The ATI Driver Upgrade Debate
View Poll Results: What is your upgrade process?
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Option A
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Option B
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Option C
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well i pick option A based on when i did it the Option B way my system died and it was the 4650 vid card that did it i installed over the previous driver and then everything went blank and even with a restart the system was done
so I do it the a way then go take out the folder from the c drive then reinstall i think you have a better chance of not toasting your pc like i did
Considering i was trying to upgrade from a 7300gt 512 mb which gave me no issues vs the 4650 1gb which killed my system and even though that card set me back to build this new rig i still went with AMD but infact i decided to get everything AMD just in case it fails last board i had was asrock p4 agp slot
Alot of people don't like hearing this but that ati card was not compatible to my intel board sorry but that was my experience
ps by the way forgot to mention i did get rid of all nvidia drivers i used the new drivers from the cd after install then updated from the ati site then bam it died
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the mobility version of 10.7 wont install it's stuck at the "enumerating source media for installable packages" so i just installed the driver only.
any way to solve this?
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so I do it the a way then go take out the folder from the c drive
Should mention that you can delete that folder at any time after the driver install, as all it contains is the extracted install files; once installed nothing in it is used anymore.
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I do option B, but not for a while. Since my bad experience with 10.6, I'm going to stay at 10.5 and let everyone be the lab rats this time. :)
What happened with you in 10.6? i also had a problem but it was a sleep mode/brightness problem
It completely messed up my Crossfire. One card would run at full speed (750 MHz) and the other at it's normal resting speed (165 MHz) with no changes under load. I also had bad artifacts when playing some games.
Everything is fine since rolling back to 10.5, so I think I'll take a wait and see attitude this time. :)
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Everything is fine since rolling back to 10.5, so I think I'll take a wait and see attitude this time. :)
Just saw today to 10.7a is out. Have you tride that to see if it's any better?
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Everything is fine since rolling back to 10.5, so I think I'll take a wait and see attitude this time. :)
Just saw today to 10.7a is out. Have you tride that to see if it's any better?
Ha ha. 10.7-a? Hilarious.
No, I'm going to wait until the revisions settle down. I'll wait for x or y. :)
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Ha ha. 10.7-a? Hilarious.
No, I'm going to wait until the revisions settle down. I'll wait for x or y. :)[/QUOTE]
They've been releasing a & b versions for a little while now - it's not really that hilarious because they are newer 3D drivers that can either be the difference between smiling and screaming
10.7a release notes said:
Improved performance for Quad ATI CrossFireX™ for Eyefinity™ supported configurations
This could be one of those examples. Hopefully their definition of 'improved performance' means they don't crash the PC on virtually every title.
I went straight from 10.4a to 10.6 - but I didn't really play any games apart from one during that period of time. It wasn't until I tried playing a few others and got nothing blue screens left right and centre that I realised how bad 10.6 actually were. I didn't even bother with 10.7.
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it seems that everyone's experience with card and driver combinations are different.
i've just unistalled 10.7 as it was causing one of my games (hearts of iron semper fi) to display strange things and eventually crash.
gone back to 10.6 for now...no problems with them.
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I would do it option A when I was using ATI.