ATi 5870 display driver not responding and has recovered

[Dr.Hojay]

I hope this helps at least ONE person.

 

Seen this ? Feel like jumping off a building ?

 

"The amd driver has stopped responding and has successfully been recovered"

 

With a card like the 5870 you'd naturally want to max out all your settings.

Over the past few weeks i've been going nuts trying to fix an issue i've been facing with the catalyst drivers and my 5870 on Windows 7. ( On XP i have no issues with anything - rock solid )

I kept getting crashes with Just Cause 2 ( sometimes 5 minuts sometimes 30 - no consistency ) ..and then realised it's happening with pretty much any game.

 

Game would crash , but keep playing the background , so you could play , audio was fine - you just couldnt see anything.

Alt Tab would give me the desktop and then i could end the game process - and the CC would show me this message.

"The amd driver has stopped responding and has successfully been recovered"

 

After many long nights , driver cleaning and changes , never ending google searches , ram testing , motherboard testing , registry editing. changing TDR values etc etc ( i tried everything short of washing everything with water and soap ) - i finally found a fix.( well kind of )

 

Apparently the 5870's deal with AA differently and the drivers arent sorted out completely to deal with this.

So here's the FIX.

Simply TURN OFF AA.

 

I hope Ati or MS fixes this issue soon.

[MarketTantrik]

Cool tip!! Thanks.

[Ne0]

turn off AA where in the CCC ?

 

Actually this problem happens only in Metro for me, that too when I turn on everything to very high. At 720p and dx11 settings, it runs pretty smooth. BTW, are you guys having this problem where the mouse pointer is blocky and big all of a sudden ? I'm having this annoying problem where the mouse pointer suddenly becomes big. I'm using catalyst suite 10.4.

[Tyler]

This happened to me while testing the 5850 with Just Cause 2 last night.

 

@Ne0, that mouse pointer thing is a known problem with DX11. I've read about it too.

[Don Karnage]

turn off AA where in the CCC ?

 

Actually this problem happens only in Metro for me, that too when I turn on everything to very high. At 720p and dx11 settings, it runs pretty smooth. BTW, are you guys having this problem where the mouse pointer is blocky and big all of a sudden ? I'm having this annoying problem where the mouse pointer suddenly becomes big. I'm using catalyst suite 10.4.

The 10.4 drivers are supposed to fix the enlarged mouse cursor issue (I know ATI has fixed it before), you could try uninstall, clean drivers and reinstall.

[Ne0]

^^ No dude. Its not fixing the problem.

 

Anyway, a temp solution to the mouse pointer problem till the offiicial fix comes is to enable mouse trailers and set it to short. The mouse pointer flickers a bit, but its a lot better than the annoying large pointer.

[Dr.Hojay]

alas i was fooled.

 

UPDATE : got another random crash... after disabling the power play feature and upping the card voltage i was was able to play for a few hours - but then randomly had another crash later.so i still don't really know what the problem really is .. if you're planning to get this card and use it on win 7 - i'd say stay away. It's really sad that ati is taking so fricken long to fix this .. like someone said somewhere - lucky for ati their comeptition is in worse shape than they are - you don't have to be the best just better than the other guy ...

 

imo - it's definitely a driver / os issue - if anyone knows anything please do share.