lostoften June 21, 2007 Share lostoften Member June 21, 2007 Are these actual driver updates needed? Seems like a lot of people are saying they are also getting the message. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 21, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 21, 2007 ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 21, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 21, 2007 When i click to join the server it comes up and says my drivers are not the latest ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 21, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 21, 2007 Well I followed the link, went to ati and started the update. It finished and said it needed a restart, so now either my PC isnt booting up, or just taking a really long time to get to windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 21, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 21, 2007 It's definnately just not starting up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaftiel June 21, 2007 Share shaftiel Member June 21, 2007 Um... that sucks my friend. Wish i had some mystic computer jargon to spew at you that would fix it... but I don't. Shaftiel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VooDooPC June 21, 2007 Share VooDooPC Member June 21, 2007 I thought they were just standard video driver updates. I clicked the "Don't inform me again" box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 21, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 21, 2007 (edited) you should really download the drivers directly from ati. uninstalled the old ones completely and then reboot and install the new ones. crap that your comp no longer starts. have you tried "last known good..."? or safe mode to uninstall the drivers. Edited June 21, 2007 by Cujo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Preacher June 21, 2007 Share Preacher Member June 21, 2007 I did the same deal except I got them from ATI, rebooted to safe used driver-cleaner to wipe ATI off, reboot installed new drivers reboot - driver not found? - crap reboot - same- uninstall/reinstall drivers - same - then screw it need a fresh install of XP Pro x64 anyway so here I am at 5% steam updating CS:S - Not sure what went wrong with ATIs driver package but on reinstalling windows ATI driver package worked just fine (same download saved to secondary HDD) I was already having issues with my SATA II drivers not reading correctly so it would pop-up with the new hardware found every reboot. Very annoying but I've grown to expect this from this wonderful ( grumbles) version of windows lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 21, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 21, 2007 The steam update did link to ati's website. I did not delete the old version, and think that is where my problem is. It didnt say anything about that in the install prompts (or atleast not that I saw), and i thought it was just like any other update. It did start up with the last known good, thanks guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 21, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 21, 2007 so make sure you do a full uninstalled of the ati drivers this time then reboot and install the new ones. i've never had this message before because i always keep my drivers up-to-date. you should bookmark the ati website for your drivers and check it monthly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stutters June 21, 2007 Share stutters GC Alumni June 21, 2007 i got the same message, but did have out of date drivers. i canceled the dialogue box, went to ati, and installed the new drivers (after uninstalling and driver-cleaning). i still get the dumb out of date message. on a positive note, ati now has a driver notification email list that i joined. it might not be that new, but it's new since the last time i grabbed drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 22, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 22, 2007 Okay, so I have uninstalled (atleast I think) the old drivers, then reboot, and install the new drivers, restart, and it doesn't. Gonna give it one more try, and if not I'll reinstall the old drivers. Bad thing is "lastknown good" is now without working drivers. I should just stick to giving out drugs. When I check the "support information here" in control panel it list the current driver Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 22, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 22, 2007 Okay, back up and running the old drivers. Think im gonna abide by the moto "if it aint broke dont fix it" since this hasnt gone as i thought it would. After I did the uninstall, it says to uninstall this DAO file, but I never found that. http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...uestionID=20870 Anyways, not sure if I should try and do it again, since I messed it up going from this version to the new the first time. Could this be why I was having trouble? 737-26586: Radeonâ„¢ Series - No Display With Some TFT Monitors Through DVI Connection in Windows http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...uestionID=20870 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 22, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 22, 2007 no idea. very strange issue though. i've never had any instability with any ati drivers in windows xp. i've probably installed every ati release driver in the last 3 years too. i always add/remove everything ati. then reboot and then install the new drivers and reboot again at the prompt. never had any problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allanon June 25, 2007 Share Allanon Member June 25, 2007 It's not just ATI, I have Nvidia and I had to install new Forceware drivers, however afterwards it still gave me the stupid error... I clicked the box that said do not inform me and simply went on playing CSS steam 0 Allanon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brew June 26, 2007 Share Brew Member June 26, 2007 i got the message. went to ATI. got the drivers. installed without unistalling anything. restarted. comp/cs works fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostoften June 26, 2007 Author Share lostoften Member June 26, 2007 I'll just either wait til the next driver comes out and try it, or not update at all since everything runs fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 26, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 26, 2007 if you're still getting the error even after you install the newest drivers then steam is probably picking up remnants of a previous dirty install. it may not be your most recent previous version. it may be a version from some months ago that didn't uninstall properly. i've always used the uninstaller in add/remove with no issues. i run the uninstaller and then remove any other sign of the driver in add/remove. reboot and install the new one. never had any issues with doing it that way and i've never used anything like driver cleaner. it's really not hard guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo June 26, 2007 Share anonymo Member June 26, 2007 i got the message. went to ATI. got the drivers. installed without unistalling anything. restarted. comp/cs works fine. I had 12 kittens and they all suddenly died yesterday. Now I know why! if you're still getting the error even after you install the newest drivers then steam is probably picking up remnants of a previous dirty install. it may not be your most recent previous version. it may be a version from some months ago that didn't uninstall properly. i've always used the uninstaller in add/remove with no issues. i run the uninstaller and then remove any other sign of the driver in add/remove. reboot and install the new one. never had any issues with doing it that way and i've never used anything like driver cleaner. it's really not hard guys. I have never had add/remove thing work properly. It always takes forever to load, won't let me add/remove half the programs in its list and even then when it does try to remove a program/driver the listing never goes away (but it does delete the driver ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler June 26, 2007 Share boiler Member June 26, 2007 I have never had add/remove thing work properly. It always takes forever to load, won't let me add/remove half the programs in its list and even then when it does try to remove a program/driver the listing never goes away (but it does delete the driver ) your computer must dislike you then I too use add/remove and have never had any problems with it. If the listing "stays" in the list, try to click on remove again and it should go away. On that note, I haven't loaded up steam in probably a month and a half, so I know not of these driver issues. Plus I have nvidia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 26, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 26, 2007 if you're add/remove takes forever to load then you have a) way too many things installed or and old hard drive/very little ram. if you are unable to remove things via add/remove then you've a) deleted some portion of the app manually or have a broken installation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boiler June 26, 2007 Share boiler Member June 26, 2007 lol at the unintentional smilies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymo June 26, 2007 Share anonymo Member June 26, 2007 if you're add/remove takes forever to load then you have a) way too many things installed or and old hard drive/very little ram. if you are unable to remove things via add/remove then you've a) deleted some portion of the app manually or have a broken installation. You forgot D) All of the above Too many things installed? That's probably it...having 2 sound cards, 2 video cards, 3 mice, 2 keyboards, a midi keyboard, 3 major Post-Production suites, Photoshop, Office, Steam, 10+games, Skype, MSN, AIM, Trillian, 2 webcams, MS wireless connection device, plus 100+ audio plug-ins...might explain it... I've needed to clean up my HDs for over a year, but I have over 300 gigs of stuff I just can't delete and really don't have the time to back up to DVD or HDDVD for that matter...I'll probably just have to find a 500gig HD somewhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cujo June 27, 2007 Share Cujo Member June 27, 2007 ya they're dirt cheap right now. you could come to my house. i currently have ~700gb free hdd space in my system plus another 200gb on a network storage device and i also have a 400gb drive sitting on a table in my room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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