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RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

WAW8 — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:53:33 GMT

[quote]And if I install catalyst 7.2? can it help me? what do you mean?[/quote]

What I mean is that it was reported initially in Catalyst 7.3; that does not mean that earlier Catalyst builds worked OK. If you have an old version of Catalyst, you can certainly try it. But I just checked the AMD/ATI site and 7.3 is the oldest one they have.

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

Drako — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:48:12 GMT

And if I install catalyst 7.2? can it help me? what do you mean

(this post is totaly bad in english. true?)

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

WAW8 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:02:57 GMT

[quote]I don't understand this part. What is DriverHeaven? It constitue that I must install catalyst v7.3? your last sentence mean that i have a hope?[/quote]

DriverHeaven is another forum where folks post and track driver-related problems. That simply means that they have been working this for over a year now, have found some workarounds that work, and have not yet found a fix.

The reference to the old Catalyst drivers indicates that this problem is not unique to the latest version -- which is not good news. It's been reported since version 7.3, meaning that it is an old problem that ATI has yet to fix.

If the workarounds that were mentioned didn't solve your problem, there's nothing more that can be done at this point.

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

Drako — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:07:28 GMT

[quote][b]WAW8 (3/17/2008)[/b][hr]This problem has been tracked on DriverHeaven for over a year now and traces back to Catalyst v7.3. [/quote]I don't understand this part. What is DriverHeaven? It constitue that I must install catalyst v7.3?
change to clasic view don't solve this problem, game falling now too.
i hasn't overclocking my gpu and ram :(

your last sentence mean that i have a hope?

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

WAW8 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:17:53 GMT

Your English is fine, don't need to apologize for it.

Oddly enough, the bitmaps suddenly appeared again.

Sorry, but I have bad news. This problem has been tracked on DriverHeaven for over a year now and traces back to Catalyst v7.3. Several workarounds have been suggested:
1) Change desktop settings to Classic view instead of Aero
2) If you're overclocking your GPU, set it back to factory speed
3) If you're overclocking your system memory, set it back to standard SPD; if not overclocking system memory, try reducing the memory timings in the BIOS.

Apparenly, AMD/ATI have yet to develop a fix for this problem. It's definitely hardware related because the same problems are experienced in GNU/Linux -- which uses totally different drivers.

Also, since this is a Video problem, I'll be moving this post to the Audio & Video forum. Please look for responses there.

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

Drako — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:25:11 GMT

:( ok, on that image is a buble which contains this text:
[b]Diiplay driver stopped responding and has recovered[/b]
Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has succesfully recovered.
what can I do with it?

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

WAW8 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:57:28 GMT

Can't help you because clicking the image link gives "server not found". Don't have anything to look at.

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

Drako — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:16:59 GMT

sorry, I give bad image. This is good-> [URL=http://www.imghosting.eu/view.php?img=problem_vga.jpg]
[IMG]http://www.imghosting.eu/uploaded24/thumbs2/problem_vga.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
thank

RE: Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

WAW8 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:26:29 GMT

This message has absolutely nothing to do with your graphics card. The screen says you're having problem connecting to an Apache server. We don't work those kinds of problems on this forum, sorry.

Vista & ATi Saphire radeon HD3870

Drako — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:40:54 GMT

Hi all,

I have a problem with this graphic card, when I run a game with better graphic details. My computer freeze for 2-5 second, next is black screen for 2seconds(as monitor is shuted down) and next is black screen while i don't stop the game. Next I see this-> [URL=http://www.imghosting.eu/view.php?img=vertrigo.JPG]
[IMG]http://www.imghosting.eu/uploaded1/thumbs2/vertrigo.JPG[/IMG][/URL]
I hope that you solve my problem(and see that image)

BTW: if this problem was solved on this forum sorry, but on system instantForum i was never been and i don't know how it control. Or if this post is in bad category please send message for me when you move it. Thank you

BTW2: I'm from slovakia, then sorry for my bad english :D