[SOLVED] Catalyst performs poorly and corrupts shutdown messages

Hey guys,
I'm running just an AMD A10-5750M APU and I just switched to the catalyst driver and I'm getting worse performance than with the radeon driver, about 70%.
However, using fglrx, my CPU can clock up to 3.5 GHz where before it was only up to 2.5GHz. Direct rendering is enabled, and it runs glxgears and fgl_glxgears much faster than with radeon (about twice the fps).
Additionaly, I'm playing the games through steam which seems to degrade performance. When I run fgl_glxgears normally (no compositor, just after x starts) I get about 1200-1400 fps, then when I lauch steam (even without launching a game) I can only get about 600 fps. In game (CSGO) I can get only about 35-55 fps, where with radeon I could get about 55-75.
Everything seems like it should be running faster but with steam everything is degraded. When I first installed catalyst, I was able to get about 100-110 fps running CSGO on the same settings, but ever since then I can't.
Also, when I shutdown now from within X, the shutdown messages are all corrupted and I can't read them at all. This doesn't happen when I shutdown from a tty. I made sure that I have nomodeset as a kernel parameter, but I don't know what else to do and haven't found anything from searching either of these issues.
Here is my xorg.conf:
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "aticonfig Layout"
Screen 0 "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0" 0 0
EndSection
Section "Module"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
Option "VendorName" "ATI Proprietary Driver"
Option "ModelName" "Generic Autodetecting Monitor"
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Driver "fglrx"
BusID "PCI:0:1:0"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "aticonfig-Screen[0]-0"
Device "aticonfig-Device[0]-0"
Monitor "aticonfig-Monitor[0]-0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection
Last edited by Kopkins (2014-11-10 01:18:26)

Kopkins wrote:Thanks clfarron, I took of nomodeset and that fixed my performance issues. I'm back getting between 55 and 100 which is totally acceptable.
Well that's good
Kopkins wrote:The shutdown messages are still corrupted though.
Chances are, I won't know how to deal with this, but I think for others that may, how are they corrupted? Tearing, fonts drawn badly, something else which requires a photo to describe?

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References
1) The Original Corrupt iPod File thread from 2004. (Credit: AbbyM)
2) Our Summary and Index threads to consolidate the chkdsk issue at the height of its reign of terror.
3) Chkdsk is fixed by iPod Updater 2005-06-26.
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