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Like the title says im looking for modified drivers because the normal one are complete crap all they ever do is crash or vision engine decides not to open and for some reason no matter what setting i change in it it never actually applies it.
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Give these a try. Most stable & recommended by many (11.12):

http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-8-921-2-rc11-for-hd7900
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Give these a try. Most stable & recommended by many (11.12):
http://benchmark3d.com/amd-catalyst-8-921-2-rc11-for-hd7900

Okay thanks hopefully they will be better than the 12.6
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There aren't any alternatives to using AMD Drivers for AMD graphics cards.
     
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There aren't any alternatives to using AMD Drivers for AMD graphics cards.

i was referring to omega and modded drivers because there are lots of modded ones and i never used them before
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post #6 of 9
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Originally Posted by philhalo66 View Post

Okay thanks hopefully they will be better than the 12.6

Did the driver work? If not, try lowering your GPU's clock speeds and check....
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Originally Posted by eXXon View Post

Did the driver work? If not, try lowering your GPU's clock speeds and check....

no it still bugs out, i downloaded the old 10.5's and my problems disappeared if i had to guess id say it was the vision engine control garbage amd uses now because i can actually keep my fan at 56% and it doesn't bug out or anything plus my performance increased a bit in BC2 and crysis 2
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seagate 500GB seagate barracuda 320GB Seagate 160GB WD Blue 250GB 
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Regent 5.1 Surround sound 
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Intel Pentium M 760 2GHz Dell Inspiron 6000 Motherbord ATi Mobility Radeon X300 128MB 2GB DDR2 533MHz 
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post #8 of 9
Quote:
Originally Posted by philhalo66 View Post

no it still bugs out, i downloaded the old 10.5's and my problems disappeared if i had to guess id say it was the vision engine control garbage amd uses now because i can actually keep my fan at 56% and it doesn't bug out or anything plus my performance increased a bit in BC2 and crysis 2

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I find this strange but, Catalyst 12.8 is kindoff faster than the 12.9 and 12.10?? the difference are on the FPS,,, is there anyone having this?? I have an Powercolor hd6850
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