ATI Catalyst 5.11 Performance Analysis and Driver Download

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I downloaded the 5.11 drivers from the ATI web site this afternoon. As
usual, I uninstalled the old drivers using the ATI software uninstall
utility program. After rebooting I installed the 5.11 drivers and
rebooted again. The problem was that the redraw rate on my desktop was
agonizingly slow. Even moving a window an a few inches
flickered/flashed terribly. I uninstalled the 5.11 drivers and
reinstalled the 5.10 ones. The screen is back to normal again.

Does anyone know what went wrong? I have a Radeon X800pro card on a
Windows XP, sp2 machine with 1 gig RAM.

Thanks.

Sam
 
Sam said:
I downloaded the 5.11 drivers from the ATI web site this afternoon. As
usual, I uninstalled the old drivers using the ATI software uninstall
utility program. After rebooting I installed the 5.11 drivers and
rebooted again. The problem was that the redraw rate on my desktop was
agonizingly slow. Even moving a window an a few inches
flickered/flashed terribly. I uninstalled the 5.11 drivers and
reinstalled the 5.10 ones. The screen is back to normal again.

Does anyone know what went wrong? I have a Radeon X800pro card on a
Windows XP, sp2 machine with 1 gig RAM.

Thanks.

Sam
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yea you should have rebooted 1 more time.
 
I downloaded the 5.11 drivers from the ATI web site this afternoon. As
usual, I uninstalled the old drivers using the ATI software uninstall
utility program. After rebooting I installed the 5.11 drivers and
rebooted again. The problem was that the redraw rate on my desktop was
agonizingly slow. Even moving a window an a few inches
flickered/flashed terribly. I uninstalled the 5.11 drivers and
reinstalled the 5.10 ones. The screen is back to normal again.

Does anyone know what went wrong? I have a Radeon X800pro card on a
Windows XP, sp2 machine with 1 gig RAM.

Thanks.

Sam
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I've try the 5.11 ccc and it din't give me any bug. Also any
improuvement in frame rate/3dmark05
 
Gordon Scott said:
yea you should have rebooted 1 more time.
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Until now, I haven't used an ATI product in many years, but I have to say
that I'm disappointed that every time you upgrade you have to uninstall the
previous version. Is that the case for nVidia, too? This seems really
primitive to me, that a driver's install routine isn't sophisticated enough
to be able to upgrade the previous version.

Worse, when reading the "737-20561: Removing Old ATI Software" technote, I
see that it's not enough that you go to Add/Remove to (logically) uninstall
"ATI Software Uninstall Utility," you have to go back and do the same for
the non-descript "DAO." Ridiculous. How many people are even going to catch
that second one?
 
Milhouse said:
Until now, I haven't used an ATI product in many years, but I have to say
that I'm disappointed that every time you upgrade you have to uninstall the
previous version. Is that the case for nVidia, too? This seems really
primitive to me, that a driver's install routine isn't sophisticated enough
to be able to upgrade the previous version.

Worse, when reading the "737-20561: Removing Old ATI Software" technote, I
see that it's not enough that you go to Add/Remove to (logically) uninstall
"ATI Software Uninstall Utility," you have to go back and do the same for
the non-descript "DAO." Ridiculous. How many people are even going to catch
that second one?
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there is no need to uninstall previous video drivers, 99.9% of the time
installing over top works just fine.
This is not the case with MMC etc, but for the video drivers and wdm
drivers installing over previous versions works perfectly.
 
I did! Rebooting again made no difference.

Sam
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OK, I tried it again. This time I not only used the uninstall utility
from ATI, but DriverCleaner 1.2 as well. Reinstalled the 5.11 drivers
and now all is well.

I've found that unless the previous ATI drivers are completely
uninstalled that there are usually problems of some sort... at least
with Windows XP.

Sam
 
OK, I tried it again. This time I not only used the uninstall utility
from ATI, but DriverCleaner 1.2 as well. Reinstalled the 5.11 drivers
and now all is well.

I've found that unless the previous ATI drivers are completely
uninstalled that there are usually problems of some sort... at least
with Windows XP.

Sam
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I tough that ccc drivers when installing was showing a little message
like (uninstalling previous drivers or out dated driver) So by that
you dont have to uninstall every thing with that driver cleaner that
mess up winxp...

Here every thing went well i got an x700pro vivo.
 
I tough that ccc drivers when installing was showing a little message
like (uninstalling previous drivers or out dated driver) So by that
you dont have to uninstall every thing with that driver cleaner that
mess up winxp...

Here every thing went well i got an x700pro vivo.
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Driver Cleaner hasn't messed up XP for me... and using it made the new
drivers work properly. Obviously the ATI uninstall utility was missing
something. I hadn't used the Catalyst Control Center version since it
came out... too many problems and too little benefit for my purposes.
I use the standard Control Panel version of the software.

Sam
 
Spaceman said:
Well i'll still be sticking with my 5.8's unless they have fixed the MOH
problem....
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The 5.11s work with Breakthrough! So I am assuming they fixed the problem
with MOH, although I haven't tried MOHAA or Spearhead.
 
Sam said:
Driver Cleaner hasn't messed up XP for me... and using it made the new
drivers work properly. Obviously the ATI uninstall utility was missing
something. I hadn't used the Catalyst Control Center version since it
came out... too many problems and too little benefit for my purposes.
I use the standard Control Panel version of the software.
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Does the Control Panel version have any resident tasks like cli.exe?
 
Milhouse Van Houten said:
Until now, I haven't used an ATI product in many years, but I have to say
that I'm disappointed that every time you upgrade you have to uninstall the
previous version. Is that the case for nVidia, too? This seems really
primitive to me, that a driver's install routine isn't sophisticated enough
to be able to upgrade the previous version.

Worse, when reading the "737-20561: Removing Old ATI Software" technote, I
see that it's not enough that you go to Add/Remove to (logically) uninstall
"ATI Software Uninstall Utility," you have to go back and do the same for
the non-descript "DAO." Ridiculous. How many people are even going to catch
that second one?
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I go into safe mode, uninstall the drivers in the control panel, then go to
device manager and also do it from there afterwards. It's the way i've done
it for years, and it always works perfectly fine for me. As of lately, i've
been using ATI uninstall utility and that has been working perfectly too. I
never have problems with installing new video card drivers by doing things
this way. I don't know why people think that is such a big hassle. It's the
way it has been done for years...
 
Does the Control Panel version have any resident tasks like cli.exe?
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Cli.exe doesn't exist on my machine, so it must be a part of just the
CCC version. The only thing running, that I know about, is
ati2evxx.exe. I have the two services (ATI Smart and ATI Hotkey
Poller) turned off.

Sam
 
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