What is a good, stable driver version

[wildkitten]

I have an XFX 5850 I purchased last April/May. I have never done a driver update (still running 10.3 or 10.4) because of all the seeming problems a lot of new drivers have. I am not a heavy user. I play World of Warcraft, some Sims 3 and Dragon Age. However, since WoW released their patch 4.0.6 I have had a couple of blue screens ( I do run Vista) that say before it reboots that it's the display device driver. I see no other issues, no screen flickering or such and no crashes outside of WoW so I don't think I have a video card issue. Heat is also not an issue. Never seen it above 70 C.

Seeing how some people report problems with 11.2, is there a good stable version of newer drivers? I don't run Crossfired cards, just a single card, and I do not overclock.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[17seconds]

The 10.10's seem to be the champs of recent releases. If you want something more recent, the 11.11a's are pretty good too. At least that seems to be the consensus in this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareus.inc&cat=33&post=309630&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=1&trash=0&trash_post=0&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0

Archived Catalyst drivers can be found here:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/Videocards---ATI-Catalyst-Windows-Vista_c31.html

 

[wildkitten]

10.10 specifically, or would 10.11 or 10.12 be best?

 

[17seconds]

I just re-read that thread about Catalyst drivers, and the 10.10 ones, specifically, were favored by a couple of the very experienced regulars. Many who upgraded from 11.1a to 11.2 rolled back to 11.1a.

So I would say try 11.1a first, because they are the more recent of the two, then try 10.10 if you are still having problems.

 

[wildkitten]

Thank you so very much. I will do that.

 

[wildkitten]

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