radeon 5.11 driver - pls report your results

[AsnoT]

has anyone updated to this version?
anyone whose games was running BEFORE, i mean

i'm not sure i want to risk breaking anything (it does run for me).

 

[Colfran]

My very bad graphic corruption remains after installing this driver. I've also tried the 4.10.......nothing helps.

 

[AsnoT]

when it's about technical details, the complainants are suddenly nowhere to be found.
what a total coincidence.

is noone trying to actually FIX their purported problems?

 

[chessming]

i tried it, bad!!!

 

[Scubagal]

The game wouldn't load before installing the ATI 5.11 drivers and it didn't load afterwards either. If it's working for you now, I wouldn't change something that isn't broken.

 

[AsnoT]

If it's working for you now, I wouldn't change something that isn't broken.

that's why i'm asking

 

[calyth]

Strange, I upgraded to 5.10, and 5.11. It didn't give any performance enhancements, but it didn't break it either.

 

[Elsewhere]

It shouldn't necessarily have any visible effects. 5.11 fixes some bugs in OpenGL (which Civ4 doesn't use) and provides support for some new cards. I upgraded to 5.11 and my copy of Civ still crashes every couple of turns.

 

[shinku]

Worked flawlessly under 5.10, no change when upgrading to 5.11 (radeon X300).

I don't think it solves any problems you may have under 5.10 though.

 

[hawkz25]

asnot how the heck can you play the game at that resolution?? I have the same config minus 256M ram and its not pretty!

 

[anjinsan1966]

Ive updated to 5.11 and CIV works perfect for me.It worked perfect with 5.10also .I like to have the latest driver´s installed on my PC´s so thats why i updated them.

 

[Harkonnen]

I was on 4.12 when everyone was at 5.10. I recommended to use 4.10 (by mistake), and it helped some people, mostly sith R9200/7500. As for me, 4.10/4.12/5.10/5.11 had no difference. With all of them it never crashed, and with all of them it is slow due to virtual memory size.

 

[OfficeLineman]

After installing 5.11 I got a bug that whenever I load a saved game and try to select any of my units, the computer crashes and I have to do a HW reboot. But, if I pass one turn so that AI can move its units, then I can select any unit. I am not sure if I had this problem previously, but now it is apparent. The usual stuttering movies and cannot load file this and that remain. Mostly I can play pretty well and have no major issues, except for this load game bug.

 

[Caltone]

I upgraded my drivers from 5.10 to 5.11. Civ4 worked fine before and works fine afterwards, no difference.

X800Pro 256mb

 

[Gun6St.Evan]

I am running just fine but the land masses stay black even after discovery. I have tried all 3 different video settings but no help.

 

[calyth]

I am running just fine but the land masses stay black even after discovery. I have tried all 3 different video settings but no help.

Curious what card do you use.

 

[mamimo]

ok, I have used 5.10 & the latest omega one.
Got mixed results, with black terrain sometime.
I read somewhere here that making CIV4 process HIGH priority makes a difference.
So, I uninstalled omega (reboot), installed 5.11 (reboot), then made a batch file that loads the game at high priority... the impact was immidiate & awsome, my last save game that took a long time to load last time to less then a minute & the game run flawless & faster then before.

So, installing 5.11 + HIGH priority worked for me, although this is still one time experience, later I will play again.

in batch file I put:
cmd /c
cd "C:\Program Files\Firaxis Games\Sid Meier's Civilization 4"
start /High Civilization4.exe

Hope it works.
Oh, I have 9700pro

 

[AsnoT]

asnot how the heck can you play the game at that resolution?? I have the same config minus 256M ram and its not pretty!

and you're running winXP i would bet.

 

[countcracula]

Both 5.10 and 5.11 make civ4 crash when I load a game. The solution was to not use any drivers from ati.com and revert back to the microsoft default drivers for my radeon 9700. Still crashes, but I can usually get in half to an hour of gameplay before that happens.