Originally posted by ; "Blackened23" in a different forum


"Driver to be released later today! DO NOT USE THE CURRENT RAGE DRIVER! They mistakenly packed it with an old opengl driver which causes performance problems/artifacts. In the meantime:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystOpenGL42BetaWin.aspx

For those of you insinuating that this is people w/ outdated systems/drivers, you are incorrect. ATi already tweeted that they know the issue is because they mistakenly packaged an old OpenGL version into the latest ATi Rage performance hotfix.

Installing the proper version of the open GL driver should fix the problem."


Original post can be found here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?p=32367438


I can confirm that that the ATI Rage performance drive released on 4th OCT is unstable. It caused malfunctioning with my G15 keyboard, and graphics were still bad in some areas of rage.

So yeah ATI messed up with the rage performance package. So YOU SHOULD uninstall it if you have that driver version.

Interesting. . .

Thank you for this. These Rage drivers are basically unstable and won't play Counter-Strike 1.6

Glad it's helped someone. = )

I'm not sure which one I downloaded. How do I check which one I installed?

You are aware that the Topic in question is several days old and that the proper driver has already been released and such ?

By all means please do tell me where u can get this proper driver?

From what i can tell the latest driver (version 11.9) was released sept 28th


http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/Pages/radeon_win7-64.aspx

I aint trying to cause a fight or anything, i would just like to know.

Also people are still installing the rage performance driver that every rage article is advertising on the internet. - tis the main reason why i originally posted this topic


The beta driver (which u can find at the first link in my original post) was posted today, 8th October

wait i didnt even know a new rage driver from ati is out where is the most recent updated one im wanna download it i dont care if it doesnt work for you

That's rather insulting, i am trying to help you and others.


The LATEST that i can find is the beta driver, you can find it via the link in my first post.

lol sorry i didnt mean it like that so are you saying that one doesnt work the first link?

I am saying that you should install this driver:

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/AMDCatalystOpenGL42BetaWin.aspx

Until a new, proper driver is available.

Your information is incorrect.

The reference to the problematic OpenGL support is based on AMD's twitter feed from Oct 4. Andrew D was making a reference to the Oct 3 driver lacking the OGL support. He was saying not to use the Oct 3 driver.

http://twitter.com/#!/CatalystCreator/status/121248985557118976

On Oct 4, as he predicted, they released the second Rage performance driver and it improved the OpenGL support in comparison to the Oct 3 driver. AMD has since been working on another AMD RAGE/BF3 unified driver which will include additional fixes; however, this has not been released yet. According to Todd Hollenshead, this will be released today:


http://twitter.com/#!/Thollenshead/status/122123140720623617

Certainly I understand your frustration if you are experiencing issues with your G15 keyboard, or other issues. Obviously, people are still experiencing issues with the Oct 4 driver and hopefully these will be resolved with the RAGE/BF3 unified driver.

Please use this thread to log your keyboard issue: http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1237937-new-rage-ati-driver-has-ruined-logitech-g15-keyboard/

If you have other issues please use the corresponding thread.