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[OT]Catalyst 13.4 is not compatible with old games even more

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Andrew Rybenkov

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May 1, 2013, 3:51:08 PM5/1/13
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just checked it on my 5770 (Win7-32) and discovered that
Soulbringer and Gothic do not work anymore.
(Bloodrayne got broken in some 12.x driver)

Returned to 11.4 and everything is OK

Probably you guys (with shiny new 7000s series) cannot run older drivers,
and thus out of luck.

Can some nVidia owner check one of those games?

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Ross Ridge

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May 2, 2013, 4:50:56 AM5/2/13
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Andrew Rybenkov <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>just checked it on my 5770 (Win7-32) and discovered that
>Soulbringer and Gothic do not work anymore.
>(Bloodrayne got broken in some 12.x driver)

Gothic works for me with my Radeon 7870, Catalyst 13.4 and Windows
7 64-bit. Don't have the other games to test.

>Probably you guys (with shiny new 7000s series) cannot run older drivers,
>and thus out of luck.

The 7000 series uses different drivers than 5000 series, AMD just bundles
them up in the same driver download. However, I doubt much if anything
has actually changed in the 5770 driver in 13.4. They put pretty much
all their focus on their newer cards.

Ross Ridge

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Andrew Rybenkov

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May 2, 2013, 5:42:26 AM5/2/13
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On Thu, 02 May 2013 12:50:56 +0400, Ross Ridge <rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:

> Gothic works for me with my Radeon 7870, Catalyst 13.4 and Windows
> 7 64-bit. Don't have the other games to test.
>

with 13.4 Gothic just sits in Task Manager list doing nothing.
1.08j version here BTW.


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Ross Ridge

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May 2, 2013, 2:18:05 PM5/2/13
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Andrew Rybenkov <aryb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>with 13.4 Gothic just sits in Task Manager list doing nothing.
>1.08j version here BTW.

Happened to me the first time I tried to run it. I killed the process
and then ran it again and it worked. I suspect it might have been stuck
rebuilding its VDFS tables. Also the opening movies don't display,
probably because I don't have the necessary codec installed, so when
it did run I got blank screen and had to click through to get to the
opening menu.
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