Rate Catalyst 5.1 (CCC only)

Zardon · Jan 17, 2005, 10:15 PM

you know the drill, rate from 10 (best) to 1 (worst).

ssj-gohan · Jan 17, 2005, 11:31 PM

it's bad

JokerRJA · Jan 17, 2005, 11:47 PM

Yeah it could have been better. I actually experienced an fps drop in some games like Rome: Total War and Star Wars Battlefront. Maybe Omega can help us with this one.

snake · Jan 18, 2005, 12:24 AM

See my other post, but it's still as stable as the last one...

1 is better than 0, i'm really sad to give that score, because i love
the conceipt and the style is excellent

But it's useless, now i'm almost sure...
This time was my last try, i'll keep the Control Panel version now

Shuflie · Jan 18, 2005, 12:58 AM

Gave it a 5, not many new features and still buggy. Its sitting locked up on me after I went from RGB cycle to classic effect with the preview showing. Don't know if that's what caused the lockup, but there it is (my opinion that is).

Cosmos · Jan 18, 2005, 01:23 AM

Spyre · Jan 18, 2005, 01:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cosmos

Uninstall ccc, uninstall driver, uninstall ati software, uninstall net, reboot, install net2.0, install cat5.1 and it will work fine

MikeBrass · Jan 18, 2005, 03:12 AM

Sorry, all that crap to load it up?

ATI instructions didn't say unibstall anything. I get the same as above. Gave it a 1, because no 0 is available.

sneekez · Jan 18, 2005, 04:16 AM

All I had to do was uninstall the panel and reinstall reboot and everything was good...

TJ- · Jan 18, 2005, 04:36 AM

1.. i dont use it, it sucks, freezes to often and its just plain crap... radlinker is better

tornadog · Jan 18, 2005, 05:25 AM

the 4.12 CCC actually worked for me but 5.1 looks like a step back, I get runtime errors and freezes just like old times

Jitter · Jan 18, 2005, 06:00 AM

I gave this version a 1 for several reasons and I havent even messed w. it that much. First of all takes forever now for my desktop to load up. Second of all the CCC takes about 1 min to load up. Third the one time i got it loaded up i was simply trying to navigate through the menus and it locked up. IT has locked up on me more than any of the other versions combined already. Finally One of the times i had it loaded up it was using very excessive RAM. One process was at 128MB and another one was at almost 60MB. I have not seen this ever in any of the other versions. I am definitely dumping this version and going back to the classic CP.

Note: This is only the 3rd CCC I have tried but this one sounded promising unfortunately it didnt work out for me.

EDIT: I am using .net 2.0 beta which is what i had the other times i tried the CCC.

philou · Jan 18, 2005, 06:23 AM

It is still slow and quite wierd running 3D application.

I tried the CSS Stress test :

1st time : 47 fps
2nd time : 53 fps
3rd time : 44 fps
4th time : 44 fps and i stopped there...

well before with omega 4.12 i was getting 54 FPS solid, i think the memory management is the key but as you 'll respond "Thanks to the great .NET thingy"

It is so slow.
One question to people that are using .NET 2 beta, is there a speed improvement or any other?
It could be cool to make a review between the two running CCC...

MindlessOath · Jan 18, 2005, 07:20 AM

yes, you may have to uninstall all that stuff, DONT BE LAZY... and if you are, we dont really want to hear it, cause were just going to call you lazy. :P
im joking just relax :P <---

anyways tho, MS seemed to have messed something up with the .net installs, so thats the primary problem, i think it has something to do with windowsupdate and SP2 and the seperate installs and the .net service pack updates, something in that line messed up the .net installs so you must uninstall all versions of .net and reinstall... i dont think its ati's fault at all, UNLESS they didnt see something along those lines, but i doubt it.

patje · Jan 18, 2005, 03:55 PM

mobility support w00t !! a well deserved 9 from me, nothing is perfect tough so a ten would be to much.

Robert McClelland · Jan 18, 2005, 05:54 PM

I give them ten first time I get very high score on CCC panel

Chaos · Jan 18, 2005, 06:51 PM

I had major issues with this version of CCC, I reverted to the previous beta release and ALL IS GOOD

IvanV · Jan 18, 2005, 06:58 PM

I tried it, and, although I haven't had any particular issues, I was very much unimressed and gave up on it. Here are several reasons:
1) It consumes much more resources than CP
2) .NET Framework - When CCC first came out, it required .NET Framework 1.1. Now I heared form people that a later version is required. (Although official ATI's page still says 1.1.) Not that this caused me any problems, but I don't think that there should be special prerequisites for a graphics card driver since that is one of the things that every PC needs to start operating normally.
3) The only genuine feature of CCC that should be the advantage of CCC over CP is preview. My personal oppinion is that the test is too simple and that it merely explains the function of AA. It does not show how any particular game will look and perform with certain settings, so it is almost useless.
ATi people, please work on theese things, and, untill you make CCC better, please don't try to force us to use it like you are now by not including support for new features (like A.I. settings) in CP. That's really not OK.

Ripsaw · Jan 18, 2005, 07:22 PM

When they get CCC lean and mean and more efficient with regard to resource usage, like some of the 3rd party applets then I'll vote it higher. Gave it a 5 in current state of revision.

MindlessOath · Jan 18, 2005, 07:33 PM

well... remember winamp and their version 3, it didnt do good at all, why? cause it was bloat and everyone knew it. version 5 was alot better, but still somewhat bloat it takes a while to load up compaired to version 2.x but its much better than 3. they had to make 5 because of the public response.

i hope ati makes changes accordingly because of the users response, but i like their ideas and im going to stick with them, at the very least they might be able to get a really really good coder (not that they need one, but it would help).

*Raff_3DC* · Jan 18, 2005, 09:34 PM

8!

The CCC looks nice and runs faster than ever--but still not fast enough.

The old CP is still my favourite because it's fast and way not that RAM-hungry. Hope the CCC will be fine in spring with NET 2.0!

Greetings from Germany,

Raff

Anubis-Xp- · Jan 18, 2005, 09:56 PM

this is why i gave it a 4, it was nothing i expected it to be, the big jump from 4.12 to 5.1, all i was expecting something huge, like why didn't u just call it 4.13 and keep going until u think up something big and make the change into the 5's.

*Raff_3DC* · Jan 18, 2005, 10:05 PM

Well, the "5" doesn't mean a big jump at all. ATi uses the first number of the driver-version to show the year of release--2005. And the "1" means January.

Greetings,
Raff

lewis_johnstone · Jan 18, 2005, 10:19 PM

I just installed the cat 5.1 driver and everything seemed fine. Later on when i rebooted pc, it loaded 1/2 way and just b4 desktop comes up screen went black and stayed that way.

Keeps doing that.

Loaded it up in safe mode and then told it to restart. I managed to get it to load up. I just un-installed cat 5.1 CCC and tried to re-install cat 4.12 CCC.

Everything was fine untill right at the end of the CCC installtion, it error comes up sayin:

" Internal Error 2203. C:\Windows\Installerz2490d.msi, - 2147287008"

Says to reboot pc, i do and i have the driver installed but no CCC.

Zorg · Jan 19, 2005, 02:38 AM

...I gave it a 5 same for the driver. No improvements and no obvious bugs for me.

Jobi Wan Kenobi · Jan 19, 2005, 04:28 PM

I gave it a 1. After installing, my system went to He!!. In device manager, suddenly may devices show up with yellow exclamation marks. Had to reinstall drivers. One Plug and Play item wouldn't reinstall, so I removed it and rebooted. Windows never found it again. Sound is gone. Reinstalled drivers and no better. Reinstalled chipset drivers and no better. Windows no longer shows Welcome screen.

I've tried the options given here, reinstall .net 1.1, instlall .net 2 beta, no good. I've done tech support for a software company before, and I know the canned response, "Sorry sir, your system must have been on the verge already, and this installation just tipped it over the edge...". The machine has been running perfectly up intil Cat install. Been playing Half-Life 2 and other graphics intensive apps w/o trouble.

I'm gonna try reinstalling DX9. Then try reinstallig windows/service packs. Finally will format and start from scratch. If I have to format, I'll try cat 5.1 ccc again, but it will be one of the first things I reinstall. Life's too short to spend 2 days rienstalling software and have ATI mess it up again.

MousePotato · Jan 19, 2005, 05:55 PM

7

looks good, works fine, no issues !

lewis_johnstone · Jan 19, 2005, 11:03 PM

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 performance improvements inthe 5.1 driver. BUT i am sure later on in the year new drivers willhave some and i will want to use them.

Is this just a one off? i hope so

FiggyG · Jan 20, 2005, 11:46 PM

The last one I rated an 8, this one gets a 1 and would be a 0 if there were such an option. I installed, got that infamous error that's already been posted, uninstall, reboot, reinstall reboot... i thought things were fine, but the sound was messed up when playing Max Payne 2. After playing with drivers and other settings, I just quit the game when it got really bad, and pulled up my task manager... to my shock, 88% CPU was being used by CLI.exe. That was riduculous on top of insane memory usage. Just installed the old control panel.

Results? Put the game in 1280x1024 4xfsaa and whatever aniso setting the game likes, runs smooth as butter and sounds great. Nice little 9600XT.

Da`Nacho · Jan 21, 2005, 12:27 AM

I'm gonna have to say these are the worst drivers I've experienced since before the Catalyst days. These drivers brought me nearly instant crashing in Half-Life 2 and other source titles when the 4.12's work just fine.

I thought this was supposed to be a bugfix release, no? I didn't think they'd add bugs that ould make one of the most popular current games crash spontaneously.

View Poll Results: Rate Catalyst 5.1 (CCC only)
10 (best)	86	8.33%
9	101	9.79%
8	145	14.05%
7	225	21.80%
6	139	13.47%
5	111	10.76%
4	64	6.20%
3	52	5.04%
2	34	3.29%
1 (worst)	75	7.27%
Voters: 1032. This poll is closed

Jan 17, 2005, 10:15 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Rate Catalyst 5.1 (CCC only) you know the drill, rate from 10 (best) to 1 (worst).

Jan 18, 2005, 12:24 AM	#4
snake HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: France Posts: 421 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	See my other post, but it's still as stable as the last one... 1 is better than 0, i'm really sad to give that score, because i love the conceipt and the style is excellent But it's useless, now i'm almost sure... This time was my last try, i'll keep the Control Panel version now __________________ i7 930@4Ghz-DFI T3EH6-6Go OCZPC12800-GTX480+8800GT Barton 2600+@2.16 (188x11.5) # GeForce 6800 GT@Ultra 1.5Go PC3200 #Asus A7N8X Deluxe Bios 1008 26397 3DMark06/ 57736 3DMark01/163152 Aquamark3

Jan 18, 2005, 01:23 AM	#6
Cosmos DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 34 Rep Power: 0	__________________ ---------- AMD Winchester 3000+ @ 2.25GHz ATI X850XT PE, 256MB, Overdrive 2GB OCZ @ 400MHz, Dual Channel Creative Audigy 2ZS, 6.1 Surround Seagate 7200.9 500GB SATAII Antec P180 Case, 550W PSU ----------

Jan 18, 2005, 04:36 AM	#10
TJ- DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Infinity Posts: 3,679 Rep Power: 0	1.. i dont use it, it sucks, freezes to often and its just plain crap... radlinker is better __________________ new sig comming soon

Jan 17, 2005, 11:31 PM	#2
ssj-gohan DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	it's bad

Jan 17, 2005, 11:47 PM	#3
JokerRJA DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 45 Rep Power: 0	Yeah it could have been better. I actually experienced an fps drop in some games like Rome: Total War and Star Wars Battlefront. Maybe Omega can help us with this one.

Jan 18, 2005, 12:58 AM	#5
Shuflie DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belfast Posts: 269 Rep Power: 0	Gave it a 5, not many new features and still buggy. Its sitting locked up on me after I went from RGB cycle to classic effect with the preview showing. Don't know if that's what caused the lockup, but there it is (my opinion that is).

Jan 18, 2005, 03:12 AM	#8
MikeBrass DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 26 Rep Power: 0	Sorry, all that crap to load it up? ATI instructions didn't say unibstall anything. I get the same as above. Gave it a 1, because no 0 is available.

Jan 18, 2005, 04:16 AM	#9
sneekez DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	All I had to do was uninstall the panel and reinstall reboot and everything was good...

Jan 18, 2005, 05:25 AM	#11
tornadog DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 111 Rep Power: 0	the 4.12 CCC actually worked for me but 5.1 looks like a step back, I get runtime errors and freezes just like old times

Jan 18, 2005, 06:00 AM	#12
Jitter HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 533 Rep Power: 0	I gave this version a 1 for several reasons and I havent even messed w. it that much. First of all takes forever now for my desktop to load up. Second of all the CCC takes about 1 min to load up. Third the one time i got it loaded up i was simply trying to navigate through the menus and it locked up. IT has locked up on me more than any of the other versions combined already. Finally One of the times i had it loaded up it was using very excessive RAM. One process was at 128MB and another one was at almost 60MB. I have not seen this ever in any of the other versions. I am definitely dumping this version and going back to the classic CP. Note: This is only the 3rd CCC I have tried but this one sounded promising unfortunately it didnt work out for me. EDIT: I am using .net 2.0 beta which is what i had the other times i tried the CCC. __________________ Sony Vaio PCV-RX670 P4 1.8ghz XP Pro SP2 1 GB PC2100 RAM ATI All in Wonder 9700 pro Audigy 2 ZS Aquamark ~29,500 3dMark03 ~ 5,000

Jan 18, 2005, 06:23 AM	#13
philou DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	It is still slow and quite wierd running 3D application. I tried the CSS Stress test : 1st time : 47 fps 2nd time : 53 fps 3rd time : 44 fps 4th time : 44 fps and i stopped there... well before with omega 4.12 i was getting 54 FPS solid, i think the memory management is the key but as you 'll respond "Thanks to the great .NET thingy" It is so slow. One question to people that are using .NET 2 beta, is there a speed improvement or any other? It could be cool to make a review between the two running CCC...

Jan 18, 2005, 07:20 AM	#14
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	yes, you may have to uninstall all that stuff, DONT BE LAZY... and if you are, we dont really want to hear it, cause were just going to call you lazy. :P im joking just relax :P <--- anyways tho, MS seemed to have messed something up with the .net installs, so thats the primary problem, i think it has something to do with windowsupdate and SP2 and the seperate installs and the .net service pack updates, something in that line messed up the .net installs so you must uninstall all versions of .net and reinstall... i dont think its ati's fault at all, UNLESS they didnt see something along those lines, but i doubt it. __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jan 18, 2005, 03:55 PM	#15
patje Former Mobility Modman Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Belgium / Antwerp Posts: 1,475 Rep Power: 64	mobility support w00t !! a well deserved 9 from me, nothing is perfect tough so a ten would be to much. __________________

Jan 18, 2005, 05:54 PM	#16
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Somewhere in Wood County Ohio Same Town :) Posts: 10,236 Rep Power: 193 System Specs	I give them ten first time I get very high score on CCC panel __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun" http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2242746

Jan 18, 2005, 06:51 PM	#17
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	I had major issues with this version of CCC, I reverted to the previous beta release and ALL IS GOOD __________________

Jan 18, 2005, 06:58 PM	#18
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,652 Rep Power: 280 System Specs	Why CCC? I tried it, and, although I haven't had any particular issues, I was very much unimressed and gave up on it. Here are several reasons: 1) It consumes much more resources than CP 2) .NET Framework - When CCC first came out, it required .NET Framework 1.1. Now I heared form people that a later version is required. (Although official ATI's page still says 1.1.) Not that this caused me any problems, but I don't think that there should be special prerequisites for a graphics card driver since that is one of the things that every PC needs to start operating normally. 3) The only genuine feature of CCC that should be the advantage of CCC over CP is preview. My personal oppinion is that the test is too simple and that it merely explains the function of AA. It does not show how any particular game will look and perform with certain settings, so it is almost useless. ATi people, please work on theese things, and, untill you make CCC better, please don't try to force us to use it like you are now by not including support for new features (like A.I. settings) in CP. That's really not OK.

Jan 18, 2005, 07:22 PM	#19
Ripsaw DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0	When they get CCC lean and mean and more efficient with regard to resource usage, like some of the 3rd party applets then I'll vote it higher. Gave it a 5 in current state of revision.

Jan 18, 2005, 07:33 PM	#20
MindlessOath DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 1,121 Rep Power: 0	well... remember winamp and their version 3, it didnt do good at all, why? cause it was bloat and everyone knew it. version 5 was alot better, but still somewhat bloat it takes a while to load up compaired to version 2.x but its much better than 3. they had to make 5 because of the public response. i hope ati makes changes accordingly because of the users response, but i like their ideas and im going to stick with them, at the very least they might be able to get a really really good coder (not that they need one, but it would help). __________________ ATI Radeon X800XT PE <---- LOOK UPDATED!! AMD Athlon 2Ghz, nforce2, 512mb ddr3500 LINKS U SHOULD KNOW!!!! DriverCleaner - use every time u install new drivers! ATI driver feedback - to report driver problems Tacticalcenter - my Gaming website and forums ATI 3rd party Optimized Driver Compairison

Jan 18, 2005, 09:34 PM	#21
Raff_3DC 3dcenter.de Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hessen, Germany Posts: 113 Rep Power: 0	8! The CCC looks nice and runs faster than ever--but still not fast enough. The old CP is still my favourite because it's fast and way not that RAM-hungry. Hope the CCC will be fine in spring with NET 2.0! Greetings from Germany, Raff __________________ ATi Catalyst-Shootout 3.2 - 5.3 @ 3DCenter.de Detonator/ForceWare-Shootout for GeForce4 Ti 44.65 - 80.40 Detonator-Shootout 16.30 - 44.90 for GeForce3 @ 3DC-Forum Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 driver comparison

Jan 18, 2005, 09:56 PM	#22
Anubis-Xp- DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Rexdale, Ontario, Canada Posts: 60 Rep Power: 0	this is why i gave it a 4, it was nothing i expected it to be, the big jump from 4.12 to 5.1, all i was expecting something huge, like why didn't u just call it 4.13 and keep going until u think up something big and make the change into the 5's.

Jan 18, 2005, 10:05 PM	#23
Raff_3DC 3dcenter.de Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Hessen, Germany Posts: 113 Rep Power: 0	Well, the "5" doesn't mean a big jump at all. ATi uses the first number of the driver-version to show the year of release--2005. And the "1" means January. Greetings, Raff __________________ ATi Catalyst-Shootout 3.2 - 5.3 @ 3DCenter.de Detonator/ForceWare-Shootout for GeForce4 Ti 44.65 - 80.40 Detonator-Shootout 16.30 - 44.90 for GeForce3 @ 3DC-Forum Voodoo3 and Voodoo5 driver comparison

Jan 18, 2005, 10:19 PM	#24
lewis_johnstone DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 213 Rep Power: 0	1st time i had probs with cat drivers I just installed the cat 5.1 driver and everything seemed fine. Later on when i rebooted pc, it loaded 1/2 way and just b4 desktop comes up screen went black and stayed that way. Keeps doing that. Loaded it up in safe mode and then told it to restart. I managed to get it to load up. I just un-installed cat 5.1 CCC and tried to re-install cat 4.12 CCC. Everything was fine untill right at the end of the CCC installtion, it error comes up sayin: " Internal Error 2203. C:\Windows\Installerz2490d.msi, - 2147287008" Says to reboot pc, i do and i have the driver installed but no CCC. __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 4GB Corsair DDR3 1333MHz C9 Twin3X Asus P5E3 Socket 775 4870 X2 2GB CrossfireX (Quad-GPU) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality 1000W PSU Windows Vista Premium 64bit 3DMark Vantage : 15880 3DMark06 : 16652

Jan 19, 2005, 02:38 AM	#25
Zorg DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 182 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	the CCC... ...I gave it a 5 same for the driver. No improvements and no obvious bugs for me.

Jan 19, 2005, 04:28 PM	#26
Jobi Wan Kenobi DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Maine Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	I gave it a 1. After installing, my system went to He!!. In device manager, suddenly may devices show up with yellow exclamation marks. Had to reinstall drivers. One Plug and Play item wouldn't reinstall, so I removed it and rebooted. Windows never found it again. Sound is gone. Reinstalled drivers and no better. Reinstalled chipset drivers and no better. Windows no longer shows Welcome screen. I've tried the options given here, reinstall .net 1.1, instlall .net 2 beta, no good. I've done tech support for a software company before, and I know the canned response, "Sorry sir, your system must have been on the verge already, and this installation just tipped it over the edge...". The machine has been running perfectly up intil Cat install. Been playing Half-Life 2 and other graphics intensive apps w/o trouble. I'm gonna try reinstalling DX9. Then try reinstallig windows/service packs. Finally will format and start from scratch. If I have to format, I'll try cat 5.1 ccc again, but it will be one of the first things I reinstall. Life's too short to spend 2 days rienstalling software and have ATI mess it up again.

Jan 19, 2005, 05:55 PM	#27
MousePotato HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Location: N.S., Canada Posts: 124 Rep Power: 60 System Specs	7 looks good, works fine, no issues !

Jan 19, 2005, 11:03 PM	#28
lewis_johnstone DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 213 Rep Power: 0	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 performance improvements inthe 5.1 driver. BUT i am sure later on in the year new drivers willhave some and i will want to use them. Is this just a one off? i hope so __________________ Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 4GB Corsair DDR3 1333MHz C9 Twin3X Asus P5E3 Socket 775 4870 X2 2GB CrossfireX (Quad-GPU) Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatality 1000W PSU Windows Vista Premium 64bit 3DMark Vantage : 15880 3DMark06 : 16652

Jan 20, 2005, 11:46 PM	#29
FiggyG DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 15 Rep Power: 0	Buggy The last one I rated an 8, this one gets a 1 and would be a 0 if there were such an option. I installed, got that infamous error that's already been posted, uninstall, reboot, reinstall reboot... i thought things were fine, but the sound was messed up when playing Max Payne 2. After playing with drivers and other settings, I just quit the game when it got really bad, and pulled up my task manager... to my shock, 88% CPU was being used by CLI.exe. That was riduculous on top of insane memory usage. Just installed the old control panel. Results? Put the game in 1280x1024 4xfsaa and whatever aniso setting the game likes, runs smooth as butter and sounds great. Nice little 9600XT.

Jan 21, 2005, 12:27 AM	#30
Da`Nacho DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	I'm gonna have to say these are the worst drivers I've experienced since before the Catalyst days. These drivers brought me nearly instant crashing in Half-Life 2 and other source titles when the 4.12's work just fine. I thought this was supposed to be a bugfix release, no? I didn't think they'd add bugs that ould make one of the most popular current games crash spontaneously.