AMD Graphiccard update problems - XFX Radeon x5770 HD - Hardware & Software

Hey Facepunchers! I have a problem with AMD... Or rather my Radeon graphiccard. I have a XFX Radeon X5770 HD card installed and just got new parts (CPU and what not), but that not hwere the problem lies... AMD have made it so difficult just to update these freaking graphiccards, that I'm on the egde of throwing my graphiccard out the window and go back to nVidia and GeForce.. I have Catalyst Control Center and AMD Auto-Driver-Detect installed, althought both of these program have come up empty when it comes to updateing my graphiccard, they both state that I have the latest update for my hardware.. Though, when I launch ex. Battlefield 3, it comes with the error, many have seen "Your driver is outdated, you have 11.5 update to 11.7 or later for optimal performance" or something like that... I have been roaming the web for answers to this problem, that I didn't have before I formated my computer 2 days ago, and I can't really recall what I did last time to update my card, but it sure as hell aint working now... So help me Facepunch, your my only hope... (Just had to use that phrase :v: ) Although I have written a complainment/cry-for-help to the AMD-techsupporters about my problem with AMD, Radeon and with their programs and waiting for respond, but I thought that the all knowing Facepunch users might beat them to it. Cheers, Birk

Run driversweeper and manually download the drivers needed. It'll probably fix the problem.

DriverSweeper did clear alot of AMD drivers, but when I use AutoDetect now it still claims that I have the latest version... Although there are now no drivers installed.... [editline]9th May 2012[/editline] [IMG]http://imageshack.us/f/688/errorag.jpg/[/IMG] This is what still pop's up For some reason it wont show the picture... [URL]http://imageshack.us/f/688/errorag.jpg/[/URL]

Try just downloading the drivers directly from AMD, instead of detecting.

Now you can also use Steam to update your drivers for you. Just open steam, press Steam in the corner and choose Check for Video driver updates.

STEAM says its updated aswell, and if I download a driver manuelly and try to install it says that I have the latest version or just reinstall itself and, again when I try to launch BF3 it says that I have an outdated version... [editline]9th May 2012[/editline] Still no luck after reinstalling manuelly the latest videodriver and preformance driver... Either its the graphiccard/driver that there is something wrong with or else its BF3 and Origin that is fucked up... One thing is certain, I'm buying a 2 GeForce graphiccards instead next time I'm going to upgrade... But thanks anyway Facepunch

[QUOTE=Vincent X;35887707]STEAM says its updated aswell, and if I download a driver manuelly and try to install it says that I have the latest version or just reinstall itself and, again when I try to launch BF3 it says that I have an outdated version... [editline]9th May 2012[/editline] Still no luck after reinstalling manuelly the latest videodriver and preformance driver... Either its the graphiccard/driver that there is something wrong with or else its BF3 and Origin that is fucked up... One thing is certain, I'm buying a 2 GeForce graphiccards instead next time I'm going to upgrade... But thanks anyway Facepunch[/QUOTE] You are blaming this as AMDs fault when it is your ancient AMD card. 6000 and 7000 series has no driver issues.

[QUOTE=Civil;35888238]You are blaming this as AMDs fault when it is your ancient AMD card. 6000 and 7000 series has no driver issues.[/QUOTE] "Ancient" is incredibly wrong. It's two generations old, that's hardly ancient. Anyhow, I don't think this is AMD's fault directly. Did you reinstall Windows after installing the components? You could try reverting to some older drivers as well, go to the control panel > device manager > display adapter, and revert to an older driver. Might fix it. If you didn't reinstall windows, I guess that could be a problem, so do it, if you didn't. And I wouldn't recommend buying two GPUs at once, just buy one powerful card.

[QUOTE=Civil;35888238]You are blaming this as AMDs fault when it is your ancient AMD card. [b]6000 and 7000 series has no driver issues.[/b][/QUOTE] That is so wrong it's not even funny. The whole 12.4 release thread in the news section was filled with people reporting issues and having to roll back. [editline]9th May 2012[/editline] Oh and might I add. Even if the HD 5000 series was ancient, which it isn't, that's no excuse for horrible support. Nvidia's drivers work just as well on their old 8xxx series cards as their GTX 5xx cards, you just don't get special performance optimization like their new series do.

I won't call my graphic card ancient, bought it this xmas, and its not that old. It have been a really great graphic card and can run most games, even BF3 on highest settings without issues.. I have just upgraded my CPU and Motherboard, and yes GoDong-DK, I did formate my pc right away, since with a new motherboard and CPU it is essentially a new computer and my harddisk could not start up, and kept restarting the computer untill I formatted it. But after dinner I'm gonna try installing an older version of the driver and see if that will work CoDong-DK. But I have never had any issues with nVidia's hardware, but with this Radeon I can't exactly say I havn't had problems.. But I could run ex. BF3 before I got my new parts and formatted my PC, without problems (although it was slow due to an older CPU). Although even my OS (Windows 7 64 bit) is saying that the video driver is up to date, I still can't get around the error that BF3 is posting about an outdated video driver, I really can't see the problem... One of my friends told me to try to install the latest preformance driver from AMD (11.11) but that didn't work either...

[QUOTE=garrynohome;35888718]That is so wrong it's not even funny. The whole 12.4 release thread in the news section was filled with people reporting issues and having to roll back. [editline]9th May 2012[/editline] Oh and might I add. Even if the HD 5000 series was ancient, which it isn't, that's no excuse for horrible support. Nvidia's drivers work just as well on their old 8xxx series cards as their GTX 5xx cards, you just don't get special performance optimization like their new series do.[/QUOTE] I'm actually running 12.3 now, but this is the first time I've ever had to roll back. I wasn't sure that it was the graphics driver though, and the problem only occurred once before I just rolled back. Still, I agree on that the 5770 is by no means ancient. Neither would I call the support horrible, I've had much worse drivers on simpler stuff. Overall I won't differ between Nvidia and AMD on driver support, even though you might have less problems on the Nvidia side, you generally just have to roll back the driver on AMD and wait for the next release. If an AMD card is cheaper and scores equally or higher on benchmarks, I won't let the driver support make an impact on the choice. Period.

How can you run BF3 on the highest settings with a 5770...? What resolution are you on? 600x800?

320 x 240

I havn't had any problems running anything graphic-wise before I formatted my computer, the main reason I actually did buy new CPU and Motherboard was that I had lags in Diablo 3 BETA, but havn't had any problems in running Battlefield 3 on highest settings (1960x1080) with my current X5770 HD. This thread although wasn't about that, but the problem I have about BF3 telling me that my video driver is outdated although it is not...

Have you tried reinstalling Battlefield 3?

[QUOTE=Vincent X;35889713]I havn't had any problems running anything graphic-wise before I formatted my computer, the main reason I actually did buy new CPU and Motherboard was that I had lags in Diablo 3 BETA, but havn't had any problems in running Battlefield 3 on highest settings (1960x1080) with my current X5770 HD. This thread although wasn't about that, but the problem I have about BF3 telling me that my video driver is outdated although it is not...[/QUOTE] Uhh, I doubt that you would get more than about 25fps on Ultra in BF3 with a 5770, even with it OC'd to the moon and back.

[QUOTE=Chubbs;35891562]Uhh, I doubt that you would get more than about 25fps on Ultra in BF3 with a 5770, even with it OC'd to the moon and back.[/QUOTE] With my two Radeon HD 5770's on highest settings 1920x1080 I ran like 20-40 fps so I doubt it runs any better than that on his single one.

[QUOTE=Zerokateo;35889280]How can you run BF3 on the highest settings with a 5770...? What resolution are you on? 600x800?[/QUOTE] 1920x1080, with ultra on. Crossfire, but its a 5770. Quit shitting on a decent video card.

Umm no one has posted in this thread since may 9th, why did you join to tell a guy he was wrong and bump this

[QUOTE=thenightisdar;36347326]1920x1080, with ultra on. Crossfire, but its a 5770. Quit shitting on a decent video card.[/QUOTE] I recommended the 5770 to so many people that it's not even funny, but a single 5770 won't run BF3 properly on high settings. And do you use AA with that?

I have the same problem as OP with my XFX HD 5770.

[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;36352532]I recommended the 5770 to so many people that it's not even funny, but a single 5770 won't run BF3 properly on high settings. And do you use AA with that?[/QUOTE] It's a great card. I can run every game I want to on highest settings, so it's quite a nice little card