10.6 Drivers... ouch

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Metallikat

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So, I figured I'd upgrade to the latest 10.6 drivers from my 10.4 ones. Big mistake. Totally fubar'd my PC, giving me a BSOD error on starting Windows, in relation to the atikmdag.sys file. Started in Safe Mode, tried to uninstall the 10.6 drivers, and the installer program gave me a detection error. Tried to install the 10.4 drivers over the 10.6's, detection error. Windows Installer bugged out and wouldn't install/uninstall anything. Finally tried the "Start Windows using setting from last successful startup" option. SUCCESS! Reverted my computer back to 10.4 drivers, and Windows starts and works perfectly again.
 
Yeah, the 10.6 release has been difficult for a lot of people. I've been lucky and haven't had any problems other than raised idle speeds, which was easily worked around. Here's to hoping 10.7 isn't as bad and fixes the idle speed for single monitor users.
 
This latest driver release has convinced me that ATi's driver development team consists of a blind quadriplegic using a typewriter and an albino chimpanzee doing QA.
 
I haven't had a single problem with the 10.6's. No raised idle speeds, no GSOD's or BSOD's. Guess I'm one of the lucky few.

I've always installed new drivers on day 1 over the older ones. No problems.
 
TheGamerZ said:
I haven't had a single problem with the 10.6's. No raised idle speeds, no GSOD's or BSOD's. Guess I'm one of the lucky few.

I've always installed new drivers on day 1 over the older ones. No problems.
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I haven't have a problem with any of the Ati drivers for the last 6-7 months.
 
no probs on my intel/5870 rig

startup bluescreen issue on my amd/48xx crossfire setup
it was fine for a couple days then started doing it.
 
Knock on wood. Had my 5870 for a few weeks now with 10.6 and not a single issue. Had no idea 10.6 was creating problems for users.
 
I was using 10.6s with no issue before I re-did my system due to my OC being a little unstable.
Nuked both drives, fresh install of Win7 64, and NOW upon installing 10.6 I get NO video, just blank monitors. I had to safe mode, uninstall and driversweep, and now I am back on the 10.4s for the time being. (working fine for everthing I have tried). Oh well... 10.7, mabye??? :confused:
 
I never had the supposed "microstutter" people were talking about until I had to dick around with some physx drivers to get metro 2033 working which annoyed me because I don't currently have my nvidia card in my system. Since then in BCBF2 and Source games when Im in eyefinity mode it's weird like I don't get any slowdown per-say it's just like my guy is limping or something when he runs. If I switch it back to 1900x1200 it goes away. so I just driver cleaned and reinstalled. see how it goes.
 
Both 10.5 and 10.6 have gave me either lockups or driver crashes whenever using DXVA/Avivo for video playback, either using MPC-HC or Flash Player for web videos.

Ive had to revert back to software playback (hardware acceleration disabled) until they fix it.
 
i really cant remember the last time i had a ati driver issue on my pc (or an nvidia driver issue either).

i did have an issue with a 4830 on an xp machine that i was working on. ati blue screen at start up. some hardware combos just dont work, no matter what you do. i had to use 10.2's.
 
For video cards, I almost always wait a week, just in case. They both know how to screw up a driver release.
 
Count me as one of the lucky ones. I have had no issues at all with 10.6 on my machine but I won't recommend them to anyone because of all of the problems.
 
TheGamerZ said:
I haven't had a single problem with the 10.6's. No raised idle speeds, no GSOD's or BSOD's. Guess I'm one of the lucky few.

I've always installed new drivers on day 1 over the older ones. No problems.
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My buddy and I are on 10.6 with no issues.
 
10.6 was no good for me and my 2x 4850's. Waiting on 10.7 and think they will be better.
 
yeah 10.6 going fine on 2 systems here, one with X-fire and other a single card. Hate that drivers are sometimes a lottery and trying to find source of the problem is nigh on impossible sometimes.
 
TheGamerZ said:
I haven't had a single problem with the 10.6's. No raised idle speeds, no GSOD's or BSOD's. Guess I'm one of the lucky few.

I've always installed new drivers on day 1 over the older ones. No problems.
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When they raised the idle speed they were helping the multi-monitor people. I was already raising the idle speed to get rid of the artifacts generated from low idle speed.
 
I've learned to leave my video drivers alone if they are working fine. Unless a new release includes major fixes or improvements for specific games I am playing, I leave well enough alone.
 
10.6 hosed my crossfire system. Had to start up in safe mode and remove them. Went back to 10.4 for now as I do not want to deal with them again, holding off for 10.7. They did however load up fine on my HTPC
 
Two fresh installs. One computer a single 5870 and the other computer two crossfired 5870's. Both running fine on 10.6 overclocked (max settings in CCC only). One processor overclocked and the other not.
 
I took a noticeable performance hit in most games with 10.6 and saw a couple of grey screen lockup crashes in the one day I had mine installed. Went back to 10.5. No issues at all.
 
Just installed them for my laptop . running great. I feel bad for people that have driver issues. I do not think i have had an issue ever , from either camp.
 
Had about the same problem as Toytown...

After I installed 10.6, I started having flickering anomaly's on both of my screens. All I did was disable hardware acceleration in Adobe Flash Player and the pc is back to running smooth as butter.

With games, I didn't notice any difference, nor did I have any problems.

If you have dual monitors and a flickering problem...you might uncheck disable hardware acceleration in Adobe and see if it helps...

Best,

Liquid Cool
 
10.6 is the very first driver release since getting my 4850 that doesn't cause GSODs and hard reboots when using more than one monitor while having OverDrive enabled.
 
I needed the idle speed increase on my Mobility HD 4670. Prior to 10.6, the Win7 Aero interface ran worse than on my old GMA X3100 laptop.
 
Intel_Hydralisk said:
10.6 broke crossfire for a lot of games. It wasn't working for me so I'm back on 10.5 for now.
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Yeah, I've seen a lot of people say this. And Crossfire is broken on my 4870 X2 too with the 10.6 drivers. Second GPU would not kick in.

I went back to 10.4 since I'm not very fond of the idle memory speed changes in 10.5 either.
 
Have not changed from using the 10.4 yet.May change up soon.Everything has been so smooooth!!
 
10.6 and endless problems waking up from s3 sleep and often powering it on cold boot.

I can't tell you how many other things I troubleshooted before thinking it was a driver issue.
 
10.6 (along with new Realtek drivers) finally fixed the high quality multi-channel audio bug, though.
You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. hopefully 10.7 will hit really soon.
 
Domingo said:
10.6 (along with new Realtek drivers) finally fixed the high quality multi-channel audio bug, though.
You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. hopefully 10.7 will hit really soon.
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It'll hit Monday. Hopefully some AIB partner leaks it this weekend for us impatient people.
 
Even more hopefully I hope 10.7 doesnt fubar my crossfire config that I just repaired from my apparently failed 10.6 install :(
 
After 12 years of ATI this is one of the worst driver sets ever. I have owned 1 nVidia card over the years (8800 GTX) and likely when I buy my next card I will be able to say that I have owned 2.
 
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