AMD/ATi 5870 Issues (maybe fixed)

[Haarek84]

I have bought a AMD/ATi 5870 graphics card from ASUS a while ago, and i soon found out there was some issues with games and FPS (with more)

Today i tried to uninstall Catalyst 10.2 and the rest of the bundled programs that came with this, rebooted and executed ccleaner, then preformed another reboot.

Finally i installed JUST THE DRIVERS for my amd card, without catalyst and other bundled stuff.
= all of my games runs now perfectly with enormous high FPS.

I checked more about this and i discovered that catalyst wanted to control every game settings disabling the game settings somehow (ingame), this made my pc go slower and stuttered often.

I tried to disable all catalyst settings and still had problems. so i blame AMD for making bad software. though they make pretty good hardware, i am a hardware nerd and this GPU makes me warm and fuzzy with a cherry on top.

I hope this advice will help my fellow gamers on this face of planet earth.

[[R-COM]rushn]

I have 4870 and 5750 and I did not have any problems except maybe 5750 has bad FPS on the new Unreal Engine 3 especially Americas Army 3

[ghoststorm11]

I have two 5870s. I only run one with BF2 and I always have high FPS. I run on high graphic, but it may be the 12GB of RAM that helps.

[[R-COM]rushn]

you never really need more then 4Gb unless you do video encoding or memory intensive programs

[[R-DEV]Masaq]

Originally Posted by ghoststorm11

I have two 5870s. I only run one with BF2 and I always have high FPS. I run on high graphic, but it may be the 12GB of RAM that helps.

Won't make a jot of difference. BF2 is still a 32-bit program even if your OS is 64-bit; despite the the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag that DiCE patched in, the game can only use up to 4 gigabytes of memory.

Even if BF2/PR ran to more than 2GB memory useage (I've never seen it top out above 2, on my PC), then once you're allowing another 1.5 - 2GB or so for Windows and the usual collection of background tasks and applications - xFire, TS3, Mumble, Sidebar etc, the difference between 4GB of RAM and 12GB is absolutely moot.

[Haarek84]

you can NEVER have enough RAM.

I renember back in 2006 when i had two nvidia 6800 ultra's running in my rig w/SLi i had 10 minutes of game time before i got BSOD due to massive memory leaks. PR would go NOM NOM NOM on my ram like the cookie monster on sesamy street.