ATTN ATI Users: Roll back to Catalyst 11.3 for possible performance gains

pinion120 · 2011-05-12 10:22:19 UTC

Before I even launched the game I had heard of Brink’s ATI issues. I installed the 11.5a hotfix driver. Horrible FPS stutter in multi, single, and character select.

I read a poster say that he rolled back to 11.3 drivers and it fixed his issue. Uninstalled my 11.5a drivers COMPLETELY, reoobted, installed 11.3 – FPS is now smooth as butter with very minor hitches once in a while to load textures. Nothing out of the norm. Game plays great.

Posting to help other ATI users. My specs below:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6500 2ghz processor
4 gig ram
ATI HD5850 video card
Windows 7 64 bit

Crispy · 2011-05-12 10:47:46 UTC

Bear in mind this may not work for all users.

We still recommend 11.5a as it includes updates made specifically to work with Brink.

daethwing188 · 2011-05-12 23:45:15 UTC

The game was running fine (albeit at about 5-15 FPS) before I updated my ATI/AMD drivers. Since updating to 11.5/11.5a, catalyst keeps crashing and the game won’t start at all (I will post up a report in just a little bit, I’m far too aggravated and frustrated to do it now) and I’m having issues rolling back the drivers to a working configuration.

slengteng · 2011-05-13 00:09:40 UTC

I’m using 11.2 myself and it is running ok. Still not where it should be, but I am able to play it.

wolf_blitzer · 2011-05-13 00:30:41 UTC

ditto. I had 11.5a installed and had horrible lag when the Steam overlay/pop-ups would appear. Once I removed 11.5a and put on 11.2 that problem went away completely.

Radeon HD 5850

your mileage may vary.

wolf_blitzer · 2011-05-13 00:33:30 UTC

ditto. I had 11.5a installed and had horrible lag when the Steam overlay/pop-ups would appear. Once I removed 11.5a and put on 11.2 that problem went away completely.

Radeon HD 5850

your mileage may vary.

Also, the framerates went up pretty significantly with the older drivers.

HomeGrown · 2011-05-13 02:46:12 UTC

[QUOTE=Crispy;300596]Bear in mind this may not work for all users.

We still recommend 11.5a as it includes updates made specifically to work with Brink.[/QUOTE]

Oh was that a hotfix to get rid of the grids? Oh wait they’re still there never mind.

Humate · 2011-05-13 02:54:23 UTC

Ive played with 11.3 and 11.5a on a 4870x2 card. No performance gains here.

Nerfed · 2011-05-13 03:04:37 UTC

intel mobility core 2 duo T6600 @ 2.2GHz
ATI mobility radeon HD 4530
4 GB RAM
11.5

I’m lucky to get maybe 10 fps on parkour this, in the smallest possible window size, with configs and all that installed.

G3722 · 2011-05-13 03:09:17 UTC

4890/AMD Phenom II user here.

Performance is better with the 11.3, thought not really what i would hope for. Still have to turn most, if not all visual options down to get a decent framerate. Grid effect are still on, too.

Ricaz · 2011-05-13 04:06:18 UTC

5870
Phenom II X6

I tried swapping a bit between 11.3 and 11.5a, it seems about the same for me. 30 fps.
I hope that everyone agrees that I should have at least 60+ with this setup.

okuRaku · 2011-05-13 04:14:26 UTC

[QUOTE=wolf blitzer;302161]ditto. I had 11.5a installed and had horrible lag when the Steam overlay/pop-ups would appear. Once I removed 11.5a and put on 11.2 that problem went away completely.

Radeon HD 5850

your mileage may vary.

Also, the framerates went up pretty significantly with the older drivers.[/QUOTE]

I have a 5850 as well and tried rolling back from 11.5a to 11.2 and saw a huge fps gain. Also steam overlay would cause lag before but now it’s silky smooth. Thx!

Still have sound bug though, and when I just tried s_restart in a game I got CTD.

Splash_Damaged · 2011-05-13 04:18:56 UTC

I’m using 11.3 and I don’t see much difference from 11.5a. I’m getting about 45-60 FPS most of the time, drops to 30s and even 20s in open areas. I have a config file that turns everything off. I should be getting 60+ FPS without tweaking the graphics but Splash Damage apparently did not test the game on AMD/ATi machines.

Radeon 6850 OC’d
Athlon II x4 3.6Ghz
4 Gig DDR3
Windows 7 64

Macky · 2011-05-13 04:33:03 UTC

What I found to work for me as a temp fix is to:
Go to brink/directx and install directx
Go to brink/msvc2008sp1 click on vcredist and do a repair

It doesn’t increase frame rates but the game ran smoother in SP and in MP.

hailey · 2011-05-13 04:37:25 UTC

lol some of these are venturing very far into placebo area

Macky · 2011-05-13 04:41:59 UTC

LOL, it worked for me so I’m passing it along. Unless you have a technical reason why, on my PC, this doesn’t work? Also, explain why the game comes with directx install files and how that’s also placebo

Auzner · 2011-05-13 04:43:51 UTC

11.5 and 5a made my video cards unable to do any game or even playback videos; windows would simply freeze. Rolled back to 11.3 and everything works again. So I don’t know if it’s just Brink, but 11.3 is a better driver for my system. Crossfire isn’t working for Brink.

Macky · 2011-05-13 04:48:28 UTC

They don’t have a CF profile for the game yet as far as I know.

TaXXuS · 2011-05-16 16:49:33 UTC

I purchased and installed my 6950 this weekend. I ran DriverSweeper to get rid of the nVidia remnants and installed 11.5 and the CAP1 profiles and I have had absolutely no trouble. The game is running smooth as glass with EVERYTHING turned on and maxed out @ 1920x1200.

I am wondering if pieces of previous drivers are causing issues for some.

Rynji · 2011-05-16 18:17:28 UTC

I am playing with a 5850 and core i5 2500k in 64bit wi7.
11.3 is OK (game feels laggy/choppy but playable). 11.5 is recommended but it made my game CTD after <1 minutes of playing, so i reverted back to 11.3.