Driver Issues with ATI Radeon HD 4850

[Chintam]

I recently downloaded latest drivers for my new ATI 4850, which actually was a version 8.523 released. DxDiag displays latest drivers as 7.15. I enetered device manager, uninstalled the video card, and then tried to search for new hardware, installed the new drivers, but DxDiag is still showing 7.15 as the latest drivers.

Please provide some help regarding this issue

[Marthaz]

I actually have the same problem as well but I am running XP Pro 32 instead of Vista 64. I am having problems with WIC, DMC4 and Mass Effect. When I try launching these games I would get a flicker than a blank screen and then would have to alt tab out or restart my pc. I tried uninstalling the drivers, running driver sweeper then resinstalling and still get the same results. Although I noticed that everytime I run driver sweeper I noticed that the ati drivers that it deletes come right back...have you guys had this problem?

I also tried installing catalyst 8.7 and also the drivers that came with the CD. Nothing seems to work. What is most perplexing is that all these games worked at one time with the original drivers. Something happened when I upgraded to 8.8 and half my games don't work.

If there's anything else you guys think I'm doing wrong, please let me know. I am probably going to ebay this card and get an OC'd 8800gt or 8800gts instead.

[ApPy10]

Read all the tread you need to do four or five things:
1) Profile Fan fix (Change the fan speed % to decrease the GPU temp)
2) Modify Windows Energy profile to Performance
3) powerplay fix (Change the Core Clock frequency to 700MHz in the profile if you have a 4850 or to 750MHz if you have a 4870)
4) Enable ATI override
5) Chosse Advance Catalyst A.I.

[ApPy10]

Read all the tread you need to do four or five things:
1) Profile Fan fix (Change the fan speed % to decrease the GPU temp)
2) Modify Windows Energy profile to Performance
3) powerplay fix (Change the Core Clock frequency to 700MHz in the profile if you have a 4850 or to 750MHz if you have a 4870)
4) Enable ATI override
5) Chosse Advance Catalyst A.I.

[Team Leader]

you shouldn't have to use programs like driver cleaner at all..

try reinstalling all your chipset drivers again and see what happens.