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First post, by vindasal

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I recently bought a Dell Optiplex 7010 to run XP on, and it came with a Radeon 7570. Seems like it's the Dell OEM version, 1GB DDR5. Temps on the card are very good for its size, so I figured I'd try to make it work with XP. Found a couple of drivers that worked, but I'm having a big issue. When displaying lower resolutions like 640x480 the screen is incredibly distorted. There's an overlay of wavy colors like pink and green flickering and shimmering over the image at all times. At higher resolutions the card performs as expected, though I do notice screen tearing on the desktop that the Intel graphics don't have. There is no Catalyst control panel installed by my drivers.

When the drivers are uninstalled, the low resolutions work fine. I don't have exact numbers for the driver versions (must be in the file names I assume) but the files I used are the following: "AMD_(ATI)-9.000.300.0000.zip" and "icafe-winxp-9.00.300.3010-beta1-br294594-sep24". I'm curious to see if anyone else has experienced this issue, or if anyone can help me find a better driver for this. Searched all over the place and these two were the only ones I could get working. If needed I can provide a video.

Reply 1 of 2, by vindasal

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I also installed the official 14.4 drivers manually from Pack2 like in the philscomputerlab video and it has the same issue. Going to try Win7 with this card and see if it does the same thing, if so it's probably junked.

Reply 2 of 2, by vindasal

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Don't see a way to edit the post, but I did eventually figure out my issue. XP was just being stubborn and reinstalling the same bad driver over and over, even though the dates were changing in Device Manager. It turns out I could point the update driver to any .inf file and it would 'work', because it was just reinstalling itself, not what the inf points to. I used DDU (which was a disaster, the newest version that apparently works on XP doesn't) to uninstall it completely and finally it took. You can even install the Catalyst control center.