AMD Catalyst 10.3 released, big changes afoot

Thrax · Mar 2010

Ivan · Mar 2010

Snarkasm · Mar 2010

Damnit. I couldn't care less about 3% improvements in $RANDOM_GAME. I would, however, like a driver that doesn't cause sporadic gray screens and throws my color calibration out the window.

Pretty please?

Sledgehammer70 · Mar 2010

I thought they fixed the gray screen of graphic death?

Snarkasm · Mar 2010

Not in 10.2, at least - I see it when I game. Not always, but enough to kill me if I'm in TF2. It recovers after a minute or two, but it's pretty annoying.

MAGIC · Mar 2010

I just put win7 64 bit on a family members laptop with 10.2 and the graphics driver continuously crashes and recovers. I really hope this fixes that issue.

Sledgehammer70 · Mar 2010

I got it all the time with my 5970 so I said peace to the card and sold it. It maybe DX11 but whats the point if it crashes all the time?

UPSLynx · Mar 2010

I get the crash error while playing Borderlands, to the point where it locks up the game for a little while. Very annoying.

I wonder if ATI is going to setting in with their own 3D solution any time soon. This driver adds support for 3rd party options, but I'd think ATI would want to get their own deal going before too long. NVIDIA has 3D Vision, which is really the only major kit for 3D on PC right now.

Tushon · Mar 2010

Ugh, I'm not happy hearing these crash reports. My mobo should be coming back from RMA soon, and I exchanged my GTX 285 for a single 5770 (was planning on buying a second one in the next month) .... but this is discouraging. Hopefully, I won't encounter the problems you rich kids with your new-fangled giant cards get into.

Cliff_Forster · Mar 2010

Do you guys know how to properly upgrade a graphics driver?

My 5870 plays everything like butter and never crashes, ever. I have been using it for months, I have yet to see a VPU recovery screen. I'm running 10.1 right now.

Gargoyle · Mar 2010

I'm not having any problems with 10.1 on my 5770, but I only play 2 games and fold. I might give 10.3 a try since there seem to be some performance increases.

Thrax · Mar 2010

Cliff_Forster said:
Do you guys know how to properly upgrade a graphics driver?

My 5870 plays everything like butter and never crashes, ever. I have been using it for months, I have yet to see a VPU recovery screen. I'm running 10.1 right now.

Double click exe, wait, reboot. If it's anything more complicated than that, the manufacturer has failed.

Jengo · Mar 2010

I love how they are paying attention to the people with the 4800 series cards, this really makes me happy!

Snarkasm · Mar 2010

I love how condescending Cliff is.

You know how capable we all are, sir. Let's not get snippy - AMD's drivers have plain sucked out loud for many people lately.

Cliff_Forster · Mar 2010

Snarkasm said:
I love how condescending Cliff is.

You know how capable we all are, sir. Let's not get snippy - AMD's drivers have plain sucked out loud for many people lately.

Oh, its was just a light troll, roll with it :wink:

Honestly, for me, I'm not making this up, I have not had a single issue. Now, I'm not as critical about color accuracy as you are, so I can understand that issue, but constant VPU crashes? I have been using a 5870 for months not a single VPU recovery error, I install Radeon graphics in every system I build for others and they have not had problems that I am aware of.

Now, when I update drivers I do it the old fashioned way cleaning the old one out, but I'm just silly like that.

Snarkasm · Mar 2010

I've had no problems with an xbox 360, but you don't consider that normal, either. ;)

I don't know if it's constant VPU crashes - one of my screens goes gray, the other goes a lovely shade of peach or salmon, everything freezes and sound loops for a couple of minutes - but then everything goes back to normal and I'm good to go. To me, it seems like a possible overheating issue, but case and GPU temps report fine, so... :shrug:.

When I had driver recoveries using a GTX2whateverthehellIwasrunning, Windows would always tell me nicely that my graphics driver had failed and come back - no such notifications here, which is why I'm not certain it's a VPU crash and recovery.

Cliff_Forster · Mar 2010

Snarkasm said:
I've had no problems with an xbox 360, but you don't consider that normal, either. ;)

Well played :respect:

GooD · Mar 2010

Thrax said:
Double click exe, wait, reboot. If it's anything more complicated than that, the manufacturer has failed.

Soooooo true !

Cyclonite · Mar 2010

Nothing for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. :( My load times are atrocious. I can't get into games until people have already capped a point. It's definitely not memory, CPU, or hard drive. Many sites have locked it down to how ATI handles shaders. /shrug. Maybe it will make a difference, but they didn't list it.

Thrax · Mar 2010

Cyclonite said:
Nothing for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. :( My load times are atrocious. I can't get into games until people have already capped a point. It's definitely not memory, CPU, or hard drive. Many sites have locked it down to how ATI handles shaders. /shrug. Maybe it will make a difference, but they didn't list it.

ATI driver lead Terry Makedon acknowledged today on Twitter that it's an outstanding issue and that the company is working on resolving it.

Sledgehammer70 · Mar 2010

Overall I have tested a few ATI cards. When they work they are awesome cards, but when they don't like I ran into.. its beyond annoying. Even with Nvidia's snafu with 196.75 their drivers I can still play my games and not have random driver crashes & gray screens.

Thrax · Mar 2010

Just a dead video card, which I'm sure is much better. ;)

Buldwren · Mar 2010

I've been getting 'grey screens of death' as other Windows 7 5000 series users call them - often. I hope the 10.3 drivers address the issue, or a hotfix is released soon.

Ian · Mar 2010

Hmm I might have lucked out on my new build cause I haven't had a single problem with my HD5850...along with my 4 year old xbox360 =D

Sledgehammer70 · Mar 2010

Cyclonite said:
Nothing for Battlefield: Bad Company 2. :( My load times are atrocious. I can't get into games until people have already capped a point. It's definitely not memory, CPU, or hard drive. Many sites have locked it down to how ATI handles shaders. /shrug. Maybe it will make a difference, but they didn't list it.

ATI & Nvidia have had problems with the CPU & GPU accessing the same data files. Nvidia found away around this and it allows their product to stream the files on GPU & CPU at the same time. ATI has not resolved this issue. It is a work around that they will hot fix. This issue is occurring not only in BFBC2.

Thrax said:
Just a dead video card, which I'm sure is much better. ;)

It only affected a few cards from a small group of cards. A bunch of people blew it up trying to get new cards from Nvidia... pretty sad what people will do in a tight economy. But even if I did get a dead card all my products I buy retain a lifetime warranty.

mirage · Mar 2010

Cliff_Forster said:
Well played :respect:

Exemplary sportsmanship :rockon:

Jengo · Mar 2010

how come all the links take to you to the mobility drivers? Even the "Desktop" ones?

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