Weird issue with Catalyst 6.3 drivers

[ChiPCGuy]

I noticed when I loaded the ATI Catalyst 6.3 drivers that the desktop was "swimming" on some colors--usually gray. Hard to describe, but to suffice to say it was like watching the pixels in a river going from right to left, and was most discernable on lighter colors, but oddly especially light gray.

I switched over to analog on my NEC 1970GX and the issue disappeared. I tried a different DVI cable, and that did not solve it thinking it was a cable issue. I tried the secondary DVI port and still this did not solve the issue.

Finally, I back-revved to Catalyst 6.2 and with DVI the issue has disappeared, so the problem lies in the newer driver.

I will report this to ATI, but thought I should describe it here and see if anyone is having a similar problem. I am using a X1900XTX (Sapphire).

 

[ChiPCGuy]

Bump. No ideas? No one else has seen this? I reported the issue to ATI.

 

[Ronin]

Didn't see the same issue with the 6.3's on mine.

I'm running Dev drivers now, and I'm not seeing issues with these, either.

 

[ChiPCGuy]

There is one possibility I potentially overlooked. I uninstalled the nVidia Forceware driver and then ran Registry Mechanic to clean up and then installed Catalyst 6.3 after the reboot and install of the X1900XTX. The issue then occurred. After running the Catalyst uninstall program, and then installing 6.2, the problem disappeared while using DVI. Using analog with 6.3 worked fine. I am at a loss, but I suppose there might have been something nVidia related left as I did not run Driver Cleaner. I'm stumped, but happy that 6.2 works fine as there is not *that* much difference between 6.2 and 6.3.

 

[Vesper8]

i know this may not make any sense since technically LCDs don't have a refresh rate. But after I installed the latest forceware drivers I was having the same problem.. the center area of the screen was very blurry. I went into display settings and somehow the refresh rate was set to 72mhz on my LCD.. I know that makes no sense... but anyway.. I put it to 75mhz (more not making sense) and sure enough my LCD went black and tested the new setting and I kept it.. and that solved my problem

no idea how the refresh rate can be more than 60mhz..but it's not blurry anymore

 

[Peter]

Hz, not MHz.