10.8b Hotfix Drivers

No, the issue was every game I own except a few like Battlefield Bad Company.

Now they all go to 3D clocks, but I now have that stupid glitch.

 

all of us x2 have that glitch. i think it this crappy going green to save energy crap that it goes to 500 in 2d and norm for 3d. but anywho my work around works great for me. i keep it full powered all the time.

 

Not to cause a fueding war guys but just force the clocks.

I force max clocks when I game and just dont bother with the driver war anymore. Really isnt that hard

I dont bother overclocking the X2s, they are damn near at there limits. 50mhz more worth the artifacts? Not to me.

 

NOW IM HAPPY !!! My 4870x2 is back to running the way it should be on new drivers Thx (sorry need to fix pic)

http://drop.io/i875k_UD6c/asset/i875k-on-ud6-bmp#

 

howd you fix them?

 

This scared me...how is possible that all of us have problems and then to one person all went fine?

 

I didn't even bother trying these. I'll just stick with TwL's until I upgrade the card.

 

Gonna try these, what if..

 

I found this link in which Catalystmaker was provided information regarding some games not working correctly with the 2nd gpu.
http://www.kn00tcn.net/site/ati-catalyst-10-8b-hotfix/

This is the tweet:
http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker/status/24135194095
So they are fixing it but no ETA is provided.

 

It pisses me off so much that they don't know about these issues themselves, get with the program fellas. Makes me wonder what the QA process is over there. :3eyes:

 

ok guys so i ditched my 275 for 2 vapor x 5770 and i had some of the issues some users here have been complainning, i hope my exp with tweaking helps.

first if you happen to have windows 7 i put in power high performance mode so my proc doesnt under clocks using the eist and c-states and stay in 2.66mhz all the time (or your default proc values)

in the bios settings of my motherboard i disabled the eist and c-states too, for amd users i guess cool and quiet its to be disable.

this seemed to solve the dual gpu utilization (or dual load) problems since all procs are at full speed all the time, remember that crossfire and dual gpus like 4890 need lots of bandwith.

about the clocks speed not returning to to stock speeds after a 3d app has been used, i cant fully solve the problem, but i tested with the FURMARK 1.8 application that has multi gpu support and its seems wen i open the program and close it, it would (when open) run the clocks at 3d speeds, and then wen closed it would set all gpus to the 2d mode clocks. its a work arround ive found anoying, yes, but does the trick until ati can realise a fix.

another thing to be mention is that the catalist AI in the CCC should be @ ADVANCE MODE for dual gpus being this a crossfire setup or a 4890 type of board.

btw i have no oc on my i7 just to try these workarrounds. and i can duplicate the errors without any problems, so i guess its really a bug in the driver. and i dont mean to bash any company, but remember dual gpu settups and 5xxx video cards a real high tech so give it some time to mature, best things in life comes with time.

 

Good info, thanks...
Also, it appears that the hotfix was updated to include the Hawx 2 AF (through CCC) fix for 3000, 4000 and 5000 series cards.

 

2D/3D clocks switches as they should in Dx9 games.
Dx10 games that I tested (crysis, bc2) had problems:
Both GPU cores stayed at 2D clocks (thats even worse before this fix)
Using CCC's profiles I managed to run the Dx10 games with 3D clocks but when closing the game and switching back to 2D clocks, 1 GPU had stuck at 900Mhz mem.

(Removed the old drivers (10.5a) with RevoUninstaller and cleaned registry + leftover files before installing 10.8b.)

Using ATT I managed to get the 2D/3D clocks work properly in Dx10 games.

 

how about ati do there job and not brake things when new drivers release for the past 10 years

 

Here is what I have found in testing so far.

The mem stays in 3d mode for both GPU's upon game exit.

When in 3d mode the game's I have tested now fully utilize the 2nd GPU. Since that's more important in the long run I am happy they fixed that.

I have run the Company of Heroes performance test on max direct x 10 and got an average of 58.2 FPS.

Bc2: Performance is on par for me with 10.5a all settings max.

I have run a few Direct X 9 games like Warband and Risen and had no problems performance wise. Both GPU's working fine.

Resolution 1920x1080, Vista64

So overall I can't say its that bad- When they fix the Mem not resetting into power save mode upon game exit everything should be fine again