ATI Catalyst 10.7

[Tamlin]

Fully understandable. You got two of the most powerful cards in the world and they were underutilized in Quad and the driver support was a joke. Seems that Shane got his eye opened and now they actually do something about it. Lets hope this continues, because it can be a good halo for ATI if they put some effort into the ultra high-end, even if the userbase is small.

I've installed and uninstalled the TwL drivers using the info in the .txt file that he uses with the drivers. Its been no problems going TwL -> ATI WHQL and ATI beta -> TwL again. ATI_shit_cleaner that he created works well. Normally I hate using sweepers, since they can create more problems then they solve, but this seems to work nicely.

Since I use vista 64, I had to manually install the drivers though through device manager by putting the modded .inf files into the W7 drivers directory (the 10.8 beta's are for W7, but he modded them for Vista). I also got crash in BFBC2 with the ATI Stream/OpenCL package he included, so I had to uninstall that part. Besides this, the drivers seems very stable and I got a HUGE boost in Stalker CS with single screen!

[Anprionsa]

How about some PLP love! :wink:

[Jagariko]

Hello all, been a long time reader to this forum, but first time poster

I also have had horrible flickering on my eyefinity rig as well and could not use anything higher than Catalyst 10.3
anything higher and i would get horrible flickering etc etc that has been wiedly noted on these forums.

However since updating to 10.7 i have not had a single flicker or anything such. 18 hours and counting.No note in the release notes. but all seems well so far.

ATI HD 5850
3 Princeton PTFBHF-22RW Monitors using the accell Active Adapter.

Here is hoping all stays well.
Good Luck To All

[Gilly]

Hardware acceleration in VLC (1.1.2) and on the machine in my sig (4650) causes a crash after maybe 4 seconds. Standard render works fine under 10.7 though.

[johnnyvd]

How about some PLP love! :wink:

Warg... how i'm longing to PLP..... Couldn't wait for it.... Got three 20"

[Delphium]

With the new 10.7 drivers, can anyone confirm if the need to apply an extended profile twice after coming from a spanned profile in order to realign all the monitors back into the correct position?

[suiken_2mieu]

With the new 10.7 drivers, can anyone confirm if the need to apply an extended profile twice after coming from a spanned profile in order to realign all the monitors back into the correct position?

I can confirm this. Some times I have to do it 3 times or more as well. I lose windows too.

[Delphium]

Cheers. :doh

[TheUnk]

Just did a fresh install of Win7 64bit this time (on a external HD).

Installed the 10.7a and wow, my mem problem/disc trashing/lagging has disappeared.

DIRT2 is going somewhere to the 69-70fps average with 70-80% GPU utilization. But it will (same as on 32bit) always hang the PC after running the internal benchmark.

RFG is blazing now.. sometimes 99% utilization on all four GPU's. Very playable with 60fps average.. sometimes dipping to 30fps when detonating like 20 remote charges at once..

Very Pristine OS at the moment so there are not that many games installed. But i'm very curious about Metro2033 and GTA4.
(and also curious what happens when i'm going to slap an extra 4G's of memory in the system.. 8) )

Am I reading your sig right that you have three 5970s, and only getting 70fps in DIRT2? Max settings with some AA?

[ouija]

Another major disappointment - While the flickering is SLIGHTLY reduced, can't load any games with drivers older than 10.3

Still hard to accept to pay US$600 for a 5970 to only have a windows desktop on 3 screens without any gaming possibilities; this could have been done with any two low-end cards.

[johnnyvd]

Am I reading your sig right that you have three 5970s, and only getting 70fps in DIRT2? Max settings with some AA?

Not completely, The EK5970 are the waterblocks i use. So i "only" have two 5970's.

Keep in mind i run three monitors with a total res of 5040x1200 what results in 6 megapixels of gaming. For contrast: a single 5970 Toxic on 2560x1600 (4 Mpixel :mrgreen: ) gets 72fps average and a "normal" 5970 gets only 65fps average.. Source: http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2010/05/11/sapphire/3

Scaling for Quadfire until 10.7a beta was not really up to par, guess my results aren't half bad! 8)

[ouija]

I finally gave up and swap my 3x1 portrait to landscape - Almost all games are working fine with the 10.7, while none were working on portrait mode..

-> 10.7 are supposedly now working for portrait - Anybody can confirm?

NB: Anytime I prefer to play on 3x1 portrait than 3x1 landscape, the immersion is WAY better as the screen looks huge and cover all your vision, while in landscape it's too wide and not high enough..

[johnnyvd]

I finally gave up and swap my 3x1 portrait to landscape - Almost all games are working fine with the 10.7, while none were working on portrait mode..

-> 10.7 are supposedly now working for portrait - Anybody can confirm?

NB: Anytime I prefer to play on 3x1 portrait than 3x1 landscape, the immersion is WAY better as the screen looks huge and cover all your vision, while in landscape it's too wide and not high enough..

I could try, give me some time! (i LOVE driver testing!! :mrgreen: )

[ouija]

Thanks - Pls post once you've tested. I can't launch a single game in 3x1 portrait from 10.4 to 10.7
With 10.3, l4d2 and bioshock were working only, not coh, not singularity etc

[skipclarke]

Thanks - Pls post once you've tested. I can't launch a single game in 3x1 portrait from 10.4 to 10.7
With 10.3, l4d2 and bioshock were working only, not coh, not singularity etc

I have 10.7a loaded on top of 10.6. I ran a couple of tests (Heaven v1, STALKER, LOTRO) and it's all working in CFX. One problem seems to be when folks have leaked "beta" drivers installed. You might try a clean install.

[ouija]

I have flickering on 2 screens that drives me nuts and builds up my epilepsy - A weird thing I noticed is that there is no flickering on the 'preferred' monitor: in the ATI control panel, a right click on the monitors brings a menu: I switched the central monitor to 'preferred', and now the flickering (one every 10sec) is on the 2 outside monitors.

ATI, please fix this in 10.8; 5970 hardware is good but the flickering and lack of 3x1 portrait compatibility is killing me..

[skipclarke]

The 3x1-P CFX support was added in 10.7. Are you using any DP adapters?

[ouija]

The 3x1-P CFX support was added in 10.7. Are you using any DP adapters?

Nope: 2 x DELL U2410, one plugged with DP, then other DVI, and 1 x dell 2407wfp plugged with DVI.

Anything after 10.3 I couldn't play any games in portrait, not even 10.8 so I gave up and turn them landscape.

The flickering is frustrating; if I setup the left monitor (on DP) as preferred, then other 2 flickers; if I set the center monitor (DVI) as preferred, only the DP flickers..

[skipclarke]

I'm not sure what process you're going through for driver updates, or if you're using something like Driver Sweeper. Also, people have had issues using beta drivers. It may take a clean install of 10.7a. I would certainly uninstall and user Driver Sweeper at the least.

[ouija]

I'm not sure what process you're going through for driver updates, or if you're using something like Driver Sweeper. Also, people have had issues using beta drivers. It may take a clean install of 10.7a. I would certainly uninstall and user Driver Sweeper at the least.

I followed your instruction and no more flickering!! :bowdown

After uninstalling 10.7 and rebooting, I was surprised to see my computer with a desktop spanning accross 3 screens, while in theory there was no ATI driver remaining.. did a disk sweeper, reboot: desktop back in expected 800x600 or so and cloned on 3 desktop: reinstalled 10.7a and bye bye flickering!

:bowdown :bowdown :bowdown :bowdown :bowdown :bowdown :bowdown :bowdown

Will wait for the next driver revision and user feedback see Iif I revert back to my dear 3x1 portrait mode