Best Radeon HD 3850 drivers?

The newest one's??

If you don't want to mess with control panels, you can access all of the controls by right-clicking the icon in your system tray, in both Ati and Nvidia drivers.

Just use the newest driver on the manufacturer's site.

I downloaded 7.11 and lost 15-20 FPS. My 3870 was playing BF2142 between 20-30FPS and COD4 was 30-50. They were 50-70 with 7.10. I thought it was my imagination until i read this thread. I had already uninstalled 7.11 and reinstalled 7.10.

I also stopped OCing my 3870 with ATI overdrive. It kept crashing anything over 800/2400 and it was only at ~80 degrees c at highest load. I probably need aftermarket cooling, but i dont like ATI overdrive. So i set it all back to default.

At default clocks and CCC 7.10, all is good. I run at Medium to high settings, 2xor4x AA and 4xor8xAF depending on the game.

Anyone using Omega drivers? Back when i had a x700 pro, Omega was pretty good stuff.

I to prefer nvidia drivers. ATI/CCC is so picky. CCC settings must be tweaked endlessly to get stable FPS. Nvidia install and forget. With that said, i love my 3870. I can live with CCC.

What settngs are you talking about? I leave my settings stock except for AA/AF to enhance image quality, and it's been stable for me...

CCC = Catalyst Control Center. It is the control panel for ATI settings.

Cleeve. I agree. I went back to stock settings and all is good now. I Use AA & AF settings in the games.

Maybe, I was screwing with them to much.

Tried a couple of games just to double check Crysis and BF2. Image wise if you change setting from 'Application Setting' it seems to get worse jaggies/ blurred textures. Only thing that makes a massive difference is 'Mipmap detail' set to 'Quality'. Makes medium Crysis look like High x2 AA. As for BF2 Mipmap has to be on 'quality'. The image AA actually decreases with AA or AF on in CCC. Maybe it's just my comp but this is just what i've found out with trail and error.

Keep playing COD 4 through on Arcade mode atm competing with mates to get higher scores. Must admit it's not that gfx demanding. My secondary comp with the AGP 512mb X1950 pro eats that game aswell as any PSU under 600W (maxed 25 min- 70max fps. I took a while to realize the mipmap had to be on quality before it looked great i.e seeing the weave of the SAS jumpers etc... My main game is BF2 and must admit my rig is way overpowered to play it, but hey .

Have you tried the Force button in the Displays Manager? might help you.

Nah i find higher refresh just hep eliminate the poss of ghosting in games. Don't tend to get fatigue until maybe 6-7 hour point, not that i play for that long at night . Just thought may help with your res coz that can be annoying.

Maybe i'm stupid. But when i got my 3870 and just stuck it into my rig everything worked fine except crossfire in crysis.

Then i did a fresh install and wiped the hard drive and installed 7.11 and the crysis hot fix. I still can't run crysis in CF mode AND one other game keeps crashing (DiRT). Now I tried installing 7.10 and the behavior is the same. I tried installing the Omega drivers but it says no bios or something. Is 7.10 and Omega not compatible with the 3870?

For omega to work i always uninstalled ATI drivers and CCC. then install omega. But, i havent used Omega since my x700 pro days. It may be different. I have Windows XP.