Blue Screens Starting With Catalyst 3.7

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I was running the RADEON Catalyst 3.6 drivers under Windows 2000 very
successfully for about six months. I use RADEON mostly for Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2002 and 2004. I recently installed 3.7 drivers, and
immediately I started getting blue screens. I tried today to back out to
3.6 drivers, but now I get the same result. Obviously something has become
corrupted on my system. What is the recommended method for recovering?
Should I run some utility to completely uninstall everything and then run
the driver installations again?

I run at 2048x1536x32 at 85 Hz refresh. Under Direct3D:

Anti-Aliasing is 6x
Anistropic Filtering is 16x
Texture is set to Quality
Mipmap Detail is set to High Quality

Before I start crippling the performance and quality of the graphics
arbitrarily, I want to check if there are particular settings that are
usually the cause of these kinds of problems.
 
Try booting into safe mode, shutdown then reboot normally and see if the
problem goes away.
 
Cut the detail in half man what are you ?


Try booting into safe mode, shutdown then reboot normally and see if the
problem goes away.
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I was running the RADEON Catalyst 3.6 drivers under Windows 2000 very
successfully for about six months. I use RADEON mostly for Microsoft
Flight Simulator 2002 and 2004. I recently installed 3.7 drivers, and
immediately I started getting blue screens. I tried today to back out to
3.6 drivers, but now I get the same result. Obviously something has become
corrupted on my system. What is the recommended method for recovering?
Should I run some utility to completely uninstall everything and then run
the driver installations again?

I run at 2048x1536x32 at 85 Hz refresh. Under Direct3D:

Anti-Aliasing is 6x
Anistropic Filtering is 16x
Texture is set to Quality
Mipmap Detail is set to High Quality

Before I start crippling the performance and quality of the graphics
arbitrarily, I want to check if there are particular settings that are
usually the cause of these kinds of problems.
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The 3.7 CAT's forced OFF fastwrites on my system. I put it back to ON and I
started to have problems. IF you turned on fastwrites then turn them back off.

Thats all I got. Sorry. Just a thought.

Pluvious
 
You may have nailed it on the head. Fastwrites were on, and so far after
turning this feature off no Blue screens.

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Will
westes AT earthbroadcast.com

Pluvious said:
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 13:46:46 -0700, "CHANGE USERNAME TO westes"
The 3.7 CAT's forced OFF fastwrites on my system. I put it back to ON and I
started to have problems. IF you turned on fastwrites then turn them back
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