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performance drop plus a crash: is my 2nd ati catalyst driver hotfix for far cry 2 install half broken? ugh

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Accepted solution by Maya Brandt — If measurement confirms a regression, roll back with DDU to the previous driver, and report it to AMD with your GPU, game and settings.…
  1. Ivan Dubois
    @subnetdeck

    i play an open-world RPG every evening on my gaming desktop and know exactly how it should feel. After installing AMD 2nd ATI Catalyst Driver Hotfix for Far Cry 2 , its noticeably choppier, frame times are all over teh place, and tonight it even crashed once:

    Fatal error

    Fatal error
The game has crashed and will now close.

DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED
The GPU device instance has been suspended.

    i havent changed any in-game settings. temps look normal. is it possible a driver update makes things this much worse, or am i imagining it?? thx in advance!!

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  2. Amara Holm
    @aholm

    ok so after a driver update, games often rebuild their shader cache, which causes stutter for the first sessions. give it a couple of runs, or clear teh driver shader cache manually in teh control panel / %LocalAppData% cache folder and let it rebuild once. fingers crossed 🤞

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  3. Maya Brandt
    @maya_night
    Accepted solution

    If measurement confirms a regression, roll back with DDU to the previous driver, and report it to AMD with your GPU, game and settings.

    day one patch is bigger than the actual game, classic

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  5. Maya Brandt
    @maya_night

    Frame time tools are great but honestly if it feels worse and the old driver feels better, rolling back is a valid fix too.

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  6. Bram
    @silicon_fiddler

    everyone keeps saying this but nobody posts proof

    at this point my GPU cost more than my car lol

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  7. Ivan Dubois
    @subnetdeck
    in reply to @maya_night

    @maya_night measured both drivers properly and the new one really was worse in an open-world RPG on my gaming desktop... rolled back and reported it, thx for the method!

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