ATi Catalyst Selection Issue in 3D App

KICKER

I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem with the newer catalyst drivers approx 7.12-8.3... the openGL performance has been steadily dropping so there is major lag in Maya's view port and here's the kicker, there is virtually NO smart selection! It will always select objects that are physically higher in the outliner than those at the bottom.

Here are a few reasons why this sucks. The newer catalyst drivers were completely rewritten and now hardware rendering and high quality rendering now works in Maya which is AMAZING. Before all we got was cross hatched black artifacts covering everything, but with this selection issue Maya is basically unusable.

A hotfix was just released HERE
that addresses some issues with 3D Apps but I have not tried it yet. I am using the catalyst 7.11 drivers as these were the last ones that work with maya correctly and don't want to go through the hassle of cleaning my drivers and reinstalling these ones.

So has anyone else had these issues?


For reference I am using an X800 mobility with modified drivers to work for the mobile version of the radeon and Maya 8.5

CrazyButcher

I had a similar issue when going to the new drivers (also modded mobile, however radeon9600). Anyway for me the bug was that the ogl driver wasnt installed properly anymore, and so gl was reverting to the ms generic driver, ie very slow.

The fix for me was not using the catalyst setup, but go to hardware manager and update driver with "have disk" method.

KICKER

I will definitely have to try that. So you're using 8.3 with Maya? Are you able to view your model with High Quality rendering?

I'll post some updates after I try that.

CrazyButcher

no I dont use maya, I just do opengl development on that laptop

ElysiumGX

I recently updated to the newest Catalyst Drivers, although I normally use the Omegadriver flavor for better game performance. Once the newest drivers were installed, it fixed the rendering issues I was having with Mudbox, but both Mudbox and XSI were updating incredibly slow. There was a delay to my cursor, and selections were behaving incorrectly. Solid wireframes were suddenly appearing dotted. It rendered XSI nearly useless. This is bad considering I'm buying a new video card soon. But can't easily be convinced to by an Nvidia card.

I'll try some of these fixes soon. Thanks for posting them.

KICKER

I'll be trying the fix in about an hour so I'll post my results. I have pretty much the exact same symptoms as you Elysium. I usually use the omega drivers as well

KICKER

Well it didn't work for me. I used driver cleaner to flush out any remnants of previous Ati drivers and then installed fresh 8.3 drivers that were mobility modified, only this time through the device manager using the .inf file in the ATI support folder. I tried the hotfix (which I also mobility modded) and I'm still having the selection issue. Guess we'll just have to wait until 8.4 or .5 or whenever Ati decides to stop making such LOUSY drivers.

I will never buy Ati again.

This whole time I didn't install the CCC, think that might make any difference?

Kicker