Catalyst 4.9 Problem

[Glzmo]

With my Radeon X800 Pro, Catalyst 4.9 drivers completely screw up my PC.
Textures are missing in Direct3D and 2D is dead slow. When I try to change a
setting in the control panel (not control center), the PC does a hard
reboot. When I start 3D Mark, it tells me features like bilinear filtering
and others are missing and it won't work right. More often than not, the
whole screen gets garbled with 4.9 drivers.
In dxdiag, however, there are no errors and the Direct3D tests work
flawlessly.
Any other drivers work fine and without troubles, including the old 4.9 Beta
Doom 3 hotfix drivers.
I have tried everything, from a fresh format and reinstall of Windows XP to
using Driver Cleaner and also tried to install the drivers over working
ones, to no avail. Whenever I reinstall the old drivers, everything works
fine.
Does anybody else have Problems with Catalyst 4.9 and what can I do to get
them to run right?

My System:
P4 3GHz
MSI 865PE Neo2 mainboard
2048MB DDR400 RAM
Radeon X800 Pro
Windows XP Service Pack 2

 

[fish]

! MINE TOO!

What's that all about?

I tried uninstalling the new Cat Control panel, didn't work. I then tried
re-installing an older driver, didn't work.

I had to completely uninstall ATI everything and install the 4.8's and all
was back to normal.

I am using RadLink, maybe that's and issue?

 

[Robert D. McCreadie]

For some reason happens a lot to me on some new driver's have to clean
everything out and start from scratch reinstall everything including direct
x so sollly

 

[Conor]

! MINE TOO!

What's that all about?

I tried uninstalling the new Cat Control panel, didn't work. I then tried
re-installing an older driver, didn't work.

I had to completely uninstall ATI everything and install the 4.8's and all
was back to normal.

If you read the text during the installation process it tells you you
have to uninstall previous drivers.

 

[Bill Crocker]

Did you install Microsoft's .NET_framwork, as instructed?

Bill Crocker

 

[Glzmo]

Did you install Microsoft's .NET_framwork, as instructed?

It doesn't matter, I'm not using the fancy control center and have
downloaded the version without it.

 

[Glzmo]

! MINE TOO!

What's that all about?

I tried uninstalling the new Cat Control panel, didn't work. I then tried
re-installing an older driver, didn't work.

I had to completely uninstall ATI everything and install the 4.8's and all
was back to normal.

I am using RadLink, maybe that's and issue?

Nope, I haven't got RadLinker installed, just the plain 4.9 drivers without
the new Catalyst Control Center. It is very weird indeed.

 

[Sam]

Nope, I haven't got RadLinker installed, just the plain 4.9 drivers without
the new Catalyst Control Center. It is very weird indeed.

Did you totally uninstall all ATI drivers before installing the new
stuff? If not that can cause all sorts of havoc. ATI includes a
utility called AtiCimUn.exe which is located on my system at
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies/UninstallAll. I use that, reboot and
tell Windows to "cancel" when it wants to reinstall the video card.
Only then do I install the new drivers.

Sam

Sam

 

[Glzmo]

Did you totally uninstall all ATI drivers before installing the new
stuff? If not that can cause all sorts of havoc. ATI includes a
utility called AtiCimUn.exe which is located on my system at
C:\Program Files\ATI Technologies/UninstallAll. I use that, reboot and
tell Windows to "cancel" when it wants to reinstall the video card.
Only then do I install the new drivers.

Yes, if you read my post, you would have known I used driver cleaner and
also tried a fresh format and reinstall of the full OS with just Catalyst
4.9. I also made sure there were no ati*.* files on the HDD. It is
definitely a problem with the Catalyst 4.9 drivers, as all other drivers
seem to work just fine.

 

[johns]

SP2 is raising hell with network printing here. We have
pretty much traced it to driver incompatibility with the
printers and print servers. It does not surprise me one
bit to hear that SP2 may have taken a bite out of an
ATI driver. I thought I read that ATI was waiting on
SP2 to come out so they could make 4.9 compatible.
Sounds like they already knew there was a problem.
Have you tried dropping back to SP1 or before ?

johns

 

[Inglo]

! MINE TOO!

What's that all about?

I tried uninstalling the new Cat Control panel, didn't work. I then tried
re-installing an older driver, didn't work.

I had to completely uninstall ATI everything and install the 4.8's and all
was back to normal.

I am using RadLink, maybe that's and issue?

If you're not using the latest version of Radlinker, older versions
don't play nice with the CCC.

--
History shows again and again
How nature points up the folly of men

Steve ¤»Inglo«¤
www.inglostadt.com

 

[Sam]

Yes, if you read my post, you would have known I used driver cleaner and
also tried a fresh format and reinstall of the full OS with just Catalyst
4.9. I also made sure there were no ati*.* files on the HDD. It is
definitely a problem with the Catalyst 4.9 drivers, as all other drivers
seem to work just fine.

Well, since that didn't work, you may want to try the ATI version.
I've used both and found that the AtiCimUn.exe program works pretty
good. Maybe driver cleaner is missing something...

Sam

 

[Cliff]

With my Radeon X800 Pro, Catalyst 4.9 drivers completely screw up my PC.
Textures are missing in Direct3D and 2D is dead slow. When I try to change a
setting in the control panel (not control center), the PC does a hard
reboot. When I start 3D Mark, it tells me features like bilinear filtering
and others are missing and it won't work right. More often than not, the
whole screen gets garbled with 4.9 drivers.
In dxdiag, however, there are no errors and the Direct3D tests work
flawlessly.
Any other drivers work fine and without troubles, including the old 4.9 Beta
Doom 3 hotfix drivers.
I have tried everything, from a fresh format and reinstall of Windows XP to
using Driver Cleaner and also tried to install the drivers over working
ones, to no avail. Whenever I reinstall the old drivers, everything works
fine.
Does anybody else have Problems with Catalyst 4.9 and what can I do to get
them to run right?

My System:
P4 3GHz
MSI 865PE Neo2 mainboard
2048MB DDR400 RAM
Radeon X800 Pro
Windows XP Service Pack 2

Same problem here dude.
My system:
P4 3.4GHz model 550
Abit AA8 Duramax PCI-E
1 Gig, Corsair DDR2 TWIN2x1024-5400C4PRO
ASUS EAX800XT, PCI-E, 256MB DDR3
74GB, Western Digital, SATA Raptor
485Watt, Enermax Power Supply

First time I installed all the drivers, the system would crash every
time there was any type of graphics mode change. I tried to uninstall
all of the graphics related files and was unable to remove an ASUS
driver (ASUS Enhanced Display Driver). Tried reinstalling same as
above. I did manage to get the Catalyst control center working
finally, but the system was still unstable, crashing after each
graphics mode change. The graphics that I did manage to see were
amazing... can't wait till they get the frickin drivers right. But
could not get any games to work (graphics mode changes and all), so
did as above and tried the fresh install approach...

Changed the order that the drivers were installed... waited until the
ati driver and directx were installed before installing the ASUS
enhanced display driver... Now my system is more stable and does not
crash when changing graphics modes, but Catalyst fails to initiate and
none of my games work... I am at a loss.... guess I will just have
to wait for someone to write some good drivers...

Cheers,
Cliff

 

[Glzmo]

Well, since that didn't work, you may want to try the ATI version.
I've used both and found that the AtiCimUn.exe program works pretty
good. Maybe driver cleaner is missing something...

Even though I doubted it was a uninstall problem, as I had done a clean
reformat and reinstall of Windows, I still tried AtiCimUn.exe and installed
the 4.9 drivers again. The same problem persisted, until I installed another
set of drivers, which once again works fine.

 

[Tony DiMarzio]

Well... It sounds like you've covered it from every possible angle. It's a
driver bug - and a big one at that.

Make sure you report this to ATI.

 

[Sam]

Even though I doubted it was a uninstall problem, as I had done a clean
reformat and reinstall of Windows, I still tried AtiCimUn.exe and installed
the 4.9 drivers again. The same problem persisted, until I installed another
set of drivers, which once again works fine.

Strange. There must be something else that's conflicting on your
system. I don't have your video card (just a 9500pro), and a totally
different MB (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe) so it's hard to tell what it might
be. What other software do you have running in the background? Do you
have the latest MB drivers installed? Is anything overclocked?

Sam

 

[Glzmo]

Strange. There must be something else that's conflicting on your
system. I don't have your video card (just a 9500pro), and a totally
different MB (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe) so it's hard to tell what it might
be. What other software do you have running in the background? Do you
have the latest MB drivers installed? Is anything overclocked?

Nothing overclocked, all the latest drivers, System BIOS, everyhting.
Temperature on the card is between 30 and 40 degrees Celsius, same with the
CPU, system temperature and Northbridge.
I tried without anything running in the background and it didn't help
either.
I cannot trace it to anything but the drivers, so they have to be the
culprit. I'm waiting for omegadrive to release his version of the 4.9s,
perhaps they will work, but perhaps not.

 

[Cliff]

Same problem here dude.
My system:
P4 3.4GHz model 550
Abit AA8 Duramax PCI-E
1 Gig, Corsair DDR2 TWIN2x1024-5400C4PRO
ASUS EAX800XT, PCI-E, 256MB DDR3
74GB, Western Digital, SATA Raptor
485Watt, Enermax Power Supply

First time I installed all the drivers, the system would crash every
time there was any type of graphics mode change. I tried to uninstall
all of the graphics related files and was unable to remove an ASUS
driver (ASUS Enhanced Display Driver). Tried reinstalling same as
above. I did manage to get the Catalyst control center working
finally, but the system was still unstable, crashing after each
graphics mode change. The graphics that I did manage to see were
amazing... can't wait till they get the frickin drivers right. But
could not get any games to work (graphics mode changes and all), so
did as above and tried the fresh install approach...

Changed the order that the drivers were installed... waited until the
ati driver and directx were installed before installing the ASUS
enhanced display driver... Now my system is more stable and does not
crash when changing graphics modes, but Catalyst fails to initiate and
none of my games work... I am at a loss.... guess I will just have
to wait for someone to write some good drivers...

Cheers,
Cliff

Here is an update. Found my problem was related to the power dongle.
Doh, you need to attach both molex connectors to the power supply.
Kept crashing, cause it was not getting enough juice.... The only
time I get trouble with it, is when I try loading the ASUS smartdoctor
and enhanced graphics driver. And the failure then is a message that
the atidiag.... is stuck in a loop blue screen of death.... thingy.
Remove the ASUS crap and its clear sailing.... SP2 first and then
ATI.

Cheers,
Cliff