ATI Radeon problems?

[TriforceV]

hey I heard there was problems with the ATI Radeon videocards having problems in the demo.

has this been fixed for the main game?:hmmm:

[Hans Friedman]

I have a radeon 4850 512mb and the game runs flawless.

[Jaketh]

i think it was Nvidia drivers having an issue not Radeon

[SunofVich]

ATI Radeon 4870 x2. Runs the game fine. Although its kinda scarying me that the fan is no longer spinning up during battles.

And yeah last I heard it was Nvidia that was having issues.

[Crimson Scythe]

I just had a CTD on the grounds that I ran out of video memory. Which is a little odd, since my ATI Radeon 4850 X2 has 2 gigs of ram built onto it. :hmmm: I remember hearing that ATI's 64-bit drivers had some issues with Crossfire, though, so I'm wondering if that might be the problem (I'll find out in a sec - posting on my laptop while the desktop reboots).

EDIT: Seems that turning off Crossfire did the trick, oddly enough.

[SPARTAN VI]

Having issues with blue speckles on certain doodads, which I also saw in the demo. I have a HD4870 512mb and running in Vista 32-bit. Using Cat 9.1's though, going to search for a newer driver.

[PlacidDragon]

Have a 4870, game hasnt crashed (or had any other problems) in 12+ hours of playing.

[PumpkinBread]

4850, only issue are the blue dots on destructibles. (6 or so hrs of playing)
9.2 drivers

[Mordrorru]

These blue dots seem a more rampant problem than I first thought.

[PumpkinBread]

[bandaid] FIX here for the blue dots of doom.

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic/43317

[Mordrorru]

Yes, I did that already. I turned of Adaptive AA and they went away.

But I shouldn't have to.

I hope they fix this in a patch.

[PumpkinBread]

Yes, I did that already. I turned of Adaptive AA and they went away.

But I shouldn't have to.

I hope they fix this in a patch.

agreed. it's a bandaid fix.

[MedievalRob]

3870X2 here, running fine. I have had one CTD that was apparently random, since it hasnt happened since. I am on chapter III of the RTI.

(Though, now that I mention it, I have driven the English completely out of North America and I haven't won yet, do i need to sail down to the Bahamas and destroy them completely to win?)

[Faris_Elghoul]

I can play on high/ultra with my ati 2600XT with no problems like crashed or flikkering etc.
Btw I have 2 Gig of RAM how much virtual memory whould I have? I have that on 2 gig aswell.
MINVRAM=1000 Max=2000

[Erasarius]

I only get a black screen when I load the game with crossfire enable. I have 2 4850's, Vista64, and the 9.2 drivers. Anyone else getting crossfire to work with vista64? If so, what driver version are you using? Thanks!

[Crimson Scythe]

I only get a black screen when I load the game with crossfire enable. I have 2 4850's, Vista64, and the 9.2 drivers. Anyone else getting crossfire to work with vista64? If so, what driver version are you using? Thanks!

Are you using 2 separate cards in Crossfire, or are you using the single-card 4850 X2?

I've had mixed results with my 4850X2's Vista x64 drivers (9.2 - same as you). RTW and ETW don't like it at all and crash all the time (they do run for a while before doing that, though), but M2TW, Civ IV: Colonization and Mass Effect have no problems whatsoever.

I think ATI's drivers are the problem. When I built my new rig in December and ran the 3D Mark Vantage benchmark software, there were a lot of weird graphical glitches that only went away by disabling Crossfire. I just think ATI hasn't gotten Crossfire to work well in the x64 architecture yet.

[Erasarius]

I have the 2 card setup. I have seen crossfire work in other games like crysis. It just seems very hit or miss with ATI's drivers. Makes me wish I had just invested in a better single card rather than going for this setup.

[Crimson Scythe]

True, but at least we have the option of turning Crossfire off as needed. And ATI puts out new drivers roughly once a month, like clockwork. Hopefully they'll stabilize the Crossfire issue sooner rather than later. It's a shame really, since ATI cards are pretty solid on the hardware side of things. And usually on the cutting edge, too.

[Jopel]

4850, only issue are the blue dots on destructibles. (6 or so hrs of playing)
9.2 drivers

Will be fixed in cat. 9.3... so I heard from an ATI-guy

[Crimson Scythe]

Will be fixed in cat. 9.3... so I heard from an ATI-guy

Here's hoping.