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 Post subject: help please :(
 Post Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:20 am 
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ok, soo i upgraded from a ATI 4850 to a 5870 yesterday afternoon, un-installed full catalyst suite and drivers, installed newest version for the 5000 series. i spent yesterday evening and this morning/afternoon hapilly playing APB. I then moved my pc back to mine (had been at the sisters) and had a wee game of L4D2 all fine.

i then go to launch APB and it crashes on launch, i try repeatedly to launch it to no avail, getting the error "D3DERR_INVALIDCAL". after some googling found its some kind of directx/gfx drivers problem soo i un-install the full 10.6 suite/drivers, reboot, re-install, reboot. still no luck. then to test the directx theory tried launching assassins creed 2.. crashes on launch. try L4D2 (opengl) works fine...

my next though is roll back to older drivers, soo un-install 10.6 (this time only the display drivers) and install 10.5, reboot. same problem, directx games all crash on launch, opengl games run fine.



im completely stumped here and frankly getting rather pissed off with the whole thing, has anyone got any idea how to solve the issue? i had thought about putting the 4850 back in, but then thought it probably wont make a difference as everything was working fine last night/early today with the 5870... got no clue what to try next.

oh and according to my dxdiag everything is as it should be :scratch:

would greatly appreciate some assistance on this one, dont really have much to do other than play games at the moment and now i cant even do that :thumbd:

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
 Post Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:05 am 
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this is ati, uninstalling dosent work.
first use add/remove programs and completly remove ati suite, then reboot to safe mode and use driver sweeper to remove all ati drivers, then run cc cleaner to clean out registry .
then reboot to normal and install ati drivers.

ps 10.6 drivers really really suck, the 10.5 were much more stable

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
 Post Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:34 pm 
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cheers trev, just downloading the stuff the now :thumbr:

fingers crossed it solved the problem :smile:

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
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when you do...just install thedrivers ...not the suite....

with ati you can get atixxxx errors..... i solved mine by not installing the suite.

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
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:cry: i did as trev said and installed 10.5 and still have the same problem :(

feck knows what to do now...

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 7:02 pm 
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Lur =GCHQ= wrote:
:cry: i did as trev said and installed 10.5 and still have the same problem :(

FLYING MONKEY knows what to do now...



REINSTALL WINDOWS FTW ! :thumbl:

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
 Post Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:54 pm 
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ok.. soo i just sat and tried launching a few different games.. seems its only APB and Assassins Creed 2 that are being effected by this :scratch:

GTAIV, Frontlines, Dirt2, world of tanks, Cod 5 all work fine... i dont get it. :s

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 Post Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2010 11:18 pm 
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Can you reeinstall does 2 games again??

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
 Post Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:10 am 
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gonna re-install APB overnight.. takes bloody ages to download =/ will let you's know tomorrow if it sorts it. if not i guess its time to re-install windows :sad:

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how the hell did you get Frontlines Fuel of War to work? , piece of crap software never worked for me , sent it to the jumble sale :razz:

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Shadows look awesome with ATi cards. When you get it to work, let us all know how good they are. :thumbl:

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 Post Posted: Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:58 pm 
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Lur =GCHQ= wrote:
gonna re-install APB overnight.. takes bloody ages to download =/ will let you's know tomorrow if it sorts it. if not i guess its time to re-install windows :sad:


ITS ALLIIIVVVEEEE!!! ITS ALLIVVVEEE!


no idea if what trev suggested had anything to do with it or not.. but re-installing APB has made it work again :cheers:

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Glad its working again. No all you need to do is get rid of your dot matrix monitor

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Lur =GCHQ= wrote:
dont really have much to do other than play games at the moment


Dunno why, but that made me laugh....and the more I read it the funnier it gets :twisted: :lol:

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 Post subject: Re: help please :(
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Lur =GCHQ= wrote:
dont really have much to do other than play games at the moment


Dunno why, but that made me laugh....and the more I read it the funnier it gets :twisted: :lol:


I got to admit I am jelous :lol: you twat Lur :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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