uhm why was nothing fixed for BF2 in cat 5.7s...

Bellator

So I have been eagerly awaiting the catalyst 5.7 drivers as I was hoping they would fix a multitude of issues I have been having with BF2 (texture corruption, blocky shadows, desktop crashes, etc), as well as maybe providing some performance gains, and don't ya know not ONE fix for BF2 is mentioned in the 5.7 release notes. The ONLY BF2 mention is under 'known' issues, namely texture corruption/missing textures.

Dissapointing to say the least...

MIG-31

i don't have bf2 myself but was the 5.6's recommended for this game upon release.

Bare in mind that ATI actually work on drivers,around 3 revisions in front of the public realease..and BF2 has only been recently released..future improvements may well be fixed given time. all could go by reporting bug errors,this may speed up the fixes of these problems.

MrSMuRF

I feel your pain., I was also hoping for a fix for the texture corruption this release.

OmegaRED

Dumbass ATI. I seem to remember a driver built just for Doom3 as if they couldnt have done the same for BF2 its been an entire month since the demo.

Ferret_Style

And the demo was basically a poor beta... if you have the full game the quality is 10 times better on the full game then the beta (demo) was. Truefully it is BF fault for such poorly done game... i would expect a patch for the game though from the fokes that made it to fix the issues before ati. As for a special version for the game... i play on my 9800 on the full version with no glitchs... i get some graphic issues here and there but this is still a new game.

Dazog

I would also like a HOTFIX release for BF2

Cmon ATi Show Nvidia they can't make our gaming experience suck with there made for Nvidia Titles!

Tipstaff

MIG is right. You guys need to relax, and be patient. ATI will work the issues out in future releases just as DICE will work their issues out with subsequent patches.

If you remember Cataslyt 4.8 just came out when Doom 3 got released. Humus had a temp fix for us, and then ATI issued 4.9 betas to help with performance, but it wasn't until 4.10 that they nailed it. Besides, for Doom3 it was easier to figure out the problem since it was centered around OGL. In BF2s case a lot of people, myself included, have zero problems with the game, and I've run it on multiple ATI cards from 9500s to X800s, and Nvidia 6600-6800s. However, I've ran the game only on Intel boards, and not AMD ones. So far the majority of issues I've seen are from those that have AMD boards, or Intel boards that don't use their chipset to run. So, is it really an issue with the ATI drivers, or is it a chipset issue? It'll take time for them to reproduce the issues, and figure out a solution as the number of factors that can be causing this problem are too numerous to mention.

And remember, Nvidia had a ton of time to release a specific driver since they worked with DICE directly just as they did with id Software for Doom3. So, just be patient.

Robert McClelland

I think it could be ea fault guys not ati or nvidia ea did poll the patch before lol I don't have game my self so I don't know

daedal

Yeah, I was hoping that the 5.7s would fix the problem. Oh well..

Firstperson

The_Neon_Cowboy

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Originally Posted by Bellator So I have been eagerly awaiting the catalyst 5.7 drivers as I was hoping they would fix a multitude of issues I have been having with BF2 (texture corruption, blocky shadows, desktop crashes, etc), as well as maybe providing some performance gains, and don't ya know not ONE fix for BF2 is mentioned in the 5.7 release notes. The ONLY BF2 mention is under 'known' issues, namely texture corruption/missing textures.

No amount on their end will fix a poorly coded game like BF2.
Like desktop crashes, Blocky shadows you know the same stuff
going on NVIDIA cards was well. The game uses 3 to 4 times the
resoucres as Hl2 and Doom 3 and yet offers 2/10ths the IQ.
Verry disapointing...

That game needs major work so much in fact I refuse to buy it until I see a
major patch. That tiny spit and polish patch they released doesn’t count.

Those with issues upon the demo release and 5.6 people were reccomended
like use like cat 5.2 by the BF2 people becouse of the "known" on thier end
issues with 5.6.

It wasn't build jus for doom 3 but they chaged some things becouse of some propritary
ways of doing things and that was already worked out ahead with nvidia.


The demo was like a poor beta but i her the same issues with the full version wich must
be like a slightly better beta being only a month newer... BF2 people need to be shot
or tought how to code a game properly. Most issues stem from thier codeing, precacheing
100% of everything etc... putting a massive uneeded strain on the system... The game
does need alot of video power to play but it massive system power.

I would like a real patch for Bf2, But want in one hand and crap in the other
see wich fills up 1st

Humas patch fixed the games codeing blunders and improved they way the game ran
on ati....Alot of what happening on ati cards is happeing on nvidia cards with BF2

I hope so to.... then I might buy it...

they need to introduce some dynamic loading and cut the lets pre cache 100% and
waste resources like no other game BS. I mean come on the minum for smooth play
in the game shouldn't be 1.5GB required and 2.0 GB of ram reccomended there
is a massive differeance in smothness game play and issues with more memory.

I had 1.5 GB in took out 512 and was like AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!! now I see what
people are complaing about . With 1.5 GB of ram the game uses about 850 mb of
ram 850 mb of page file. Thats insane!!!

I'm sure there some stuff ATI can and will do from thier end but there is only so much
thier going to be able to do. The Bf2 people needs to get on the ball... Also remember
guys that drivers are releases a head and it takes time for changes and fixes
to trickle down through the process.

OmegaRED

Cowboy you must be playing a different game or frankly you just arent good at it cause I've got a less than stellar system yet even it runs well for me and almost all real gameplay issues have to do with the people playing (punishing for tks, point whores) not the balancing or bugs in the game. I dunno how you can even make so many assumptions based on the demo when the retail game has far more functionality and so few issues.

Your money would be well spent on this game in fact its the only FPS in at least a few years worth buying the rest are all singleplayer based with no replay value.

homeboye

BF2 sux anyways.. so i see why they aren't intrigued to fix some bugs..

Bellator

I agree 110%. WIth my x800 pro I was able to run Far Cry at 1280X1024 w/ 4x AA and 8x AF, the only slowdowns on the super intensive maps like volcano... BF2 for all its touted 'eye candy' doesn't come CLOSE to that IQ, but im struggling running it at 1280X960 (since they decided not to support the masses with X1024) w/ 4xAA and NO AF?? yeah right....

Kezz

Oh, yeah, I'm sure that's it...

petri1

well i know alot of people who got even more problems after patching BF2 so like some others it is time for EA DICE or whoever to get a real fat bug fix patch for BFD2 or it is gonna be a a game like anyother game and not that top notch they hoped for nah DF black hawk down is better actually a great game well ya always gonna have VC or HL2 to lean back on until BF2 is patched up right now it is a (bleeding soldier on a battlefield that needs a medic real soon) * joke*

see ya guys

quakerjtf

They put a fix in the driver for an optimized calculation so that you wouldn't have to do the D3 mod, it's not like they were pulling nvidia type bullshit. BF2 works fine no corruption for me high 2/4 AA. I know BF2 has had some problems on ATI, not surprising since it's a "you're supposed to buy nvidia because they payed us to screw up the game with other cards, or you won't be able to play it the way it was meant to be played" game.

nuG

i seriously think that sometimes they intentionally leave the bugs in some games just so it runs smoother on the video card companies product that developed it with them. i mean, we all know nvidia can play dirty and im sure ati has had a few tricks up there sleeves in other games

The_Neon_Cowboy

Geeze if If i hate to make a list of bugs with the game i'd be up all night .
Serious issues with bullets / damage delt.

I've seen our team MEC hold all points for alost the entire round and then no less then 2/3 and lose?? I've watched the numbers that count down count up a few . I've seen allied hold only 1 point all round and win. I've been Killed , no killer listed!!! not even that I was killed, seen people that can't be ran over they goto the side and never die. Hit one guy three times dead center of the vehickle high speed. Killed by one shot all weapons. Emptied whole clips into players clean hitz to have then turn and kill me instantly. Had players I watched run then and "vanish" in an open space and then kill me a few seconds later. Guns are really inaccurate sometimes. Some guns never are...

That was just last night LOL

Same goes for the list of "WTF" like where the enginers dynamite, where are real anti air
craft weapons? turrents? those 2 shot missle turnets is affetive as throwing rocks most of the time. Apaches and back hawks have way to much armor. A single RPG / Tank shot should bring them down not 2 or 3!! Mecs can't use allied turrents on thier ship, then allied should not be able to steal MEC vehikles and vice versa. APCs "light armor" should die with 1 tank hit not 3!!

Geeze and that just what I could think of in like 3 minutes, but there are pages of stuff that should be fix, changed, adressed. I'd settle for the bugs being resolved . That and for them to use some dynamic loading like everyone else!

Tipstaff

.. dude... please, please use some puncuation. .. so hard to read your post. Almost seems like your wired or something.

People seem to forget that the guy that created the ATI D3 "mod", Humus, works for ATI. It was an "easy" (at least for a programmer that is) fix since all it did was alter the way the game makes texture reads. ATI altered their drivers to include this fix. Fun thing was that this "mod", when used on Nvidia cards, turned them into slugs. Something like this isn't going to come "easy" for ATI with this game... if it is an ATI driver problem, which I doubt since this problem isn't effecting everyone. Blaming them isn't going to solve squat. My money is on either it being EA/DICEs messup, or some combinatoin of motherboard chipset driver screwing with ATIs driver.

For all those having texture corruption, have you tried updating your motherboard chipset drivers at all? Specifically the ones to do with video?

Here's a question I know ATI is asking: For those having texture/graphics corruption, what CPU are you using? AMD or Intel? What about chipset? Intel, Nvidia, SIS, VIA, AMD or ALi?

As you can see by my sig I have Intel made board, run by an Intel chipset, and an ATI X800XTPE. Latest drivers all around except I'm using the Catatlyst 5.6 Omegas, and no problems at all here.

So, again, for those having problems, can you post your specs, mobo, cpu, mobo driver version?

petri1

Cpu: Intel P4 3.00GHZ Northwood

MOBO: ASUS P4GD1 I915

GFX: P.C X800 256MB GDDR3 PCI-E

Hercules muse 5.1 Soundcard

have´nt updated chipset drivers nor bios and no i don´t have texture corruption in BF2 or if do i am half blind since i can´t see them.

So how do they appear what they look like so i know what to look for next time.

And do they only appear in multiplayer(onlin) or in singleplayer as well???

4XAA 8xAF no probs runs fine although i play singleplayer never liked online gaming

quakerjtf

The glitches Neon Cowboy has stated have been very annoying outweighing the fun factor at times. Recently, I've been playing CS:S just because it loads faster, has way the hell less lag, and doesn't have BF2 glitches.

Mr cairo

Agree with all you said TBH ....... have you seen the laws of BF2 ???