4870x2 8.54 drivers = Wow Performance in COD4!!!!

If your having cod4 performance issues with vsync on try changing these lines in your single player and multiplayer cfg profiles. I went back to 8.9s again as they are indeed the best performers.

Change this setting:

seta com_maxfps "0"

to this:

seta com_maxfps "60"

Alright guys, I have finally solved the cod4 choppiness issue that I griped about in my "4870x2 dissapointment" thread. I can finally say with great relief that the problem was definitely bad drivers. I would behoove everyone that has a 4870x2...experiencing any kind of performance issues to use version 8.54 ASAP. Supposedly the 8.54 drivers are actually 8.9 betas...and if that is true...this is an excellent preview of what the 4870x2 is all about....and we have a lot to look forward to when the official 8.9 drivers come out. I'm definitely holding on to this thing now!

Note before I installed these drivers on vista 64...I made sure to install all the vista updates, chipset driver, etc. I also installed a Karma Bay cooler and a pci slot exhaust right below my 4870x2...I'll take pics later today. Not sure if these variables made any kind of impact on what I'm seeing...but I'm pretty sure it's the 8.54 driver version that made the difference.

Alright, you can download the 8.54 drivers here: 116mb version
http://rapidshare.com/files/138655128/Catalyst_8.54.rar

Or the huge version. Note I had success with this version, it's over 300mb in size
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U7USVHPY

I found these links at rage3d.com here: Page 2 post #51..
http://rage3d.com/BOARD/showthread.p...3929301&page=2

Installing them was tricky, as I would constantly get errors. So here is what I did to successfully get them installed correctly on vista 64.

- Uninstall your current catalyst drivers through the usual way via control panel.
- Run Driver Sweeper
- Restart
- Extract the catalyst ver. 8.54 drivers
. Go to device manager...then click on display adapters...and right click on the "standard vga adapter" and click update drivers
- click browse my computer and browse through the driver folder...specifically Catalyst 8.54/Packages/Drivers/Display
- Then I believe you click next and it will ask you if you want to install the driver and click yes.
- It will prompt you to restart...so restart.
- Once back in windows...install the catalyst drivers as you normally would...clicking the setup icon.
- Choose custom install...and deselect unnecessary stuff like media center...all you really need is the display driver and CCC.

- After you restart, go to the CCC panel and click the information panel and you should see this:



I played cod4 after I did this and everything was not only smooth, it was crisp....and this was at a mere 3.06 OC on my Q6600. Just visually stunning....and definitely worth playing through the cod4 single player game again. Settings were at 1920x1200 4xaa/16xaf..everything maxed. I was very impressed, and I haven't seen this game this smooth since my 8800 ultra sli set up. I am also relieved as I was actually going to return this card tomorrow . I know Dan has the same issues as I do and I'm pretty sure that if he installs these drivers, he'll finally be able to get rid of his gtx280s...maybe . I would definitely recommend that everyone with a 4870x2 try these drivers out, and let me know how it goes . I am definitely a believer in the 4870x2.

More good news with these drivers. As I was making this post, I noticed that my idle temps with these drivers went down to 59c. It is a bit cool this morning though...just thought I'd throw this in there. Note that this is on auto mode...I made no adjustment to the .xml profile to manually speed up the fan.

You weren't going to return a video card over one game were you?

Actually he was lol....he was gonna return it and get a 280GTX

Make sure you post this in your other thread too.

Originally Posted by amoeba1126

Actually he was lol....he was gonna return it and get a 280GTX

/facepalm/

Originally Posted by Dethred

You weren't going to return a video card over one game were you?

It's my favorite game, what can I say

Umm how about playing another game while waiting for a fix? lol

Ok, guilty as charged, I rushed to judgement on this video card due to poor performance in my favorite game. Can we talk about these beta drivers now, lol.

lol honestly i rarely see a difference between beta drivers and official drivers. It is like AMD and Nvidia throw out these drivers that they label as beta and be like "Ok.....not too many people are having issues so lets just go with this as our official drivers" It honestly seems, at times, that both companies use us as guinea pigs for their "official" drivers.

Well I'm telling yah, if you own the 4870x2 these are the drivers to get. Power play is definitely functional obviously, as there is no way I would be ideling at 58-59c on auto fan control.

I need to try these with GRID. Currently it's unplayable, at least on the version I bought from Steam and with the 8.8 Official drivers. It slows down... and then the video catches up and I go crashing into a wall.. Very annoying. TF2 is fine though.

I have a different alternate method for installation which I find works as well:

Uninstall "custom" and select display and CCC. Don't reboot yet, but go into control panel > device manager> both populated 4870x2 > right click and uninstall remove drivers then reboot and install new ones. Use "custom" CCC and display only installation.

Originally Posted by BigCactus

Well I'm telling yah, if you own the 4870x2 these are the drivers to get. Power play is definitely functional obviously, as there is no way I would be ideling at 58-59c on auto fan control.

Right after reboot I was idling at 83C after installing the drivers. What is power play exactly?

Whatever works for you man, let me know what your idle temps are at kadozer...make sure your fan settings are on auto BTW.

Originally Posted by Dethred

Right after reboot I was idling at 83C after installing the drivers. What is power play exactly?

When idle, aka the desktop, the GPU speeds ramp down to reduce power draw and heat.

He also stopped his order of the GTX280 to get this. He changes his mind on what graphics card he wants by the hour.

Originally Posted by Dethred

Right after reboot I was idling at 83C after installing the drivers. What is power play exactly?

Hmmm...that's interesting. Did you look at the information panel to verify 8.54 drivers are installed. Also did your run driver sweeper...and manually delete your old profile folder. I also manually delete all the ati folders in the "program files" folder and the "program files x86) folders for good measure.

Originally Posted by BigCactus

Ok, guilty as charged, I rushed to judgement on this video card due to poor performance in my favorite game. Can we talk about these beta drivers now, lol.

Awww, damn I was going to send you some adderall today just so you wouldn't go all ADD about your graphics cards and start 3 threads simultaneously about how your buying two different cards and returning two other cards back.

I told you it was drivers. (Classic I told you so moment. )

Congrats! I am glad you got it worked out. Going to do some benchmarking?

Someone buy me vantage, lol. What kind of benches do you want to see?