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I have bought a AMD/ATi 5870 graphics card from ASUS a while ago, and i soon found out there was some issues with games and FPS (with more)

Today i tried to uninstall Catalyst 10.2 and the rest of the bundled programs that came with this, rebooted and executed ccleaner, then preformed another reboot.

Finally i installed JUST THE DRIVERS for my amd card, without catalyst and other bundled stuff.
= all of my games runs now perfectly with enormous high FPS.

I checked more about this and i discovered that catalyst wanted to control every game settings disabling the game settings somehow (ingame), this made my pc go slower and stuttered often.

I tried to disable all catalyst settings and still had problems. so i blame AMD for making bad software. though they make pretty good hardware, i am a hardware nerd and this GPU makes me warm and fuzzy with a cherry on top.

I hope this advice will help my fellow gamers on this face of planet earth.

I have 4870 and 5750 and I did not have any problems except maybe 5750 has bad FPS on the new Unreal Engine 3 especially Americas Army 3

I have two 5870s. I only run one with BF2 and I always have high FPS. I run on high graphic, but it may be the 12GB of RAM that helps.

you never really need more then 4Gb unless you do video encoding or memory intensive programs

ghoststorm11 wrote:I have two 5870s. I only run one with BF2 and I always have high FPS. I run on high graphic, but it may be the 12GB of RAM that helps.

Won't make a jot of difference. BF2 is still a 32-bit program even if your OS is 64-bit; despite the the LARGEADDRESSAWARE flag that DiCE patched in, the game can only use up to 4 gigabytes of memory.

Even if BF2/PR ran to more than 2GB memory useage (I've never seen it top out above 2, on my PC), then once you're allowing another 1.5 - 2GB or so for Windows and the usual collection of background tasks and applications - xFire, TS3, Mumble, Sidebar etc, the difference between 4GB of RAM and 12GB is absolutely moot.

you can NEVER have enough RAM.

I renember back in 2006 when i had two nvidia 6800 ultra's running in my rig w/SLi i had 10 minutes of game time before i got BSOD due to massive memory leaks. PR would go NOM NOM NOM on my ram like the cookie monster on sesamy street.