Wiggum15 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) Hi ! we all know that CMx2 + AMD GPU + most drivers gives you long loading times, bad performance or graphic glitches... And we all know that updating or downgrading the GPU driver is one of the few things that an help... But updating or downgrading your GPU drivers is a pain in the a** and can cause problems with other games. But there is a way of using a newer or older AMD OpenGL driver without changing your whole GPU driver ! How does it work ? Download a older or newer (or Beta) AMD Catalyst Driver Open the the "driver_you_just_downloaded.exe" with a program like 7zip Inside that directory, traverse into ->Packages\Drivers\Display\W86A_INF (depends on the driver)\B151068 (depends on the driver) and look for the file: atioglxx.dl_ and copy (unpack) it to your CMBS folder (the folder where the game .exe is located !) Open a command window (On the start menu, type "cmd.exe" in the search box, you should see "cmd.exe" appear at the top search results. Right click on this and run as administrator) You should now be in a DOS prompt/DOS box command shell. Type CD C:\Program Files (x86)\Battlefront\Combat Mission Black Sea (or whatever, its the directory where you installed CMBS) and hit enter Now type EXPAND ATIOGLXX.DL_ ATIOGLXX.DLL * It should say the file has inflated or expanded like 127% or similar factor. You now should see a atioglxx.dl_ and a atioglxx.dll You can delete the atioglxx.dl_ now CMBS will now use the AMD OpenGL driver from the driver you took the atioglxx.dl_ from, it only affects CMBS and by deleting the atioglxx.dll you can undo it in a second ! This works with all CMx2 games ! Edited March 14, 2015 by Wiggum15 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antaress73 Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Which catalyst driver works best with black sea ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 I use the latest Beta but 14.4 also looks better then other, you have to try different ones and see which atioglxx.dll works best with your system, its pretty easy and fast with the way i described above. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Canadian Cat Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Cool trick. Glad to hear that the new beta is better. I was afraid they were not going to fix it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3k Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Wiggum, Outstanding tutorial. I have not yet tried it, but I will. Thanks for putting this out there. Ken 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkEzra Posted March 14, 2015 Share Posted March 14, 2015 Thank you for sharing this! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 14, 2015 Author Share Posted March 14, 2015 (edited) I use the latest Beta but 14.4 also looks better then other, you have to try different ones and see which atioglxx.dll works best with your system, its pretty easy and fast with the way i described above. To be clear, by "I use the latest AMD Beta driver" i mean i actually only use the atioglxx.dll from the latest AMD Beta driver... I tried 5 different ones and the atioglxx.dll from the latest AMD Beta driver works best. Edited March 14, 2015 by Wiggum15 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt Joch Posted March 16, 2015 Share Posted March 16, 2015 To be clear, by "I use the latest AMD Beta driver" i mean i actually only use the atioglxx.dll from the latest AMD Beta driver... I tried 5 different ones and the atioglxx.dll from the latest AMD Beta driver works best. Hi, which Beta driver are you using, the 14.11.2 ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 16, 2015 Author Share Posted March 16, 2015 Yes 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 26, 2015 Author Share Posted March 26, 2015 Anyone tried the new AMD Beta driver 15.3 ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagler Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 (edited) Wiggum, if this fixes the problems on my hard top I will give you felatio. I will attempt said method post weekend lash and attempts to smash stupid student girls. Edited March 28, 2015 by Stagler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 ...mhhh, no thanks. Better gift me the upcoming CMBS expansion. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thewood1 Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 Wiggum, if this fixes the problems on my hard top I will give you felatio. I will attempt said method post weekend lash and attempts to smash stupid student girls. Man if you edited that, I can't imagine what the original looked like. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagler Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Man if you edited that, I can't imagine what the original looked like. Ha true that, completely off topic but related to above post, we won the 200 000 euros. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 Now that you are rich and considering that i voted vor RHS in the contest AND fixed your CMBS graphic problems go and buy me CMFI+GL+v3.0 Update... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagler Posted March 30, 2015 Share Posted March 30, 2015 Im still getting graphical errors with the ingame text display. Sigh. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted March 30, 2015 Author Share Posted March 30, 2015 How many different ATIOGLXX.DLL did you try ?Maybe try one from a older driver. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Kettler Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Stagler, (Ben Stein VO) Wow! (End VO) Regarding your #11, i feel safe in asserting you have forever redefined and greatly expanded the meaning of "family friendly" regarding the Forums. Appreciation is a good thing, but this may be taking it to extremes. Contrariwise, I don't have a PC and run an ancient ATI Radeon 4670 graphics chip on my equally ancient late 2009 iMac. Therefore, I'm not AMD GPU bedeviled, so maybe such an extraordinary expression of gratitude on your part to Wiggum15 is indeed warranted. In any case, a CM first! Regards, John Kettler 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 AMD and ATI is the same. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagler Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 Wiggim is there a site which has all the drivers on or is it just the and site? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 I dont know, the AMD site has a few old drivers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagler Posted April 1, 2015 Share Posted April 1, 2015 I tried the older ones on the website. No love. I have an AMD/ATI R7 M265. Anybody else got a similar card? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted April 1, 2015 Author Share Posted April 1, 2015 Ha, i have the same card but for a desktop pc ! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stagler Posted April 2, 2015 Share Posted April 2, 2015 wig send me the dll you are using and ill try that. I just put it in the cmbs base folder right? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiggum15 Posted April 2, 2015 Author Share Posted April 2, 2015 What OS do you use and is it 32Bit or 64Bit ? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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