IL-2 Random Crashes,ATI video card

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by KG26_Alpha

The 7.11 cat was the best for the older cards IIRC

x1950 pro
x1650

Does anyone have any idea which Ati drivers are best for more modern cards? I mean, in respect to the gunfiring graphical glitches, and Open GL compatibility?

[rakinroll]

Guys, i am using x1950 Pro and really need to know best Catalys settings pls. Thanks...

[brando]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

Does anyone have any idea which Ati drivers are best for more modern cards? I mean, in respect to the gunfiring graphical glitches, and Open GL compatibility?

I have a 4890 and was experiencing all the bad effects like artefacts, blue lighting and worst of all, the FMB crashing! I just went back to the Catalyst 9.5s and everything is just fine.

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[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by brando

I have a 4890 and was experiencing all the bad effects like artefacts, blue lighting and worst of all, the FMB crashing! I just went back to the Catalyst 9.5s and everything is just fine.

B

The gunfire artifact goes way back. I was getting the gunfire artifacts on a HD 3850. Before that I was using an x1550, and that was clear of that problem, not half so powerful graphically, but the gunfire artifact didn't show up once. It may well be that on the 3850 I was using a later driver, and earlier 3850 drivers didn't do it, but I don't have any way of knowing about that. All my recent Radeons have been Sapphires, including the x1550, if they don't work with standard Ati drivers, they certainly used to.

[GF_Mastiff]

Listen guys after 10 years with ATI I have given up, I bought a NVIDIA EVGA GTX 260cor 216 896M ddr3 PCIE for $137.00. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...VCD&cpc=VCDbsc

IL2 looks even more stuinning with NVIDIA...

and Im getting any where upwards from 40FPS to over 100FPS!!!Everything is maxed!!!

My sugestion drop the ATI cards they sux...

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by GF_Mastiff

My sugestion drop the ATI cards they sux...

It isn't that simple. I have a crossfire motherboard, I can get a second card that takes me past almost any GF for £120, to beat that combination in a single Geforce card would cost £380. My motherboard doesn't do SLI, and two cards wouldn't be as cheap as one even if it did.

I do like the idea of Ati and AMD as underdogs united. Other than that, I'm slowly coming around to the view that where Open GL in games is concerned, you may have a point.

[GF_Mastiff]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

It isn't that simple. I have a crossfire motherboard, I can get a second card that takes me past almost any GF for £120, to beat that combination in a single Geforce card would cost £380. My motherboard doesn't do SLI, and two cards wouldn't be as cheap as one even if it did.

I do like the idea of Ati and AMD as underdogs united. Other than that, I'm slowly coming around to the view that where Open GL in games is concerned, you may have a point.

Thats ok I have the P5WDHdelux its a mobo crossfire set-up, I can run SLI on it no problem. I had 2 x HD 3870's running in crossfire and they would only get 40fps in IL2 4.09mb1 max'ed out...

SLI is ran through your cards, the mobo crossfire is only for the ATI cards that don't need the bridge, the HD 3870's and above that need the bridge use only the ATI CCC crossfire set up enabled... Don't be fooled into think just because it states crossfire Mobo it just means it can be bridged through the Mobo..

[brando]

Well, I think Alpha was right when he said that the latest couple of Catalyst versions have a problem with OpenGL, at least as far as this old game is concerned. I flew online for a few hours last night, using the 9.5s, and never saw a single problem.

If we're gonna get into product fanaticism - here's a BD score from this driver set - Frames: 10200 - Time: 150000ms - Avg: 68.000 - Min: 26 - Max: 159

That's also with 'maxed-out' settings; I don't think I'm going to junk my Radeon quite yet

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[baronWastelan]

Originally Posted by GF_Mastiff

Listen guys after 10 years with ATI I have given up, I bought a NVIDIA EVGA GTX 260cor 216 896M ddr3 PCIE for $137.00. http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?inv...VCD&cpc=VCDbsc

IL2 looks even more stuinning with NVIDIA...

and Im getting any where upwards from 40FPS to over 100FPS!!!Everything is maxed!!!

My sugestion drop the ATI cards they sux...

I love your solution. Now, if only I could buy the GTX 260 core 216 at $137.00.

I have a ATI HD 4870, i have all the random CDT's with no error messages etc.
If I switch from perfect mode I think they stop happening.
DLL's do nothing at all to prevent crashing I've tried them all.
I'm going to try 9.5 cat to see if that fixes it as others have suggested it will.
Oh and as a sub note, this is an ATI issue.
I'm never buying from them again. This crap has been supposedly being fixed since 2007 when the issue first cropped up.
A problem for the future is if SoW uses OpenGL like IL2 has ATI owners are screwed.
I hope not