constantly crashes after about 5-20 minutes in, i have tried everything.

[ColdBrew]

The 10.7 drivers do not stop the memory leak.

[shockertwin]

Originally Posted by botman

We haven't forgotten about this (just to let everyone know). Still trying to determine the cause.

I did have frame spikes, but in CCC 10.6 I never experience freezes of any kind. 10.7 reintroduced the freezes.

The memory leak seems random. It occasionally gets cleaned up allowing us to continue playing.

I was also running with fraps, and no I am not going to accept running without it as a solution.


I would like to point out that it seems like the save process has started every single time this happens to me.

[jaredhite1]

Originally Posted by shockertwin

I did have frame spikes, but in CCC 10.6 I never experience freezes of any kind. 10.7 reintroduced the freezes.

Looks like lots of people are experiencing the same thing with 10.7 drivers.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forum....php?t=1380955

[sWiZzLe]

ATI 10.7 Driver Relases Notes

Page 6

Performance Improvements
The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst™ 10.7:

Borderlands
Performance increases 3-5% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5700 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
Performance increases 3-8% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
Performance increases 2-6% on ATI Radeon™ HD 5600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 5500 series single card configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled
Performance increases 2-10% on ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series single card and CrossFire™ configurations when anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering is enabled

Then on Page 7

Known Issues Under the Windows 7 Operating System
The following section provides a summary of open issues that may be experienced under
the Windows 7 operating system in the latest version of Catalyst™. These include:

"Borderlands" may intermittently fail after a duration of gameplay

[botman]

Originally Posted by sWiZzLe

"Borderlands" may intermittently fail after a duration of gameplay

Nice. Way to go ATI.

[Pigmachine]

Originally Posted by botman

Nice. Way to go ATI.

Are you going to say the same to GBX about the random computer shutdowns?
(that never ever happens in any other game I play)

[Krestena]

im lucky i have ASUS EAH5750 =]

[shockertwin]

Originally Posted by Krestena

im lucky i have ASUS EAH5750 =]

All that is is a rebranded ATI 5750...

If you update to CCC 10.7 and run in windows 7 you will have the same issues.

[shockertwin]

Originally Posted by botman

Nice. Way to go ATI.

The frame rates still spike in 10.6. It's just that 10.7 actually crashes. I am going to revert to 10.6 tonight anyway.

[Makoto-san]

I had freeze with a CFX of HD4850 under Win 7 x64, but after some (looong) tests think i found something stable, i played all the week and 4 hours straight without a single freeze, I tried:

• Cat 10.5 without profile = Freeze
• Cat 10.5 + CFX profile 10.5 = no freeze but no CFX (only one GPU running)
• Cat 10.6 + CFX profile 10.6 = Massive stuttering (cat 10.6 & 10.7 CFX problems)
• Cat 10.7 + CFX profile 10.7 = Massive stuttering (and maybe freeze)
• Cat 10.5a without profile = Freeze
• Cat 10.5a + CFX profile 10.5 = no freeze but no CFX (only one GPU running)
• Cat 10.5a + CFX profile 10.6 = playable, smooth framerate, no freeze (yet...)
• Cat 10.5a + CFX profile 10.7 = Freeze

I think the key lies in CFX profiles, the CFX profiles 10.6 seems to correct the freezing behavior (at least for me) while 10.7 (and some earlier versions found at rage3D for example) reintroduce it.

So all you need is:

Catalyst 10.5a (great if you're playing Bad company 2 too), maybe 10.5 if this one isn't working with your HD5xxx card.
And Catalyst application profile 10.6 (make sure to desinstall all previous profiles).

Hope it'll do it for you too~

Update: Cat 10.5a + CFX profile 10.6 = freeze too...