Widescreen Gaming Forum

Good.

Every driver release comes with release notes. But the differences I've experienced since 10.4 is better profile loading, better framerates for some games i play, and added options in CCC. Except for 10.8, every update since 9.10 has given me positive improvements.

Now that you know how to uninstall those drivers properly, there should be no risk in trying 10.9. And since your card is newer, there are surely 5970-specific fixes.

I repeated the steps I did to fix it, but this time installed 10.9.

It failed, and I had the same problem all over again. I don't know what it is, but I just can't seem to go above 10.4.

Well I managed to get 10.8 installed, but 10.9 still fails every time.

Thought everything was ok, but now my monitors aren't being detected every time. They are fine when in normal extended, but as soon as I create a group for eyefinity, one of them suddenly gets undetected. It's very very annoying.

10.4 is the only thing driver set that I don't have these problems.

Hm that's too bad. And quite strange. But at least you got it working again. ATI (excuse me, AMD) releases a new set every month, so maybe 10.10/11.0 will work.

You can also get the individual parts of teh driver set. Maybe it's only CCC or only the drivers that are fudging for you... if so inclined (and patient) you could try individual driver components.

I hated paying Apple for that adapter, too. I was finally able to dump if for this new $30 adapter from Sapphire, and after a day or so with it, it appears that all my strange issues are now gone. Restarts are fine, and even my profiles created and switch effortlessly.

I will mention that I didn't have major problems in the past getting the drivers to install, even with the Apple adapter. The setup after the driver install was nasty, with frequent ATI UI crashes (especially fun to resolve a UI crash during the bezel management setup).

Alright, after following what Dyre Straits said I'm back at 10.4. I didn't go exactly like he said, but I'm on 10.4 an all my monitors are working well. I'm a bit afraid to attempt going to 10.9. Are there any real benefits to updating? I may just stay here since everything is working.

What step did you not follow "exactly"? I tried to be very, very specific in how to do this correctly. I've been using ATI cards since 1996 and very rarely ever have had driver update problems.

Be that as it may, there is a Hotfix 10.9a driver set released that I believe you should try. It's a much larger download and may be the fix you need to get 10.9 installed correctly. I'm using this set now. Ignore any notes that these are "only for some HD4xxx" cards. The longer release notes indicate other fixes as well. Follow my previous advice to get back to your 10.4 drivers and then WITHOUT UNINSTALLING 10.4 just run the Install option. Don't uninstall anything.

Here's the link to 10.9a Hotfix: http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/ATICatalyst109Hotfix.aspx

There is one further note about these: They are not WHQL certified. The only thing you really need to know is that, when you get a warning prompt during the installation, just click on Install Anyway. VERY IMPORTANT! All this warning is telling you is that Microsoft has not issued certification for the drivers yet. That's it. These will not blow up your PC. ;)

Good luck!


EDIT: Just one other note: Have you checked with ASUS as to whether there are updated drivers for your MOTHERBOARD? This is just as important as updating any other drivers. So, check with ASUS as to whether there are newer system/motherboard/chipset drivers.

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