code drivers on the Sapphire site? Could somebody tell me what they are?
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/downloads/download_index_01.aspx?psn=0006
Thanks for the help
Jim

 

[zerocool84]

Newbie question! Should I run driver sweeper or a similar program after I uninstall the 10.1 drivers? And if I need to, do I do it in safe mode (Win 7 64) ?? Also I found X code drivers on the Sapphire site? Could somebody tell me what they are?
http://www.sapphiretech.com/presentation/downloads/download_index_01.aspx?psn=0006
Thanks for the help
Jim

Yes uninstall them, go into safe mode, run driver sweeper, then install them in regular mode.

 

[Phil1977]

What? Driver Sweeper for upgrading your ATI driver? Are serious?

Just uninstall in the control panel. Do a reboot. Install the new driver. Done...

Total waste of time.

 

[gmjimmy]

Guys
Thanks for the suggestions but since you have totally different points of view I'm not comfortable doing either. I don't want to start a war between you two and there's more than one way to skin a cat but I've been reading quite a bit about ATI drivers and I'm a bit squeamish about the whole process.


Phil1977
Where in control panel do you mean ( Device manager/driver/uninstall or somewhere else?)
Thanks

 

[dguy6789]

You guys talk as if you've never updated ATI drivers before I swear. You download the exe, you double click it, you click next a few times, you reboot. That's it. There is no uninstall. You only uninstall if you're changing video cards. Updating drivers is done exactly like I just said. It never has, and never will cause issues if you're not changing your graphics card.

 

[zerocool84]

What? Driver Sweeper for upgrading your ATI driver? Are serious?

Just uninstall in the control panel. Do a reboot. Install the new driver. Done...

Total waste of time.

You guys talk as if you've never updated ATI drivers before I swear. You download the exe, you double click it, you click next a few times, you reboot. That's it. There is no uninstall. You only uninstall if you're changing video cards. Updating drivers is done exactly like I just said. It never has, and never will cause issues if you're not changing your graphics card.

You guys over-dramatic a little? It's not like I'm telling him to take hours of his time. It takes 5min to do what I did and doesn't hurt anything either. I'd rather just be safe than sorry and doesn't hurt anything. I always clean out the registry out of all old drivers after I uninstall them. Doesn't take more than a minute to do that.

 

[AdamK47]

Can a user now create their own Crossfire profile? This would be huge for me if true. I may finally step away from nVidia for multi card gaming.

 

[gmjimmy]

I just updated the driver with instructions on ATI's site by just clicking on the new exe file. Everything seems to work fine except now my Windows Experience Index dropped from 7.4 to 6.0??? Just with a driver change?? What happened here?
Jim

 

[zerocool84]

I just updated the driver with instructions on ATI's site by just clicking on the new exe file. Everything seems to work fine except now my Windows Experience Index dropped from 7.4 to 6.0??? Just with a driver change?? What happened here?
Jim

I've had that happen to me. I ran it again and it went back up.

 

[blanketyblank]

You guys talk as if you've never updated ATI drivers before I swear. You download the exe, you double click it, you click next a few times, you reboot. That's it. There is no uninstall. You only uninstall if you're changing video cards. Updating drivers is done exactly like I just said. It never has, and never will cause issues if you're not changing your graphics card.

This works most of the time, but not all of the time. My 4850 had a strange problem where certain things like grass in the witcher was transparent with antialiasing enabled. After uninstalling, sweeping, and reinstalling the problem was gone. Just installing the new drivers did not work.
It's not much extra work to do this, but it is not always necesary.

 

[gmjimmy]

This driver fixed all my issues and I ran the test again and it went back to 7.4.

Thanks for the help.
Jim

 

[Chaotic42]

I wonder if Saints Row 2 was ever fixed.

 

[johnpombrio]

Remember to check the box for reduce DVI frequency for high res monitors! ( this is directly from an AMD moderator on their site). Otherwise, my card gets more unstable over time...

ATI Catalyst Control Center-Desktop and Displays- right click on little down arrow in the upper right on bottom left display (rotten location!) and select configure- Digital Panel (DVI) (5) screen-Attributes tab-DVI settings-check the "Reduce DVI frequency on high resolution displays". Press the "Apply" button on the bottom. Now check to see if card is working correctly (for me, got rid of the green pixels).

 

[Imp]

Well, 10.2 did shit for the 2D crashing. It just happened again. Yay, I went 4 days without one, 2 of them I barely used the system, 1 I didn't have time.

 

[TheSlamma]

Damn my mouse cursor still goes to hell in CoH and won't go back to normal till I reboot (XFX 5850)