Catalyst 5.1 drivers causing my x800xt problems?

Question

How come i have never had any probs with catalyst drivers before and all of a sudden i do with the latest catalyst 5.1 driver?

It makes my pc hang, whenever i restart pc with this driver? PC almost loads up, but just b4 desktop comes up screen goes black?

Had to go back to catalyst 4.12.

It's ok this time, cos there are no real perofmance improvements inthe5.1 driver. BUT i am sure later on in the year new drivers willhavesome and i will want to use them.

Is this just a one off? i hope so

Dell Dimension XPS Gen 3
Pentium 4 3.6ghz
1024MB PC-4200 Dual Channel DDR2 533MHz
Intel i925X motherboard
256mb x800 xt pci - express
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 Dolby Digital 5.1
Windows xp home edition
SP2
Catalyst 4.12 + Direct x 9c

snaider · Answer

I have no issues with the 5.1 drivers but I have noticed that with the Catalyst Control center since 4.11 the desktop will go black for a second on a reboot just before the tray icon appears.

Other than that I have no performance issues with Windows or any games such as Doom 3 and Half Life 2.

snaider · Answer

@lewis_1 wrote:
Well my screen went black and i am pretty sure it woulda stayed that way.

Do u have cat 5.1 CCC?

Yes, I am running the 5.1 with CCC. The one thing I do differently with this PC is uninstall the old drivers via the option in Control Panels. For other PC's that used NVidia cards I would just install one driver over the other without any issues.

So far this PC has had 4.11, 4.12 and now 5.1 all with no issues, but one thing I do with any PC is run FDISK and clean install the OS in instead of what Dell installs, so that could be a reason why I am not having any issues.

lewis_1 · Answer

Well my screen went black and i am pretty sure it woulda stayed that way.

Do u have cat 5.1 CCC?

I have the cat 4.12 CCC driver working fine, so why not cat 5.1 CCC?

Message Edited by lewis_1 on 01-21-2005 10:15 AM

Message Edited by lewis_1 on 01-21-2005 10:23 AM

lewis_1 · Answer

yeah i have already wiped pc clean.

and i always used control panel add/remove programs

this is the 1st time i have ever had probs

Also, have u recently done a microsoft windows update? I have got a reply on a different forum, saying that maybe thats caused the problem?

Message Edited by lewis_1 on 01-21-2005 10:37 AM

Message Edited by lewis_1 on 01-21-2005 12:06 PM

gonnagetXPS · Answer

The Screen goes black during the boot and then comes back because teh CCC is opening CLI.exe, this is what lets the CCC open and run games with your settings, It takes up roughly 2-4mb of ram, so that is why I disable it from startup, just whenever I'm going to play a game or open CCC I have to restart runtime, Games still play without it open I just dont know if the settings you make in CCC are in effect with CLI.exe open.   Note: when CCC is opening up it can take up to 70mb of ram, and when running up to 20mb

lewis_1 · Answer

Yeah well it doesnt ever get past the black screen, it just stays like that 4 ever...

lewis_1 · Answer

I found out what the problem was... It was my flipping ati remote wonder controller... (remote control, for dvd's and stuff) I just re-installed it and everything is peachy

sollazzo · Answer

I know some of the latest drivers from ATi are causeing a lot of troubles with diff programs. Last drivers I used was 4.10 for my old PRO 9800 ( was only a few weeks old) and it caused Call of Duty to crash. ATI drivers do some strange things at times. If you hit the windows key while playing COD you will get a black screen, that is with all there drivers:(

Have to say this when it worked it was a good card, I wanted to see if it was better than the FX card I had. I went back to the FX card, never any drivers issues with it. Anyone want a deal on a PRO 9800? lol

Message Edited by sollazzo on 01-22-2005 09:48 AM

Message Edited by sollazzo on 01-22-2005 09:50 AM

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