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ATI Catalyst 8.8 released

The 8.7 drivers on a 4870x2 were horrible. Such as running Lost Planet on 1680x1050 wouldn't give me a full image screen kinda annoyed me. Installing the 8.8 betas fixed it, though I haven't tried out the official 8.8 drivers yet, my 4870x2 is kinda screwed up at the moment.
 
John Vuong said:
The 8.7 drivers on a 4870x2 were horrible. Such as running Lost Planet on 1680x1050 wouldn't give me a full image screen kinda annoyed me. Installing the 8.8 betas fixed it, though I haven't tried out the official 8.8 drivers yet, my 4870x2 is kinda screwed up at the moment.
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bummer to hear, what exactly is "screwed up" w/ it?
 
dmonkey said:
Yeah, I know perfectly well what you mean, but the freedom hasn't been taken away, it was never there in the first place, which may be worse, but I'm just letting you know that the choice wasn't there to begin with.
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What vidcard do you have? The option was really there, under the Adaptive Anti Aliasing slider option, there was a small box with a 2 option scroll box which said Multi Sampling or Super Sampling, and in the Multi Sampling option, it had the Smooth or Sharp slider, and in the Super Sampling option is the same option as now, Performance or Quality, I was able to chose the option as I tested it on F.E.A.R. and it worked, but the Multi Sampling option in Adaptive Anti Aliasing blurries the Alpha textures around the edge with some kind of filter that looks like a window bug screen, in super sampling that doesn't happen. Then how it wasn't a choice?
 
okay , so my system is crashing w/ this driver

first there were green vertical lines and system was hanged up while playin game.

then i was watching some tv shows and the screen just went black , no signal on both lcds , but the sound from the tv show was working and system was stuck and the fan went to 100%

i am back to 8.7 as of now
 
8.8 doesnt work for me, this is the first catalyst drive that i have problem with.

have 4850, here is what i did: uninstall 8.7, ran driver cleaner, reboot, install 8.8, reboot upon installation completed, then windows crushed right before booting into desktop.

i tried uninstall and reinstall the new driver and still having same crush problem. not sure what's wrong with my system. now went back to 8.7 and everything works fine again. btw, i have my video bios modded to run @ 750/1100, could this cause the crush? does anyone know?
 
bfellow said:
ALSO, Does anyone know if this resolves the Powerplay bug? I would like my card not to idle at a higher speed of 500mhz.
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Angus66 said:
I had heard that it was supposed to have working PowerPlay, but my card still idles @ 500mhz just like it did before... :(
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I've seen posts of this working:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3234718&postcount=6

So now you just have to figure out what's different. I have a feeling a lot of issues with 8.8 are due to video bios modding.
 
You guys know that you dont need to go through the hassle of running driver cleaner/sweeper if all your doing is just upgrading the drivers. You only use these sweeping programs if your installing a NEW card.
 
John Vuong said:
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1337145

Stupid card would lose signal to the monitor while gaming and even when I'm not gaming as well.
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reading now, that's really wierd, my initial thought was exactly what many of the other posters have suggested...the psu

especially reading that someone w/ the same psu had similar issues, but he was running 2 4870x2's...gonna read further into your thread and I hope to be able to help
 
I'll give 8.8 a try tonight. i was really hoping ATI would finally release a manual setting for the fan speed so i wouldnt have to use the text-edit walkaround. oh well, maybe next month.
 
Greg86 said:
I'll give 8.8 a try tonight. i was really hoping ATI would finally release a manual setting for the fan speed so i wouldnt have to use the text-edit walkaround. oh well, maybe next month.
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I thought you could do that w/ ATI tray tools?
 
WhiteZero said:
Anyone else having trouble getting CCC to load in XP32?
I watch the app start in Taskmanager than kill itself..
:(
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I'm not having any trouble with my HD 3850 (512MB version) in XP32. Previously I had the manufacturer's recent drivers loaded (ASUS) and was about to try 8.7 when these dropped yesterday.

Did you try the little uninstall utility that unpacks when you extract the drivers? It's in whichever directory you extracted the drivers to and should be named "AtiCimUn.exe" or something similar.

This may not fix your problem, but it should at least remove one possibility.
 
Hoo boy.

Built a new P45/C2D rig, and decided to go for the gusto and get two 4850s instead of just one.

Even got a copy of Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

Turns out neither MSI nor ASUS decided it'd be a good idea to ship the crossfire cables with the products. Sooo, build now, order cables, install cables later. I did just that, and everything went smoothly. Upgraded to the new 8.8 drivers without a hitch. Both cards seemed to be fine, no problems running games, etc.

Today, the crossfire cables game, so I cracked that sucker open and installed them. (2 cables, one for each connector, correct?)

Boot up, and everything seems ok, until I get to the vista login screen, and the displays freak out. It ends up showing only 800 x 600.

I did the uninstall/reinstall shuffle for about two hours, then gave up, wiped all the drivers and installed the 8.7s... and now everything works.

Is this a common thing for ATI drivers? I've only ever used nvidia in the past.
 
Kurr said:
Hoo boy.

Built a new P45/C2D rig, and decided to go for the gusto and get two 4850s instead of just one.

Even got a copy of Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

Turns out neither MSI nor ASUS decided it'd be a good idea to ship the crossfire cables with the products. Sooo, build now, order cables, install cables later. I did just that, and everything went smoothly. Upgraded to the new 8.8 drivers without a hitch. Both cards seemed to be fine, no problems running games, etc.

Today, the crossfire cables game, so I cracked that sucker open and installed them. (2 cables, one for each connector, correct?)

Boot up, and everything seems ok, until I get to the vista login screen, and the displays freak out. It ends up showing only 800 x 600.

I did the uninstall/reinstall shuffle for about two hours, then gave up, wiped all the drivers and installed the 8.7s... and now everything works.

Is this a common thing for ATI drivers? I've only ever used nvidia in the past.
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Not sure, BUT

I don't want to a "sour grape," but ATi's driver support is the sole reason why I didn't buy an ATi card for the longest time...

I'll stick w/ the Betas for now, since they are working fine for me and it seems that there are a lot more people having issues w/ the official released 8.8's vs the beta's
 
2 4850's only require 1 crossfire cable. You shouldn't be attaching two cables to two cards.
 
I've lost 1 or 2 FPS across the board on my system. But these drivers appear to be about fixing game bugs, not about improving performance. Performance improvements will probably come with 8.9 or 8.10.

Is it me or the Vista driver for 32 Bit is not working? When I opened the CCC installer, it would not detect my card, and the driver folder is empty, while the 8.7 version have files on it and would detect my card fine.
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I downloaded the "complete" driver last night but didn't install it until today. When I tried, I had the same problem - it would only install the CCC, not any drivers. I re-downloaded the driver and this one is a different file size, has a different file name and installs the complete driver and CCC. I guess ATI had the link pointing to the wrong file for a while.

What vidcard do you have? The option was really there, under the Adaptive Anti Aliasing slider option, there was a small box with a 2 option scroll box which said Multi Sampling or Super Sampling, and in the Multi Sampling option, it had the Smooth or Sharp slider, and in the Super Sampling option is the same option as now, Performance or Quality,
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Yes, that's how it used to look. But the box wasn't used to select whether you wanted to use super sampling or multisampling. It was used to decide which slider to show in the control panel, the slider for multi-sampling or the one for super sampling. The sliders have been unified into one now, but the functionality is exactly the same - the driver automatically chooses between supersampling or multisampling depending on the scene, which is exactly how it worked in Cat <8.7. Because alot of users wrongly assumed that the 2-option box actually did anything on its own (despite the "selection" not being memorized when you close the CCC), the driver team made this move to simplify the user interface and make it more clear what the options do.

okay , so my system is crashing w/ this driver

first there were green vertical lines and system was hanged up while playin game.
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I think I've found your problem :p
BFG GeForce 9800GTXOC
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Seriously though - everyone who gets pink/green/blue lines, BSODS, hangups, freezes etc. really need to learn how to install and most importantly uninstall drivers. It's not a fault with the driver itself, or it would have been caught during beta-testing. Game-specific issues and small bugs might slip through, but systems completely locking up or showing severe display corruption - those things get caught during beta testing or else everyone would experience those problems.

ALSO, Does anyone know if this resolves the Powerplay bug? I would like my card not to idle at a higher speed of 500mhz.
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There's no powerplay bug. The cards are working as intended. That seems to be the official word from ATI.
 
BigCactus said:
Really? You running vista 64. I find the official 8.8s to be extremely buggy with my system and OS. Had to go back to 8.8 beta drivers, and all is gravy.
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havent had a problem

uninstalled

rebooted

reinstalled

cant tell any diff from 8.8 beta to this aside from being a difference driver number
 
I almost installed these last night, but I know ATI, so I thought I'd let you guys be the guinea pigs first. Glad I did, sounds like the 8.8's aren't to great, I'm sticking with my 8.7's for now. I've never liked ATI's drivers, all the way back to my first radeon 8500 I've had problems with them. Only reason I even bought ATI cards this go round was because I couldn't run SLI on an Intel chipset. :(
 
I had some strange issues with 8.8 on my 4870x2, artifacts in Vantage, and lost about 3000 points on GPU performance. Uninstalled 8.8 and reinstalled what came on my card's CD and everything is back to normal.
 
8.8 beta gave me corruption in vantage

uninstalled, rebooted reinstalled the SAME 8.8 beta.. rebooted, worked fine.
 
Its funny, I've tried out the 8.8 drivers and I'm getting a smaller full screen on Lost Planet at 1680x1050 but the 8.8 betas I did not encounter this problem. And I noticed video quality is slightly darker, I had a much brighter video quality with my 8800.

The ATI driver team needs to put more work, but I'm satisfied with my 4870x2.
 
B2BigAl said:
I almost installed these last night, but I know ATI, so I thought I'd let you guys be the guinea pigs first. Glad I did, sounds like the 8.8's aren't to great, I'm sticking with my 8.7's for now. I've never liked ATI's drivers, all the way back to my first radeon 8500 I've had problems with them. Only reason I even bought ATI cards this go round was because I couldn't run SLI on an Intel chipset. :(
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They worked fine for me on my 4850 CF setup. Just because the only people who post here are having problems doesn't mean that they're in the majority.
 
I just received a new 4870x2 in the mail, first ati card in a years.. I removed my nvidia drivers, rebooted in safe mode, used driver sweeper, shutdown, put in 4870x2, booted to windows.. installed 8.8's and during the install the screen just went black.. I let it sit for 15 minutes or so before just turning off the computer, powered it back up and drivers are installed and appear to be working fine.
 
doox00 said:
I just received a new 4870x2 in the mail, first ati card in a years.. I removed my nvidia drivers, rebooted in safe mode, used driver sweeper, shutdown, put in 4870x2, booted to windows.. installed 8.8's and during the install the screen just went black.. I let it sit for 15 minutes or so before just turning off the computer, powered it back up and drivers are installed and appear to be working fine.
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*GASP* Weird.

I am going to try out the 8.8s tonight. Is there a performance gain from 8.7 like there was from 8.6 to 8.7?
 
ZMTToxics said:
*GASP* Weird.

I am going to try out the 8.8s tonight. Is there a performance gain from 8.7 like there was from 8.6 to 8.7?
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On my x2 I saw a performance decrease, it could be related specifically to the x2s though.
 
Nope 3Dmark Vantage its a benchmark. And when you run it is give you score for your GPU and your CPU...
 
If its like 13K its something like mine.... But someone said that ist supose to be 15K and if its 13K one of the gpus doesnt clock to 750MHz?
 
I saw a performance increase - just as stable. Thumps up here. (Uninstall, reboot, install, reboot, done.)
 
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