Catalyst 10.10 Released

Well back to 10.8.

Tried 10.10 and 10.10c, in WoW DX11 Crossfire 5870's, All settings at Ultra, except Shadows causes flickering and rolling of shadows. Good and Ultra shadows display properly but High is all corrupted.

Tried Standard and Advanced AI and still the same issue.
 
Deviationer said:
Well back to 10.8.

Tried 10.10 and 10.10c, in WoW DX11 Crossfire 5870's, All settings at Ultra, except Shadows causes flickering and rolling of shadows. Good and Ultra shadows display properly but High is all corrupted.

Tried Standard and Advanced AI and still the same issue.
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Besides those issues were your FPS better with 10.10?
 
Took the plunge to 10.10 after 3 months of trouble-free gaming on Catalyst 10.4. Installed directly from Steam (mistake?) and all seemed fine initially. Fired up my shiny new Fifa 11 game and played for about an hour before my entire PC locked up mid-game. All I could do was hard power down but on reboot got the dreaded BSOD which referenced atikmdag.sys. Very long story short, after several abortive attempts at system repairs and Windows restores, finally found a restore point that appeared to work and was able to boot into Windows. Back to 10.4 and i'm not budging again through sheer fear!! Perhaps my mistake was in installing directly from Steam and not doing a full uninstall and driver sweeper deal...not sure but I am sure i'm in no hurry to update my driver again anytime soon.
 
Once again, another crappy release for the 5970. I was running 10.5 because it was crashing bfbc2 less than the other ones, but always within an hour of gameplay I'd get a CTD, and I've tried everything that's been suggested to fix it.

10.10
10.10c

both only utilize one GPU whilst playing BFBC2 on Eyefinity. I'm not going to waste my time testing a whole bunch of other configurations because no others matter. You would think that ATI might get it right on the 6th try (every release has been plagued since 10.4/10.5)
 
Anyone try the 10.10c hotfix with Metro 2033? I've seen a massive gain in performance on my 5970. Shame these weren't introduced earlier, as I've beaten the game many months ago. >< Oh well, still nice, though, to see very good frame rates in Metro now.
 
DMFD-Minister said:
Once again, another crappy release for the 5970. I was running 10.5 because it was crashing bfbc2 less than the other ones, but always within an hour of gameplay I'd get a CTD, and I've tried everything that's been suggested to fix it.

10.10
10.10c

both only utilize one GPU whilst playing BFBC2 on Eyefinity. I'm not going to waste my time testing a whole bunch of other configurations because no others matter. You would think that ATI might get it right on the 6th try (every release has been plagued since 10.4/10.5)
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wonder if the new 68XX range have the same issues with CF and Eyefinity, anyone tested it ?
 
2x Radeon 6870's in Crossfire... Tried 10.10 and 10.10c (after doing a full 10.10 uninstall and driver cleaner) and both of the versions experience CTD's in BC2 after about an hour. Game menus (like where you pick your class) are moving at 2-3fps, but the game runs in the hundreds of fps. I vsync to get things to not tear, but no matter game settings its crashing to desktop.

Did a bunch of reading on various forums (including ea's own) and it may be a game issue, though I had zero issues a week ago when running a single GTX 280. BC2 seems to be the onlything consistently giving me issues, though i did have a couple small dumb apps crash to desktop. *shrugs* we'll see with 10.11.
 
KaptainKhaos said:
wonder if the new 68XX range have the same issues with CF and Eyefinity, anyone tested it ?
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Absolutely. I can't even start a match in BFBC2 without it crashing before the map loads with the 10.10 drivers and 6870. It's still crashes to desktop with the 10.10a/b/c drivers during a match.
I've had almost every 5000 series card and now the 6870, almost every driver edition has some kind of issue with BFBC2. The text flickers in NBA 2K11.
When I had the GTX 480, never had to reinstall or roll back a driver because of one game. Sad. The 6870 is great but held back by a terrible driver team.

10.10 performs better but is unusable with BFBC2 from my experience.
 
orthetic said:
2x Radeon 6870's in Crossfire... Tried 10.10 and 10.10c (after doing a full 10.10 uninstall and driver cleaner) and both of the versions experience CTD's in BC2 after about an hour. Game menus (like where you pick your class) are moving at 2-3fps, but the game runs in the hundreds of fps. I vsync to get things to not tear, but no matter game settings its crashing to desktop.

Did a bunch of reading on various forums (including ea's own) and it may be a game issue, though I had zero issues a week ago when running a single GTX 280. BC2 seems to be the onlything consistently giving me issues, though i did have a couple small dumb apps crash to desktop. *shrugs* we'll see with 10.11.
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Did you do a fresh install for the GPU update, or did you just remove the nvidia drivers?
 
I don't have any issues in bfbc2 with my 5850s running 10.10a and the latest app profile
 
TheBlueChanell said:
Did you do a fresh install for the GPU update, or did you just remove the nvidia drivers?
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Remove/Uninstall everything Nvidia related, shutdown pc.. take out the GTX 280.. next day... ATI cards arrive.. pop in 1 gpu.. get it up and running with whql'd 10.10. success.. shutdown.. install second card. boot up and get it up and running in crossfire with whql'd 10.10.. start testing and benchmarking process.. while testing in 10.10 i see that 10.10c has been posted.. grab 10.10c.. completely uninstall/remove 10.10 and reboot safe mode.. driver clean the remnants of 10.10.. reboot normal mode, install 10.10c.. continue testing. that brings us to current.

not necessarily looking for troubleshooting, but i did want to fully answer your question.
 
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got 2 machines one with a single 5870 and one with CF, the single one hardly ever crashes using BFBC2 while the CF one will crash at least once or twice per gaming session. So mixture of drivers and game ? dunno MOH had zero crashed on either platform.
 
sometimes during single player play with my cfx setup MoH crashes but not in the MP. Dunno about this. Ati drivers need to quit being so flakey.
 
These drivers STILL downclock your video RAM when you play a DXVA accelerated video or Flash video, which causes secondary monitors to flicker momentarily.
I'm also getting DisplayPort Link Failures with these, which was never a problem on older drivers.

Edit: The downclocking issue is worse than I thought. If you leave a DXVA accelerated video or Flash video open, the drivers will not scale up to 3D clocks until the video is closed (Stays stuck at 400MHz Core, 900MHz RAM). This effectively means you can't leave a video paused and play a game at the same time without a MASSIVE performance penalty for running below normal 2D clocks.

Come on ATi, get your shit together already...
 
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i know damn you'd think with such an advantage in the gpu market they'd invest more in software quality
 
Whenever you use very new hardware/software there are always issues. That is why I'm no longer willing to spend money to be a beta tester and wait 6 mo. - 1 yr. before buying anything new. Still rocking my dual 4890's and rarely run into any of the issues you guys have.
 
mesyn191 said:
Whenever you use very new hardware/software there are always issues. That is why I'm no longer willing to spend money to be a beta tester and wait 6 mo. - 1 yr. before buying anything new. Still rocking my dual 4890's and rarely run into any of the issues you guys have.
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"Very new" hardware? Wait 6 months to 1 year?

News flash; the HD 5000 series isn't new anymore, and the cards have been available for just shy of 1 year. We're still dealing with problems that were present on launch-day. Your recommended waiting period doesn't seem to be long enough...

Your card is from the 4000 series, which first started showing up in 2008. That's more like 2 to 3 years old. If it takes ATi between 2 and 3 years to make decent drivers for a series of cards, then my next card is going to be Nvidia.
 
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Does seem like the problems are confined to CFX and/or multi-monitor setups though. I can't recall having a single problem with my 5870 since I bought it a couple of months after the release. Though I've certainly had PC problems in that time, all of those were related to other hardware(HDD was failing, causing all sorts of odd errors and freezing) or software.
 
Raap said:
Does seem like the problems are confined to CFX and/or multi-monitor setups though.
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The downclocking issue is not restricted to multi-monitor.

Open CCC to watch your clockspeeds, then start a DXVA accelerated video or hardware accelerated flash video. Your video RAM will drop below normal 2D clocks. Now, try playing a game. The drivers will not allow the card to scale up to 3D clocks while that video is open (either playing or paused).

Close the video, clockspeed scaling returns to normal.

I'm surprised this bug has gone so long without being fixed. It's even worse for users with more than one monitor, since changing the RAM clock on an HD 5000 series graphics card causes secondary displays to flicker momentarily while the clockspeed is adjusted (which means secondary monitors flicker every time a DXVA accelerated video or flash video is played).

How much more obvious does the problem need to get before it gets fixed?
 
10.10d - now MLAA in DX10 titles. Confirmed working in Bioshock. Unfortunately the Steam overlay is affected by MLAA's bluring effect.
 
Just discovered more DXVA trouble, this time on an HD4200. Playing back DXVA accelerated video in Windows Media Center using these drivers causes the interface to flicker badly. I'm currently attempting to figure out how far I have to roll back the drivers to get rid of this problem (so far, the 10.9's have the same issue).

How much more broken can their drivers get?
 
Honestly, I'm of the same mentality on that issue. I uninstalled the shit-tastic ATI codec and just let my Core i7 decode the video.
 
On a hunch, I rolled all the way back to 10.4a.

This appears to have fixed the video playback issues on the HD4200 in my media center PC. I'm currently playing DXVA accelerated video in Windows Media Center without flickery UI artifacts.
 
I have a 5870, a couple days ago I logged into Steam and I let it update the driver to 10.10. Only thing I've been playing lately is Morrowind with the MGE mod. Found out the game wouldn't load with the 10.10 drivers. I uninstalled and went back to 10.9 and all is working fine again.
 
I'm having issues with dual 5970 and 10.10 drivers, seems to crash pc when enabling crossfireX. I uninstalled them, driver sweep, and reinstalled and had them working for a bit, but seems playing dragon age:eek:rigin corrupts the drivers or something, and im back to having issues with crossfireX. So going to try 10.9 after I'm re-installing windows 7 x64 ultimate.
 
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