ATI Driver issues

[cgintz]

Hello all,

I'm having some interesting issues with my Catalyst drivers. I recently had to roll back from the 9.10 drivers to the 9.8's due to some other driver issues and it solved my problem.

Now my 9.8 drivers are being rolled back to 9.7 on their own. It's only been happening since i upgraded to Windows 7 premium x64 from Vista 64. Does anyone know a solution to keep my drivers from switching to an older version?

This is with an MSI 4870 1g.

Thank you

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

you have to uninstall them from the device manager,and delete the software also.Also delete the ati install manager under the unininstall programs.then install your new driver update!

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

you can also install the new drivers thru device manager!

 

[cgintz]

I just uninstalled and it automatically tries to install 9.7 how do I turn that auto install off?

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

delete any versions of the drivers in your files!

 

[cgintz]

I use driversweeper and i manually go through my folders to delete any traces and it still auto installs 9.7...

 

[Mousemonkey]

Are 9.7 the default drivers that W7 uses?

 

[cgintz]

I'm guessing so?

 

[Mousemonkey]

I'm guessing so?

Then you would have to install any other drivers 'over the top' as it where, I think (am pretty sure) that the old VGA driver is gone and that is the only 'basic' or 'default' driver that W7 has for ATi cards.

 

[cgintz]

So you're saying that I should leave the 9.7s alone and just install newer ones correct? Wouldn't that make some kind of stability or compatibility issue?

 

[Mousemonkey]

It's what I've been doing with the Nv drivers without issue, why would it not work for the ATi drivers?

 

[cgintz]

Ill give it a shot thanks

 

[cgintz]

Its still reverting back to 9.7 sigh.

 

[Mousemonkey]

I'm assuming that you have turned off system restore?

 

[cgintz]

Just did now. I'll see if it works.

 

[cgintz]

Nope its still reverting back to 9.7. so strange

 

[cgintz]

Seems something I'm experiencing is happening to a lot of people. http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=260&threadid=120896&enterthread=y Not the rollback part but I'm still getting these crashes..

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

i get the bsod right when the driver install says detecting hardware.any ideas why anyone!