Here is a warning to EVERYBODY: If it aint broke, don't fix it.
I was in the mood this morning to upgrade. I checked out the Catalyst 5.7 drivers and saw that it gave a huge performance increase with 128MB cards. Cool, I thought. I could use it. I downloaded them, uninstalled my old drivers, ran Cab Cleaner + Driver Cleaner (ATI, ATI CCC, and ATI Uninstall Utility.) Installed Catalyst 5.7 and there was texture corruption in Battlefield 2 *EVERYWHERE!* Everything was blinking black, multicolored corruption.. egh. I promptly unstalled Cat 5.7 and reinstalled 5.6. Texture corruption was fixed butthe FPS stuttered badly. I then remembered I had Cat 5.4 installed, not 5.6. So, I uninstalled 5.6 and reinstalled 5.4.
Well, the stuttering in Battlefield 2 is still here. Before, it was silky smooth 40+ FPS. It's now around 30ish FPS, but now when I am flying a jet in, say, Gulf of Oman, I switch to a view behind me it will stutter for a few seconds or simply stop for about two seconds, if I bomb my FPS will drop to about 5 FPS for a good 10 seconds. Same settings, nothing changed.
It seems almost like its stuttering when theres particles. For an example: bombs. When I fire an Anti-Tank rocket, the smoke drops it to about 2 FPS until the smoke clears. The explosion of C4 does the same thing.
Damnit! And to just think it was working perfectly fine a few hours ago -_- Please help my **** up. I don't have the time to format right now and I'm leaving on vacation in a few days and I'd really like a good hour or two before I leave.
I'm using XP Pro SP1. I also tried to delete all the Shader Cache and let it recreate them. Didn't make a difference.
Thank you.
I was in the mood this morning to upgrade. I checked out the Catalyst 5.7 drivers and saw that it gave a huge performance increase with 128MB cards. Cool, I thought. I could use it. I downloaded them, uninstalled my old drivers, ran Cab Cleaner + Driver Cleaner (ATI, ATI CCC, and ATI Uninstall Utility.) Installed Catalyst 5.7 and there was texture corruption in Battlefield 2 *EVERYWHERE!* Everything was blinking black, multicolored corruption.. egh. I promptly unstalled Cat 5.7 and reinstalled 5.6. Texture corruption was fixed butthe FPS stuttered badly. I then remembered I had Cat 5.4 installed, not 5.6. So, I uninstalled 5.6 and reinstalled 5.4.
Well, the stuttering in Battlefield 2 is still here. Before, it was silky smooth 40+ FPS. It's now around 30ish FPS, but now when I am flying a jet in, say, Gulf of Oman, I switch to a view behind me it will stutter for a few seconds or simply stop for about two seconds, if I bomb my FPS will drop to about 5 FPS for a good 10 seconds. Same settings, nothing changed.
It seems almost like its stuttering when theres particles. For an example: bombs. When I fire an Anti-Tank rocket, the smoke drops it to about 2 FPS until the smoke clears. The explosion of C4 does the same thing.
Damnit! And to just think it was working perfectly fine a few hours ago -_- Please help my **** up. I don't have the time to format right now and I'm leaving on vacation in a few days and I'd really like a good hour or two before I leave.
I'm using XP Pro SP1. I also tried to delete all the Shader Cache and let it recreate them. Didn't make a difference.
Thank you.
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