Updated my 4850 Driver Catalyst 9.7 - Many games are now unplayable.

As the topic title suggests, I just updated my 4850 Drivers to Catalyst 9.7, and in consequence many games are now unplayable.

Here is a direct screenshot of what occurs when I boot into about 60% of my games,

Like normal, on a failed driver update, I rolledback my driver in an attempt to solve the issue. Driver 9.6 used to tun fine, but, however the rollback was to no avail. The same bizzare driver issue affected my Games.

After the rollback failed, I re-updated to Catalyst 9.7 - and yet the issue still remains. I am at a loss as to what to do. Perhaps update my Direct X? Unistall the entire GPU and re-install it?

:( And to think that the 9.7 Driver had WHQL certification, I thought it was safe...

Update - My Direct X is running the latest Version.

And on sidenote, no, my GPU is not overheating, it's running at 35 degrees. About 40% of my Games run fine (Eg. CoD4), 60% have failed, and show up with this strange effect (Eg. Crysis Warhead, GRiD)

Did you uninstall your previous driver or just install over it. If you just installed over it that is possibly the problem.

I would suggest that you download Driver Cleaner Pro and install it. Then uninstall the drivers. Then boot into safe mode and run the driver cleaner. Then boot back install the drivers and see if that fixes it.

Did you try system restore?JigglyWiggly_

could i ask sum 1 who knows about pc gaming a few questions plz????ameyzoo1

[QUOTE="ameyzoo1"]could i ask sum 1 who knows about pc gaming a few questions plz????ameyzoo1

Since I don't see an edit button anywhere : Playing on NON punkbuster servers seemed to work for me.assaulter_g4

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Hello ! I had the same probleme ! Go back to 9.6 ! That's works ! Dont restore your system, not necessary !laurentbtwin

[QUOTE="laurentbtwin"]Hello ! I had the same probleme ! Go back to 9.6 ! That's works ! Dont restore your system, not necessary !-CheeseEater-