Actually, I do have quite some doubts when you show a benchmark where the 5970 is outperformed by the 5850, 5870, GTX470 and GTX295. IMO this has written 'shitty optimization' all over it. Most benchmarks I've seen so far show the 460 slightly below the 5850 and slightly above when overclocked.
the gpu or the cpu? I've tried overclocking the i7 on a few occasions (mainly when I need to render something quicker) but I haven't tried anything with the 5850..too scared :P
Okay got it working with CKohl's trick. I had to use 11-1_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_ocl.exe but it's working. Awesome, thanks a lot CKohl now I don't have to roll my drivers back with each game. Win7 64bit Ati Radeon 5850 Maya 2012 64bit.
Cross posting this thread I started since I eventually found a solution if it's the uv editor problem. I noticed for my Radeon 5850 specifically this problem was solved in newer versions of thier drivers. http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=90002&page=2
I have the HP envy which I find quite nice - its an i7 720 quad core with 6 gigs of ram and a dx11 ati gfx card - I think its the 5850 radeon - it didnt cost a fortune either... Also it doesnt look like garbage like most other pc laptops :P