graphics bugs with ATI 4800 series (4850/4870/4890)

[jasonnoguchi 11]

sigh... i try not to fix what's not broken... sticking to 9.11. :)

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

Does anyone know if 9.13 will positively affect Arma II ? and when will it be out ?

next driver version wil be 10.1 or 10.2

10 standing for the year and .1 or .2 for the month released....

[Horus 83]

Catalyst 10.1 is out LINK

[islesfan186 83]

i have a 4800 and any time i fly over a town the screen does those crazy tear/layer things, then lags, and then just cuts out and goes back to my desktop. doesnt matter if the game is on normal or very high settings. post processing and antialiasing are off in game video memory is set to very high 3D res is at 100. no matter what, it just exits the game. is it the fact that i have only a 4800 and not a 4850 minimum or is there something else i can do to not cause this to happen other than setting everything to low cuz the game looks blurry and crappy on low.

just tried updating the drivers too and it still didnt change anything :/

Edited January 29, 2010 by islesfan186

[ozzbik 70]

i have a 4800 and any time i fly over a town the screen does those crazy tear/layer things, then lags, and then just cuts out and goes back to my desktop. doesnt matter if the game is on normal or very high settings. post processing and antialiasing are off in game video memory is set to very high 3D res is at 100. no matter what, it just exits the game. is it the fact that i have only a 4800 and not a 4850 minimum or is there something else i can do to not cause this to happen other than setting everything to low cuz the game looks blurry and crappy on low.

just tried updating the drivers too and it still didnt change anything :/

Perhaps your card is overheating?

Also is your PSU good enough for the hardware your running?

[SteveJA 12]

thats great help, i might actualy find the reason the game keeps crashing!!

[islesfan186 83]

Perhaps your card is overheating?

Also is your PSU good enough for the hardware your running?

whats a PSU?

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

no its not related to the psu

i even reinstalled everything windows xp x64, everything...

when im editing my controls and i click the "next" button

my game crashes to desktop too...

never had any problems with power bevore

psu is your power supply

this is driver related

9.12 wasnt the best driver for this game but 10.1 is even worse...

just found out that crossfire never worked for this game

my crossfire watermark is also gone but fps remains the same....

EDIT

the watermark isnt an issue found out why it was gone

i turned of catalyst ai

game still crashes when pressing the next button twice

while editing controls....

Edited January 29, 2010 by =KCT=BlackMamba

[islesfan186 83]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9lU8QCXr7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYhZauarBQ

i have 2 sapphire ATI radeon 4870 512MB GDDR5 cards. i made a threat with my issue describing them better called "arma 2 issue *with video* please help" so if you have advice on what would cause this/how to fix please post on that threat. drivers are up to date (so i think) and latest version of directX is installed

[mosh 0]

whats a PSU?

power supply

edit - never mind, late again...

Edited January 31, 2010 by Mosh
senile

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9lU8QCXr7g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqYhZauarBQ

i have 2 sapphire ATI radeon 4870 512MB GDDR5 cards. i made a threat with my issue describing them better called "arma 2 issue *with video* please help" so if you have advice on what would cause this/how to fix please post on that threat. drivers are up to date (so i think) and latest version of directX is installed

set your video memory to default thats wat causes the white flickering,

and the game runs smoother on default....

[islesfan186 83]

i got the flickering to go away i just disabled crossfire. but now with the flying issue im getting what everyone else is getting when flying over chernogorsk. crazy layers of gray and whatnot.

[rowdied 44]

i got the flickering to go away i just disabled crossfire. but now with the flying issue im getting what everyone else is getting when flying over chernogorsk. crazy layers of gray and whatnot.

Use ati tray tools and you need to have textures on high or very high and catalyst a.i. on high, not off or low and flip queue size set to 5.

Any deviation for me causes the strobe affect for me.

[Dwarden 1124]

Catalyst 10.1 is out LINK

warning some of the 9.12 hotfix fixes aren't available in the 10.1 driver !

they were promised for 10.2 so far

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

warning some of the 9.12 hotfix fixes aren't available in the 10.1 driver !

they were promised for 10.2 so far

wat hotfixes?,

are they arma2 related..

please could u be more specivic ?

or a link

[kklownboy 43]

wat hotfixes?,

are they arma2 related..

please could u be more specivic ?

or a link

go to Rage3d, or go to AMD support , or even ATI drivers...

I find the 10.1s better than the 9.12hotfix...

Can get rid of any polyspike with setting my VideoMemory to VeryHigh. Or run in DualGPU CF with Default.

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

go to Rage3d, or go to AMD support , or even ATI drivers...

I find the 10.1s better than the 9.12hotfix...

Can get rid of any polyspike with setting my VideoMemory to VeryHigh. Or run in DualGPU CF with Default.

i did

some open_cl and crossfire "eyefinity" changes,

some game fixes.

nothing abouth arma2 that im aware of..

10.1 gives me little performance increase,

when comparing 9.12 hotfix with 10.1.

wat i would like to know is does arma2 make use of open_cl ?

[kklownboy 43]

i did

some open_cl and crossfire "eyefinity" changes,

some game fixes.

nothing abouth arma2 that im aware of..

10.1 gives me little performance increase,

when comparing 9.12 hotfix with 10.1.

wat i would like to know is does arma2 make use of open_cl ?

there wasnt any A2 fixes, but there could be some Globle fix for the RAM issue...Sorry you thought he said that there was A2 stuff in the driver.

[=kct=blackmamba 44]

no i didnt think there are A2 stuff in there...

only the fixes in the hotfix doesnt do anything for arma2 that im aware of.

like u,.. i think the 10.1 performs bether and we have to wait and see what 10.2 is going to bring in relation to arma2..

[kklownboy 43]

They never post all the fixes.

So do use Default? or Veryhigh on VideoMemory settings?

[SnR 1]

Im still getting the white boarder around objects infront of black Smoke.

All drivers up to date.

[kklownboy 43]

Im still getting the white boarder around objects infront of black Smoke.

All drivers up to date.

You always will. Its inherent to the type of Rendering and AA. Its less if you use more AA and High Resolutions(1920/1440 ect) and have a small pixel Display. It worse with JTD smoke effects.. I hardly notice it anymore. And i dont seem to play with whole maps on fire anymore either...

[Midhaven 0]

Just managed to fix my Arma2 problems.

If you have a Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 4870 512MB DDR5

or

If you are experiencing problems that look like this..

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3262/crashkd2.jpg 1600 x 1200px, 914 kb

http://www.chaddavid.com/crash.JPG 1200px x 1.600px, 684 kb

Then you can stop worrying, your card ain't broken, just the card's bios, wich can be fixed.

The guy in this thread has two sollutions, I used the one without updating my bios and I can confirm it works.

http://www.warhammeralliance.com/forums/showthread.php?t=118448

I don't know how many cards this applies for, but if you are having problems similar to the ones on the pictures, use the workaround sollution.

Edited February 15, 2010 by W0lle

[W0lle 1046]

Midhaven

Are you insane? both of your pictures were 9, respective 6 times as big than allowed.

One could think after 3 years in this forum you should know about the 100kb rule

[Midhaven 0]

I spend my time on so many diffrent forums each day it's hard to keep track of wich rules go where. But I see you edited it.. Thanks.