10.1 Hotfix released.

[Abram]

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Grey-screen-and-vertical-line-corruptions.aspx

Alleviates some of the intermittent grey screen and vertical line corruptions that may randomly appear during normal usage when using an ATI™ Radeon HD 5800 series graphics card

MS has released another Directx package, too.

[fatlazyhomer]

Holy cow thats a big hotfix.

[X-Warrior]

I guess I'll just apply this one, before strange things happen. I really want my system running stable these days :roll:

[Sideeffect]

Also a net framework 4 beta that 'might' fix the corrupt cursor issue http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

[morfinx]

Also a net framework 4 beta that 'might' fix the corrupt cursor issue http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

What makes you say that?

[Sideeffect]

[quote]Also a net framework 4 beta that 'might' fix the corrupt cursor issue http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx

What makes you say that?

Someone said it did in another thread. I am not sure if it has any effect. Havn't had problems since installing it though.

[Flamin Joe]

Is this normal for ATi? I'm pretty new to ATi, had Nvidia for many years until Eyefinity made me switch. It appears that after every driver release, there's always a hotfix quickly following. Not sure if it's a good thing (they get on top of issues quickly) or a bad thing (they push releases out too quickly with unresolved issues).

Every driver release I've downloaded so far has had one. This is the second for 10.1 (Jan 27 Hotfix came out for Mass Effect 2 Anti-aliasing issues).

Seems a little odd to me, especially when they come out only a couple of days after release.

Oh well, time to download the 10.1 driver for basically the third time....

[Abram]

It's kinda annoying, but I'd rather see hotfixes now that wait a month a full driver update. And those hotfixes usually address the worst issues.

[fatlazyhomer]

Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

[ghallion]

I was happy to see a fix that solved the problem with intermittent grey screen and vertical line which occurred in my case a bit often. I installed the hotfix but I have to say that the grey screen was replaced by a black one. It seems that the crashes still occur (graphic adapter stopped responding), randomly and with the same frequency.

Something has been changed but I think more work and testing is needed with the driver.

In my setup it's the only real problem that I have encountered (and sometimes the corrupted cursor issue), otherwise everything works as it should (profiles, etc). I am very happy with eyefinity and I don't mind some problems because I am sure that at ATI people are working hard to solve them and it's a matter of time before these are a thing of the past.

[fatlazyhomer]

This one is so unstable for me. Ive had screens flick on and off, as well as have my cursor actually disappear during a dawn of war 2 game on the middle screen.

Im rolling back. Working profiles arnt worth this.

[iThinman]

installed. seeing these grey verticle lines for the first time. so lovely. sooooooo happy with my purchase

:?

[Gilly]

Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

I don't think HDMI supports the same system whereby the card cuts the video output, and then the screen detects this and turns into power save mode. So this is why the output goes black, but the screen doesn't turn off.

[fatlazyhomer]

I couldn't find a way to roll back, awesome.

It worked just fine before.

I found a solution on another forum where you use the DVI monitor to create the eyefinity group instead of the HDMI or DP. For some reason, that allows all the monitors to shut off in sleep.

But it was never broken before...

[Squalish]

The way it sounds from several posts is that ATI Catalyst is practicing good old-fashioned stable/beta release cycles and using the wrong term.

Every month, a 'stable' driver is released.

Every month, an 'unstable' driver is released alongside it. It represents an engineering-grade prototype of what will go through QA testing & bugfixing in the coming weeks, alongside public testing, and be released the next month as stable. They call it a 'Hotfix', but it's a standalone graphics driver that isn't quite finished.

If they had released "10.1" and "10.2 alpha", I think there would be less confusion.

PS: Does "beta" still mean the same thing, after Google abused the term for so long?

[X-Warrior]

Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

Oh, so it's a driver issue then? I have the same - display will be black, but still in full on-state.

[Truckchase!]

[quote]Anyone else have a problem with profiles where a monitor wont go to sleep completely? My samsung on HDMI would go black but you can clearly see the light still showing like its displaying a black screen or something.

Oh, so it's a driver issue then? I have the same - display will be black, but still in full on-state.

Same.

[fatlazyhomer]

What the heck? I have it in DVI. Apparently I have DVI + DVI + DP.

So that rules out the HDMI theory.

[Flamin Joe]

I'm definately liking these 10.1 drivers more and more. This latest hotfix has also resolved the missing cursor issue I was experiencing like others.

I notice in general too, the Displayport seems to be a little more stable. I've got the DP to VGA adaptor, and normally at every start up of Windows I would have to unplug / replug the adaptor to get it to detect the display properly again. Now, the majority of times it will actually boot up fine, so I only have to do it ocassionally. Great stuff. :D Now hopefully if I can get hold of an updated bios for my 5770's, this issue may be gone forever. Slowly getting there....

[RobertP]

I have a problem with 10.1 and dual 5870 cards. Using 10.1, Windows and CCP cannot recognize the second 5870.

Uninstalling 10.1 and re-installing 9.12 works. Same for 9.12 Hotfix. Then update again to 10.1 to test if the problem repeats. It does. No second 5870 in 10.1

Driver 9.12 Hotfix for me.