8.11 Drivers Released

[rangers]

talk about good games anyone played dead space, best game on the market

 

[murdoc]

ok I've just tried driver cleaner.net and it didn't work. The program froze as I tried to remove any nvidia drivers. I rebooted the comp and tried FC2 again and still it stutters.

 

[truehighroller]

driver cleaner pro does that to me with my ati driver removals.. I have to end the process to get it to come back up.

 

[jackieboy]

What is the resolution u are testing ?
I am testing with 1680x1050 resolution DX10 and everything is maxed out and i got a very bad FPS (20)

I am using the same resolution as you are.....I don't know what my actual frames per second are but it plays the game just fine with max settings

 

[Maziar]

Well i somehow managed to get things better 😀
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/256961-33-4870x2-help

 

[mark $]

Well I just updated my drivers, and now my vga keeps restarting when i play any games. The ATI software keeps recovering it though. Anybody know if this is a driver issue, should I uninstall and use the ones on the disc when I got it?

 

[murdoc]

Well I just updated my drivers, and now my vga keeps restarting when i play any games. The ATI software keeps recovering it though. Anybody know if this is a driver issue, should I uninstall and use the ones on the disc when I got it?

The drivers on your CD are really out of date though. Try uninstalling all drivers in safe mode and then reinstalling the drivers. You can also try to turn off VPU Recover to see if you can gain some stability since VPU recovery feature is known to crash games.

 

[Maziar]

Uninstall the driver from Control Panel then Download Driver Sweeper and install it
http://www.guru3d.com/category/driversweeper/

Go to safe mode and use driver sweeper and clean what its left for a clean uninstall 😉
and then install the new driver

 

[BlakHart]

ok the 8.11's did not fix the choppyness for me either. Disabling AA gets rid of it but even with 4x enabled the fps never drops below 40 so what is going on?

I always use driver sweeper to clean. so that solution does not work for me...driver cleaner does not work on my system, is it compatible with vista 64?

 

[Maziar]

Yes it is i have used it and its great

 

[murdoc]

yes it is except Driver Cleaner.net froze when I was trying to clean it on vista 64bit

 

[bt2513]

I posted another thread about this but does anyone know whether they will address the issue with HDMI sound being disabled if the TV is turned off or the input changed? I know it hsa something to do with my TV not sending the EEID when the input is not being used but that's about it. I'm a noob, what can I say...

 

[BlakHart]

yes it is except Driver Cleaner.net froze when I was trying to clean it on vista 64bit

That's what it does to me... I've reinstalled it so many times and it just freezes while cleaning. So I switched to driver sweeper and it seems to work nicely.

 

[murdoc]

That's what it does to me... I've reinstalled it so many times and it just freezes while cleaning. So I switched to driver sweeper and it seems to work nicely.

Hmm.. ok I guess I'll give that program a go and see what happens... but given that I didn't install any nvidia video cards when I've installed vista 64bit I don't see why I would have this problem.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Driver cleaner Ive heard, removes too much, and hasnt been updated in quite awhile

 

[Maziar]

Yeah i wanted to DL it from GURU3D and look here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=745
Update: This software was removed at the request of the publisher. A newer version of their software is still available yet shareware, to be found at the author's website.

As an alternative we'd like to recommend you Driver Sweeper (completely free), please click here.

 

[murdoc]

Ok, I've just tried Driver Sweeper and it's worked pretty well. I'm glad to find that it's free and there were no problems on Vista 64bit. I'm going to give FC2 a try now to see what happens.

**Edit: I've tried and well.. gameplay improved but overall FPS dropped (Average now at 40 instead of 50). Driving got a bit more smoother after removal of Nvidia stuff but there's still a slight bit of jittering. **

 

[BlakHart]

It still does it on my PC too...just not as bad it seems like, must be a driver issue, or something that needs a patch from ubisoft. If I play without AA enabled it goes away. But I hate doing that when the frames are so solid lol. I'll just wait...

 

[murdoc]

ooo maybe that's the problem. I didn't try turning off AA. I think this needs to be fixed by ubisoft and I hope it does.

 

[SpinachEater]

Ok, I've just tried Driver Sweeper and it's worked pretty well. I'm glad to find that it's free and there were no problems on Vista 64bit. I'm going to give FC2 a try now to see what happens.

**Edit: I've tried and well.. gameplay improved but overall FPS dropped (Average now at 40 instead of 50). Driving got a bit more smoother after removal of Nvidia stuff but there's still a slight bit of jittering. **

I was caught up messing around with all of the hotfixes from ATI...intalling and uninstalling like crazy. Thought it was a good idea to use DriverSweeper to make sure everything was cleaned out. It crashed in the middle of the process and it screwed up my registry. I couldn't access anything from one of my HDDs after that. Be warned...it can be evil.

 

[M-Ajesty]

And about 8.11, it still didn't fix the 0x116 atikmdag.sys BSOD, bah.