Computer Repair and Web Design
Saboteur game is suffering a freezing issue which affects most ATI users when opening menus and the quest journal, and transitioning between areas. Some ATI gamers are able to play using Windows XP, but even then there are often problems. Pandemic is investigating the problems in conjunction with ATI. Here’s a intermittently-working workaround:
UPDATE:
Yesterday news spread of Adobe Flash 10.1 adding GPU acceleration support. Today, ATi has released drivers supporting GPU acceleration.
This update is beneficial to ATi users as it will allow fully smooth playback of high resolution, high definition, videos; Hulu, YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook Video, and others… As browser and flash playback has been CPU dependent in the past the long overdue inclusion of GPU acceleration will be a huge blow against video playback stuttering and choppiness through consistent and high framerate.
Not only unsupported, Mobility Radeons are further crippled by their drivers. Laptop distributors (HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc) limit the clocks on the bundled video cards and restrict access to the GPU BIOS. There are a number of logical reasons behind this, namely warranty overheating issues.
There are a number of ways to work around these restrictions, the best likely being a BIOS mod, as it would allow fluent clock changing through ATT, or other programs. However, some GPUs have their BIOS read and write protected, making the process rather futile.
Another, simpler, method is using a specific driver version. 8.9 and 8.10 Catalysts allow you to overclock when used in conjunction with AMD GPU Clock Tool.
As stated earlier, Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers. This is a bummer if you want to run an awesome application like ATT rather than crappy CCC. The fix, as you may have guessed, relies on DSEO. Download it, run it, agree to prompts, enable TEST MODE, and reboot.
Because Windows 7 requires digitally signed drivers PG2 will not work out of the box. But the information provided on PG2’s instruction page is outdated pertaining to the RC. The solution?
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