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Is driver for Radeon HD 4870 updated since 10.6.8?

I wonder if the driver for the ATI Radeon HD 4870 that came with my MacPro Nehalem (4.1) is updated for Mountain Lion.


Currently I work with Snow Leopard.

I have trouble with Photoshop files being destroyed from time to time.


The MacPro Nehalem 4.1 was at service several times.

Graphic Card exchanged 2 times (Radeon HD4870 again).

Logic Board exchanged.

Now again problems...


The GPU set to normal, it will happen - not often and not repeatable, but lets say every 1-2 weeks, I have a file - quite complex 1-4GB 20-50 layers .psd or .tif (LZW) files.

Sometimes it results in only one destroyed layer but often it will affect all layers at once.

At the moment I set GPU usage to basic and wait what happens.


(In one case the destruction happened in a smart filter.

After rerendering it was gone - but only in this single case.

But this made me think it is for shure the GraphicCard.)


Maybe it is the driver.

I searched for updated drivers but ATI does not support drivers for the card for Mac.

So, that is why I ask, if the driver is updated in Mountain Lion...


Any information welcome...

Michael


ATI Radeon HD 4870:


Chipsatz-Modell: ATI Radeon HD 4870

Typ: GPU

Bus: PCIe

Steckplatz: Slot-1

PCIe-Lane-Breite: x16

VRAM (gesamt): 512 MB

Hersteller: ATI (0x1002)

Geräte-ID: 0x9440

Versions-ID: 0x0000

ROM-Version: 113-B7710F-176

EFI-Treiberversion: 01.00.318

Mac Pro (Early 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Sep 21, 2012 12:28 PM

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Posted on Sep 27, 2012 6:08 AM

Driver is the same under 10.8.2 ...


ATI Radeon HD 4870:


Chipsatz-Modell: ATI Radeon HD 4870

Typ: GPU

Bus: PCIe

Steckplatz: Slot-1

PCIe-Lane-Breite: x16

VRAM (gesamt): 512 MB

Hersteller: ATI (0x1002)

Geräte-ID: 0x9440

Versions-ID: 0x0000

ROM-Version: 113-B7710F-176

EFI-Treiberversion: 01.00.318

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Sep 27, 2012 6:08 AM in response to islandphotographer

Driver is the same under 10.8.2 ...


ATI Radeon HD 4870:


Chipsatz-Modell: ATI Radeon HD 4870

Typ: GPU

Bus: PCIe

Steckplatz: Slot-1

PCIe-Lane-Breite: x16

VRAM (gesamt): 512 MB

Hersteller: ATI (0x1002)

Geräte-ID: 0x9440

Versions-ID: 0x0000

ROM-Version: 113-B7710F-176

EFI-Treiberversion: 01.00.318

Is driver for Radeon HD 4870 updated since 10.6.8?

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