How many of you have had problems with bugs in Radeon drivers? Currently, anyways.

[FishTankX]

I think RNG"s statments of bad drivers sorta bothered me. I mean, how many of you all are having driver problems?

Certainley doesn't seem like the recent Radeon drivers are trash, I game with them and they've never seriously acted up on me.

 

[FuManStan]

I just got a Radeon 9700 last week, and i haven't really had any problems. I had the stuttering problems with Freelancer but luckily i got my card just in time for the Catalyst 3.2 drivers to come out, so that was quickly solved. But none the less, i'll vote Minor Problems because of that and a few other things that have popped up that aren't really a big deal.

 

[BFG10K]

I have minor problems but the 9700 Pro is still the best card I've ever owned.

 

[corkyg]

Installed the 9700 Pro two weeks ago when the price dropped by $100. 🙂 Just upgraded to Catalyst 3.2 last week, and have not seen hide nor hair of a problem. This is all in a fairly new system - Asus P4Pe, P4 2.53 GHz, 1024 MB Corsair XMS 3200 DDR, Firewire devices and USB 2 devices, the ATI 9700 Pro 128 MB, Trios II Drive Selector, Epson 2450 scanner, QUE! CDRW external, LS-120, IBM GXP180 80 GB drives (3), and nothing has ever crashed, frozen, or blue screened with XP Pro and 42 applications installed. It is the most stable system I have ever had - and that is a lot of systems since 1982. 🙂

 

[RGN]

I'm glad that you guys are having good luck with the 9700's. My personal past experience with ATi includes a Radeon 64 VIVO, a Radeon AIW, 8500 and a 9000. The early Radeons were 100% awful. System instability, driver would crash windows on installation, etc. I hardly had a trouble free day. ATi support didn't know dick, and kept telling me to re-install windows even though I would and their driver would just fux0r it all up again. The 8500 and 9000 both of which I sold last fall, were ok. Not stellar, but good performers. It was a general system instability that I seem to be able to tie back to drivers that caused me to sell them. In the one system, I installed my old GF3 and general stability increased by a significant amount. The system, with only that change will be up for about a month and a half, verses a week or so.

 

[brucehao]

For some reason, when I upgraded the driver of my 9500pro to catalyst 3.2, counter strike would not run properly. After reinstalling the 3.1, everything was fine again. I did have problems with the fast write and write combining, though, with both driver versions.

 

[RGN]

bump?

 

[Quixfire]

I had a few minor game specfic problems, but overall the drivers seem fine to me.

BTW, the game issues were handled with patches from the game's vendor/developer.

 

[MrMaster]

Had to reinstall XP when I went from an Nvidida card to an ATI AIW 8500.

Otherwise no problems here.

 

[chizow]

Problems have gone from serious to minor lingering issues w/ certain hardware and software. I've been able to squash most of the major problems through software updates and drivers from ATi and the various other hardware vendors. Still a few issues, like the 9700pro's low fault tolerance for high FSB speeds and lingering overlay/WDM annoyances. I'm waiting for 400MHz FSB boards/CPUs to be announced to see if this is a limitation of the hardware itself or if it can be solved with a simple BIOS update. Anyways, much like the 8500, the 9700 should be problem-free about a year after its release. No problems with the games I've tested it with though (FreeLancer, BF1942, MW4:Mercs, JK2, SoF2, WC3, RTCW, UT2K3, NWN, BG2, Hitman2, MC2 and some older games) but I use my PC for much more than just gaming nowadays.

Chiz