Dear ATI users.

(1Shot1Kill) #1

This might gonna sound a bit… Stupid to say the least.
I’ve been having a lot of trouble with my ATI 5770 G-card. My friend had the same card and said that he didn’t have issues. I disabled the shadows and turned everything down and textures on medium. Still shoppy gameplay and very low FPS. I asked him: What display driver are you running? He had no idea what I was talking about, so I figured he didn’t even had one.

I was desperate to make this game run, so now here comes the stupid part.
I went to my control panel. Clicked ‘Remove or change a product’ (or whatever it’s called in English, Dutch version here :slight_smile: ) Looked for ATI cataclyst Install Manager. Ran it. A window popped up, hit next. Uninstall Manager, hit modified uninstall. It filled a list of what I could uninstall.Remove everything except Cataclyst Control Centre. (or AMD vision engine control centre as some PC’s call it.)

Anyways. I rebooted (it promps you for that) I tried running BRINK and…
NO LAG! Just when you deploy for the first time in the map (not when you respawn) it will lag for 5 seconds. But this may be due because everybody is still connecting. Also this is in Warm-Up.
I really hoped I helped some people out there. (and when anybody knows the name please post it and I will add it :smiley: )

It will reset your driver to a windows driver, but it’s defo not from ati since when you try to uninstall again, no display driver pops up!

Running windows 7 64 bit.
Windows Update didn’t install any driver after I did that.

(Orthias) #2

now if you were true about the steps you took to uninstall the driver, the default one should be running now, installed by windows.

Can you go into the Device Manager and tell us what’s listed under the Display Adapters node?
Does it say something like: ATI Radeon 5700 Series, or more like “Generic display driver”.

Also, what windows version are you using? Windows 7 or Windows XP or what? Because windows 7 can automatically download the latest drivers from the internet and install them automatically.

(1Shot1Kill) #3

[QUOTE=Orthias;325826]now if you were true about the steps you took to uninstall the driver, the default one should be running now, installed by windows.

Can you go into the Device Manager and tell us what’s listed under the Display Adapters node?
Does it say something like: ATI Radeon 5700 Series, or more like “Generic display driver”.

Also, what windows version are you using? Windows 7 or Windows XP or what? Because windows 7 can automatically download the latest drivers from the internet and install them automatically.[/QUOTE]

Hello Orthias

It says ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series.
I’am running Windows 7 64bit, however windows update is turned off, and it didn’t install or download anything. Main point is: it works!

(Je T´aime) #4

Ye please explain this better too I also have a ati 5770 and kinda lost on what you did, you just run the game with no drivers at all :?

(1Shot1Kill) #5

Yeah, it does sound ridicilous. But hey it works!

(Joff) #6

I tried to make sense of what this bumbling idiot has said and used the install manager to remove everything other than the display driver and CCC but no effect.

(1Shot1Kill) #7

Please, don’t call me an idiot. I am just trying to help you guys out here.
If you read more carefully, you HAVE to delete the display driver. And keep CCC

(phoen1x) #8

U are just posting crap that is all. Windows either used older driver or downloaded newest. U know, u can’t use vga without driver…

(kilL_888) #9

yea, well, dude. i am so desperate i just tried to deinstall my driver again. pf, if one more time would matter. i lost counting.

but well. i dont know why, maybe its driversweeper, but windows doesnt install its default driver for the 48xx series. i get the vga graphics adapter. so i thought, hey, screw the official drivers. i tried 11.5b recently, you know, and they didnt work all that good. so i got back to the modified guru3d.com drivers and im as fine as i can be. sec tower down to 30 just like before. tomorrow i will open a raging frustration thread. **** ati.

(fps_bam) #10

What’s your current fps?

Which driver are you at? 11.5b?

I tried this with my 5770 card and no change :confused:
Also running win7 64bit :o

cpu; dual 3.2ghz… should give more than 30 stable fps :confused:

(Macky) #11

That’s a downloadable option when you install your OS and get a bunch of updates. He’s would read 5700 driver or something like that. What you really need to do is uninstall that window installed 5700 driver device. Then right click on Display Adapter and scan for updates. The device should read something new or use a generic win7 driver (forget the name).

Then you reboot to make sure that generic vga driver sticks. Then you install cat 11.5b. That’s the proper way to do it.

And you know who you are that installed those win7 video card drivers. You know who you are!

Edit:
Let me further explain. He thinks using the win7 5700 device driver fixed the problem. That’s incorrect. The profiles from his previous cat install are still being used and are located in C:\windows\system32\ati*.*
They don’t get replaced until you install another cat driver. It’s the install process that updates those profiles not the uninstall process.

So what he did was uninstall his current cat driver, used win7 drivers with current cat driver profiles and all seem to work. Except he doesn’t have CCC. :tongue:

(eMwegA) #12

“I tried to make sense of what this bumbling idiot has said and used the install manager to remove everything other than the display driver and CCC but no effect.”

he wants to help and you call him idiot? You tried his trick anyway? Seems to me that you are the bigger idiot here…

(1Shot1Kill) #13

[QUOTE=Macky;327312]That’s a downloadable option when you install your OS and get a bunch of updates. He’s would read 5700 driver or something like that. What you really need to do is uninstall that window installed 5700 driver device. Then right click on Display Adapter and scan for updates. The device should read something new or use a generic win7 driver (forget the name).

Then you reboot to make sure that generic vga driver sticks. Then you install cat 11.5b. That’s the proper way to do it.

And you know who you are that installed those win7 video card drivers. You know who you are!

Edit:
Let me further explain. He thinks using the win7 5700 device driver fixed the problem. That’s incorrect. The profiles from his previous cat install are still being used and are located in C:\windows\system32\ati*.*
They don’t get replaced until you install another cat driver. It’s the install process that updates those profiles not the uninstall process.

So what he did was uninstall his current cat driver, used win7 drivers with current cat driver profiles and all seem to work. Except he doesn’t have CCC. :tongue:[/QUOTE]

Actually I still have CCC, and using it. Just I only uninstalled the ATI Display Driver.

(Macky) #14

Again, the problem is there are 2 drivers. Just get rid of the win7 downloadable driver and then install AMD’s cat 11.5b and you should be fine.
Step 1: Uninstall your current and reboot.
Step 2: Open CMD with admin rights and type: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 then type: devmgmt.msc
Step 3: Select View and choose Show hidden devices.
Step 4: Select Display Adapters and remove any AMD/ATI/Nvidia devices.
Step 5: Use the right mouse button for Display Adapter and Scan for new hardware changes.
Step 6: Device for Display Adapter should have a windows default name now (forgot the name).
Step 7: Reboot
Step 8: Install Cat 11.5b

Easy, peasy lemon squeezy.

I see you’ve modified your post after some criticism.

(abnorm) #15

[QUOTE=Macky;327734]Again, the problem is there are 2 drivers. Just get rid of the win7 downloadable driver and then install AMD’s cat 11.5b and you should be fine.
Step 1: Uninstall your current and reboot.
Step 2: Open CMD with admin rights and type: set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1 then type: devmgmt.msc
Step 3: Select View and choose Show hidden devices.
Step 4: Select Display Adapters and remove any AMD/ATI/Nvidia devices.
Step 5: Use the right mouse button for Display Adapter and Scan for new hardware changes.
Step 6: Device for Display Adapter should have a windows default name now (forgot the name).
Step 7: Reboot
Step 8: Install Cat 11.5b

Easy, peasy lemon squeezy.

I see you’ve modified your post after some criticism.[/QUOTE]

do this work for win xp too?