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Please help with a driver issue. :(

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RandysWay

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Here is a warning to EVERYBODY: If it aint broke, don't fix it.

I was in the mood this morning to upgrade. I checked out the Catalyst 5.7 drivers and saw that it gave a huge performance increase with 128MB cards. Cool, I thought. I could use it. I downloaded them, uninstalled my old drivers, ran Cab Cleaner + Driver Cleaner (ATI, ATI CCC, and ATI Uninstall Utility.) Installed Catalyst 5.7 and there was texture corruption in Battlefield 2 *EVERYWHERE!* Everything was blinking black, multicolored corruption.. egh. I promptly unstalled Cat 5.7 and reinstalled 5.6. Texture corruption was fixed butthe FPS stuttered badly. I then remembered I had Cat 5.4 installed, not 5.6. So, I uninstalled 5.6 and reinstalled 5.4.

Well, the stuttering in Battlefield 2 is still here. Before, it was silky smooth 40+ FPS. It's now around 30ish FPS, but now when I am flying a jet in, say, Gulf of Oman, I switch to a view behind me it will stutter for a few seconds or simply stop for about two seconds, if I bomb my FPS will drop to about 5 FPS for a good 10 seconds. Same settings, nothing changed.

Please help my fuck up. :( I don't have the time to format right now and I'm leaving on vacation in a few days and I'd really like a good hour or two before I leave.

Thank you.

Edit: XP Pro SP1.
 
Small update, it seems almost like its stuttering when theres particles. E.g., bombs. When I fire an Anti-Tank rocket, the smoke drops it to about 2 FPS until the smoke clears. The explosion of C4..

Damnit! And to just think it was working perfectly fine a few hours ago -_-
 
i dont know what to say. Things like that have never happened to me and i update every month
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
i dont know what to say. Things like that have never happened to me and i update every month
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Yeah, no kidding. I'm so pissed.. looks like I wont get a decent game of BF2 before I take off. It's really at a point of unplayability. I ALWAYS update, and never have problems. This time I decided to use Driver Cleaner to get a clean install.. perhaps it fucked it up? :\
 
i've noticed that i started getting a lot of hard drive swapping. maybe you should look at your hdd fragmentation to verify that if it's paging to the hdd instead of systemram, that it's not having to trash the disk to do it.

just a thought, but it could be wrong :)


(i get stutters because I've only got 1 GB of RAM installed at the moment, since I just upgraded my CPU...i'm using an X850XT PE for video..)

might also make sure you didn't inadvertently enable or disable some setting that's causing framerate drops (AA, AF, etc)


just more thoughts. maybe.
 
FIXED!

I knew the original drivers I had were early 5 series and that the Omega Driver had an "a" rivision. So, I assumed it was 2.6.25a - Catalyst 5.3. After many hours of frustration, I finally remembered something. No, it can't be 5.3. The driver set was right after 5.0 were released - ah - Catalyst 5.1. Omega Driver 2.6.05a. BINGO!

All stuttering problems fixed, silky smooth. So, here's a word to everybody:

If you have stuttering problems with Battlefield 2 and use an ATI Radeon, try the Omega Drivers 2.6.05a (Based on Catalyst 5.1) or the Official ATI Catalyst 5.1 drivers.

Thanks to everybody who tried to help. :)
 
The latest shouldn't give you any problems. Way to go ATi & their driver-support team.......



............weak.
 
whoami said:
The latest shouldn't give you any problems. Way to go ATi & their driver-support team.......



............weak.
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Yeah, no kidding. And we're talking about from 5.1 to 5.7's here.. that's a huge leap to get something to work.
 
Thats one of the things that really made me hate ATIs drivers over the course of the cards i owned (8500, 9700, X800). I never really found ATI drivers to have more bugs overall, but whenever a bug did come up, it would take months to fix, in some cases, i've seen bugs in ATI drivers stay there for 9-12 months before getting fixed, and some not at all.

So even though ATI releases more drivers than nvidia, from what i saw, it probablky takes ATI longer to fix bugs that Nvidia does.
 
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