ATi 4870X2 Crash in windows mode (vista +aero enabled)

Its a long time bug and probably one not GpG fault but rather ATI fault.

IF you have a 4870X2 and you play in windows mode with AERO enabled, the game MAY(its pretty random but not so rare) eventually stall (not responding) and the computer will completly freeze after a while.

The workaround is to disabled windows aero and the problem will never happen.

Could someone at stardock or gpg contact AMD/ATI and discussed about this?

This problem is known to happen in World of warcraft too.

There are some thread about this on game.amd forum but Its been a couple of month and no fix yet.

im in vista 64. dont know if vista 32 is affectected too.

Only the 4870X2 seem affected.

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had the same problem, similar setup with same video card

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Just bumping this up.

I really want this corrected. A complete computer freeze because of a Videocard driver is unacceptable.

Posted already on ATI forum but they do not seem to care. Its not the first time I brought this bug.

So I wish Stardock can have a little discussion with ATI about this.

4870X2 cards affected only. (maybe other 4xxx card too. but I cant test)

3870X2 card are ok. so its related to something on the 4xxx series or only the X2 in the 4xxx series.

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Just wanted to add that even with aero disabled, we still encounter problem in windows mode. But on myside it didnt crash the system completely. I just had a not responding on demigod window but when aero is disabled, after +-10-15 sec it came back.

With aero, your computer is finished.

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I have not done extended testing but it seem this issue is not happening on windows 7.

Like I said no extensive testing done here.

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