nullzero, many people with ATI cards experience some problems! me to have an ATI Radeon card...did you installed the latest catalyst drivers from ATI web page? (the 4.5 update i mean) if yes try to disable the VPU recovery option, if it still not working the way you want then just install the Omega Drives from
http://www.omegacorner.com these drivers are awesome and rescued me from many problems...
