ATI Catalyst 10.4 Preview Driver Now Available

Ah, can't wait to get in these games faster, any word on a crossfire flickering fix from these ? And yes, some people still have that issue.

Hell, some people are still having GSoD issues! And wasn't this supposed to be a performance release? If so, that list had better start growing!!

I am running DX 9 because of slow loads, perhaps fix this the patch dose.

Well if it dose what it says it dose.

how about amdkmdap errors? or my inability to play browser games because of 2d and 3d problems? or freezing up when i alt+tab from WoW to thottbot? OH and maybe updating flgrx to include the 5k series?

Hey, that's cool an ATI driver news thing. Instead of just nvidia stuff.

I think I will wait for final release.

when is the 2d issue going to be fixed? they said it was simple driver issue... i thought 10.4 was supposed to hve that fix? is it 10.5 or 10.6 now? i thought we only had to wait till may to have it fixed i cant sand it, that 2d issue plus the 2 monitor issue makes it really bad, the expand desktop mode causes that 2d issue to be really big, only fix really is to run at like 300/1200 (max ram speed) on 5870 the ram clock throttling is the main issue that causes flickering/tearing and freezes in things like playing HD content, or any app that causes the gpu to throttle up from idle and at times to 3d speeds

AMD/ATI FIX THE FLICKER PROBLEM!!!

I applied the patch, even though I don't play the game, nor do I have a 5xxx card. I rule so hard.

Seriously though, good fix, but overal depth of the driver update seems lacking.

Remember that this is just a preview, so it will not have all the features of the full driver.

So there only fixing the 5000 series. How about fixing the 4000 series, it takes forever to load up BC2.

will this ever become a permanent update or is it just going to be a preview? is it still under construction? and if so, when can we expect it to be completed and supported by AMD?

sounds good. i was wondering why it takes so long to get into a game, most other online games i play i get into before anyone else, but im always a straggler in BC2.

I second the desire for enhanced 2D performance for applications like CAD. Although I just had a thought, if they improve consumer cards performance, no-one will buy the professional workstation series cards. Perhaps that's why we aren't allowed more performance.....

Is it really necessary, AMD, to release a driver update to fix something for just ONE game??? Really? I'm sure there's plenty of other things to work on, like... lower power comsumption, gaining better efficiency, or even better - release a driver update (I believe like the 10.3 one) which told customers with a 4800 and 5xxx series video card that they made the right choice when buying your cards because of a free driver update that gave them more performance out of existing hardware.

/vent

lol i agree with drutort when watching anything hd even in media player i see like a line go up and down like its a old tv or something of that sort i thought it was AA or something isn't a 5770 supposed to run bf2 better then a ps3 ? because it isn't on my cpu with these driver bugs its hilarious got the fastest amd processor (not overclocked) 4gb 1333 ram windows 7 64 bit and it still runs slower then my ps3 i wss looking forward to getting back into cpu gaming but this is just depressing the ps3's got half the memory! GRRR!!

Clearly, everybody missed the part stating that this was A PREVIEW.

Funny thing that there is already leaked 10.5 beta with finally working (H.264, VC-1) video acceleration.

works great cut loading time in half. now ea just needs to fix the ctd (crash to desktop) problem while playing online

Some flickering is vendor specified, like certain models of Gigabyte.
Also follow the instructions of ATI to correctly fix the flickering.
many people just slap the driver and want instant solution!.


also remember! this is a PREVIEW(hotfix) driver. done to fix certain bugs with a speed up release.

The flickering problem has been around since late last year with the 5xxx series. Why has it taken AMD/ATI that long to fix. When in communications with Sapphire they directed me to AMD/ATI and they just said to RMA it. I've had Sapphire's 4890 -no problem, in single mode and in SLI-, Sapphire's 5850 -FLICKERING, 1st time RMAed 2nd time opted for Refund-, and ASUS' 5870 -FLICKERING-. If I pay for a top video card you bet your tamales that I want instant solution!

What about load times on the 4xxx? My 4890 is taking forever to load even though my system runs great (70-80 average at high res)

They have a CrossFire profile available, which fixed the flickering problem for me. Give it a shot.

Anyone else tired of seeing the word "dose" instead of "does?" Is it just me?

This driver release does have an updated 2D driver. There should be another update to the 2D driver with the final release among other things.

As far as the leaked 10.5 driver, it's a fake. How can there be a 10.5 driver when 10.4 isn't even completed yet? That makes no sense at all. The only leaked version that was real was a 10.4b that was leaked like a week ago. But that leaked version had a driver date of 3/27/2010 and it didn't have a new 2D driver. The date for this preview is 4/6/2010.

So they did not fix the missing resolutions for some monitors yet ?

1600x1050 monitor can only go to overscan 1600x1200 or 1280x1024 with 10.3 same with the opengl 4 beta driver and nothing in between like the 9.5 to 10.2 default desktop 1440x900@60 / gaming 1600x1050@60 that my screen run on at this moment.
4800 to 5870 same results on xp, xp64, vista, win7 ultimate64 5x lcd's tested.

No fix for the HDMI enable / disable as primary instead of svga 15 pin old school primary only bug ?

while waiting for ati to fix the flicker problem, the quick patch though it does suck power, is to create profile(s) and set each throttle speed, idle, 2d (high), 3d to have the same memory as the 3d throttle (speed) setting

IE for my 5870 it would 1200 for all 3 (want 0, want 1 want 2), it works, and I dont have to wait for ati if i want to watch some HD or any app that throttles up the clock speed. (search how to edit ati profiles)

As i stated and I dont know why tomshardware didnt find this right away, its the MEMORY throttling that causes the flicker/tearing, once you have the memory running the same speed on all the 3 throttle settings you do not have it... of course this means more power consumption and higher temps, thats why i say this fix really sucks but if you must it works

too bad ati didnt fix there profiles to switch right, I might have to look for a third party app, cause i see the profile selection fail i mean you have to try to or 3 times

this is very obvious when your running 2 or more monitors when doing expanded mode

Great job getting these drivers out. I'm just glad they're actually updating stuff.

Ever since drivers 10.x I get random freezing!! I just went back to 9.x and no more freezing.

Anyone else having this problem? Happens on windows 7 32-bit and windows XP SP3 32-bit. 780i motherboard. Q6600 CPU.