ATI Catalyst 10.1 Display Driver

Wednesday 27th January 2010, 10:47:00 PM, written by Rys

A few days before the 10.1 moniker wouldn't have fit any longer, ATI have released their Catalyst 10.1 display driver suite for Windows and Linux.  The release notes mention modest performance improvements for Left 4 Dead 2 and Crysis, a fix in Windows 7 for Adobe Flash 10 and Firefox, 120 Hz availability for certain displays and the usual other minor bug fixes and what have you.  A business as usual release, then.

You can get the driver from game.amd.com, and the Windows 7 and Vista 64-bit one is here (linked because it's the one I needed!).
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Latest Thread Comments (164 total)
Posted by Florin on Tuesday, 09-Feb-10 17:04:38 UTC
Quoting Silent_Buddha
Blast, looks like I still get the grey stripped screen with the hotfix for it. Seems to take a bit longer before it occurs though. Ah well, it's still progress at least. Now it doesn't appear EVR will trigger it just games after sleep mode.

Also seems to be a little better at trying to recover. It's a little easier to close the triggering app before complete lock.

Regards,
SB
I only read one of the many forums with the 500+ comment topics, but I haven't seen anyone whose grey stripes issues have been resolved by this hotfix. But I guess it only promises to 'alleviate' the situation.

Posted by willardjuice on Tuesday, 09-Feb-10 18:08:23 UTC
Quoting Psycho
No wonder it flickers then (when changing clocks) - it's not supposed to change memory clock in multi monitor setups.
Doesn't Radeon Bios Editor support 5800 yet? (so you can fix the powerplay clocks yourself)
Quoting air_ii
Perhaps you have Overdrive enabled? I found that when you enable OD (no matter if you change something or not), memory clocks change, even if you have 2 monitors active, which is not supposed to happen. If you disable OD, it's ok and screen doesn't flicker (Sapphire reference 5870 here).

I'm guessing a bug in BIOS/Drivers?
Quoting willardjuice
Yeah I flashed my card to AMD's "default 5870 bios" and all is well. No more running 3D clocks 24/7. I guess I will wait until Sapphire releases a bios fix.
Don't worry guys, like I said I have flashed my card to the vanilla 5870 bios and all is fine (memory clocks don't change from 1200). I will reflash to Sapphires' fixed bios (when they release it) so I can remain under warrenty. Until then let's hope my card doesn't die. :razz:

Posted by Broken Hope on Tuesday, 09-Feb-10 19:50:06 UTC
Another new game (BioShock 2) and no profile for AA support in the driver. I really hope this sort of thing will be a thing of the past once we get profiles, assuming we're going to be able to download profiles like was previously said. Nvidia's latest drivers have SLI/AA support for this game I believe.

Posted by Broken Hope on Saturday, 20-Feb-10 01:18:46 UTC
Shader load time seems like an issue that could do with being addressed judging by this post.

http://forum.beyond3d.com/showpost.php?p=1396907&postcount=20

Posted by Silent_Buddha on Monday, 01-Mar-10 00:11:43 UTC
Blast, finally got around to installing and testing 10.2, and while the situation with grey/stripped screen and lockup is much better, it's still there.

Took 3 days for it to finally manifest, however (3 sleep/wakeup cycles with heavy useage in between), so it's definitely better. It's also slightly different now. Extendend display went to a weird color instead of grey or striped.

Had thought it was fixed. Ah well back to using hibernate instead of sleep, thankfully no problems with that. :)

Off to check Gigabytes website to see if they have a new MB Bios, as improvements there have in the past resolved display related issues. (edit - dang, 2 new bios revisions since I last checked).

Regards,
SB

Posted by digitalwanderer on Monday, 01-Mar-10 01:25:06 UTC
D3DOverrider is my new god app, pls add it to CCC. Kthxbai!

Posted by Karoshi on Monday, 01-Mar-10 01:55:05 UTC
Quoting digitalwanderer
D3DOverrider is my new god app, pls add it to CCC. Kthxbai!
That, or change the V-Sync rider to "ChocolateVanillaStrawberryWalnut".

Posted by digitalwanderer on Monday, 01-Mar-10 03:45:52 UTC
Quoting Karoshi
That, or change the V-Sync rider to "ChocolateVanillaStrawberryWalnut".
If they included a "Force It And Actually Make It Work" option I'd be pleased. :yep2:

Posted by ninelven on Thursday, 04-Mar-10 05:46:49 UTC
Here is an odd bug... I enable AA & AF through CCC and it is applied correctly. Later, I disabled AA & AF but it is still applied. I even restart the application and it is still applied. Only a full system reboot seems to have any affect. Cat 10.2WinXP SP3HD4850

Posted by ninelven on Friday, 05-Mar-10 22:47:33 UTC
Now it is even stranger... AA/AF both set to 8x and working fine. System reboot -> AA no longer applied (still shows 8x in CCC). /boggle.


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