ATI Catalyst 8.6 Drivers Problems

[Aaron Olive]

Attention Everyone Don't Get The New 8.6 Drivers It Has A Bug That Stops Your Display Driver From Responding And Your Computer Will Blue Screen So Far The Driver Crashes All All Games I Have Tried: Audiosurf, And All Of The Vista Games On My Computer, And As Far As I Know I Ran into This On x64 Vista SP1 Ultimate I Don't Know About x86 Though.

[ViperAFK]

Try using something like driver cleaner and reinstalling the drivers.

[Aaron Olive]

Trust Me I Already Know It's 8.6 Because 8.5 Didn't Have This Issue And Without Any Driver Installed My Games Work, So It's Something On ATI's End.

[gate1975mlm]

Attention Everyone Don't Get The New 8.6 Drivers It Has A Bug That Stops Your Display Driver From Responding And Your Computer Will Blue Screen So Far The Driver Crashes All All Games I Have Tried: Audiosurf, And All Of The Vista Games On My Computer, And As Far As I Know I Ran into This On x64 Vista SP1 Ultimate I Don't Know About x86 Though.

Same issue here after installing ATI Catalyst build 8.6 on my Radeon 3850 Madden 08 willl not load up right. It freezes :(

I had no issues with 8.5, 8.4, 8.3 and so on.

I am running Vista 32bit

[KiHu]

And I.

Have the same problem.

>_<

[AceRickford]

Hi all,

I am new here! :)

I wish I came across this post earlier. I spent all day pulling my hair out over this one! I was almost coming to the conclusion that my graphics card was playing up. I did everything possible and not thinking it would be a driver fault!

Blast you ATI, don't you test the drivers before releasing them! :angry: Anyway, I have since put 8.4 on and it is running very nice........

I have send an email to ATI expressing my anger on this one.........

[PrEzi]

Stop angering and just download the quickfix 8.6 driver (which is meant for 48xx cards) - it fixed my problems with VPU Recovery errors.

I've had similar problems with 8.6 after the upgrade from 8.5. Oh and btw - I have an X1950XTX so it works with all ATi cards.

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswe...uestionID=35298

[AceRickford]

Stop angering and just download the quickfix 8.6 driver (which is meant for 48xx cards) - it fixed my problems with VPU Recovery errors.

I've had similar problems with 8.6 after the upgrade from 8.5. Oh and btw - I have an X1950XTX so it works with all ATi cards.

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/KBAnswe...uestionID=35298

Hi PrEzi,

Your link does not work (it brings up a timeout error message). Also, will it work with the Radeon X1800 series?

Cheers

[HoochieMamma]

XP

Vista

[PrEzi]

Hi PrEzi,

Your link does not work (it brings up a timeout error message). Also, will it work with the Radeon X1800 series?

Cheers

OK, I've figured out, that it is session-based.

Just go to amd.com - choose support and drivers, then in the left pane select graphic support and search for the 4800 quickfix item Topic #: 737-35298

XP

Vista

Hotlinking doesn't work with ATi.

Go to amd.com choose support and drivers and search for Topic #: 737-35298

[HoochieMamma]

Hmm yeah, it seems so. Well i only got the links off guru3d thinking they would get it right :p

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

Look for "Radeon? HD 4800 Series Hotfix"

[DacoitOne]

Thank god I wasn't alone, I'd been suffering random BSOD's in all my PC games since installing this set and am now just about to go back to the much more stable 8.5's instead. I have a 3870 though so the hotifx is of no use to me.

8.6. They are just plain nasty.