ATI RC1 Drivers for Vista RC1=Corruption

Dyre Straits · September 11th, 2006, 10:04 AM

I've been using the latest Vista downloads. First, I tried the Pre-RC1 release and then installed the latest RC1 release.

I also downloaded the ATi RC1 drivers for Vista.

Well, I can't use these drivers as they cause all kinds of problems when attempting to do very simple things. Among them:

1. Try to view the Device Manager
2. Try to install any program
3. Try to open anything other than the Desktop and/or Browser Window.

Here's what happens:

Once that screen appears, the only remedy is to hit the ESC key...which effectively halts any operation that was started and then returns me to the Desktop.

With this happening constantly, Vista is pretty much useless.

To avoid the problem....or to fix it....I have to boot into Safemode and Uninstall the Video Card and the Drivers for it. Then, I have to make sure to install ONLY the Microsoft drivers (WDDM).

Hopefully, this issue will be resolved soon and I can actualy try Vista with a game or two.

Kage · September 11th, 2006, 10:36 AM

Reminds me of dusty NES game cartages...

And I thought nvidia's Vista drivers were bad... Gives me a little perspective...

Dyre Straits · September 11th, 2006, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by Kage

Reminds me of dusty NES game cartages...

And I thought nvidia's Vista drivers were bad... Gives me a little perspective...

Maybe they're using 'fuzzy' logic.

Kage · September 11th, 2006, 10:58 AM

LOL

You know, I've been grumbling about bad Vista drivers all day.

I installed NFS: HP2 (last of the 'classic' NFS games) and my performance was roughly 50-60% less than with 91.xx drivers under XP x64... Using the same settings. Playing with fan made cars for the games with more than 20k polys or so would slow the game to a crawl...

And there is absolutely no excuse for the appalling image quality of the 96.33 drivers.

...Although, it is a little better than ATi's multi-coloured snow. LOL

Oh, and the drivers don't support hardware monitoring. So, I can't check the temperature or overclock the card with software.

gen.Rage1991hrv · September 16th, 2006, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

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wow is that a new game for vista????
what is the name of that game?? try to save your pc???

Dyre Straits · September 17th, 2006, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by generalRage1991hrv

wow is that a new game for vista????
what is the name of that game?? try to save your pc???

It's certainly not "Color by Number"

gen.Rage1991hrv · September 17th, 2006, 10:53 AM

did you fix it????

Dyre Straits · September 17th, 2006, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by gen.Rage1991hrv

did you fix it????

Nope. Still using Microsoft's drivers when I run Vista.

gen.Rage1991hrv · September 17th, 2006, 07:18 PM

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Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

Nope. Still using Microsoft's drivers when I run Vista.

did you send them email???
send them screen shot of your prob.

p.s.i have searched for some fix for RC1 but no results all i have finded its peoples saying everything bad for ati drivers

Treehumper · September 18th, 2006, 04:08 AM

Well ATI actually wrote the WDDM drivers that Vista RC1 uses... they're Catalyst 6.7 from what I remember. You're only missing CCC or CP, but the drivers work just fine. The ATI RC1 beta drivers are 6.8, only slightly newer.