New ATI Driver - BC2 fixes

Dublin_Gunner

Another new driver:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=319691

from some users:

BC2 runs really good with these, seems map loading is really quick now also.

BFBC2 loading times are FIXED with these.

OpenGL 4.0/3.3 in these, OpenCL works aswell(unlike 8.73).

Bad Company 2 load times alot faster here. Nice drivers.

Promising...

There are a number of other improvements too, like Avivo now with denoise and edge detect options etc.

It has a newer 2D & 3D driver compared to even the 10.4b..

the_syco

Link from the above post:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0UTSKFBK

More links with the same file:

http://hotfile.com/dl/37811691/550a191/8.74.7z.html
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/946506/8.74.7z
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B5e8EbgR4qQyMDU0ZTMwYzctYmJkZC00YWRiLWI5MDItNGRkNDMxODJhYWEx&hl=en

Scram

are these worth installing? i just installed the 10.3b drivers didnt see much difference in Bad Company 2

the_syco

Scram wrote: »

are these worth installing? i just installed the 10.3b drivers didnt see much difference in Bad Company 2

They look sweeter, but still got white screens of death, random crashes, etc, so now installing 10.4_preview which I got from another post here.

bobblepuzzle

Scram wrote: »

are these worth installing? i just installed the 10.3b drivers didnt see much difference in Bad Company 2

It fixed the glitch with the water gfx for me

Dublin_Gunner

the_syco wrote: »

They look sweeter, but still got white screens of death, random crashes, etc, so now installing 10.4_preview which I got from another post here.

Yeah I've had the white screen of death once since installing too. But they're giving me great performance, so I'll stick with these until the 4 series fix drivers come out

Wonda-Boy

One lock up but no other issues and its great actually being the 1st person in a round for a change!

jackoire

The work good for me too,fast loading and no more graphical glitches white smoke glitch finaly

Scram

god dam 2nd crash tonite with the 10.3b drivers, first the game just hanged then it crashed to desktop with no warning.

of course what makes it all worse is thatw hen you start it up again you gotta pick all the weapons and gadets you use for each class again:(

Wonda-Boy

We are not using the 10.3b drivers mate, we are wayyyyyy past them. I am using the 10.4's now...try them dude.

Scram

i installed them but it says 10.3 in the info center? is that right?

Dublin_Gunner

Scram wrote: »

i installed them but it says 10.3 in the info center? is that right?

Thats the CCC version, NOT the driver version, which you will see as listed 8.74.xxx

Scram

uninstalling these they cause a lag or small freeze when i pick any class or press the enter game button:(

Hellrazer

Scram wrote: »

uninstalling these they cause a lag or small freeze when i pick any class or press the enter game button:(

Its not the drivers---The freeze is since the latest patch.Add the Bad company to your exceptions in your anti virus software and that should fix it.

Heres a link to the fix.

http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/battlefield-bad-company-2-pc/1056204-spawn-lag-fix-least-me-now.html

Scram

ive reinstlled these, and wow theres a huge difference.

im sitting there expecting a 1 min map load and erm its like 5-12 seconds instead of the usual 30+ secs.

i had the wrong preview drivers.. so heres the one that worked for me on my radeon 4870

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATI-Catalyst-10-4-a-Hotfix.aspx

Wonda-Boy

Quick update....

The Ati 10.6 drivers are out and made my rig go ARSEWAYS.....the forums are going mad with peeps saying the FPS has dropped by 50% with this driver. I am now playing with 10.4 with best results.

Scram

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Quick update....

The Ati 10.6 drivers are out and made my rig go ARSEWAYS.....the forums are going mad with peeps saying the FPS has dropped by 50% with this driver. I am now playing with 10.4 with best results.

hmmm they working better for me..

Wonda-Boy

Glad to hear it, but the performance for me was indeed terrible. Even the refresh rate of the screen could be seen and the colours were bad. I suppose I could take a performance hit (Ati 5970) but the driver is terrible for me.

What card you got? 5 series...

Scram

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Glad to hear it, but the performance for me was indeed terrible. Even the refresh rate of the screen could be seen and the colours were bad. I suppose I could take a performance hit (Ati 5970) but the driver is terrible for me.

What card you got? 5 series...

just a radeon 4870...

Ive had major fps problems with world of warcraft recently and i found out that if you disable "cool and quiet" in the BIOS it gives a very noticable boost. not sure if it would help BC2 though havnt tried it yet.

Dublin_Gunner

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Glad to hear it, but the performance for me was indeed terrible. Even the refresh rate of the screen could be seen and the colours were bad. I suppose I could take a performance hit (Ati 5970) but the driver is terrible for me.

What card you got? 5 series...

Did you install the new profiles?

Scram

Dublin_Gunner wrote: »

Did you install the new profiles?

new profiles? where and how? lol

Dublin_Gunner

Scram wrote: »

new profiles? where and how? lol

Either of these downloads. I got the one from Rage3d (they're both the same file)

10.6 profiles Rage3d download

10.6 App profiles from AMD.com

They're usually on the same page as the driver downloads when a new driver is released

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=win7/windows-7-64bit

Wonda-Boy

Just another way to describe a fuggin HOTFIX.....what happened to a universal driver FFS.

Just forget about all pre 5 series cards for the love of god. And dedicate the driver team to the 5 series platform....SORTED!:eek::eek:

Dublin_Gunner

Wonda-Boy wrote: »

Just another way to describe a fuggin HOTFIX.....what happened to a universal driver FFS.

Just forget about all pre 5 series cards for the love of god. And dedicate the driver team to the 5 series platform....SORTED!:eek::eek:

App profiles are released with every new driver - they've been doing that for years!!!

And if you look at the change log - you'll see only 5 series fixes

Wonda-Boy

You ARE twisting my MELON MAN!!!!

copeyhagen

after reading this thread yesterday i went home and updated my ati drivers for my hd 4800 and jesus christ what a difference in loading time.

before it was taking me about 30 seconds to load each map, now its literally 4or 5 seconds tops.

all i play is panama canal 24/7 servers (cuz its my strike at karkland!) but theres deffo a bit of an increase during gameplay too.

cheers for the heads up

rob

Wonda-Boy

I think it was the last patch that actually fixed the loading times for Pre 5 series cards. By way of a hotfix patch, so yeah it should by default be included in this patch.

The loading times was a joke back then but it was fixed 1st for the 5 series cards IIRC.

Good Times

Wonda-Boy

tried everything under the sun with the 10.6 drivers and no joy terrible performance and looks. Even standing still in BFBC2 the screen goes light and dark slightly.

On 10.5s now coz I had a lock up with the 10.4s, wish I never changed a few weeks back when everything was PERFECT.

If I get it back to that I aint changing again....

yankinlk

10.6 seems to be an improvement for my 5870.

Wonda-Boy

Watch this space, bet YOUR ASS that a hotfix on it way....as per usual.:rolleyes:

brianon

Running 5850 crossfire. 10.6 is actually worse than 10.5. Black screen at times during gameplay and getting the all to frequent crash to desktop every now and again

Blazer

Went back to 10.5 after getting crashes in 10.6.
This is the first time I've ever had to back out an ATI driver..
Still 10.5 has been excellent for me...

Wonda-Boy

Hate to say I told ya so, but the majority of peeps are SLATING the 10.6 driver. I am using 10.4 at the mo but I am going to update laterz to the 10.5 hotfix,

Had to manually create a profile in CCC now to stop my 5970 from freezing in 2d apps (Internet) never happened until I installed and un installed that 10.6!!!

Heres to 10.7 that currently been tweaked.....BTW absolutely no difference with or without profiles installed, Well for me anyway.