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Desolate Sands - New ATI Beta drivers **Updated 10/1/15**(1)Category: Technical SupportSeptember-29-2015 6:14 AM PDT (7 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
*** Latest Update 10/1/15 ***

ATI has put out a new beta release of their drivers to fix the recent memory leak issue. The new version is 15.9.1. If you've been having a problem with Diablo III locking up or crashing in the Desolate Sands area, we'd like you to consider giving these beta drivers a try. They're available at the link in the original post below.

*** Update ***

Due to reports of a GPU memory leak, I'd advise users to not try the latest beta AMD drivers at this time. I'll leave the text of my earlier post up for now but please, use caution when using these drivers as they may cause other system issues apparently.

Original post below, please read above warning before using.

For those of you with AMD video cards who have been experiencing issues with the game in the Desolate Sands area among a few others possibly, AMD/ATI has released a new set of beta drivers reportedly resolving the issue.

They can be located here: http://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/latest-catalyst-windows-beta.aspx

The AMD Catalystâ„¢ Software Suite, AMD Catalystâ„¢ 15.9 Beta Driver contains the following:

AMD Catalystâ„¢ Display Driver version 15.201.1151

Resolved Issues:

[59474] Diablo 3 crashes in the Act 2 Desolate Sands area of the game

Please give them a try if you're interested.

We suggest following AMD's installation and uninstallation support articles for the drivers.

How-To Uninstall AMD Catalyst™ Drivers from a Windows® Based System

How-To Install AMD Catalyst™ Drivers for a Windows® Based System

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Desolate Sands - New ATI Beta drivers **Updated**(3)September-29-2015 8:16 AM PDT (7 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
XHurt,

Thanks for the info XHurt, I've updated the sticky post above as it looks like the drivers should not be used in their current state.

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Desolate Sands - New ATI Beta drivers **Updated 10/1/15**(11)October-6-2015 7:37 AM PDT (7 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Thymelord,

What sort of updates are you looking for? This thread is just a notice about an updated beta release of AMD's Catalyst drivers reportedly resolving a long-standing issue in Diablo III among many other bug fixes.

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Desolate Sands - New ATI Beta drivers **Updated 10/1/15**(13)October-6-2015 2:51 PM PDT (7 years ago) Go to Blizzard forum post
Thymelord,

I posted an update to that several days ago in the top post of the thread. It's been fixed and so far, the results are good as far as fixing the issue in the Desolate Sands. They're beta drivers so there's always a risk, but you can just revert to another release if you find a problem with them.

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