I installed a newer Graphics card (Powercolour 4670 1Gb) and after Windows 7 restarted i Installed the Win 7 drivers for it from ATI.

I rebooted the PC, and checked my WEI score (it was 5.8 with the older card), it said i had installed New Hardware and need to refresh, so i did. it gets to a certain point then a message pops up that says. "Windows Assesment Tool has stopped working" and it cannot continue.

I'm not that worried about it, but would like to know the cause of the error.

It crashes at "Direct 3D 9 Batch Assessment" The event log has numerous winsat.exe fails and i have the latest Radeon drivers from ATI AMD installed.

I navigated to: C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore
deleted all *.xml files...
Ran elevated CMD and excuted the following command.

> winsat formal

It got to : Assessing DirectX Batch performance. Then the error: CreateShader failed to produce a valid shader cache.

Is there a way to fix this without a re-install.

I uninstalled the ATI drivers and tried the WDM drivers, but it was the same result.

I dont think its the card at fault as i can can run the WEI in vista (dual booting Vista Ultimate and Windows 7 - both 64bit). but if anyone coukd give me some advice as to how i fix it without a re-install, i'd be greatful.

Specs:
Windows 7 RTM
E6700 cpu
Powercolour 4670 1Gb GDDR3 PCI-e
3 x 320Gb HDD (all SATA)
4GB Kingston HyperX DDR2 1012
AverMedia 777 Tuner Card
Gigabyte EP45-DS3 Motherboard.
Samsung SyncMaster 203B
Pioneer DVRBK-215

cheers

jeepers

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itproperf/thread/5fcb17b0-f404-43a7-9b72-30a0758c2d6d

 

Seems it might be the Card after all.

 

cheers

 

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