PPSSPP Crashing AMD Legacy Drivers Windows 7

[darisdarkice]

i h've same problem. how to fix it? i did disable catalys A.I, upgrade driver, but still error. please help me

spec :
CPU : i5-2430m, 2,4 GHz
VGA : amd radeon HD 6730M
RAM : 4GB

[solarmystic]

i h've same problem. how to fix it? i did disable catalys A.I, upgrade driver, but still error. please help me

spec :
CPU : i5-2430m, 2,4 GHz
VGA : amd radeon HD 6730M
RAM : 4GB

Using 13.4 drivers? It seemed to help the other user with a Radeon 6xxx series card.

[keketin]

This is a thread dig and a half, but after googling this problem, finding this and fixing then fixing it, I thought I'd post.

Using AMD Radeon HD 7770. Using 13-12 drivers, PPSSPP bluescreened my computer every time when 3D graphics was involved (after a string of a dozen "windows has recovered from a graphics crash" notifications).

Found this thread, couldn't find Catalyst A.I. from the settings at all.

Downgraded back to my old drivers 12-6 (oh boy is is downgrading AMD drivers a hassle and a half). Catalyst A.I. found in Catalyst Control Center -> Gaming -> 3D application settings -> Catalyst A.I., set it to "performance" and unticked "Enable Surface Format Optimization"

And bam, problem solved. Well, I don't know was downgrading the drivers good enough, I was too tired of the BSODs at that point to check. Now my computer complains about a dozen missing .exe files at boot, and there's no reference to any of them anywhere (registry or startup). I'm guessing CCC tries to start them for some reason?

The funny thing is, there used to be a "clean AMD driver removal tool" but after it was found to utterly destroy Windows8 installations, they removed the tool. Entirely. And nobody else is hosting it anywhere, EVERY place just links to AMD pages which just 404s you. So even Windows7 users are out of luck and I guess I'll just have to live with those errors. Upgrading AMD drivers, never again.

[cedopow]

HELLO is this thread still open? anyways i got the same problem. "display amd has crashed and recovered" pops up after screen blacked out.. i tried updateing my AMD drivers but still it crashes.. The games ive tested that black out my screens are KHBBS(most of the time) Dissidia012 and GEB. ANy solutions? coz i cant play smoothly anymore ;( i have the latest ppsspp 0.9.8. i hope anyone can help me



Processor: AMD Athlon™ 7750 Dualcore 2.70Ghz
Installed memory(RAM) 4gb
64bit

[solarmystic]

HELLO is this thread still open? anyways i got the same problem. "display amd has crashed and recovered" pops up after screen blacked out.. i tried updateing my AMD drivers but still it crashes.. The games ive tested that black out my screens are KHBBS(most of the time) Dissidia012 and GEB. ANy solutions? coz i cant play smoothly anymore ;( i have the latest ppsspp 0.9.8. i hope anyone can help me



Processor: AMD Athlon™ 7750 Dualcore 2.70Ghz
Installed memory(RAM) 4gb
64bit

What ATI/AMD graphics card do you have? You listed your CPU, but we need to know your exact GPU model.

1. If you have a modern DX11+ card (Radeon 5000/6000/7000/8000/Rx 2xx series), updating to the latest drivers should work.

2. If you have a Legacy DX10 card (Radeon 2000/3000/4000), follow the instructions in this post.

In both cases, disable Catalyst A.I. in the Catalyst Control Panel and also ensure that Enable Surface Format Optimization is disabled.

[cedopow]

I looked into my display adapter and heres what i got. ATI Radeon HD 5770. I have updated it to the latest drivers. but still having the screen blacked out while playin BUT i think i didnt disable the catalyst thing. Where can i find the catalyst control panel? I cant seem to find it sorry. oh and also where can i disable "enable surface format optimization" im sorry for being quite ignorant sir solarmystic.

[solarmystic]

I looked into my display adapter and heres what i got. ATI Radeon HD 5770. I have updated it to the latest drivers. but still having the screen blacked out while playin BUT i think i didnt disable the catalyst thing. Where can i find the catalyst control panel? I cant seem to find it sorry. oh and also where can i disable "enable surface format optimization" im sorry for being quite ignorant sir solarmystic.

Sorry, that's the Catalyst Control Center. It's installed together with the drivers during installation, and you should be able to access it from the right click menu on the desktop.

Or try searching for it in the search box located in the start menu.

The options should be easily found in the CCC.

Here's a guide to the AMD CCC if you've never used it before.

[cedopow]

Okay so ive managed to find CCC. Opened it. BUT the options Catalyst A.I is missing and i cant find the enable surface format optimization. PLs bear with me i wanna play ppsspp oh and sir solarmystic its just about hydragrid, desktop manager cpu power. No catalyst ai and surface format optmzation.

the choices are only: Pinned, Presets, Hydravision, Performance, and power. Is there something wrong? i think the choices in my CCC is lacking

[solarmystic]

Okay so ive managed to find CCC. Opened it. BUT the options Catalyst A.I is missing and i cant find the enable surface format optimization. PLs bear with me i wanna play ppsspp oh and sir solarmystic its just about hydragrid, desktop manager cpu power. No catalyst ai and surface format optmzation.

the choices are only: Pinned, Presets, Hydravision, Performance, and power. Is there something wrong? i think the choices in my CCC is lacking

What's available under Performance? Try expanding all the available options.

You're using a desktop Radeon 5770 right? Every option should be available to you in the CCC, afaik it's only the mobile/laptop versions of the CCC that are gimped (i.e. no overclocking options and some other options are missing)

Can you post screenshots of what it looks like for you? I'm using ATI Tray Tools (a CCC replacement), so it's different for me.

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@cedopow

Don't give up just yet. There may yet be an alternative.

Try downloading and installing ATI Tray Tools (which exposes those options, especially for Catalyst A.I. which is the only one you need to disable).

[cedopow]

Heres the prnt scrn sir. I feel there is something wrong with my CCC..

[solarmystic]

Heres the prnt scrn sir. I feel there is something wrong with my CCC..

Very interesting, it seems like the GPU section for the CCC is missing. It could be because you have an AMD CPU as well.

Have you tried installing ATI Tray Tools as I suggested at the end of my previous post?

[cedopow]

Sir u find it interesting? I find it depressing instead jk. Okay sir solarmystic can u give me and updated link for the ATI tray tools? I dont know the latest possible download as ive searched google and where to download. I hope im not taking too much of ur time sir...

UPDATE: Ive installed it already sir but cant seem to open it. While on the installation wizard i didnt checked any advance options/features for i dont know what they mean.

[solarmystic]

Sir u find it interesting? I find it depressing instead jk. Okay sir solarmystic can u give me and updated link for the ATI tray tools? I dont know the latest possible download as ive searched google and where to download. I hope im not taking too much of ur time sir...

UPDATE: Ive installed it already sir but cant seem to open it. While on the installation wizard i didnt checked any advance options/features for i dont know what they mean.

It takes a while to open it (it's a .NET application), you should see this icon on your tray menu (next to the clock on the taskbar) while it is loading:-



When it is done loading, right click on the icon, and by referring to this image, disable Catalyst A.I.:-

[cedopow]

Okay sir i just pressed right click on the icon. Dont know what to do next? Getting excited for my ppsspp to work

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Almost done just dont know what to do sir. i cant disable catalyst AI . Only choices where shown in the attached file.

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Still crashed after setting to performance catalyst AI. Theres no disable option...

[solarmystic]

Keep the Catalyst A.I at Quality or High Quality and Untick Enable Surface Format Optimization.'

EDIT:- I see you've already done that, never mind.

EDIT2:- I'm not sure what else to recommend for you if it still crashes.

EDIT3:- One last thing you can do. Download this zipped atioglxx.dll driver file, download this 32bit version of PPSSPP from the buildbot, unzip and paste the .dll file into the unzipped 32bit version's ppsspp folder, run ppsspp, and try those games again. They should work.