The "New Catalyst Drivers"

[Spart1337]

According to EA the new catalyst drivers for ati cards (Catalyst 5.8) fixes lots of bugs and stuff for BF2. Doesnt help me. I have to downgrade to 5.6 drivers to keep everything from turning black sometimes. it angers me. I tried playing it with the 5.8 and even 5.7 and in every server it would twitch out and the ground would turn black. hell with 5.8 i couldnt see people por vehicles. just guns and the boxes on the vehicles and just floating guns where the people were. :cry:

[shadow_wolf]

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yep, I did the same. Rolled back to 5.6

[keel]

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I tried out 5.7 when they came out, complete visual corruption of BF2. Rolled back to 5.6 and I'm happy. Doesn't sound like 5.8's are too promising either..

[shadow_wolf]

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I tried out 5.7 when they came out, complete visual corruption of BF2. Rolled back to 5.6 and I'm happy. Doesn't sound like 5.8's are too promising either..

the whole ground (sometimes everything) turns black. Real fun if youre flying.

[imported_Tumbler]

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Weird when I ran 5.7 I had the same issues with teh textures turning black and a lot of weird problems. Have not experienced that in 5.8.

Another note, I've found if you alt tab out of the game whent he graphics turn black like that and come back it will correct itself. If you hit esc the game will crash.

[Slaytanic]

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The 5.6's are the best for me. .7 and .8's shred my FPS, and i get tons of stutters - none of that with 5.6's. 9800 Pro 128mb

[Dandred]

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Mine's running beautifully after installing the 5.8 drivers

[Se7eN]

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9800pro ati 5.8 runs alot better for me..

[FM_Echo_One]

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ATI 9500 Pro. Runs fine here.

[tk471138]

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ya mine is a little less choppy i have a ati x700

[shadow_wolf]

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the problems of .7 were fixed in .8 only for the X800XT unfortunately.

[mikemil828]

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I tried out 5.7 when they came out, complete visual corruption of BF2. Rolled back to 5.6 and I'm happy. Doesn't sound like 5.8's are too promising either..

The mere fact that you could roll back means you didn't do the driver update properly, video cards don't like multiple versions of a driver on one computer.

So here's what you do to get it to work.

1.Unintall ALL ATI drivers
2.Grab a driver cleaner like Driver Cleaner Pro, and use that to finish the clean up process
3. Restart Computer
4. Install new drivers

Do this and you shouldn't have any more problems with corruption

[Sovetskeey]

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My game runs wayyyy better with the 5.8s. I don't know what you guys are smoking but pass that shit my way.

Mike, ATI gives a driver remover that works fine.

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/cat-uninstaller.exe

[Solar71]

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this is what you do...

Remove your ATI drivers... COMPLETELY

change drive to standard Super VGA... or just VGA
Reboot...
now install new drivers...
Reboot again...
Done

[AAAAA]

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Run 9800 pro ( overclocked ), 5.8 drivers work fine.

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