Catalyst 10.4 out,post your experiences

And it says it fixes 2D problems,finally
Here is from release notes
Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.4:
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky
Improves up to 6% with ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 graphics products
Improves up to 3% with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 graphics products
Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 Series products
Resolved Issues for All Windows Operating Systems
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows. These include:
Desktop mouse cursor will no longer intermittently appear enlarged
Pressing the "Page Down" button while configuring the last display in Eyefinity
group will now properly switch to the next display instead of closing the bezel user
interface
Shortcut keys to configure the bezel now functions properly
Resolved Issues for the Windows 7 Operating System
This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™
Software Suite for Windows 7. These include:
"Battlefield 2: Bad Company" maps no longer takes unusually long to load for ATI
Radeon™ HD 5000 Series
Performance on 2D applications and benchmarks has now been fixed
Catalyst Control Center - Advanced options no longer becomes disabled after
connecting second display in clone mode
Video Gamma now functions properly during SD/HD video playback with Adobe
Flash Player 10.1
Video corruption no longer visible while watching live HD Jade Channel (Hong
Kong) with Windows Media Center
Flashing no longer visible in "Shattered Horizon" game with CrossFire™ enabled
Changing in-game resolution in "Alien vs. Predator" no longer causes screen
flickering under multi-GPU configuration
Tint setting under Catalyst Control Center - Basic Color now displays smooth
transition when adjusted for Blu-ray playback
In-game anti-alias now functions properly when other in-game options like
Volumetric Effects are enabled in "Empire: Total War" and "Napoleon: Total War"
games
Flickering corruption and flashing textures are no longer visible in "Battlefield 2: Bad
Company"
"NecroVisioN" game now launches properly in DirectX 10 mode
Desktop corruption no longer observed on enabling Aero effects or updating graphics
score
Blank screen no longer observed when 8X anti-aliasing is applied in "The Chronicles
of Riddick 2" game

And the download links:
Win 7 32bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ [...] ws-7-32bit
Win 7 64bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ [...] ws-7-64bit
XP 32bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ [...] radeonx-xp
XP 64bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_ [...] deonx-xp64

Well, I know with the pre-release versions, BF:BC2 definitely sped up in the loading times from 30+ seconds to 5 seconds.

However, I was beginning to get some flickering corruption, especially in the final single-player mission. I might have to install today's release and see if it still happens. It could be my GPU overheating since I've overclocked it, but no other game causes it. And, it only happened in the final mission.

I'm giving them a go right now. Upgrading from 10.3a and hoping they fix some shadow flickering in Dirt 2.

I uninstalled 10.3a and installed 10.4 . I have a xfx 4770 o/c . Ran 3dmark 06 seem to score a couple hundred points lower. 17,500 vs 17800-18000
Rand TH 2D test scored almost exactly the same as 10.1
I think this model always had good 2d acceleration/ performance, is that not the test where some new cards scored very low , compared to older cards ?

Where can we download that 2-D benchmark? I'll give it a try later on my 4650 and 5850.

The links you posted werent working for me maziar, here is another link to the drivers: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Thanks. I had seen the original article, but no link.

So far all is smooth,though not a noticeable difference in my gaming!

Just install 10.4 and so far so good ,no craches in unigine heaven 2(27FPS averaeg) ,BFBC2(45fps aver.),FC2(small ranch 71fps av.)-All very high

That's great.
Have you run in to any 2D problems(Horizontal lines in the screen etc)

EDIT,
I just installed it and currently i don't have any 2D problems,will report back after few days of testing.
With Catalyst 10.3,i had problems with Dirt2 in DX11 mode,it didn't detect CrossFire and my FPS was low but 10.4 fixed it and now i can run it fine on DX11 mode with CF detected.
So far,its been an excellent driver for me

This is my experience: "Catalyst Install Manager has stopped working"

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: InstallManagerApp.exe
Application Version: 3.0.769.0
Application Timestamp: 4bbbe6e7
Fault Module Name: MFC80U.DLL
Fault Module Version: 8.0.50727.1833
Fault Module Timestamp: 482bb4a2
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00000000000854ee
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 2a81
Additional Information 2: 2a81cbaea89bd5754e854ae615f08673
Additional Information 3: 434f
Additional Information 4: 434f7d79cfc042d09f75d7fc7f922c8b

I've tried installing it numerous times, even restarting my PC in between and I've checked that it is the correct 64bit driver for windows 7.

Can you install older drivers ?

Maybe.
You may want to do a fresh install of your OS

I assume that is with Aero off? That is quite a bit below mine (several posts up, stock 5850). What score do you get with Aero?

Wow wtf? I thought having Aero off was suppose to yield better performance with everything??? Guess not.....

Aero On, with everything checked under the "Advanced Settings" tab:



Aero On, with everything un-checked under the "Advanced Settings" tab:

Just installed my Asus 5850 and things seemed good with Cat 10.3 (was already on system), but after installing 10.4 I'm getting some wicked horizontal flickering on my secondary monitor.

My main display is a Samsung 24" (1920x1200) connected via the HDMI-DVI convertor and my secondary is a 19" Benq connected to the native DVI port.

Looks similar to this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL7 [...] r_embedded

I am having issues with 10.4, reverted back to 10.3 and everything went back to normal (well not normal but better).

And I am not doing a fresh OS install, if I didn't have to do it with my 260 I shouldn't have to do it with my 5850. BC2 crashes for no reason, lag lag lag in loading times.. Smart Doctor gives me some sort of .dll error...

IMO AMD drivers are inferior compared to NV's. I can't even play BC2 with v-sync enabled (stays disabled no matter what) ..Dirt2 has some weird glitching glitching going on. The only game that works properly is Warhead..

Bummer...

Well when i turned on my PC,i saw some horizontal lines(Although it was in 157/300) but they quickly disappeared.
However when i am in windows, it seems i no longer have to set the 2D clocks to 400/900,because it works seems its working fine in windows without any crashes

seriously maziar, i know you need to keep the forum from getting cluttered but cannot not have my own thread to try and solve my problem?

i posted here because its a thread about experiences with the drivers, and is therefore relevant. I created my own thread so i could discuss my specific issue, which if done here would class as derailing.

it is incredibly unfair to close a persons thread before they can even discuss their issue, and i sure as hell don't think i should be discussing it here.

@ Maziar
If i may i would like to offer some feed back to this issue,
I'm posting here as its where the issue is at (this time) and would welcome some forum response otherwise i would have done this as a PM. This isn't directed at you Maziar and if you could would you post this to the other mods for their take on the suggestion, is there a Mods forum ?

If as seems the case these days that people are banned (sorry but that's what it comes down to) from having their own threads when new hardware/software launches then can we at least have subsections ? So we would have for example a Reviews and general discussions thread posted as a sticky as well as a Problem solving or technical issues thread. In my experience its very easy for a request for specific assistance to get lost in the sea of the new type review threads where there are often several different separate discussions/debates going on.

Thanks

Mactronix

Well, I finally fixed almost all of my DiRT 2 problems...by forcing DX9.

My horizontal glitch bars in the intro movies -> Fixed
Glitching Shadows -> Fixed

Not really optimum though. But this likely has nothing really to do with drivers (9.12HF-Present does it, yet before the patch it did not). Something in my DiRT 2 DX11 path must have gotten messed up. I'll have to give some of those DX11 benches (like Unigine) to make sure it is not all DX11.

Dirt2 DX11 worked fine for my 5750 as I just picked up Dirt2 last night on Steam for $9.99.

My theory is that perhaps there was a mishap when Steam force updated my game. I should say though that the game still looked great and was very playable, it was just 3-5 tracks that had jittery shadows. I really want to try reinstalling the game, but I have the download only version and that will take a while.

BIG Cursor is back - at least for me with 10.4

Could be related to enabling hardware acceleration to flash. At least now when hardware acceleration on flash is enabled and viewing in full screen mode no more driver crashes.

Well, Unigine 2.0 worked and looked great, so my problem is purely a DiRT 2 or DiRT 2 corruption problem.

Yeah, I'm definitely going to give it a try very soon as I have much faster internet here at college than at home. However, 15GB still takes a decent bit of time.