4870 1GB 3D settings don't stick in games

I recently purchased Sapphire 4870 1GB. However, there is a quirk in ATI's driver that 3D settings do not properly get applied in games. I tried to set 3D settings in CCC and ATT 1.69.1380 beta, neither worked. For example, When I play COD4, I set AA/AF to application controlled. Then 1 hour later I play Oblivion, I force 8x box AA 16xAF and Quality ADAA in CCC, then launch Oblivion, and the settings are not applied in game. I tried with UT3 as well, its not forced. This quirk seems to happen randomly. I can only eliminate the quirk by rebooting.

Below are my system specs:

E6300 B2 @ 3.3GHz 1.4V
Gigabyte EP-45-UD3p rev1.1 BIOS F6
2x2GB G.Skill PC2-8000 DDR2-1000
Sapphire 4870 1GB
PCP&P Silencer 750W
250GB Seagate SATA HDD
Samsung 2443BW
WinXP Pro SP2
9.1 Driver + Catalyst

OS had been reinstalled twice, and the same problem still exists, so it's not a corrupted install with either OS or the driver.


After some googling, I found no working solution for this, and I don't want to reboot every time I play a game. I need a solution to this problem please thanks. Or I'm thinking about returning my 4870 ($283 CAD) for a GTX 260 ($219 CAD). To me, ATI is unable to deliver the basic functionalities of a driver.

newest drivers ??

I don't think there's any solution to this yet. It's been a known issue for a while and still it happens. The best you're going to get is to to set the settings in game instead.

They're really starting to take drivers more seriously these days but it will take them just a bit longer to get all their problems worked out. Heck, I'm on catalyst 9.2 right now and they still haven't gotten the AVIVO converter to work on 64bit vista yet. It still uses CPU instead of GPU and the release of Stream processing happened back in December.