RSS| greenarrow1 | Aug 19, 2009 | 9.8 |  5 out of 5 |
When installing ATI drivers and other programs you must uninstall the previous version or you will run into all sorts of problems. If you do not you are one of the lucky ones to have the install run smooth specially with older type ATI video cards. |
| LRN | Jul 24, 2009 | 9.7 |  4 out of 5 |
Still big and ugly...But they work. P.S. People, read the discussion section for ATI Catalyst Drivers on BetaNews ( http://fileforum.betanew...P/1058330408/1#talkback )! There's a tip for all of you x300-x1300 owners. |
| Steve1209 | Jul 23, 2009 | 9.7 |  1 out of 5 |
Version 9.7 failed as did each of it's previous versions, WTF is going on????? |
| Steve1209 | Jun 15, 2009 | 9.6 | 1 out of 5 |
This problem has been the same for Ver 9.4, 9.5 & 9.6 *IF* I was the only person experiencing the problem, I'd say it was my XP PRO 32 bit machine with a RAEDON X300 card, I'm not the only one with the problem... |
| LakotaElf | Jun 15, 2009 | 9.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Installed without a hitch, works perfectly with no problems at this time. Funny how others have had all manner of problems and I have never had one. Guess I am lucky, but then, I do not want any problems either. To me, these drivers are fine... |
| Ryusennin | Jun 15, 2009 | 9.6 |  3 out of 5 |
Still truckloads of OpenGL bugs in this release. Last build with decent OGL support is 8.11. |
| craigun | May 18, 2009 | 9.5 | 1 out of 5 |
It won't install. I had the same problem with 9.4 so I'm just gonna keep 9.3 |
| donce | Mar 24, 2009 | 9.3 | 1 out of 5 |
Totally crap on my 2600XT PCI-E. Win Xp 64 crashes with BSOD on boot. Tried everything but returning to 8.11 solved problems. Waiting for better drivers. |
| CobraPL | Jan 29, 2009 | 9.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Works w/o any problems. |
| Morningdove | Jan 29, 2009 | 9.1 |  2 out of 5 |
I have an All-In-Wonder card. Following the ATI instructions explicitly, I have never successfully installed the updates/upgrades. The TV doesn't initialize after installation. On the other hand, installing from the provided CD is almost an automatic operation and is always successfull. Problem is, the CD is an old, old version. The CD installation proves the All-In-Wonder download installation does not have to be that complex. |
| kommando | Dec 11, 2008 | 8.12 | 5 out of 5 |
Working fine for me. |
| keiichi999 | Dec 10, 2008 | 8.12 | 5 out of 5 |
Aegis69, try DNA ATI drivers, they works flawless. |
| GoraKX | Dec 10, 2008 | 8.12 | 5 out of 5 |
worked fine for me. went from 8.11 driver only to 8.12 driver only on Vista x64, no problems and no reboot required. Much like previous installations. |
| Aegis69 | Dec 10, 2008 | 8.12 | 1 out of 5 |
Crappy, ATI always breaks all my games when I put new drivers on. Is omegadrivers.net done updating? I'd like to see what he could do with the 8.xx ATI drivers, his builds were always reliable and removed the fluff/crap. |
| AlphaBetaGamma | Dec 10, 2008 | 8.12 | 3 out of 5 |
To amend my earlier review, I think the Asus cards prefer the drivers on the Asus website. I could upgrade to their version OK (but still not up to 8.12). |
| BoNeLeSS | Jun 19, 2008 | 8.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Very stable and some actual performance improvements in this release in OpenGL |
| legion | Jun 19, 2008 | 8.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Display Driver 8.6 + ATI Tray Tools 1.3.6.1042 works without problems :) Sapphire Radeon 1950GT Windows XP SP3. |
| legion | May 22, 2008 | 8.5 | 5 out of 5 |
No problem after install (X1950 GT, WXP SP3). I dont use CCC, ATI Tray Tools works excellent with this version of ATI drivers. |
| roj | May 1, 2008 | 8.4 | 4 out of 5 |
The first drivers from ATI in a long time that didn't hang on reboot after install. No more silly Steam crap either. FOUR stars - I'd give FIVE but it's too early to tell. |
| coch | Mar 20, 2008 | 8.3 | 4 out of 5 |
as always, I do not use ccc but rather Ati Tray tools. The 8.3 drivers seems to have fixed the dreaded BSOD in ati3duag.dll for me, after 6 days of testing (with all prior versions resulted in this crash whenever I changed a graphics setting). Performance seems a bit lower than 8.2 for me though, so I am giving it a 4. |
| yokozuna | Mar 6, 2008 | 8.3 | 4 out of 5 |
Yeah, this release has been definitely the best in last 12 months. Most problems described by me below disappeared, however, it still uses CCC crap. If you want the unofficial CP version of the driver go here: http://files.filefront.c...;9761852;/fileinfo.html |
| Pkshadow | Mar 6, 2008 | 8.3 | 4 out of 5 |
Have not had many problems with the drivers though the CCC is a diff matter. With that said I will state that Reviewer: mjm01010101 has no right to review this program if is not running ATI and using the drivers. There are other options for drivers mjm010101BS'er. Seek and you shall find! With that pairing a M/B and Vid Card is a nasty thing that can create problems but for all that do not know "it is the chipset" that is quality work and you can always run a older set of drivers in a profile or ... So again mjm010101BS'er get with the program and do a review or keep out! I do not review nVidia's drivers so hold your reports for us that need to know or better yet email AMD/ATI |
| jds86930 | Mar 5, 2008 | 8.3 | 5 out of 5 |
This particular release seems pretty good. Lots of bugs fixed (including the AGP one that has plagued me since 7.9) and no issues on my system so far. |
| mjm01010101 | Mar 5, 2008 | 8.3 | 1 out of 5 |
Just an FYI to ATI. In case this isn't clear enough: Your hardware is fairly decent, but myself and others have actually not purchased your hardware based solely on these drivers. I will continue to ignore ATI while sub-par software is released. Shame. |
| =TFM=Melvin | Feb 29, 2008 | 8.2 | 4 out of 5 |
The 5 problems I mentioned in my review of 8.1 are gone. Actually, the issue with Crossfire not working on 8.1 could have been that when I enabled Crossfire and saw the second display stayed active, I assume Crossfire wasn't really working. The support didn't catch this, but I think it is MultiView(tm) which was new to version 8.1. I ran some benchmarks and by performance measurements it looks like Crossfire is working well. THAT is a nice feature; I can now use my secondary monitor even when in Crossfire mode (and even when a game is running the second display is updated). Here is what I sent ATI on my 5 problems: 1. All versions after 7.9 have had display corruption during Crossfire mode -- With 8.2 Crossfire is working. ISSUE RESOLVED. 2. 5x5 pixel White square with 1 pixel wide border in upper left corner of screen -- With 8.2 this no longer happens. ISSUE RESOLVED. 3. I have dual monitors and the Catalyst Control Panel shows them as DVI 3 and DVI 4. It had shown them as DVI 1 and 2 previously. -- This still happens but you said there seems to be no functional side effect to this, so no problem. 4. TV200 doesn't install (since 7.11) -- This is still a problem with 8.2. On another ticket ATI support said my manual install of the WDM drivers (using the C:\ATI\Support\... path) was valid, so no problem. 5. Windows Firewall not-active warning after install, even though it is active, (since 7.11). -- This happens with the installation of the TV200 drivers, (the WDM drivers). However, my workaround to re-boot seems to work, so no problem. |
| tp | Feb 21, 2008 | 8.2 | 1 out of 5 |
this is buggy crap! i wish i left well enough alone.. glad i still have some old drivers on can go back to.. |
| Bobbitchin | Feb 14, 2008 | 8.2 | 1 out of 5 |
ATI has always been crap. Even way back in the Windows 3.1 days when we were dealing with the ATI font cache bug. Here is is over a decade later (almost TWO decades) and I have an ATI card (not by choice) and sure enough, it's crap. Even in the newest video games there is a ton of work-a-rounds in release notes that say ATI users must jump through these hoops to get decent performance. The lase one was in TF2 I have to force it to run in DirectX 7 mode because ATI cards can not create the DirectX objects in Directx 9 or higher. |
| photonboy | Feb 14, 2008 | 8.2 | 4 out of 5 |
Release notes: https://a248.e.akamai.ne...t_82_release_notes.html My comments: 1. I also get the stupid small, grey square in the upper left of my desktop. This really makes me question ATI's grip on their drivers. 2. Not technically drivers, but where is the Transcoding support? I bought this card because the AMD/ATI site said it did transcoding. After the card arrived and it didn't I started doing some research and found out they've been offering this for several years. They currently have software only for a previous version of the card and even that is using the CPU as a placeholder for using the graphics cards hardware decoders. 3. I also have some stuttering in games that I didn't get before, even at the exact same settings with my older 6600GT 128MB NVidia card. I have to assume it's a driver issue. In fact, I can get stuttering even when my frame rates are over 50FPS. It's actually quite annoying. Is this some memory management/buffer issue? Summary: In general, I'm fairly happy with gaming performance and my HD-DVD decoded fine. NVidia has issues too. I'm really happy with the HD3870 idle power which is under half the 8800GT. I think AMD/ATI needs to get their act together. They've got potential and try to look to the future (power management, first to DX10.1, opening hardware now to allow Linux drivers, Fusion etc.) however they need to deliver on the NOW. My system: AMD Athlon X2 4800+, 2GB DDR 3200, HD3870 512MB, Ultra 550W PSU, Windows MCE 2005 (SP3) |
| tickleonthetum | Feb 14, 2008 | 8.2 | 1 out of 5 |
Still no support for AGP cards (2600XT), won't even install. |
| grizz86 | Jan 22, 2008 | 8.1 | 3 out of 5 |
still got low perfomance using google sketchup 6. Gave 3 stars because the quality and the sharpness of the image is the best. |
| =TFM=Melvin | Jan 22, 2008 | 8.1 | 1 out of 5 |
In addition to the Crossfire problem I noted previously, here are some more things. But first to clear things out, I uninstall and clear according to the ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide, (including Registry cleaning) 1. TV200 doesn't install (since 7.11); get new hardware notice on re-boot, so I go down the C:\ATI\Support\... path to find the driver and install. 2. Windows Firewall not active warning after install, even though it is, (since 7.11). Must reboot to clear. 3. I have dual monitors and the Catalyst Control Panel shows them DVI 3 and DVI 4. It had shown them as DVI 1 and 2 previously. 4. 5x5 pixel White square with 1 pixel wide boarder in upper left corner of screen, (just on the primary monitor, not secondary output). My primary is a widescreen 1680x1050; the secondary is 1280x1024. **EDIT** Jan 26, 2008 5. Whoops -- An addition. I finally tried Crossfire with 8.1 and it won't go into Crossfire. That is, both of my monitors keep displaying. I haven't measured framerate, but with Crossfire the second monitor on the card's dual DVI output should turn off. QUESTION: What has happened to these guys? I've installed with a clean uninstall (regedit clears and all that); I've done all they say to do but still the problems. I guess my original problem with screen tearing during Crossfire is fixed; it doesn't happen anymore since it won't go into Crossfire mode. LOL **Changing rating down to 1** |
| Gormless | Jan 17, 2008 | 8.1 | 1 out of 5 |
My PC is screaming Nvidia at me as i type :-( Another kick in the AGP owners goolies. |
| peterj1978 | Jan 17, 2008 | 8.1 | 3 out of 5 |
I'll give these a 3 since for the first time since 7.7 i can upgrade my drivers for my X1950Pro AGP card running on a Abit AN7 Nforce2 motherboard, not without using their hotfix for Crysis and AGP though, but atleast it's working now. Link to hotfix included here. (install 8.1 first then apply hotfix in case you are wondering) http://support.ati.com/i...ge&questionID=31625 |
| skapig | Jan 16, 2008 | 8.1 | 1 out of 5 |
8.1 and the prior version both do not seem to correctly detect my Theater 650 for an upgrade on Vista 32bit. This release went as far as to blue screen at the conclusion of a forced installation (consistantly for serveral trials). To be fair the release 3 or 4 versions ago seemed to have haulted the major crashes that occured on occaision while watching TV. Things had dramatically improved after AMD's purchase, but now it seems that quality control has taken a nose dive at ATI. |
| WeR4saken | Jan 16, 2008 | 8.1 | 3 out of 5 |
The AGP problem has a hotfix out for it. Get it here: http://support.ati.com/i...ge&questionID=31542 I'll give a higher rating when they integrate that fix into drivers. |
| Ryusennin | Jan 16, 2008 | 8.1 | 3 out of 5 |
Come on, ATI! You know AGP support is broken since Cat 7.8, and yet you dare release an AGP HD3850 with unusable drivers? What do you suggest the disillusioned consumer to do? Write his own drivers? Ok... here's a tip that can be useful to VIA chipsets users: make sure you installed the latest Hyperion package (viaarena.com), it comes with a custom AGP driver that will replace the crappy Microsoft one and should allow you to install Cat 7.8 and above. |
| jafo818 | Jan 16, 2008 | 8.1 | 5 out of 5 |
What AGP problem? I read the release notes and "AGP" is only found under the known XP issues... No fix. |
| tickleonthetum | Jan 16, 2008 | 8.1 | 1 out of 5 |
According to release notes these should fix the AGP problem... testing... No they don't. I still can't install them on my Sapphire 2600XT AGP. This is getting ridiculous. |
| =TFM=Melvin | Jan 6, 2008 | 7.12 | 3 out of 5 |
My System: Intel D975XBX2, 2GB DDR 6400, two ATI X1950 PRO, Windows XP Pro I also get screen tearing, but only in CROSSFIRE mode. It doesn't matter about VSYNC setting; I don't think it's that sort of problem in my case, anyway. This started happening with Catalyst 7.10 for me. It continued in 7.11 and is still in 7.12. I have to run in 7.9 if I expect to use the investment I made to get two X1950 PRO cards for CROSSFIRE. For me, it only happens with TF2 in 7.12, but I don't run many other games. I don't see it in the other Valve games or in Battlefield 2. That's all I've checked. I reported this to ATI (with their customer support agreement it was a driver problem) just before 7.11 was released, so hopefully it will be fixed soon. I don't like not being able to use any subsequent fixes or new features or performance improvements after 7.9, 3 driver versions back. |
| photonboy | Dec 31, 2007 | 7.12 | 3 out of 5 |
My System: Asus A8N-SLI (NForce 4), 2GB DDR 3200, X2 4800+, ATI HD3870, Creative Audigy 2 sound card, Windows MCE 2005 (Yes I have an NVidia SLI, but I'm only using a single ATI card so there should be no issues.) I just purchased the ATI HD3870 and I have some problems that I am confident are directly due to the drivers: 1) vertical and/or horizontal tearing (even with VSYNC on) 2) "lag" or "stuttering" 3) unsmooth picture movement (when dragging oversized picture) in FastStone picture browser 4) stuttering? issue when playing DVD-Video's (tried two different MPEG2 decoders and different players) I suspect that most of these problems are related and hopefully will be fixed soon. Yes, this card is fairly new but as I understand it the card is not architecturally that different from the previous (power-hungry) card and that power management and a smaller transistor size (the reasons I went ATI) are the only differences. Unfortunately these problems affect just about every modern game I have (it even affects Halo CE, though FarCry didn't seem that affected. 11 of 12 games displayed the lagging and tearing though.) **Halo CE plays BETTER on my old NVidia 6600GT because I can play at max settings @ 60FPS but without the "lag" and "screen tearing" issues. I am impressed with how good the games look and if they sort this out soon I'll be a happy guy, but if this drags out I'll be pretty upset. I mainly went with ATI over NVidia because of the superior power management (roughly 18 Watts Idle for the HD3870 vs 32 Watts for the 8800GT). The 320 stream processors also bode promise if they get software support, which also begs the question : "How do I Transcode my videos as promised?" I Googled and found some vague reference to using Nero (I own Nero 8) but I was unable to utilize the hardware decoders for transcoding as promised, nor could I find ANY info at ATI on how to do so. Come on, ATI. This is bordering on false advertising and I'm a pretty forgiving guy. In fact, I discovered that Transcoding support has been promised back to 2005, and when the program could even be used it only utilized the CPU. Hey, I bought this card because of what YOU SAID IT CAN DO! Summary: I'm pissed at the current support but if these glitches get sorted out soon I'll be happy I went ATI. (NVidia make note: if you'd offered similar power management on the 8800GT you'd have had my money.) |
| anomoly | Dec 21, 2007 | 7.12 | 3 out of 5 |
Nor the 2400. Who cares as the damn card doesn't do 1680x1050 anyways. (diamond max) I'm stuck at 1280x1024 on a $380 2ms ws lcd. I still prefer ati over nvidia as at least they make their own cards. |
| LuceferAB | Dec 21, 2007 | 7.12 | 1 out of 5 |
Still does not work with ATI AGP HD2600Pro :( |
| Bobbitchin | Dec 21, 2007 | 7.12 | 1 out of 5 |
How had ATI managed to stay in business all these years? Again the drivers do not work with modern games. I have to roll back five versions to play TF2. |
| -Lord- | Dec 21, 2007 | 7.12 | 1 out of 5 |
How does ATI rationalize that they put their cards into laptops, the majority of which cannot be upgraded hardware-wise, and then stop making drivers for them. I have a Radeon 9000 IGP in my 3.5GHz Laptop with 2 GB of memory, and can't run Vista properly because there are no compatible drivers for the video card. The laptop itself is WELL capable of running the resource hog that Vista is, but stops cold at the video. Whomever made the decision to stop supporting the cards that we BOUGHT and PAID for should be fired. |
| yokozuna | Dec 21, 2007 | 7.12 | 1 out of 5 |
I think it is a mystery how come that ATI/AMD makes so good new open source drivers for Linux (RadeonHD, I know, I know - they are in fact made by Novell) and so utterly bad ones like their drivers for Windows. Maybe the company should consider outsourcing or something? |
| Gormless | Dec 21, 2007 | 7.12 | 1 out of 5 |
Please nVidia bring out a high end AGP card, my gaming has been terribe since ATi shafted us with the X1950 Pro AGP cards, add this to a VIA chipset and its game over man. |
| peterj1978 | Dec 20, 2007 | 7.12 | 1 out of 5 |
Broken 3d since 7.7 version for me with a X1950Pro AGP card on an Abit AN7 mobo. Pathetic is all i have to say will never buy neither an AMD nor ATi product again in my life or even recommend someone else to do it. Worst crap support ever just go to game.amd.com and check the forums and see how many are having problems. |
| Morgane | Dec 1, 2007 | 7.11 | 1 out of 5 |
Radeon 9700 Pro / XP SP2 v7.11 cannot be installed (neither CC nor driver-only package) (Error "datasize() !=3"; "Setup failed ... (0x80040707)"). No response from AMD yet - lousy customer service, BTW. v7.10 works without problems and fast. |
| theqwerty | Nov 22, 2007 | 7.11 | 1 out of 5 |
X1950 Pro AGP Don't upgrade. |
| improvelence | Nov 21, 2007 | 7.11 | 5 out of 5 |
Always work great, never any problems. |
| useppewind | Oct 13, 2007 | 7.10 | 1 out of 5 |
I'm agree with Floodland. Drop .NET, CCC takes about 30 seconds to start, ATI tray tools 1 second. |
| mikeyx11 | Oct 13, 2007 | 7.10 | 1 out of 5 |
I was using the 7.9 drivers, updated them to 7.10, reset, and the computer became so slow I couldn't use it. I rolled back to the 7.9 drivers and the problem went away. Terrible. |
| landfish | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 5 out of 5 |
10 out of 10 for drivers and CCC. |
| Adrian79 | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 5 out of 5 |
great job! oh, and i LOVE CCC! good stuff ;-) |
| nelsonhf | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 4 out of 5 |
For those having the "CRT invalid type" display type problem, ATI is aware of the problem: http://support.ati.com/i...ge&questionID=29385 In meantime, it's possible to disable the error report in System Log. Open REGEDIT, go to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\ Services\Atierecord" and change the values of "eRecordEnable" and "eRecordEnablePopups" from 1 to 0. |
| Floodland | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 1 out of 5 |
New drivers, small improvements but still rolling that crappy CCC. AMD see it! Microsoft is pulling you down and down. Forget .NET crap! I just bought a new Geforce 8800 card just be fair blaming AMD. Nvidia drivers are MUCH better. They are not perfect, but they kick in the AMD a** all the way. I really liked Ati image quality, but good hardware without decent drivers is a shame. Using ATI tray tools is the solution, but AMD should be pretty embarrassed about that. AMD Drop CCC!! Learn something, DAAMIT! |
| Mystiqq | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 3 out of 5 |
First ever ATI drivers to give problem(s). On my quite old x800xt(pe) these drivers didnt work on certain games in fullscreen mode. Did complete uninstall/reinstall but still nothing, reverted back to the older drivers and now works like a charm. Also the "invalid CRT type" error is quite annoying. |
| yokozuna | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 1 out of 5 |
1. CCC does not want to load and shows that I should have administrative priviledges. The problem is that I have only one account and inevitably it must have the priviledges. The driver itself installs without major problems. 2. the device manager of my machine shows some PCI-E unknown devices. OK ATI I will tell you what the unknown devices are - my ASUS Radeon 2600XT card. The only PCI-E device I own. 3. some artifacts are visible on my 2D desktop (yes!2D!). There are some other surprises like invisible buttons in jetAudio 7.0 or strange effects in videos played by the KMPlayer (distortions). Black squares in Windows explorer are sometimes visible. 4. "CRT invalid display type" bug I can award ATI with my "The Most Hopeless Driver Maker" award. Nobody beats ATI! Even Creative! |
| CyberDoc999 | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 5 out of 5 |
I would take ATI over "buggy nvidia" any day! every nvidia card I have seen has bugs in certain games! ATI is the only solution. |
| mickrussom | Oct 12, 2007 | 7.10 | 1 out of 5 |
They are still selling cards? Who needs these drivers when all the cards since Catalyst 5.x have been second fiddle to Nvidia. ATI is really the dregs of bad drivers. |
| AlphaBetaGamma | Oct 11, 2007 | 7.10 | 4 out of 5 |
I only install the driver, but it still has the annoying bug that "CRT invalid display type" appears in the system event viewer. I wonder how they managed to think that one up? It wasn't there until a few versions ago. |
| taaaki | Sep 17, 2007 | 7.9 | 4 out of 5 |
I've never installed CCC, so I've never had any major issues with the ATI drivers. Be smart, 1. Download the driver only package 2. Install Ati Tray Tools. 3. ??? 4. PROFIT |
| ..::][Ben][::.. | Sep 14, 2007 | 7.9 | 1 out of 5 |
Dam wtf is going on at ati? This is not an driver anymore, this is an advertising package with a lot of trash in it. CCC is also an joke, i begin to hate ati... |
| olavinto | Sep 12, 2007 | 7.9 | 4 out of 5 |
Personally I like the new Control Center much more than the old control panel. I don't really care if it takes up a lot of system resources - I've had enough for years. Sure this isn't the case for everyone. Only thing that I hate about these is that I should always remove to old drivers before updating to the newest. It usually works fine but sometimes it ends up messing things up. But for sure, there's much room for improvement. |
| CyberDoc999 | Sep 12, 2007 | 7.9 | 1 out of 5 |
I stopped updating ATI drivers a long time ago. Each update just made things worse. The CCC is a joke, even though you can find drivers without it. Unless you are having a serious problem there is NO reason to update. |
| bigsexy022870 | Sep 11, 2007 | 7.9 | 1 out of 5 |
I own Ati and wanna like ati. but the drivers suck. It's always a hit or miss. Some drivers will work and others wont. I have given up on this monthly crap. I have a driver version that works and will not waste time updating them. Sure i might miss a good version. But i also wont get pissed from downloading a crap one. |
| landfish | Sep 11, 2007 | 7.9 | 5 out of 5 |
no problems here with the latest offering from ATI, mind you I can't remember ever having a bad experience with any version of the Catalyst drivers over the many years, and cards, that I've been using them. I'm inclined to go along with @improvelence on his take about the negative reviews. |
| purush | Sep 11, 2007 | 7.9 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI has consistantly come out with improved drivers each month. The latest 7.9 takes the cake, my ATI Radeon 1600 card powers my Sharp 37" LCD TV to which I have hooked up my computer via DVI and the image is stunning. I have tried Nvidia card before but this is simply breath taking. Thanks to all the staff ATI. Peter |
| improvelence | Sep 11, 2007 | 7.9 | 5 out of 5 |
I have installed ATI drivers on a WIDE array of systems and never encountered any problems. I honestly think the negative reviews come from masquerading NVIDIA fanboys. |
| Gormless | Sep 11, 2007 | 7.9 | 1 out of 5 |
Nice to see ATI still shafting X1950 Pro AGP owners with another set of drivers that will tipple over the most stable PC. |
| doctorsmith | Aug 15, 2007 | 7.8 | 5 out of 5 |
I agree with @ abear27 I've never had a problem .... Radeon 1650 card on Vista box running fine with these drivers. I wish I could say the same for my other setup with an Nvidia card, never again I'll stick with ATI from now on. |
| abear27 | Aug 14, 2007 | 7.8 | 5 out of 5 |
I've never had a problem .... These drivers are fine on my Dell Dimension system, Radeon 9800 card, XPSP2. |
| layback | Aug 14, 2007 | 7.8 | 1 out of 5 |
I install this new ATI drives yesterday. They didn't work. Made my Display all mess up...Big and Gray and then my computer crash. I made a restore point before I put the new Drives in. Return to the way I had it before and then download the Drives one by one and try that way. Install the first one (7-8_xp32-64_ccc_lang1_50964.exe) and the same thing happen again..so I did another restore point back and going to stay with the last dives 7.7..Do a Restore Point before trying the Drives..Have Fun. |
| slinkys_delsol | Aug 14, 2007 | 7.8 | 1 out of 5 |
Two Suggestions: + NVIDIA + Unified Driver All I ever heard from the ATI Bunch is "BSOD". I had to build a few Medical Machine (XRAY / PACS Systems) and they insisted on using ATI. What a PAIN IN THE A$$! The Machines came with NVIDIA Cards, but noooooooooooooooooo insisted lets buy this "$800 BSOD Chipset" Make the Jump and it will save you a lot of complaining in the longrun. |
| yokozuna | Aug 14, 2007 | 7.8 | 2 out of 5 |
I have not installed this driver yet, so I am not writing about this particular version but about ATI drivers in general. The thing is that ATI does not listen its customers, and I think it is "the philosophy of ATI". People do not want CCC and want old Control Panel? Ok, so we force them to use CCC. Does the keyboard shortcut Alt + C interfere with most European languages? Ok, so we will leave the shortcut untouched. Do people want to have memory/core speed regulation integrated with the drivers? Ok, so we will not add any regulation. There are so many people who make good ATI tweaked drivers like Omega, NGO or DNA drivers. ATI should hire one or all of them. I use ATI cards because they give much better picture than competion (I work with digital photograhs, so it counts). In general, ATI makes very decent hardware. But the team which makes drivers (esp. Linux drivers) should be immediately fired. |
| landfish | Aug 13, 2007 | 7.8 | 4 out of 5 |
running fine here on a Vista box [with the vista drivers of course] haven't run into any of the problems that others posters have. |
| Point Zero | Aug 13, 2007 | 7.8 | 1 out of 5 |
OMG ! What did they break this time ? |
| sjc001 | Aug 13, 2007 | 7.8 | 1 out of 5 |
It didn't cause a BSOD on mine, but it lowered the res to 640X480 and 4bit color and wouldn't let me use a higher res or color bit. I had to go back to 7.7. |
| mjm01010101 | Aug 13, 2007 | 7.8 | 1 out of 5 |
Yeah I've tried the driver. Causes a BSOD on restarting the machine, and has for almost a year, on two different ATI boxes I manage. |
| BB88 | Jul 20, 2007 | 7.7 | 4 out of 5 |
Have you guys really ever tried nvidia drivers? They're even worse! Almost ceased support for GF 7 series (or older) and Windows XP and only keeps pumping out buggy beta drivers! |
| incisor | Jul 20, 2007 | 7.7 | 4 out of 5 |
Works fine for me. Just install the display driver, if you dont like the bloated ccc (-1). http://ati.amd.com/suppo...vers/xp/radeonx-xp.html |
| mickrussom | Jul 20, 2007 | 7.7 | 1 out of 5 |
Due to continual bad software, I will never buy ATI again, if the hardware benches better/ Ill take the 10% performance hit (with my 8800GTX that may never happen) and have decent drivers. |
| Alex Stevens | Jul 19, 2007 | 7.7 | 3 out of 5 |
Yeah, unfortunately the driver isn't much better. |
| moordrake | Jul 19, 2007 | 7.7 | 3 out of 5 |
All these negative comments about the CCC, which I totally agrees with. But, has anyone tried oh, I dont know.....lets say.......the driver ???? |
| DudeBoyz | Jul 19, 2007 | 7.7 | 3 out of 5 |
I agree that the CCC (Catalyst Control Center based on .NET) is just utter junk compared to the standard control panel. Thankfully, you can usually download the latest core driver with the CP (Control Panel) at this site: http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 I also agree on ATI Tray Tools. Best thing for ATI cards since RadLinker. The core driver itself is tolerable. It's the other junk they throw in that seems to be causing most of the disdain. |
| mjm01010101 | Jul 19, 2007 | 7.7 | 1 out of 5 |
Abandonware: When your users revolt and no longer want your crap software on their systems. |
| c4p0ne | Jun 26, 2007 | 7.6 | 1 out of 5 |
I AGREE!!!! CCC may as well be CCCP. ITS THE F*CKING DEVIL! crapNET "technology" :: throws up :: sucks so fscking bad no wonder why programs like SmartLaunch are so unstable and crash-prone. But my biggest beef about using crapNET is the ALMOST TRIPLE memory footprint of the EXACT equivalent functionality done using native API. ATI you are REALLLLLY F*CKED UP and WRONG on this one. GTF back to a "CCC" interface but WITHOUT the crapNET!! Don't be discouraged though ATI users, I heard the 2900XT rips a$$-chunks out of nVidia's 8800's. You just need to install the DRIVER ONLY and use alternative UI's like the one from ngo, or the one I personally use (which can even mimic CCC to some extent without the BLOAT): ATI Tray Tools www.radeon.ru / www.guru3d.com P.S. Well known fact about software: if it's Russian made, it always f*cking OWNS. |
| magicclue | Jun 26, 2007 | 7.6 | 1 out of 5 |
plz stop this CCC nightmare! And make drivers work for all laptops with ATI hardware. stop the stupid vendor check! |
| Alex Stevens | Jun 26, 2007 | 7.6 | 1 out of 5 |
I stopped updating my Catalyst drivers a long time ago. Each so called update just made things worse. The CCC is a joke, even though you can find drivers without it. Unless you are having a serious problem with some game that has been fixed there is NO reason to update. Performance and compatibility both go down with each release. I hoped AMD would improve the driver situation for both Windows and non-MS operating systems but they have not. My current ATI card will be the LAST one I ever buy from them. |
| anarkhy | Jun 26, 2007 | 7.6 | 1 out of 5 |
CCC sux. There is a version of catalyst with control panel at http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 |
| doctorsmith | Jun 6, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
if you plotted a graph on the performance of the last few updates it would show a steady line heading down the page, not good at all. And the CCC is getting dodgier with each release, the CCC is quickly becoming Crap Crap Crap. |
| drfung | Jun 4, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
Been installing the upgrades to v7.4 now (XP Pro, X1600Pro, genuine ATI) successfully. V7.5 - went on, no display at all on the LCD after reboot. Wouldn't even come up in safe mode - bizarre. Connected it to a CRT and could at least get an image - at which point I uninstalled all v 7.5 ATI components, reconnected to the LCD and reinstalled v7.4 successfully. Not impressive, glad I had the previous version on hand. |
| ssb | Jun 4, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
First drop the stupid CCC, and all other .NET based slow crap. Second drop the useless hotkey poller service. It does nothing but stealing system resources. Then put your a$$ down and do some serious development on the driver alone. We can live without CCC though I cannot say the same for the driver. |
| MidnightWatcher | Jun 3, 2007 | 7.5 | 2 out of 5 |
Beware: Version 7.5 may not work with your LCD monitor. I cannot get my SyncMaster 940BW to work at 1440x900 @ 60Hz. Buggy buggy buggy. :( |
| bigsexy022870 | Jun 2, 2007 | 7.5 | 2 out of 5 |
There is no need for this Calalyst Crap Center. The old way was perfect and caused no problems. Plus all the BS files that load up after installation. I have to goto msconfig to turn them off. For those who don't know how to turn them off, they end up lossing memory from all of it. Much like all other company's it's useless and unwanted. And why is it that a new version fixes some stuff and makes other stuff worse. New version should mean less problems. If they don't get there head of of there a$$ soon i'm gonna go with Nvidia next time. |
| thezelda | Jun 2, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
I will never buy ATI crap again. These drivers just get worse and worse. I have an 8800GTX now and while the drivers are hardly perfect, they suck less than ATI. I have to say that when buying video hardware, one should ONLY think of the drivers when doing so. The 10% performance "increase" isnt worth bad drivers. |
| roj | Jun 2, 2007 | 7.5 | 3 out of 5 |
Pretty much all revs since 7.2 stink. They built a new CCC based on .Net 2.0 which arguably performed faster and didn't blow the daylights out of system resources and then proceeded to choke it to death. 7.4 was a disaster - my system seemed to have extra overhead with every operation, not just video. 7.5 isn't any different. I'm back to 7.2 which is reasonably (for ATI drivers) svelte and quick. My next card will be nVidia. ATI has their golden era with Catalyst 5.x but since then has been steadily going downhill and is now plummeting. THREE stars for good hardware hampered by poor software - a very old story for ATI (I go back to the original All-In Wonder days). |
| CyberDoc999 | Jun 2, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
way too many problems had to go back to NGO.... |
| Wolker | Jun 2, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
For Windows Vista 64 bit Same Error , 'Cli.implementation'. When This Problem Fix Ati ? |
| vcorvinus | Jun 2, 2007 | 7.5 | 3 out of 5 |
Too bad they aren't updating the Omega drivers for ATI anymore, I had to resort to going back to ATI's drivers... ugh. |
| mjm01010101 | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 4 out of 5 |
Ditto! Please include a pre-selected "Free Pizza" and "Free 3 months Prostitution subscription" boxes... :) |
| Adrian79 | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 5 out of 5 |
wierd, works just fine here :-) hey to the guy talking about his vista messing up.. your on the wrong board! and plz tell me u did not install these "xp" drivers on ur vista lol |
| DudeBoyz | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 2 out of 5 |
I still don't like the CCC compared to the Control Panel. I'm glad I can get the latest drivers with the Control Panel from NEO. Same driver, just the original control panel. Much faster and more stable. http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 That said - HOW COME there is no protection against invalid resolution / refresh rate when you switch from the tray icon that ATI provides? You set it to 1280x1024 at say 85hz on a 17" CRT and it just hangs there. You can't run CCC in SAFE MODE, you see... Nasty. CCC = Junk by comparison. Sorry - it just does. |
| sjc001 | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 4 out of 5 |
I just installed it on my Vista and when I rebooted Vista told me that I had to reactive within 3 days. And it wouldn't accept my key anymore. Activation is totally useless and messes up easily. To Adrian79. This isn't my first update for this card (Sapphire x1650 Pro, BTW) and yes I did use the Vista version. I had the same sort of problem back when I had XP and had tried out a virtual CD-ROM program. Activation has trouble telling the difference between real, virtual equipment, and even just a driver update. This can use up your allotted amount of activations rather fast if you like to try things out. Luckily I found a way to solve both problems. |
| Point Zero | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 1 out of 5 |
Extreme crappiness. Aaaah the good old ATI-driver days ! |
| shawkins | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 3 out of 5 |
Now comes with pre-selected checkboxes for "Free Games Offer" and "Earthsim". This is the same type of tingle I felt when I downloaded my first Nvidia driving containing the Nvidia pop-up blocker! If ATI/AMD was REALLY smart, they'd include a pre-selected "Free Pizza" and "Free 3 months WoW subscription" boxes... :) |
| l3rutalSilence | Jun 1, 2007 | 7.5 | 5 out of 5 |
Yeah I like the mbut Guess what AMD HAS LOST THE PROCEESOR BATTLE BETWEEN INTEL SEE FOR YOURSELF http://news.softpedia.co...-INTEL-CPUs-56248.shtml |
| jafo818 | May 4, 2007 | 7.4 | 1 out of 5 |
Something must be horribly wrong with my PC. I installed 7.3 and had issues. Reverted back to 7.2 and everything was fine. Now I upgraded to 7.4 and exactly the same problem. Everything is sluggish as heck. Uninstalled and went back to 7.2 and everything is kosher again. Yes, I uninstall using the "ATI - Software Uninstall Utility" in Add/Remove Programs, reboot, and install latest version. This approach has worked well for me up until 7.3! |
| And| | Apr 20, 2007 | 7.4 | 4 out of 5 |
@ TLees Well, I suppose youre right, but sometimes they need to include new products into the support of their drivers. And sometimes it happens it doesnt turn out that great. Alternative is the Omega drivers, build on the Catalyst drivers. |
| TLees | Apr 19, 2007 | 7.4 | 1 out of 5 |
You know what they say, If its not broke don't fix it |
| wincement | Apr 19, 2007 | 7.4 | 5 out of 5 |
@wllweb: Uhhh... then post that review on ATI Catalyst Drivers for Windows Vista. http://fileforum.betanew...dows_Vista/1058330408/3 As for the drivers. Meh, they work. They do what they're supposed to. |
| wllweb | Mar 30, 2007 | 7.3 | 1 out of 5 |
The drivers for Vista causes Blue Screen on boot. http://support.ati.com/i.../default.asp?deptID=894 |
| cricri_pingouin | Mar 29, 2007 | 7.3 | 4 out of 5 |
Same as jafo818 here. Windows scrolling and screen refreshing is very slow. Not good on my 9800XT, I'm downloading 7.2 again. *EDIT* ok, that didn't help. So I uninstalled everything, rebooted, installed 7.3 again, rebooted, and they are now working fine. I crank it up to a 4, -1 for the unusual hassle. |
| rawd | Mar 29, 2007 | 7.3 | 5 out of 5 |
Nope, quite the opposite. These are very fast, best 7.x Cat's yet |
| jafo818 | Mar 29, 2007 | 7.3 | 2 out of 5 |
Anyone else think this version slowed their PC down a lot? I don't know why I think it, because I didn't see any excessive CPU usage... But my computer just felt really sluggish with 7.3 installed. I've gone back to 7.2 and it's back to normal. |
| Koko123 | Feb 24, 2007 | 7.2 | 3 out of 5 |
CCC is bugged for me (XP Pro, 1950pro card). only the basic page shows up and there are reports of missing ccc-core XML files in the eventviewer upon each CCC launch. |
| Gormless | Feb 23, 2007 | 7.2 | 2 out of 5 |
CCC still resource heavy, adding up to around 100MB of extra RAM usage on my PC and still no X1950 pro overclocking. |
| jcollake | Feb 22, 2007 | 7.2 | 5 out of 5 |
Many OpenGL performance improvements for Vista in this release. |
| the artist | Feb 22, 2007 | 7.2 | 5 out of 5 |
HURRAH AMD-ATI, it has finally come to be well done! This is almost historical, hehe! |
| mjm01010101 | Feb 22, 2007 | 7.2 | 5 out of 5 |
I take back all my comments over the years (view the comments to see how frustrated I have been.) This is the return of ATI usability. Good Work! |
| toymachine | Feb 22, 2007 | 7.2 | 5 out of 5 |
Wow, CCC isn't slow as molasses now. This is the way it should have been. This runs fine on my old x1800xt, although I'll probably get these in XG Warcat flavor whenever they're out (better IQ, tweaks, etc). Still would like to see some improvements on the linux front though. :/ |
| BoNeLeSS | Feb 22, 2007 | 7.2 | 5 out of 5 |
It took some (a lot of) time, but at last CCC is as fast as it should be. On the other hand the driver uns perfectly on my x1600. |
| jafo818 | Feb 22, 2007 | 7.2 | 5 out of 5 |
Will install this on my home machine when I get home. Pretty amazing that this claims to be an update that improves performance across the board (usually they target specific applications). |
| Mumoto | Jan 11, 2007 | 7.1 | 4 out of 5 |
Running great on my Radeon 9800pro I used the 12mb one but ALWAYS follow the following steps before you go installing it 1) Uninstall your old drivers 2) Restart 3) Install new drivers 4) Restart again then it works fine, I've done it without the restart to see if they fixed the install/uninstall sequence but guess it didn't :P If you don't be happy with your laggy computer lolz XD |
| Cyrop | Jan 11, 2007 | 7.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Running perfectly on my x1900xt. I am using the no control panel version (12mb) off the AMD/ATi site... ATi Tray Tool to configure it, and its runs like a dream :) |
| doctorsmith | Jan 11, 2007 | 7.1 | 5 out of 5 |
running fine on my 2 boxes - Radeon X1650 & 9500 Pro |
| And| | Jan 11, 2007 | 7.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Wheter or not you have a problem with the catalyst drivers, actually usualy reflects your grahpics card. Theres almost always a series of cards it doesnt support that well. It runs just fine on mine, and I have a 9800XT. |
| hugh750 | Jan 11, 2007 | 7.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Me nether. |
| landfish | Jan 10, 2007 | 7.1 | 5 out of 5 |
No problems here. |
| ezh | Jan 10, 2007 | 7.1 | 5 out of 5 |
So? How is it? |
| wtsitmn | Dec 29, 2006 | 6.12 | 1 out of 5 |
Avoid the December 2006 driver and Catalyst. It blows! I'm now trying older drivers with my older card. Hopefully I'll find one that works. Good old dependable ATi. The only thing you can depend on is monthly releases of new bugs. (sigh) |
| DudeBoyz | Nov 17, 2006 | 6.11 | 4 out of 5 |
Well what do you know? This version does not have the 2D slowdown bug, does not choke on either Links 2001 or 2003, and seems to perform fine overall. How'd THAT happen? I went to this great site so I could download these drivers with the original CONTROL PANEL instead of the stupid, lame and slow CCC: http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 Did the install, fired up the games, wala, so far, so good. I'm going to do some more testing and if it warrants, up the score. Usually, when they fix a couple of bugs, they introduce others, so I need to run more games to see what up. I do appreciate the constant monthly updates, and hope this is the first version since 6.3 that is worth keeping on my machine. We shall see. Edit - Been hammering these things with my standard variety of titles and they are holding up pretty darn well so far. Best set since 6.3 to be sure. LOTR BFME II, Rallisport Challenge, Links 2001 and 2003, UT2004, Serious Sam TFE and TSE, Dungeon Siege & DS LOA, etc. - so far, all are running without hiccups. So, I'm updating the score to a solid 4 for the quality of the drivers. Thanks, ATI, and thanks to NGOHQ for the Control Panel version of these drivers. My X800XT thanks you, and I thank you. |
| doctorsmith | Nov 16, 2006 | 6.11 | 5 out of 5 |
good to see the 3 year olds trying to make comments, every one no matter how young should be allowed to have their say, if only for the rest of us to have a laugh. Nothing wrong with these drivers, they work fine, and good to see the ATI/AMD merger hasn't slowed down the quality and frequency of the updates. |
| thezelda | Nov 16, 2006 | 6.11 | 1 out of 5 |
.NET bas infection, bad driver, many bugs and flaws and suppot for older cards is broken. AllI have to say, Ati/AMD, is Woodcrest Conroe beats Opteron and even the K8L before its out, and the Geforce 8800 GTX is out, how bout them apples, ATI? How about that. Ati is a sad pathetic prune and these drivers are again, a bulky nuworking horrorshow |
| alexweber15 | Nov 16, 2006 | 6.11 | 4 out of 5 |
while i personally think that the CCC is a decent yet poorly implemented idea, i've never had a problem with ATI's drivers and they have been constantly improving so no complaints! my only gripe would be that they seem to overly-favor the high-end crowd...its all good though! big thanks to the dude below me for the non-CCC drivers... will install those asap! :) |
| freaktmp | Nov 2, 2006 | 6.10 | 5 out of 5 |
All the I-hate-ATI-'cause-CCC-sucks are ridiculous and unfounded as long as there are official driver releases with the control panel courtesy of the ngohq. http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 Sure the CCC sucks, but it's getting better all the time, and there are plenty of alternatives. Comparing NVIDIA and ATI driver quality is ludicrous. NVIDIA maybe be marginally better at hardware, but couldn't right proper drivers if their life depended on it. The only thing they care about is topping ATI in the 3dmark results. Who cares that the TV-out is all messed up? Certainly not NVIDIA! |
| ssb | Nov 2, 2006 | 6.10 | 3 out of 5 |
Although I agree with Floodland and other folks, that .NET adoption for driver's control panel is very bad idea, there is a simple solution. Don't install control center, get the drivers alone, plus WDM and that's all. |
| Floodland | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 1 out of 5 |
Another version, another mistake... AMD seems to continue developing with the pathetic .NET "technology". I see a terrible mistake, or, the only thing AMD want is to sell more CPUs, because of the crappy drivers sucking every single hz. to load that PATHETIC .NET framework, to load 99999 dlls to draw a 2D box. I hope they aren't so dumb, because if they are, they will lose both CPU and GPU market... |
| Newfive | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 4 out of 5 |
https://support.ati.com/...owledge&folderID=27 |
| doctorsmith | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 4 out of 5 |
@ DJ BILL are you serious you couldn't find the page to download from, it's the same link as it's always been, just green now and saying AMD instead of red and ATI, if you can't get that far how on earth are you going to work out how to download the new drivers let alone install them. This surely removes any doubt of DJ's having a brain. |
| DJ Bill | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 2 out of 5 |
I didn't find the download in the new web site. Where is it the page for download ATI Catalyst 6.10 for Radeon run on Windows XP? -------------------- @ doctorsmith I've found the driver after i've delete my internet temporary files and cookies. |
| c4p0ne | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 1 out of 5 |
I knew there was something fish about the whole AMD/ATI thing. W.T.*F* is going on here people? First crapNET in the CCC, then ATI starts slipping with their products, NOW THIS? I think I'm finally starting to understand that nVidia was too strong for ATI (I am NO longer a #1 fan) and that they HAD TO DO SOMETHING to salvage themselves from eminent breakdown. What a HORRIFIC time for AMD to come in and suck up ATI though hmm? What with the Intel Core2 Duos crushing their AMD equivalents in every benchmark in the known galaxy. Sh*t man. It HURTS real bad that ATI died but I'll get over it since I was never a nvidia hater (just a confused ATI lover), BUT GOING BACK TO INTEL?? I don't know if I can stomach that!!! :( :( :( |
| Todd 13 | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 1 out of 5 |
I agree with dragun50. I'll never buy another ATI card again. |
| landfish | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 5 out of 5 |
for once I have to defend ATI, these last lot of drivers are the first ones to work in my x1650 card apart from the ones that came with it. I have been in communication with them over the problem and received an email yesterday telling me the 6.10 drivers had just been released and would probably fix the problem I was having _ they did, happy now. |
| BoNeLeSS | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 4 out of 5 |
Wow... people is so sensible noticing levels of costumer support. Well... for me these drivers just works. I'm not a pro gamer. I just play 2 or 3 games and work flawessly. I agree about the CCC being a bit bloated but since I change settings just a few times every month this is not a big problem for me. |
| dragun50 | Nov 1, 2006 | 6.10 | 3 out of 5 |
Ever since AMD bought out ATI, the level of support has dropped completely. They no longer seem to want anything to do with customer support. Any one who purchased an All In Wonder are now out of luck for any sort of support at all. I suggest going to Nvidia. |
| Eemeli | Oct 3, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 3 out of 5 |
I think this release is only for Windows Vista, because they don't have updated XP drivers. In their website. I think if peoples download new drivers, they should only download driver release, not that all what is their websie. |
| simnov | Oct 3, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 1 out of 5 |
i hope the screen not go black last works 6.7 with my x1900gt |
| nilst2006 | Oct 3, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 2 out of 5 |
Choose custom install and uncheck both alternatives (drivers/control center) and then just check the drivers - then You don't need .net. Anyway Catalyst 6.5 are the latest working drivers with my X1600 cards...(on xp x64) Sad that ATI can't get rid of all bugs... =( |
| thezelda | Oct 3, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 1 out of 5 |
consistently bad. still they havent fixed a 9000 bug I found that creeped up in Version 6.4 ... I even filed a bug. Death to ATI and the horrible drivers. I buy Nvidia simply because of the drivers not being crap. |
| mjm01010101 | Oct 2, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 3 out of 5 |
"God forbid you try and do interlaced outputs to TV on anything but an ATi card. :P" Right, because the singular goal of my GPU is to output to a silly TV. Let's ignore all the other flaws of this product's drivers, for YEARS, because it fits one niche no other card does. Look, the CCC didn't fill any gaps in ATI's old drivers. NOBODY was complaining about them other than performance (hence Omega's.) So ATI introduced something simply because it was "cool." Anyone who starts up the CCC on a system versus Nvidia will notice an immediate difference. It's that simple why this product is continually panned. |
| Tenoq | Oct 2, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 5 out of 5 |
There are some very sad individuals in here. Have you actually tried using the latest ATi drivers? They're quite good. God forbid you try and do interlaced outputs to TV on anything but an ATi card. :P |
| AshG | Oct 2, 2006 | 6.10 RC1 | 4 out of 5 |
Excellent drivers, no issues with any of the work I do or games I play. While I am one of the people who regrets the decision to go the .Net route, nVidia is following close behind with their latest sets of drivers. |
| Point Zero | Sep 21, 2006 | 6.9 | 1 out of 5 |
Their drivers get worse & worse. They try to improve speed on the newest cards & sneakily degrade performance of 'older' cards to make you buy a new one. |
| phiber0ptik | Sep 21, 2006 | 6.9 | 4 out of 5 |
Agree with previously posts, .NET, the slowest thing on earth, when all we need is speed :) But four because it works and does the job ;p |
| M3wThr33 | Sep 20, 2006 | 6.9 | 3 out of 5 |
Any chance this build fixes issues with Coverflow not displaying in iTunes 7? |
| c4p0ne | Sep 20, 2006 | 6.9 | 1 out of 5 |
Indeed ATI SCRWED-THE-FUUUUCK up with that RETARDED decision to use .NET crapology. Thats why they had to have AMD take them under its wing. Cause they went from the BEST to sucking straight-up BALLS. I HATE ATI not cause I like something else, but because of what they've done to one of their biggest fans. FUUUUUUCK YOU ATI! :(:(:(:(:(:( |
| DudeBoyz | Sep 20, 2006 | 6.9 | 3 out of 5 |
If you want to use the CONTROL PANEL instead of the CCC, look at this link: http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 I'll be doing extensive testing and will update the score accordingly. |
| TheLurker | Sep 20, 2006 | 6.9 | 3 out of 5 |
be Smart -- Setup a System Restore Point before installing...! Or take some type of Backup of your system... ATI drivers are Notorious for Not being able to be back-rev'ed -- without Major problems. This would be regarding the WDM Tuning portion of the drivers SPECIFICALLY. |
| cac2690 | Sep 20, 2006 | 6.9 | 5 out of 5 |
The best build i have installed so far. I totally understand where people hate the newer versions because it's true they work like crap with older cards like my (Radeon AIW 9800) but 6.9 fixed a lot of issues with my current X1900 AIW card and X1800 XTX. So yeah i would recommend 6.9 only to people with X series cards. |
| sparkf1 | Sep 20, 2006 | 6.9 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI really did good job |
| TonyLinguini | Aug 21, 2006 | 6.8 | 3 out of 5 |
I have not been able to get any of the last 8 versions to install automatically. I have tried all knowledge base articles. The exe hangs the computer. Since the files at least get extracted, I manually install the updated drivers. |
| werne | Aug 21, 2006 | 6.8 | 2 out of 5 |
To: Sabz You are not the only one. CCC on my computer also shows version 6.7 after uprading to version 6.8. Update: as of 31 Aug 2006 CCC now shows version 6.8 after updating. I redownloaded the ATI drivers with Catalyst from ATI's site even though the size and date of the file had not changed. It would be nice if ATI acknowledged these changes, but something is better than nothing. |
| CyberDoc999 | Aug 20, 2006 | 6.8 | 1 out of 5 |
These work OK on my x800 system but they really su*k on my 9800 pro. ATI is trying to de-support the 9800 and less cards! |
| DudeBoyz | Aug 20, 2006 | 6.8 | 1 out of 5 |
The 2D interface slowdown bug that was introduced in 6.7 is gone with 6.8, thankfully. However, after doing some in-depth testing, I'm finding these drivers to be nothing but trouble on the machine I game with. What a freakin' nightmare. Start Links 2003 and it causes a major crash, reboot and recovery. Seems to wreak havoc with my network driver, believe it or not. Back to 6.3 for me. For those brave enough to try these, if you want to use the latest CATALYST with the ORIGINAL CONTROL PANEL, go to the link below: http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 and select 6.8 with CP in the description (not the CCC). Installed and works great on the system I tested it on. I'll be adding 6.8 to my other machine tomorrow after I ghost image it. In order to get these working right, I needed to use the ATI UNINSTALL utility that is accessible in the CONTROL PANEL. That utility cleans out the registry, driver files, etc. for you and then you can reboot and then run the joint install program that I linked to above. I had to go back into the DISPLAY tab in the ATI control panel, go to Monitor Properties and set the Max Resolution, Max Refresh and Refresh Rate Override values to get games on my CRT to run at 75hz by default instead of 60hz, but other than that, it was no bother really. Still, the drivers do need work on stability and consistency, imo. I had not heard that ATI is trying to UNSUPPORT the 9800 series of cards. Where is that coming from? Anyone? Thanks |
| Sabz | Aug 19, 2006 | 6.8 | 1 out of 5 |
still shows 6.7 in ATI Control Catalyst Centre ? whats the deal here |
| HurricaneGame | Aug 19, 2006 | 6.8 | 5 out of 5 |
They seem fine to me, some improvements too! |
| Crono` | Aug 19, 2006 | 6.8 | 1 out of 5 |
These catalyst releases are completely USELESS. I always install latest drivers and patches of everything BUT ATI'S SOFTWARE. Tip: trash CCC, and try "Ati Tray Tools": SAME settings AND MUCH MORE in only 500kb. |
| Skizelli | Aug 19, 2006 | 6.8 | 1 out of 5 |
I agree with Floodland and Descent on a lot of their points. I totally lost respect for ATI. Their drivers are useless. Apparently the people that don't think so don't play enough games to see that people like us are right. Or perhaps they don't bother reading the release notes. I used to look forward to updating Catalyst every new version, but now I don't bother. They break more than they fix. I too don't like CCC and I'm not installing .NET in order to use it. It's sad when customers have to result to using 3rd party like Omega's to get decent performance out of their drivers. "This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability." That is a complete lie. For those looking to buy an ATI card, don't fall for it. Their cards are great, but the drivers are horrible. I'm definitely going Nvidia on my next purchase. |
| Alex Stevens | Aug 19, 2006 | 6.8 | 2 out of 5 |
Seems like every new release breaks more things than it fixes, ESPECIALLY compatibility with older Radeon cards. I guess they think that every one has already ran out to buy the latest glitzy Radeon on the shelf. Sorry, wrong. Also the CCC is a huge waste of their resources, all it does is look "pretty". It is not necessary and if AMD has any sense they will make them drop it and get back to concentrating on their drivers instead. |
| Floodland | Aug 19, 2006 | 6.8 | 1 out of 5 |
Pepaa you should start learning to read. My nick is "Floodland" not "Floodman". Look at these 6.8 drivers! 90% of the "what's new" are fixes are for the Catalyst Crap Center!! ATI is dedicating terrible efforts and time trying to make that crap work instead of improving the drivers. My review point that ATI is going to hell with CCC and I'm not the only one who think this way. My PC runs great, I do tech support for many companies and I'm on the market for several years. I'm not happy that .NET sucks too much, but it does. Microsoft is working on version 3.0 but never had a WORKING set (1.1 is terrible and 2.0 isn't better). Microsoft is not going to die because they develop crap, in fact, they are very successfull doing it. But other smaller companies will die or lose reputation because of this "work". ATI gained good reputation with Catalyst drivers until they introduced CCC. I'll stick with Omega drivers until I change my video card, and the next generation will NOT be ATI, until they show some respect for the customers and some brain choosing the development strategy. Nvidia is years ahead, unfortunately. I really like competition. |
| Descent | Aug 12, 2006 | 6.7 | 1 out of 5 |
Back in February 2004, I traded in my GeForce4 Ti 4200 128MB for a 9600XT 128MB. I really wanted the 5700 Ultra, but they were out of stock. I got home, installed the card and drivers, and was won over nearly instantly. Not only did I get free Half-Life 2, but this thing was GORGEOUS. Most amazing image quality EVER! The drivers had zero bugs, weren't bloated, and flawless! Soon, I sold my 9600XT for a 9700 Pro. In October of 2005, I gave my still quite capable 9700 to a friend and bought an X800XL AGP 256MB. What caused me to buy these three cards? The drivers. What caused me to recommend ATi to everyone I knew in that time? The drivers, dedication to customer satisfaction, superb image quality, cool running, non-heat hogging hardware, and great bang for the buck. Now, every single one of those variables has gone wayside. The Catalyst Control Center is hopelessly broken. They stopped making drivers for Windows 2000 - I could care less though, I still run the old 5.2 drivers BECAUSE THEY WORK. The 6.2 drivers cause JoNoF's Duke3D port, Descent II, and even ****ing zDoom to have HORRIBLE rendering glitches and artifacting. There are, like, two polygons on screen! And 64x64 textures! And it's STILL messing up! The CCC is a joke and a far cry from the minimalist Control Panel. ATi decided that having a great panel that has been great since the final days of the Rage Pro just wasn't cutting it anymore, I mean, after all, most drivers look like a riced out Honda Civic. Let's follow suit. Much like the Civic, the CCC is slow and rediculous. But I'm not talking a brand new Civic - I'm talking a 1985 Civic - these drivers break down and barely ever do as advertised. Every new driver update brings more problems than fixes. It's like I paid $250 for a Realtek soundcard - that's how badly I feel ripped off here. My next build will have an nVidia GeForce 7900GT in it. I am avoiding the Radeon X1K line at all costs. Their newest drivers remind me of the pre-1999 Rage Pro drivers - pure garbage. Wait, why did ATi lose to 3Dfx and nVidia again? Oh, my bad, DRIVERS. Why didn't the Radeon take off immediately against the GeForce? DRIVERS. What kept people from buying the awesome Radeon 8500 at launch? DRIVERS. ATi is a sham of a company, and they have lost every customer I know. My friends who got ATi upon my recommendation aren't mad at me - they got their hardware BEFORE ATi slacked off. "Hey, we control nearly 50% of the market, why should we care?" |
| Desides | Aug 1, 2006 | 6.7 | 4 out of 5 |
The Catalyst line is much-improved over ATi's former driver offerings, but I can't bring myself to rate it a 5 based on the list of known and unresolved bugs. |
| pepaaa | Jul 31, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
To Floodman: Get a life man! Stop complaining about .net, I don't personally like it, but I don't see that as a problem. You should review the drivers, not moan about how bad everything is.. All I can say is - unless you have a messy PC, everything works just fine. |
| Floodland | Jul 30, 2006 | 6.7 | 1 out of 5 |
"The CCC is OPTIONAL people, stop spazzing out over it. If you don't want it don't download it." As Ati discontinued releasing CP, CCC is NOT optional. It is a pathetic sign of a(nother) company that don't listen to their customers. They deal with Micro$oft to use that CRAPPY .NET framework and sh*t on who paid their cards. I will not buy nor reccommend another ATI card for a long time, even when quality graphics is superior on their hardware, your drivers are useless Fatware. As you don't care about what customers think I wont consider another Ati product for a really long time. Shame on you ATI. The only hope is if AMD reconsider the driver development as they showed listening to their customers for years. |
| BruddaMan | Jul 30, 2006 | 6.7 | 2 out of 5 |
IMPORTANT NOTE: Cat 6.7 WITH THE CONTROL PANEL - NOT CCC - can be downloaded at the link given below. You can also get the 6.6, 6.5 and earlier versions with CP ONLY at that site. http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 As for the driver itself, Catalyst 6.7 causes a massive slowdown on my 2D desktop with my 9800 Pro and LCD. If I go back to 6.3, it works fine. 6.7 makes using the 2D desktop in XP unusable for me. Thanks for the info on the CAT with CP option. It is a great alternative. :) |
| Tyr3ll | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 4 out of 5 |
Well hi there,i haven't personaly tested yet with CCC,but i know that we are much people who always prefer CP as well,so the best solution is to download this last one to the link below: http://files.ngohq.com/a...t%206.7%20with%20CP.exe Enjoy and have fun all ;) Best regards... |
| Skyfrog | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
The CCC is OPTIONAL people, stop spazzing out over it. If you don't want it don't download it. |
| thezelda | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 1 out of 5 |
Honestly, I think the ATI hardware is in the lead WRT performance and rendering quality. Will I ever buy another ATi product again, with or without AMD's merger with them: not unless they drastically improve the driver. It is horrible. Nvidia's drivers are way more stable and useable and dont have that disgusting CCC. |
| HurricaneGame | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
https://a248.e.akamai.ne...t_67_release_notes.html |
| mjm01010101 | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 3 out of 5 |
Still crashes too much on my laptop. |
| Zygi | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
@yokozuna: you have to turn off ATI Global Hotkeys, thats why you don't have these shortcuts. You can either do this in CCC or in windows services, disable something like ATI Hotkey or something i don't remember exactly. To the rest just live with it, .NET will be part of Vista and you won't have choice to install or not install, as you also know DX10 will be available only for Vista so if you want to play new games you don't have other way. NVIDIA also have similar control panel right now, but at least they give choice between new and old one. |
| purush | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 4 out of 5 |
c4PNone the problem is you 'hugest' D minus for your english, all my programs work beautifully with the the latest drivers from ATI. CCC is a useful tool if you want to tweak a few things and set the drivers to work the way you want it to. |
| Niksa | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 2 out of 5 |
In past, ATi learned some things from nVidia and started to make good drivers, now they switched back to production of crapy drivers :( I will allways prefer stability and quality over few FPS and that's not what new (CCC) ATi drivers offer Too bad for ATi :( |
| yokozuna | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 1 out of 5 |
c4p0ne, you are very right. I will add a bit more: CCC remaps keyboard this way that it is IMPOSSIBLE to type in any word editor (Word, WordPerfect, OOo Writer, etc.) in Central European languages. Some shortcuts (right ALT plus certain characters) do not work anymore. One must edit the registry of his Windows to make it work. CCC sucks more than anything has ever sucked before! Zygi: thanks for your kind advice, but believe me that it is not so simple, even if you switch off the shortcuts. I will call a spade a spade: ATI blew it terribly and should rethink a lot of things. The sooner the better. If not a lot of people will vote with their legs and wallets. |
| hugh750 | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
I recently purchased a radeon x1300 pro 256 med ddr agp and so far the catalyst 6.7 drivers work wonderfully. |
| c4p0ne | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 2 out of 5 |
My HUGEST problem of ALL time with ATI is CCC. WHAT THE FVCK ON NATURES GREEN EARTH where they fvcking thinking when they decided to transform their good ol' installations to .NET? .NET is THE ANTICHRIST good software programming. Slow, bloated, unstable, x2 and sometimes x3 times the memory then if it were programmed in native API. That's why their losing the battle. I hope this merger with AMD helps them finally wake the FVCK up and make some moves to get back on top of Nvidia where they belong. |
| wodez | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 4 out of 5 |
FYI Skizelli: Justed wanted to point out that "Omega's ATI" drivers are excatly the sames as ATI's´own drivers. The only difference is that some registry settings are changed. Heck, even I could download ATI's drivers only, add ATI tray tools and make an installation package. Both NVIDIA and ATI make good drivers but they tend to get a little bit bloated with all the gamespecifik bugfixes. |
| Axe56 | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI catalyst drivers are always buggy for new cards... over time they patch and fix reported bugs, aiming for a stable driver set (eventually.) I have a 9800XT and each new patch the card runs flawlessly... ( Fear, oblivion, and many other graphic intense-games. In my opinion it's just the way ATI works... CRT ftw! =p (LCD's have always had scaling issues... some patches get it, others don't.) |
| Skizelli | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 1 out of 5 |
"This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI CATALYST software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability." Lies. If people like bigsexy022870 weren't such fanboys of ATI, they'd see ATI's drivers for what they really are. Crap. Sure, they try to fix bugs. But while doing so, they introduce several new ones. Sorry bigsexy022870, but ATI cards aren't faster. NVidia's cards usually come out on top on benchmarks. I'm currently using an ATI card and I've never been happy with their drivers. At least Omega's ATI drivers make them bareable. |
| DudeBoyz | Jul 29, 2006 | 6.7 | 4 out of 5 |
FIRST, I do think the Catalyst Drivers themselves are actually pretty darn good. Not as good as Nvidia's still, but much better than the older versions. I still use RadLinker, which gives me the features the driver lacks, and that takes the pressure off for me. I also think it is almost UNFORGIVEABLE that their LCD scaling code is broken like it is. But for the most part, the games I have run without a hitch, which I guess is what matters most to me. The ATI Catalyst Drivers are NOT as bad as some people seem to say they are. But they don't walk on water either. :) Am looking forward to a tweaked version that has the control panel instead of the CCC. These guys usually have them: http://www.ngohq.com/hom...o=cat&dwn_cat_id=18 Release Notes are located HERE: https://support.ati.com/...edge&questionID=640 Here is a blurb: Issues Resolved in Catalyst® Software Suite 6.7 The following section provides a summary of the issues that are resolved in the latest release of Catalyst®. These include: Oblivion: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 no longer results in the game failing to respond when task switching under the Windows XP operating system. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22790 Quake4: Texture corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22782 Installing an ATI Radeon® X1900 CrossFire™ master edition graphics card and and ATI Radeon® X1900 series secondary product on a system using a Dell 2405FPW and enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in the display device losing a signal or the 3D application or game exiting back to the desktop. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22664 Installing an ATI Radeon® X1x00 series of product on certain nVidia Nforce 4 platforms no longer results in the operating system failing to respond or the operating system exhibiting general instability when running 3D applications. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22378 Checking the Use centered timings in the notebook panel properties page no longer results in the apply button found in the Catalyst® Control Center becoming active, even though no options for change have been selected. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22774 Using the hot-key function to change an LCD display panel setting no longer results in the LCD Panel Properties found in the Catalyst® Control Center failing to be updated with the current setting 737-22342 The rotate desktop settings are no longer grayed-out in ATI Catalyst® Control Center when using the ATI Radeon® X1600 series products. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number. 737-22771 Doing a guest log-in user switch under Windows no longer results in a Catalyst® Control Center warning message appearing prior to launching the Catalyst® Control Center. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22773 Catalyst® Control Center: The background color no longer changes when clicking any control in the Adjustment pane under the Windows XP operating system when using an ATI Radeon® X1600 product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22776 Using Catalyst® 6.3 or higher along with the MMC version 9.13 and performing a TV channel scan may result in some higher TV channels failing to be detected. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22381 Catalyst® Control Center: Running the OverDrive™ automated configuration utility no longer results in the default clock values being returned. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22779 The display mode of 1024x768 60Hz is now available when using connecting a Sony KV-27 using the HDMI connector on an ATI Radeon® X1x00 series of product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22780 Rotation may fail to function properly when SurroundView is enabled on systems containing an ATI Xpress 200 series product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22781 Windows XP starter edition: Malaysia: The ATI un-installer no longer displays a blank warning message it is clicked in the add and remove programs. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22783 Toggling between a full screen DOS session and a windowed mode DOS session no longer results in the display failing to respond and requiring a system re-boot to recover. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22784 An ATI Catalyst® Control Center dialog box indicating that the feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable is no longer displayed when attempting to install the display driver and Catalyst® Control Center under the Windows XP operating system when using an ATI Radeon® 1x00 series of product. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22785 Display corruption is no longer noticed when using the Catalyst® Control Center under the Windows XP operating system with an ATI Radeon® X1800 series installed. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22789 An incorrect product name is no longer displayed when using OpenGL renderer. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22795 Installing the Catalyst® Control Center under the Windows XP (French version) no longer results in text found within the Catalyst® Control Center being out of position. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22797 The OverDrive™ aspect found in the Catalyst® Control Center is no longer available for products that do not support the feature. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22355 Hotplugging a DFP display device to port number 2 on an ATI Radeon® X1800 product no longer results in the DFP display device defaulting to clone mode. Further details on this resolved issue can be found in topic number 737-22799 Known Issues for Catalyst® Software Suite 6.7 The following section provides a summary of open issues in the latest version of Catalyst®. These include: Anarchy-Online: Screen corruption may be noticed when walking or running through the terrain. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22016 Battlefield 2: Attempting to launch the game under Windows XP with the in-game display setting at 1920x1440 or 2048x1536 and AA set to 6x may result in the game failing to launch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22817 Cold War: Playing the game with the display resolution set to 1600x1200 along with AA set to 8x and CrossFire™ enabled may result in a ghosting effect being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21661 Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle Earth: Playing the game under Windows XP SP2 using an ATI Radeon® X800 series product may result in intermittent display corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21458 Neverwinter Nights: Playing the game under Windows XP on a system containing an ATI Radeon® X800 series, may result in the game exiting to the Windows desktop and an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21466 Path of Neo: Texture corruption may be noticed when playing the Kung Fu level. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21464 Sniper Elite: Playing the game under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® X1600 series installed may result in texture corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22820 Tomb Raider: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting AA to 12x and AF to 16x may result in corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon® X1800 series. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22811 World of Warcraft: Playing the game for an extended period of time may result in the game failing to respond when using a Radeon® X800. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22632 The Apply button in the Custom settings of the Advanced mode, found within the Catalyst® Control Center Video standard settings, is grayed out when playing a media file. Further details can be found in topic number 737-497 Connecting an HDTV to an ATI Radeon® X700 series may result in the HDTV being detected as a CRT or TV under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20783 The PAL FM fine tuning algorithm is currently using 200 MHz bandwidth which may overlap FM channels resulting in the same FM channel being found several verdana during the scan function. Further details can be found in topic number 737-20979 Connecting two display devices to an ATI Radeon® X1600 series product may result in the device manager failing to detect the secondary display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21266 Display corruption may be noticed when configuring the DTV channel to 1080i broadcast when using an ATI HDTV Wonder. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21455 The LG P42SX DVI-D display device fails to display an image when connected to an ATI Radeon® 9000, ATI Radeon® 9200, or an ATI Radeon® 9250. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21456 OpenGL Extension Viewer: 2.0: Running the Rendering tests may result in a black box appearing when the fog option is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21457 Connecting an HDTV as the secondary display device and enabling Theater mode may result in HDTV failing to display an image when attempting to playback a movie with extended desktop mode enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21460 The IBM T84H display device may fail to display an image when connected to the DVI connector on the ATI Radeon® X800 or X850 series. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21462 Attempting to re-enable any display device other than the primary or secondary display device that has been disabled by CrossFire™, may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-21663 Using the ATI Multimedia Center to watch TV may result in the operating system restarting when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22013 The Record function currently fails to work when using an ATI All-In-Wonder X1300 with time-s***ing enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22014 Using the ATI Multimedia Center to watch TV may result in the operating system restarting when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series product. Further information on this issue can be found in topic number 737-22013 Changing the regional option found in the control panel to Japan followed by installing the display driver results in the TV format failing to change in accordance with the regional option 737-22631 Catalyst® Control Center: Entering the OverDrive™ aspect and changing the GPU setting to 509 and the memory setting to 505 results in color corruption and the Windows XP operating system rebooting 737-21229 Selecting the Plus Da Vinci screen saver and attempting to preview it may result in the screen saver not displaying properly after an extended preview 737-22634 Playing a DVD for an extended period of time when using the Windows Media Player on a system containing an ATI Xpress 11x0 series of product may result in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22801 Playing a DVD using WinDVD on a system containing either an ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1300 product may result in corruption being noticed when changing the display resolution to either 1900x1200 or 1280x720. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22805 Enabling CrossFire™ may result in display corruption being noticed when playing a DVD or media clip using either WinDVD 7, Windows Media Player or PowerDVD 6. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22806 Hot Plugging an HDMI TV to the DVI port of an ATI Radeon X19x0 series may result in the HDMI detection message box failing to appear under the Windows Media Center Edition operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22809 Playing back a media file using Windows Media Player 11 on a system containing an ATI Radeon® X1600 or X1300 series of products may result in missing colors and or macroblock corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22810 Selecting same as source video option in the Japanese version of the Catalyst® Control Center may result in the selection failing to be applied when using an ATI Radeon® X1800 series product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22813 Playing an MPEG2 video clip on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon® X1x00 product may result in corruption being noticed during the playback of the MPEG2 file. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22814 |
| bigsexy022870 | Jul 28, 2006 | 6.7 | 4 out of 5 |
Seems like people who dont know jack always bash new driver versions. Sure no one likes CCC, big deal. Learn how to turn off the stuff that loads at startup, or buy a better pc. You can't install anything these days without some sort of program being started up at bootup. So learn how to use a PC and turn the stuff off. New driver versions address both performance issues and plain old bugs that need fixing. If you don't like new versions dont download them and shut up. Being a hardcore gamer, i need every FPS i can get. So I try the new drivers and if they are better I'm happy. If not i reinstall older ones. Nothing to complain about, at least they try to make stuff work better. You could always go buy a Nvidia card that is slower. And they are, they always have been. Nvidia's answer to the Radeon 1900 XTX wasn't to build a faster card but to put two cores on one card. That's really nice but it isn't progress. And when ATI releases a dual core card it will once again blow away Nvidia. Skizelli writes that ATI sucks yet he owns a ATI card and said the drivers and card work great. So basically he's a idiot that doesnt know if he likes something or hates something. If ATI sucks why do you own a ATI card. What a moron. And to also state that Nvidia always wins in the benchmarks is the biggest load of crap i've ever heard. Tomshardware has has a great benchmark that proves my point. The X1900 XTX gets 38fps in Call of duty 2 while Nvidia 7800 GTX gets only 26 FPS. By the way SLI only wins by 3 FPS. And the rest of the games are very similar. F.E.A.R. Shows just how bad Nvidia really is cause a Single ATI X1900 XTX beats everything, even SLI. I could go on, but i dont need to. You don't have to like ATI, but they are better. Talk all the crap you want. The proof is in the games. I know what it's like to like something and want to brag that it's better when you know it really isnt. So i can understand you SAD NVIDIA LOVERS WHO DON'T KNOW JACK. Sorry guys, you need to smell the coffee. |
| doncanz | Jul 28, 2006 | 6.7 | 5 out of 5 |
I have an AIW X800 it is performing the best it ever has. Benchmark scores are up approx 5-8% across the board. As for bloatware concerns from the CCC and ATI tray tools if you have a decent processor and memory this is not even a concern. Thanks ATI! |
| roj | Jul 11, 2006 | 6.6 | 1 out of 5 |
Pure crap. Like the 6.5 drivers, they will not exceed 640x480x16 on my 9550. 6.4 does so with no problems. QA on these drivers is going back to the pre-Catalyst days. ATI is no longer on my buying radar. ONE star. Let's see if this post gets edited too. |
| theheff | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Installed in x64 Windows, works flawlessly. I used to be hardcore Omega but this version by ATI has passed it up. My card is a x850xt. Don't give it a bad rating unless you actually TRY it! |
| nilst2006 | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 1 out of 5 |
Completely worthless drivers - if You have a flatscreen !!! Do not install !!!! (I'm running XP x64 and the drivers for that platform is the worst ever !!!) |
| Blaxima | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 4 out of 5 |
These drivers minus the bloated CCC with ATI Tray Tools instead works better than the Omega drivers for me. Does not slow my system and has gotten rid of an odd little problem I had with the last release that didn't display correctly when my LCD monitor would come back on from stand by. |
| johnk119 | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 3 out of 5 |
Poor Drivers |
| DudeBoyz | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 3 out of 5 |
LCD Scaling just flat out does not seem to work right in these drivers. I can use my Nvidia card with the latest Nvidia drivers and choose to have it CENTERED in the standard control panel, and all non-native resolutions appear properly, with black bars on all 4 sides. No matter what I use, the old ATI control panel or the new CCC, when I configure the driver not to scale, the ATI driver doesn't respond as expected. Native 1600x1200 - set it to 800x600 - it is edge to edge, for example. But with the Nvidia driver, it shows 800x600 centered - if I so choose. Why ATI can't make LCD scaling work is beyond me. It has not worked in a long, long time. Forum posts on other sites like Rage 3D show people have been submitting this problem for years, but there is STILL no fix. Bummer. |
| MikeDiack | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 3 out of 5 |
I'm disappointed - it now looks like they've dropped support for anything earlier than the Radeon 9500 in this release... Time will tell if this is a new trend or just a blip with this release. Can anyone else comment? |
| Rebell | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 5 out of 5 |
INFO: Fear performance improves as much as 8.5% on X1800 and X1900 Single card systems and as much as 14% on X1800 and X1900 Crossfire systems. |
| yokozuna | Jun 27, 2006 | 6.6 | 2 out of 5 |
roj, Catalyst 6.6 behave exactly the same :-( My friend called me yesterday to inform me about problems (BSODs) when he installed the drivers. He uses a Sapphire 9600. I checked the drivers and my friend is right. However, I have no problems with my graphic card (Sapphire 1600) when the driver is installed. |
| HurricaneGame | Jun 26, 2006 | 6.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Yay! https://a248.e.akamai.ne...t_66_release_notes.html |
| Adrian79 | Jun 26, 2006 | 6.6 | 5 out of 5 |
goodstuff |
| roj | Jun 6, 2006 | 6.5 | 3 out of 5 |
These drivers are strange. On my wife's 9250 they work perfectly. On my 9550 with a fresh Windows XP / SP2 install, they won't get out of 640x480x16. That's just wrong. The 6.4 drivers have no problems. I installed Windows twice to make sure that the problem was repeatable. It is. ATI has serious testing to do. THREE stars for unpredictability and lack of proper testing. |
| stisev | Jun 1, 2006 | 6.5 | 1 out of 5 |
Thx Tyr3ll ATi has some frikken nerve with its crappy CCC |
| Tyr3ll | May 26, 2006 | 6.5 | 4 out of 5 |
Well at first,i know that many of us search desesperately catalyst 6.5 with CP,and then,i have a good news,you all can find it to: http://files.ngohq.com/a...t%206.5%20with%20CP.exe Works really great so far as well! Anyway CCC sucks and takes too much memory so far as we know! Enjoy and have fun.... Best regards.... |
| abadaba | May 26, 2006 | 6.5 | 2 out of 5 |
Couldnt play BF1942...kept crashing too desktop...reverted back too 6.4...and it started working again...Ive just had a bad experience with ATI and new releases... |
| hook_ | May 25, 2006 | 6.5 | 2 out of 5 |
Yet another broken driver set. Thanks for wasting my f***ing time. Well, back to older drivers. And now i know that every second release is somehow broken. |
| sQin | May 25, 2006 | 6.5 | 4 out of 5 |
mjm01010101, no updates required? many gamefixes come with new driver versions |
| asellus | May 25, 2006 | 6.5 | 5 out of 5 |
If you need to wait 3-5 minutes just to reboot, something is wrong with your computer. Please use Spybot/Ad-aware/Windows Defender etc. to clean up all the spyware junks that slows your computer start-up. Maybe your computer need reformatting. |
| mjm01010101 | May 25, 2006 | 6.5 | 3 out of 5 |
Yeah extremely convenient: Uninstall old drivers: 5 minutes. Reboot. Wait 3-4 minutes for the reboot. login, wait for dialog box: which are cryptic to non admins, install new drivers, reboot, wait 3-4 minutes. So all in all it's taken up 15-20 minutes of your life to do it the "official" method. Multiply by 12 months a year. The unofficial method: install over the old ones, works seemingly well except when it doesnt: say 9700 and earlier drivers. long term goal: one/two updates a year, no update required. Done. Until then: 3 stars, max. Same goes for nvidia. This is 2006 folks. |
| theheff | May 25, 2006 | 6.5 | 5 out of 5 |
Installed the x64 version.... everything works perfect. And if you think the entire package is bloated, you can choose to only install the driver and not the control center... so there should be no complaining about that; it's optional. I noticed that my performance increased slightly from 6.4 to 6.5 for my Radeon x850xt card. Lately these newer drivers have been outperforming the Omega drivers quite a bit... so I switched over. Excellent drivers. |
| improvelence | May 24, 2006 | 6.5 | 5 out of 5 |
Im sorry but if you have problems installing these drivers then you are doing something wrong. I upgrade these drivers on 15 pc's at work with each upgrade and I have NEVER ran into any issues. Most problems are probably do to you not uninstalling the previous drivers, rebooting then installing the new ones. ATI has an extremely convenient driver system as does NVIDIA and Creative. The ATI driver for linux is very annoying though, but then again you should follow the directions. I WILL say though, that the Catalyst control center is uneeded bloat, but once I got used to it it wasnt so bad...still really unneeded though....but thats why someone made ATI Tray tools. |
| debugged | May 24, 2006 | 6.5 | 1 out of 5 |
Like the last 3-4 versions this doesn't install properlry leaving the dispay stuck in 16 color (4 bit) VGA resolution. Installing again fixes this but this time the second install hangs and I shut it down and the computer reboots into a blue screen of death. 3rd time it installs and CC (CrapCenter) crashes with some .NET error when I try to look at monitor settings. Have to reboot again to get CC to do anything. So when eventually it is installed it seems to be just another helping of the same old crap. I could spend half an our describing what is wrong with CrapCenter it is obviously designed by morons, although calling it designed at all is being generous. |
| CyberHobo | May 24, 2006 | 6.5 | 5 out of 5 |
Excellent driver. |
| Skizelli | Apr 23, 2006 | 6.4 | 1 out of 5 |
Do you really think ATI cares about what its customers want? Keep wishing. |
| bigsexy022870 | Apr 13, 2006 | 6.4 | 3 out of 5 |
I love my AIW X800 XT but i hate the catalyst bloat. I know how to deactivate the run at startup bloat which eliminates the issue but I don't feel i should have to do this. There should be a option to run just the display driver and not all the crap they think you need. Honestly who uses it. Not to mention the memory hit you have to take to run it. It serves no use at all to the performance of the card. Thus if they are listening they really need to change it. |
| smith288 | Apr 13, 2006 | 6.4 | 3 out of 5 |
Is it not too much to ask not to make the control panel a bloated mess? Why not just let it be a Display properties snap in ala nVidia? I like ATI otherwise. Just trash the needless eye candy for their control panel to allow for modification. |
| bourgeoisdude | Apr 13, 2006 | 6.4 | 5 out of 5 |
I like being objective about things. I haven't used ATI cards in ages in my PCs, but the ones that I assist with (im a pc support guy) work flawlessly with this driver. This is the first driver since the early 5.xx series drivers in MY experience that is rock-solid. My main reason for choosing NVIDIA these years is not that the cards are necessarily better, but because the drivers are. I might just consider that x1900xt card now, since the drivers work so well this time around. ATI has reclaimed enough of my confidence for me to finally give them another chance. They better not let me down... |
| Skyfrog | Apr 13, 2006 | 6.4 | 5 out of 5 |
No problems at all. UTAKER, Banquo was talking about the .NET framework and why it's not a bad thing, he said it would be part of Vista. He did not say that these drivers were for Vista. Read carefully before you jump on people. |
| pyridox | Apr 13, 2006 | 6.4 | 5 out of 5 |
I have several ATi Radeon cards running, both at home & at work, and they are great. I also use the All-in-Wonder Elite video capture cards. We use only ATi drivers for all of the cards, and not third party drivers. For those that don't understand software, the Catalyst control panel uses the Microsoft .NET framework to run. Many software packages use the .NET framework, which is at version 2.0 now also. The plain vanilla video driver doesn't need .NET, it's the Catalyst control panel, etc. that needs it. Even programs like; Print Master & Printshop Deluxe require .NET framework. .NET is simply a software framework. MS Vista is still in Beta, so the drivers are primarily tweaked for Windows XP. |
| UTAKER | Apr 13, 2006 | 6.4 | 5 out of 5 |
Reality check Banquo. These drivers are for XP and not Vista and XP is most widely used these days. |
| Blaxima | Apr 12, 2006 | 6.4 | 4 out of 5 |
I think people are not really testing the software at all sometimes. With the last 2(I can say for sure) releases by ATI and Omega, I have had a noticeable difference on my system. The ATI's are outperforming the Omegas. Now maybe other people still prefer the Omegas for one reason or another but the facts are that ATI's releases are not a 1 star and they should be rated based on their performance. I'm giving a 4 to them including the CCC which I really dont mind but I do think it could be a little less clunky and salesman like. It also takes as much time as firefox to load and that aint good! |
| Tenoq | Apr 12, 2006 | 6.4 | 5 out of 5 |
Yay for moronic reviewers blaming ATi for their bad system configuration. Fix your freaking machine then come and review the damn software. :P |
| -Lord- | Apr 12, 2006 | 6.4 | 3 out of 5 |
with all my ATI cards, the Omegas simply blow the Catalysts away |
| theheff | Apr 12, 2006 | 6.4 | 5 out of 5 |
Honestly, the new ATI drivers are outperforming the Omega drivers on any given day (at least on my machine, with a x850xt). I love the 64-bit support (download it seperately at www.ati.com). Overall, very pleased with the package. I used to be a die-hard omega fan, but the performance just doesn't cut it anymore. |
| Banquo | Apr 12, 2006 | 6.4 | 4 out of 5 |
Good grief people. (1) You do not have to install the Catalyst Control Center. The drivers do not require it and they can be downloaded seperately. (2) If you need a control panel (most people don't) you can still use the older ATI control panel or any of the third party ones available. (3) .NET is not required for the standalone driver itself, and .NET is not evil anyway. It won't hurt you and someday you WILL have to install it. More and more programs require it and Vista will ship with it as part of the OS. In other words lighten up and stop making a big thing out of nothing. |
| mjm01010101 | Apr 12, 2006 | 6.4 | 1 out of 5 |
Must be my setup, but again, on my work machine, the installer just disappears, and no status is given on the completion of the install. I *cannot* wait to get rid of this card. |
| Zoroaster | Mar 14, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
I couldn't agree more with foxtyke. I will definetly abandon ATI drivers because of it's dishonest policy making an obligation to have .NET installed in order to install new drivers. What does ATI think? Who the hell do they think they are? Obligations are out of fashion, and ATI is no God: I'm OFF with ATI and its nonsense. Being obliged to have .NET in odrer to install video drivers! Mama mia! Move off, ATI, move off!!! |
| foxtyke | Mar 10, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
I have an ATI card in my system, I usually would recommend ATI graphics cards to people but... with the reliance upon a marketing gimmick, namely .NET, I will no longer do so. My existing drivers will remain until either I upgrade the graphics card, nVidia sounds nice and, I will now start recommending nVidia graphics cards to people who ask what I recommend. Why? .NET is a gimmick, a bloated, overhyped and extremely slow and pointless gimmick and it should not have anything to do with my graphics card drivers. |
| mjm01010101 | Mar 10, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
Did not complete the install. I had to reboot and install again. |
| stisev | Mar 10, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
I will never buy another ATI product again until CP is reinstated and CCC is dumped as the secondary item. BOYCOTT ATI |
| improvelence | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 4 out of 5 |
CCC pisses me off, but I dont see where people have so much trouble installing these drivers. I dont like the Omega drivers at all so the best thing to do is install these and then use ATI tray tools or whatever it's called (at work and cant remember). Eff control center...eff it in its a. EDIT: Someone else already pointed out the wonderful ATI try tools. |
| yokozuna | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 5 out of 5 |
I agree that CCC is a bad idea, esp. for CE languages (e.g. some Polish characters are not available after the installation of the CCC drivers). For all those, who prefer ol' good CP: http://www.station-drive...6.3-2kxp-cc-cp-whql.exe The file is large in size (60 megabytes) because it is a combo driver, international and with additional ATI programs. It is intended for system integrators, and officially NOT supported by ATI. |
| stopbuggingme | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
ATI Control Center Crew remain without clue. CCC sucks as much as ever. Why is the new AVIVO video converter only accessible from the control center? What the hell does video file format conversion have to do with control of a graphics adapter? Then it gets worse, why is the AVIVO video converter only available in control center basic mode. What kind of idiot designs a tool with basic and advanced interface options and leaves functionality out of the advanced version? The kind of idiot the Catalyst Control Center Crew is made from. |
| Skyfrog | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 5 out of 5 |
I think I say this with every release, but the old control panel still works! All you have to do is download and install it. So much complaining over nothing, but it's ATI's fault really. They should see that everyone wants the old control panel and hate the new one, but maybe they don't want to listen. |
| LRN | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 5 out of 5 |
Good drivers. BTW, Omega (or DNA) driver WILL NOT GIVE YOU any notiteable performance boost (i tested myself, they improve 3DMark rating by 0.1%). Don't like Catalyst Control Center? DON'T INSTALL (AND DON'T USE) IT! Install yourself AtiTrayTools (from http://www.guru3d.com/article/atitraytools/189/ ) and live happy everafter! CCC may be bad, but drivers themselves is OK. Don't blame them. |
| ModderXManiac | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
"Vaya pedazo de mierda... Me quedo con la version 5.11... Control center es la mejor versión, con esta te clavan el .NET Framework de mierda... ATI ves despidiendote de mi... mi proxima grafica sera nVIDIA..." This guy gave a 1/5 for ATI; he described how much it sucks in SPANISH! Omega drivers all the way, DNA are quite buggy for me. I don't consider .NET bloat as I use it for several apps, but for it to be required for graphics drivers is the biggest load of BS I've ever heard. I'd like to go over to nVidia with how well their drivers have always been, but they are making crap cards... |
| TerryHau | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 3 out of 5 |
If you have the ugly slow control centre already, unintall it from add/remove programs, and you'll be back to normal control panel. Next time when you download a new driver, instead of getting the 30+mb package, get the 10mb "display driver only". And you wont have the crap .NET control centre that lags your pc for 2 mins at startup and takes 10 minutes to run. |
| Skizelli | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
ATI blows now. They don't care about what their customers want, nor will they give us a choice. I don't want to use Microsoft's .NET bulls***, yet they force their customers to do so. Thank god for Omega's drivers. My next card is definitely going to be an nVidia. I'm so done with ATI. With each release of their drivers, they break more than they fix. Candadian bas****s. |
| sQin | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
big slow and ugly UI. Why 3rd party drivers (Omega, DNA) give better performance, more features, dont load unnecessary s**t into ram? |
| johnk119 | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 2 out of 5 |
I prefer the omega driver set www.omegadrivers.net they're tweaked for gaming and dont require nearly as much memory to run... also as we all know the catalyst config panel is written in .net which means it uses a ton of memory and is slow responding |
| Bixente | Mar 9, 2006 | 6.3 | 1 out of 5 |
Infested with Net bloatware. |
| mantene | Mar 4, 2006 | 6.2 | 1 out of 5 |
Never had problems with ATI drivers before this release. I installed these drivers and began getting a message each time i rebooted my computer saying that my registry had to be recovered using a backup or log file. At first I didn't connect it to the driver but Once I removed the driver the error went away. Put it back on and the error came back. What gives! So I am back using 6.1 |
| UTAKER | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 1 out of 5 |
are drivers really meant to be 30MB in size and getting more heavier with every release and slowing the PC down? It does not matter how good the hardware is if the drivers sux and these DO sux. And what ATI guys seem to be so secretive about is leeching of their drivers, that you can not resume downloads from their servers since the download can expire! too bad for anyway with a bad internet connection or slow one. |
| hook_ | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 2 out of 5 |
Goddammit... After using ATI products for several years, these drivers (6.2) were the first one that gave nice graphical errors in desktop mode. And here comes the best part. Whole system was slow as hell. I had to convert back to 6.1. What the hell has happened to ATI? I don't mind using .Net and Catalyst Control Centre, but releasing crappy non-working drivers like these are unacceptable. ATI, you got to climb up from the s***hole you have created. |
| Skyfrog | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 5 out of 5 |
I think this has been pointed out a hundred times before but may as well say it again; you don't have to use the new control center, and the old control panel from previous drivers versions still works fine. It is not driver specific. You can still use it with the new drivers. |
| Argente | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 1 out of 5 |
Vaya pedazo de mierda... Me quedo con la version 5.11... Control center es la mejor versión, con esta te clavan el .NET Framework de mierda... ATI ves despidiendote de mi... mi proxima grafica sera nVIDIA... |
| markus10018 | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 3 out of 5 |
Use only the display driver and ATI Tray Tools and you're set. There is no need for CP oder CCC. BTW: NVIDIA's control panel is much better. Shame on you ATI! |
| stopbuggingme | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 1 out of 5 |
Another release and Control Center remains unaviodable and gets worse. The overdrive configurator now consistently crashes my system (didn't used to) and barely warms the GPU so it's rubbish anyway. I can't set it to not overdrive for 3D apps only and it seems windowed 3D apps don't count as 3D apps. After changing overdrive clocks the Preserve settings at logingbox is greyed until you switch to a different panel and switch back. I went back to 6.1, in 6.1 I can't set it to not overdrive always - lol. How many more years and Megabytes are the Cataylst Control Center Crew going to take to make a checkbox work properly? |
| Sabz | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 4 out of 5 |
ATI cards are better in a linux Envirement than a Windows OS IMO , but i have not had any problems with ATI, since i dont playu games, .only dripe about ATI is s***ty DVI support |
| crashoverride | Feb 10, 2006 | 6.2 | 2 out of 5 |
I'l stick with Omega Drivers thank you. |
| Floodland | Feb 9, 2006 | 6.2 | 1 out of 5 |
Again, ATI seems to ignore customers and keep developing CCC (catalyst crap control). Highly bloated, slow as hell. I hope omegadrivers keep they good work because I'm loosing my hope on ATI. And that's mean I will NOT buy an ATI card for a long time. Good reputation is hard to make and easy to lose. ATI is losing it FAST. Ati, OPEN YOUR EYES and bring back the Control Panel, can't you understand that you are destroying your reputation with CCC?? |
| tipsyboy | Feb 9, 2006 | 6.2 | 1 out of 5 |
Not a review - a note for ModderXManiac: ======================================== Man, please don't link to ATI site pages like you do here, cause people won't just get but a anti-leech page. thanx. I gave up using any newer ATI driver. Tried official ones and Omega about 10 times or more. I am really p... off by all the crap that won't work properly. WOn't buy any ATI card next time. So why should I try a third "tweaked" one? Give me one reason for it... |
| Mumoto | Feb 9, 2006 | 6.2 | 5 out of 5 |
I have no problems with the drivers, games work perfectly for me and I don't trust those DNA and Omegadrivers, if they destroy my graphics-card I won't have any insurance on it. Nor will they pay it back so... I'd rather stick with the original since i'm fine with them :) |
| ModderXManiac | Feb 9, 2006 | 6.2 | 2 out of 5 |
Crap drivers. Bloated and unreliable. Welcome to the world of "thinking" computer users; use DNA, get a brain, and a better computing expierience. http://www.dna-drivers.com Release notes for this "Official" Catalyst release, if you care... https://a248.e.akamai.ne...t_62_release_notes.html |
| mjm01010101 | Feb 9, 2006 | 6.2 | 5 out of 5 |
No issues this time. Still has a long list of known issues. Oh well, modern times and complexities I suppose. |
| microFawad | Jan 21, 2006 | 6.1 | 5 out of 5 |
I am always intrested in drivers only. |
| roj | Jan 21, 2006 | 6.1 | 5 out of 5 |
I capitulate. No issues installing on two of my systems. Given that .Net is more or less everywhere, I guess i have to get with the program. FIVE stars. |
| hugh750 | Jan 21, 2006 | 6.1 | 5 out of 5 |
It seems to work just fine on my radeon 9600 card. |
| theheff | Jan 21, 2006 | 6.1 | 2 out of 5 |
Too buggy for my liking.. I'm running an x850xt and there are definitely issues... like all my text is italicized now for some reason.... as far as game performance, it appears to be about the same. |
| mjm01010101 | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 2 out of 5 |
Install froze on one of my systems. After reboot it worked fine. |
| Banquo | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 4 out of 5 |
It's not a version number in the sense you are thinking. The 6 is for 2006 and 1 means the first release this year. For those who hate the new control panel (like me) be aware that the control panel from older versions still works fine. |
| midfingr | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 4 out of 5 |
Umm. I know it's only a number, but 6.1? @Banquo Thank you! Now I get it :) Anyway. The drivers work fine. I just set what I want in CCC and use startupCPL - http://www.mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml Also. Anyone that uses ATI MMC, there's an update to 9.13. |
| Adrian79 | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 5 out of 5 |
man i LOVE control center!! (yes i disagree with the retards below) before control center my graphics were dark and there was no "gamma control" and my old card was usless...bingo then they released control center..and now things are just PERFECT! |
| rseiler | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 4 out of 5 |
The description should be updated, as the Control Panel is not included. The final version of it was 5.12, which does continue to work with the newer drivers. http://support.ati.com/i...ntID=737&deptID=894 |
| Argente | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 1 out of 5 |
Puta mierda!!!!!!! Panel Control YA!!!!! |
| ajiva | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 3 out of 5 |
Or you could download the drivers from: http://www.omegadrivers.net/ And not worry about the control panel |
| Doubledoom | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 3 out of 5 |
Install 5.10 with control panel. Then uninstall (via add remove) but leave the control panel option installed. Then install the newer drivers but not with the CC. That way you get to keep your control panel. |
| sixpac | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 2 out of 5 |
I wish they would dump the CCC.. I like the old version better (not sure why its not an option anymore). Also I have two video cards in my computer and the 2nd one is a PCI ATI card. The new drivers don't like the old card. :( |
| alberta expediter | Jan 20, 2006 | 6.1 | 3 out of 5 |
Does anyone have another link for the drivers, my host file is blocking the download page for the drivers. |
| knivez | Dec 29, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
What were they thinking when they dumped the good old control panel goes beyond my comprehension. I DON'T WANT or NEED the highly bloated .NET framework on my system; and certainly ATi just lost points in my book for forcing we, the consumers, to use a heavy third-party framework just to set up a hardware component such as the graphics card. I wasn't sure of what brand to get since i'm about to upgrade soon. Now i'm pretty much certain im going with Nvidia this time. |
| Moodles | Dec 25, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
I think this news item is a little inaccurate, there is no Control Panel in version 5.13 I'm 100% sure, we are forced instead to use the Catalyst Control Center aka CCC. I can't comment on 5.12 at all. But if anyone does want the old control panel back for good, I have started an online petition to get ATi to bring back our beloved Control Panel as an option. http://www.petitiononlin.../ctrlpanl/petition.html |
| Dural | Dec 23, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
In a word, horrid. Using the regular 5.10 drivers/control panel, my system used about 100MB after booting...with the 5.13 CCC's, it shoots up to around 250MB! Not only that, but the Catalyst A.I. didn't give me a performance boost, I lost 10 FPS in the Source stress test. Thankfully I had the foresight to image my partition with Acronis beforehand, I'll be reverting and looking for other 3rd party options, like the Omega drivers. I'll be going Nvidia for my next card. |
| sigloiv | Dec 22, 2005 | 5.13 | 4 out of 5 |
I really like the Catalyst drivers. I think that they've improved quite steadily over the last year or two. The Control Center has an intuitive interface and provides an easy way to compare differences on quality on different options. Also, if you really know what you're doing you can set up the CC to only load the runtime when you open the drivers. Just take it out of your Run folder in the registry... |
| ssb | Dec 22, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
Drop that damned bloated .NET garbage from drivers. Most people don't want this huge runtime installed in their machines. |
| goofydave | Dec 22, 2005 | 5.13 | 4 out of 5 |
I know this is Cat 5.13 but for all those who have mentioned the old Control Panel ATi does have 5.12 with the standard control panel @ http://support.ati.com/i...ntID=737&deptID=894 |
| bmh67wa | Dec 22, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
Gimme back the Control Panel! Guess I'll just go back to 5.10. It was working fine for me anyway. |
| OCedHrt | Dec 22, 2005 | 5.13 | 4 out of 5 |
Just install the control panel from 5.10. The CP in 5.11 was the same as 5.10, so I'd assume that in 5.12, it's also the same one as 5.10. |
| Skizelli | Dec 22, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
The truth is that a lot of people just don't need the .NET environment. I don't program nor do I use any .NET applications. And I don't like how .NET takes over my system. I think developers, M$ drones or not, are jacking off to .NET more than anyone else. And for ATI to take away our choice with these drivers is crap. My next card is definitely going to be an Nvidia. Canada can't do anything right. .NET is crap. Period. |
| roj | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
I'm not in favor of the CCC. I want the control panel back. For that I give these drivers a ONE. HOWEVER: I've had it up to here with the gadfly ".NET is MS and therefore EVIL" BS. Those twits saying that simply don't understand the architecture, nor do they clue into what it means for the industry and the inevitability that ALL software vendors of note are embracing this platform because of its VERY tangible benefits (read: "cost savings bringing applications to market"). This includes even the Linux and Mac crews. Get your heads out of the sand, get past the typical juvenile anti-MS prattle and take a good hard look at the platform and what it offers and you'll see that it is the future - period. This isn't opinion - it's fact. To ATI: You're ignoring your customers. Get a grip. |
| stisev | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
If I could rate this -5, I would BRING BACK THE CONTROL PANEL! |
| rawd | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
Yep wait for Omega drivers instead of subjecting yourself to the CCC (there is absolutely no reason you should need .NET framework installed for basic driver funcionality). And this is definitely my last ATI card ever, you guys are complete incompetants. |
| DrTeeth | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 3 out of 5 |
For those who want the CP version, d/l the drivers for the Fire 2200/2400 PCI card. They have the CP, or at least the 5.12 drivers did. The 5.13 is not yet out for these boards. |
| Floodland | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
ATI please forget the terrible CCC. Following M$ that way is not good for your company: You are wasting your customer resources and I paid for your hardware! And I paid for quality, not to be Micro$oft beta tester for bad ideas (M$ framework is a pathetic idea). ATI made a wise choice with the development of Catalyst unified drivers, but you can lose market share fast, not for inferior product line, but for your bloated drivers. Why are you wasting time in develop drivers for non existant OSs? Vista is too far away, CCC is crap. Omega drivers are pretty good, keep working with that guy, not for the evil corp. |
| yokozuna | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 5 out of 5 |
Actually no one needs any control panel anymore. Just install the drivers (only!!!) and ATI Tray Tools. It is more than enough. |
| normr | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 3 out of 5 |
Everyone just be calm and wait for the Omega Drivers version! |
| Vikers | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
Where can i find the Control panel version?, CCC is terrible:@ |
| danilloOc | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
Ok, now this is bad, i can't find a version with Control Panel, the Control Center version is HORRIBLE and waist of memory, i can't believe ATI will force us to use this lame Control Center. |
| Argente | Dec 21, 2005 | 5.13 | 1 out of 5 |
goofydave podrias decirme la ruta, no la descarga, a seguir para encontrar los drivers de ATI 5.12 o 5.13 de control center?? goofydave you can say the route to me, not the unloading, to follow to find drivers of ATI 5,12 or 5,13 of control to center? |
| eblade | Dec 9, 2005 | 5.12 | 4 out of 5 |
Exactly what is the problem with removing the control panel? The CCC is more functional, and easier to use. (Omega's Tray Tool is better, but that's not really either here or there) The changes seem to indicate good performance improvements. Any one have specifics on it? I won't be in a position to reboot for another 8-10 hours, so I'll submit a different review afterwards.. (sorry for using this as a bulletin board temporarily) |
| MikeDiack | Dec 9, 2005 | 5.12 | 5 out of 5 |
Quick question to Banquo: I'm very grateful for the pointer to the control panel version you gave a link to. I'm just very curious as to how you found it? Mike |
| Banquo | Dec 9, 2005 | 5.12 | 4 out of 5 |
Calm down everyone, the control panel version is here: http://support.ati.com/i...ntID=737&deptID=894 Someone else found it and they didn't say how; I looked all overy ATI's site and could not find it myself, it must have been very well hidden. I finally came across the link on another message board. |
| jasonj | Dec 9, 2005 | 5.12 | 1 out of 5 |
Removing the Control Panel is the last straw with ATI. I will never buy another ATI card. |
| BiggFatty | Dec 9, 2005 | 5.12 | 4 out of 5 |
Oops, they took the Control Panel out! Ok, someone found the link later on, that's better. |
| bradja | Dec 8, 2005 | 5.12 | 2 out of 5 |
With CCC instead of CP I lose the ability to toggle screen rotation. Reverted to previous driver with CP. |
| roj | Dec 8, 2005 | 5.12 | 1 out of 5 |
No CP. Just CCC. I don't care if the core driver is stable - I want the full range of choices because I prefer not to use the CCC. ONE star for removing a viable and valuable user choice. |
| DudeBoyz | Dec 8, 2005 | 5.12 | 2 out of 5 |
I hate the CCC. What a total waste! The old control panel worked awesome, and it sucks that they take that choice away from you now. On my two rigs with ATI cards, CCC is always buggy and slow. Even if the core driver is stable and functional, the lack of a lean, stable control panel is just a horrible thing. |
| Astro-SII | Dec 8, 2005 | 5.12 | 3 out of 5 |
being forced to install the CCC is crap.... I want the old CP. |
| alexweber15 | Dec 8, 2005 | 5.12 | 5 out of 5 |
is there no Control Panel version??? i checked the ATI website and no luck... wtf maybe they are trying to fade out the CP... i hope not i don't really like the CCC.... |
| rijp | Dec 8, 2005 | 5.12 | 5 out of 5 |
No Problems here. Solid performance, great as ever. I think people that have problems, are because you aren't reverting the changes to default then reset them to what you like... After the new driver is installed.. |
| Sybs | Nov 14, 2005 | 5.11 | 3 out of 5 |
Roj, The .NET framework 2.0 is supposed to run alongside version 1.1, so there should be no problems with installing it as soon as possible.Having said that, I'm not going to install this until I know that these bugs are sorted. The last line of the release notes post kinda does it for me, anyway. |
| ModderXManiac | Nov 13, 2005 | 5.11 | 4 out of 5 |
New features in the Catalyst 5.11 include: * Adaptive Anti-Aliasing * Stretch Desktop Support for ATI FireMV Products * Overlay Theater Mode Enhancement * Catalyst Control Center Enhancement * CrossFire and the ATI Radeon X1300 series Performance Improvements: *The ATI Radeon X1800 has massive gains in OpenGL when 4X Anti-aliasing is enabled. Increases include: -Doom 3 performance improvement of up to 38% -Quake 4 performance improvement of up to 60% -Older OpenGL titles such as Quake 3, Arena, and Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, have performance improvements of up to 50%*The ATI Radeon X1300 has a performance improvement of 10-15% in Quake 4. *The Vertex Shader has performance improvement of 3-5% across multiple products. However there might be some problems regarding .NET 2.0 |
| ravek | Nov 12, 2005 | 5.11 | 1 out of 5 |
after install 5.11 drivers have lost performance in windows xp desktop.....moving big windows and scrolling down...etc etc remove 5.11 and reinstall 5.10 work fine again 5.11 are to buggi |
| Adrian79 | Nov 12, 2005 | 5.11 | 2 out of 5 |
i installed .net framework 2.0 ..lastest change made. then i remove cat 5.10 and put 5.11 now i actually have 'CLI (comand line interface) app ecountered a problem must close' crashes fun.. now when i went back to 5.10..i still have the crashes lolwtf |
| mjm01010101 | Nov 11, 2005 | 5.11 | 4 out of 5 |
My review is with the experience of getting the exe and running it, inclusive. Anti-dl leechers is silly, you are providing a service to your users once a month, then make it available. Having said that this version upgraded and downloaded fine. |
| fred_nd | Oct 25, 2005 | 5.10a Beta | 4 out of 5 |
Found the driver ok, I had the color problem with WMV files, but I installed the driver with the CCC and turned off "WMV Acceleration" (Under Video/...) and now WMV files display correctly. |
| OSuser | Oct 20, 2005 | 5.10a Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Love ATi but yesterday file was an ops! Hope this one will clear Windows "OK" signiture. |
| wickedfeel | Oct 18, 2005 | 5.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Drivers appear to be solid. Daddy like. I too have the same problem with WMV files, but I'm not sure it's the Video Card drivers, maybe it is a codec pack? I use Kazaa Lite Codec Pack Full here. Anyways, one workaround is to use VLC (VideoLAN Player). |
| JeRrYFaR | Oct 13, 2005 | 5.10 | 5 out of 5 |
I haven't had problems with them other than that darn WMV problem w/ seeing rainbow colors on most of them.. it's odd.. And I recommend just installing the drivers.. don't worry about the CCC (Control Center Crap). |
| oufc_gav | Oct 13, 2005 | 5.10 | 5 out of 5 |
The Catalyst drivers are the tuned edge part of ATI's driver range. If you have no reason to upgrade just make do with the standard drivers. The release number is related to the month number of release - so 5.1(0) follows 5.9. Works flawlessly here on multiple machines (though the CCC is still a pile of garbage - just use the straight control panel version). |
| Sybs | Oct 13, 2005 | 5.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Orbit, Review the drivers, not the ATI site's anti-leeching measures. |
| Eemeli | Oct 13, 2005 | 5.10 | 4 out of 5 |
Well, this is good but not that good than 5.4 driver. 5.4 was lates version what works great my computer. |
| thezelda | Oct 13, 2005 | 5.10 | 1 out of 5 |
Yeah, well, i did do drivercleaner there buster. Explain after FULL driver douching the problem appears, and full driver douching and reverting the problem goes awa, there , Bippy? Explain that. The drivers WRONG and the hardware, as bad as it is, worked quite well with the previous driver. Sorry, there, bippy, you Skriptor, you must know everything there tuffy bippy. |
| 1uk3 | Oct 12, 2005 | 5.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Good driver but there's a problem with the link at the moment from this site. Go to http://www.ati.com and download direct. mjm01010101 - don't give bad ratings for software etc just because of a bad link. |
| Banquo | Oct 12, 2005 | 5.10 | 5 out of 5 |
What are you doing? Don't give the drivers a poor rating just because you can't download them. Betanews screwed up, go to ATI's site and download them there. As for the drivers they work fine, had no trouble installing and my games seem to be happy with them. :) http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html |
| mjm01010101 | Oct 12, 2005 | 5.10 | 1 out of 5 |
" Unauthorized download We're sorry, but this download request cannot be authorized. As an option, you may visit any of the pages below for information about ATI services and products:" |
| duntuk | Sep 24, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
*yeah*.. you're experiencing these "extreme" problems, that have yet to be document/shared by anyone else.... hmmm... gee what could that mean... maybe, it's something YOU are doing wrong... go to drivercleaner.net |
| thezelda | Sep 22, 2005 | 5.9 | 1 out of 5 |
Went from 5.8 to 5.9. had to go back. these new "drivers" caused banding and extreme scrolling slowness in 2D. EXTREME. Was like owning a CGA card. ATI is starting to falter, to crack to suck. I'm glad the exist only as a foil to push Nvidia further, but no one should buy the product. Ugh. |
| Zygi | Sep 22, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
Media Player Classic plays them properly always !!! Great drivers, now i'm waiting for a Omega edition... |
| LRN | Sep 22, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
JeRrYFaR, try to watch wmv's with MPlayer. |
| midfingr | Sep 21, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
Gave them a 5 since I didn't want to break the trend. I find these as good as any others. The new java install was really cool. I still get that system event warning message about ati2mtag - haven't resloved that yet. |
| Sep 21, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
BEST DRIVERS SO FAR TO DATE MANY FIXES FINALLY FIXED LIKE BATTLEFIELD 2 PROBS AND MUCH MORE ADDED THINGS! DONT HAVE THESE DRIVERS YET THEN START DOWNLOADING!!!!!!!!! |
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| Adrian79 | Sep 21, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
hmmm i could of sware this 5.9 came out few months ago? |
| JeRrYFaR | Sep 21, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
I agree they are the best, but the last version would not work properly w/ some .wmv files (on two systems - 1 w/ 9800 Pro & 1 w/ 9600) as they would look like negatives with blue and yellow and purple or something like that and the only way to fix was to lower the hardware acceleration. Trying the previous drivers fixed the issue, but when I reinstalled the 5.08's again it was the same problem.. I have high hopes for 5.09, but other than that no complaints.. |
| ravemanson | Sep 21, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
YYEAAAHHHH! |
| iknowyouknow | Sep 21, 2005 | 5.9 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI are the best!!! I used tio use Nvidia but decided to give ATI a try, I was impressed I gotthe 9800 Pro which is the Sapphire model:) On the driver side, I tried Omega drivers and agree they sometimes slowed the system down but with ATI Cat drivers all goes nice. Good job ATI:) |
| TC17 | Sep 1, 2005 | 5.8 | 5 out of 5 |
I haven't used the original Catalyst drivers in a long time, but tried them again now. ATI sure has added a lot to it, its totally different. Looks impressive. |
| JazzyTech | Aug 18, 2005 | 5.8 | 4 out of 5 |
This is slightly off topic, but I felt I should mention this to anyone thinking of upgrading to Omega drivers. I've been using the Omega modified drivers for the ATI 9200 and the 9800 pro with good results/improvements. However this changed with version 5.7 and the ATI X700 mobile card. I had a lot of problems, and the driver mods from Omega slowed my system down. After weeks of tweaking and re-installing, I eventually gave up on the Omega mods and returned to the ATI Catalyst 5.7 drivers. I know Omega usually does a great job, but it didn't work for me with the following configuration: Acer Travelmate 8104 Pentium Mobility 2.0 GHz "Sonoma" 1GB DDR2 RAM ATI Mobility X700 - 128 MB HD 80GB - seagate |
| xyzcb1 | Aug 18, 2005 | 5.8 | 5 out of 5 |
Good driver. Work very well with the 9800 pro. btw, is there a xp64 driver for the radeon 7000 series? |
| improvelence | Aug 17, 2005 | 5.8 | 5 out of 5 |
I am so tired of seeing these whiney omega fans on here. Wheres Omegas 64 bit release? Key phrase "the best MODDED drivers" Omega drivers will degrade performance in HL2 and a few other games. Omega drivers sometimes will not recognize after a reboot. The omega drivers are not total crap but I have never had a problem with ATI's drivers nor noticed anything signifigant with the Omega drivers. If you have problems with ATI drivers then you have done something wrong, plain and simple. Guevara is an idiot. |
| nightops | Aug 17, 2005 | 5.8 | 5 out of 5 |
Very nice. Windows XP Pro SP2, P4 3.2Ghz @ 3.8Ghz. 1GB Crucial XMS @ 413Mhz, 4x 74GB Raptor in RAID 1+0, Sapphire Radeon x800XT PE (AGP). I have had no problems with any of the ATI Drivers since back in the 4.x days. 5.8 is no exception. I might be lucky...but I don't think so. 5.7 offered the best jump so far, but 5.8 fine-tuned some small issues I noticed. |
| Trojanman | Jul 15, 2005 | 5.7 | 4 out of 5 |
Pretty good performance, I have an AIW 9800 pro and with this release as with others I find that my games will crash if I don't disable VPU recover and turn smartgart to AGP 4x not 8x. I though it would cripple performance but I play bf2 a lot right now and it performes flawless. I read this on some website a while ago I don't remember where but try it and most likely it will work for you. |
| ModderXManiac | Jul 14, 2005 | 5.7 | 3 out of 5 |
I'd rather wait for the Omega Version. For those of you who dont know, ATI actually realized the Omega drivers as the greatest mod drivers on the 'net. Figures, the programmer is an ati beta tester. I really appreciate the fixes, it'll be good having them on Omega drivers soon. until then, 3 outta 5. |
| guevara | Jul 14, 2005 | 5.7 | 1 out of 5 |
NOT very stable here. This version (and the last) messed my pc up. so i had to reinstall the old version.. I dont think i would bother to try another version in the future |
| anomoly | Jun 9, 2005 | 5.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Could you believe it? they work. Of course I use the omegas not these. Speed is in the card lames not the drivers-speaking of which mine is slow (9000 pro). Getting a 9800 aiw asap & reinstalling omegas |
| Banquo | Jun 9, 2005 | 5.6 | 5 out of 5 |
DudeBoyz, they can't keep making the card faster with every driver release. The card can only go so fast; new drivers are primarily released to fix bugs (which in a lot of cases are the fault of the game programmers and not ATI; yes I'm talking to you EA). If developers would follow standards the world would be a happier place. That said I've had no trouble at all with ATIs drivers for a long time. |
| DudeBoyz | Jun 9, 2005 | 5.6 | 3 out of 5 |
You think it is a coincidence that an ATI funded study saying ATI 5.6's are more stable than Nvidia is released on the exact same day as the drivers themselves??? How freakin' stupid do you have to be not to see the greasing of that palm? Woah! That said, Catalyst without the CCC are pretty stable and functional. But the 5.6's are not much better than the 5.1's when it comes to speed, stability, etc. AnandTech has a benchmark showing that these 5.6's are not faster at all than the 5.5's, no matter what the hype is. This coming from a current owner of 3 ATI cards. I will continue to buy BB ATI cards, but I'm not a blind loyalist willing to praise everything they do. |
| alexweber15 | Jun 9, 2005 | 5.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Another awesome release from ATI! I love how soon after the last release this one came! Also the list of known issues is shrinking dramatically and props to them for the massively improved linux support! If you can't get this to work you must be an idiot or not be doing it properly. There is an ATI uninstall tool and also you gotta use Driverheaven's DriverCleaner to make sure you get rid of all traces of the old driver before installing a new set. NEVER had any problems with any of the 5.x Catalyst versions and they have been getting better and better. Also to the dude who said ATI can't make drivers: http://www.marketwatch.c...w&dist=nbs&symb= check this out... ATI Catalyst set named most stable drivers. |
| bourgeoisdude | Jun 9, 2005 | 5.6 | 2 out of 5 |
I am very disappointed with ATI--not because of the quality of the video cards (though the X300's sure have a high rate of failure), stability or performance, but their drivers. NVIDIA and even Intel seem to have no problems when changing out video from one brand to another or just switching video adapters in the same brand. But once ATI is involved, drivers have trouble installing, ATI drivers will never uninstall (why MUST I be using ATI to UNINSTAL a driver?), etc. Yes now I know when going from ATI to nvidia you must uninstall first, install a vga 16 color driver, and ensure Default Monitor is the driver and that it is not a DVI monitor, but come on! Why not have me hoola-hoop in my underwear while taking a shower before changing graphics adapters? It'd sure be easier!!! Moved from NVIDIA to onboard intel and never had to uninstall or anything, no problems. Also have had more incompatible programs and more "Windows protection errors" than I can count with ATI cards. Again, ATI MAKES GREAT CARDS, why can't they make a decent driver? Also alexweber15, the uninstall does exist but tells me "No ati devices present" and refuses to uninstall. I did finally remove the registry entries, and this was back at version 5.1x driver. Did try the actual 5.6 driver but afterward it still causes the BSOD when switching to any pci video card (not a common issue but easily correctable) without adding vga driver first. Again I love the cards themselves just had lots of bad experiences with the drivers. If they work for you then great! |
| mjm01010101 | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 2 out of 5 |
The last ATI driver I will use on a personal system. If you read through my history of comments you'll see why. My complaints were not addressed satisfactorily. This driver install I get a popup on reboot stating SMARTGART needs to determine my optimal processor settings. It just sits there though and no way to close it. |
| aerthling | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 4 out of 5 |
Racerbob, you need to install the .NET Framework. I'm pretty sure it mentioned it somewhere either in the install or readme. |
| spiked | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 4 out of 5 |
Thank goodness they finally got rid of the old filenaming pattern. Now if they would only make their installer capable of upgrading in-place instead of requiring manual uninstall-reboot-install-reboot-redetect-reboot. This is especially annoying if you've got an AIW which needs the WDM capture driver. |
| dzjepp | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 5 out of 5 |
Heh, I wonder why my comment was removed. Hi zero-point, you are from driver heaven right? I'm gonna test out your drivers once they go final. =] |
| Zero-Point | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 4 out of 5 |
If some were not so ignorant and read release notes or checked the ATI download page they would realize that there are ALWAYS two releases: one with the "bloated" CATALYST Control Panel and one without. ATI never "went back" to the newer control panel, just the last download link posted here was for the release without the control panel (file size ~ 26 MB) and the download think for this version 5.5 is for the release with the control panel (also note the file size is ~33 MB). These last versions (5.4 & 5.5) have resolved issues w/ Pro/E on my workstation. |
| Slug_Coordinator | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 2 out of 5 |
Why did they go back to the new style too much resources. I can not believe they have to make such a bloated contol panel for this. Who cares about the animation, and fancy skins I spend my time playing games not looking at their catalyst control panel. |
| Racerbob | May 17, 2005 | 5.5 | 4 out of 5 |
Something seriously wrong with this latest release. Now getting a cli.exe application error every time I boot. Running Windows XP Pro here. My son installed same drivers in his pc and is geting same error. Don't they test for these things before they release these drivers ? Going back to previous drivers now. aerthling, thanks for the info. My son and myself figured this out before I read your post..all is well now. |
| westonc | Apr 8, 2005 | 5.4 | 1 out of 5 |
Turned my OS into molassesware. Right clicking icons on my desktop to bring up menu caused 50% CPU usage and Start Menu caused near 100% CPU usage. Something is wrong here...Thank goodness I had the previous release on a recovery disc. |
| xippon | Apr 8, 2005 | 5.4 | 3 out of 5 |
freez on instaling WDM Capture driver in Windows XP |
| hugh750 | Apr 8, 2005 | 5.4 | 5 out of 5 |
I Just Downloaded And Installed Catalyst 5.4 Yesterday,And It Works Wonderfully And You Don't Have To Uninstall The Previous Driver. |
| Wyojake | Apr 7, 2005 | 5.4 | 4 out of 5 |
installed well no problems didn't have to uninstall drivers. would some of you reviewers on here please update not only your computers but peripherals? then rate. ati has always been very kind to me. waiting for 64 bit drivers. think things will improve some. |
| purush | Apr 7, 2005 | 5.4 | 5 out of 5 |
I have been updating the original drivers from ATI and it has always been very good on my wide screen LCD Monitor. This is by far the best update. My screen looks absolutely marvellous |
| alexweber15 | Apr 7, 2005 | 5.4 | 5 out of 5 |
if you havent tried it then don't review it dumba**. i like these the best so far, way better than 5.3 but there's still a few issues to be resolved... i personally like the regular control panel better than the CCC but it's a good idea and is maturing nicely! |
| sftwrmaniac | Apr 7, 2005 | 5.4 | 3 out of 5 |
32MB? No thanks. |
| Wyojake | Mar 10, 2005 | 5.3 | 5 out of 5 |
works well. better than any other past version. |
| }{KeYmAkEr*}{ | Mar 10, 2005 | 5.3 | 3 out of 5 |
Apparently the Catalyst Control Centre needs internet access through your firewall or router to get it to start up... With the Ati HotKey Poller & ATI Smart services running as well.. Might be like Diskeeper needing internet access as well? |
| bigspud | Mar 10, 2005 | 5.3 | 1 out of 5 |
these drivers are junk, 4.9 drivers are last version that work properly on my sapphire 9500. these are very slow and make video quality very poor. yes, i remove old drivers before installing new ones. looks like nvidia is in my future plans. these drivers are JUNK. |
| mjm01010101 | Mar 9, 2005 | 5.3 | 1 out of 5 |
I've had it with ATI. They have had trouble with 3-d which is understandable, but I still cannot fathom their 2D incompetence... 1. Known issues gets larger over time. 2. Still, after years of upgrading my settings, it doesn't remember my multi-monitor preferences from the previous driver release. 3. Something went wrong with trying to setup multimonitor on this release and CCC crashed while resetting preferences. CLI.exe hung and I was stuck with an extended desktop with skewed resolutions I could only reboot to fix. |
| alexweber15 | Mar 9, 2005 | 5.3 | 5 out of 5 |
awesome! these just keep getting better... the long list of known issues is kinda discouraging but its good to see ATI is honest about them and trying to iron all bugs out... :) |
| DudeBoyz | Mar 9, 2005 | 5.3 | 3 out of 5 |
Sounds like that Catalyst Control Center is more trouble than its worth, according to the bugs and issues list. Yikes. |
| fragsta | Mar 1, 2005 | 5.2 | 5 out of 5 |
great |
| bugmenot | Feb 10, 2005 | 5.2 | 3 out of 5 |
Well, I was able to see a small performance improvement, but the problem is my cheap card (R9200) won't work properly with any driver I tried after Catalyst 4.2! And I tried so many, even the Omega ones. With all of them I'm experiencing random video dissapearing (acts like monitor is turned off!), and the only way to fix it's reboot.. duh! I'm starting to think either: - i was "lukcy" enough to get a defective card; - new drivers don't care about old cards; |
| zeeeg | Feb 10, 2005 | 5.2 | 1 out of 5 |
I have the same problem as heybirder. First tried installing over 5.1 drivers, had the problem. So I uninstalled all ATi software, restarted, installed 5.2, restarted, same problem. Back to 5.1.. maybe it's time to go (nvidia) shopping. |
| tp | Feb 9, 2005 | 5.2 | 5 out of 5 |
alls well here with these |
| heybirder | Feb 9, 2005 | 5.2 | 1 out of 5 |
I changed from the 5.1 drivers to the 5.2 drivers and they have issues. Slugish video quality and when I resize a video in wmp the video freezes and I have to min/max the program to get it to refresh. |
| DudeBoyz | Jan 31, 2005 | 5.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Best set in a long time. I also turn off VPU Recover and everything in the OPTIONS tab and I also disable that HOTKEY POLLER thing by deleting the registry entries for it. With all that done, these 5.1's really seem to be a step up in stability and speed in some games, including Battle for Middle Earth. |
| Highter | Jan 18, 2005 | 5.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Agreed, these are very stable drivers. The bugs are not due to driver problem, but due to the person that sits between the chair and the keyboard. Next time you install new drivers, make sure you properly unistall it. And, by the way funky303, if you don't like the control center, then download the control pane version, and if you don't want to download the entire package, download only the display drivers then. And, at last, turn off VPU recover, you don't need it. |
| rwired | Jan 18, 2005 | 5.1 | 5 out of 5 |
You are all a bunch of cry babies, and for that phone support guy, shut up you get paid to take those calls, I am so tired of people moaning about their jobs, YOU GET PAID! so do your damn job and quit b****ing. These drivers rock as usual, if you have any problems it must be because your system s-u-c-k-s. |
| bourgeoisdude | Jan 18, 2005 | 5.1 | 1 out of 5 |
I'm beginning to realize more and more that it's not ATI's video cards that have 40 million more bugs than NVIDIA's, it's their darn drivers. I am getting tired of receiving calls at this tech support call center for people who have messed up drivers. 90% of corrupted drivers are ATI's, while only 8% are Intels and the remainder NVIDIA. Sad that Intel's drivers are even better... |
| tp | Jan 17, 2005 | 5.1 | 3 out of 5 |
i installed them and the control panel wouldn't run after reboot. i didnt feel like hassling it so installed latest omega's instead.. |
| mjm01010101 | Jan 17, 2005 | 5.1 | 1 out of 5 |
The list of "known bugs" is increasing. wtf? That is just wrong. |
| funky303 | Dec 14, 2004 | 4.12 | 3 out of 5 |
well the drivers would be nice if they were not that bloated and pain in the a** to download. almost 22 MB for drivers and that really bad control center is way too much. and it still has some annoying bugs : 1.) i get a BSOD on a fresh installed winXP sp1 & 2 when i try to use the regular windows screen config menu.. as soon as i click the "Advanced" button in the screen config menu ==> BSOD 2.) as in the 4.12 beta my OS loads 1 out of 2 bootups. the screen stays dark for 1-2 minutes, then i get the message that the VPU recovery failed, then it switches me to software render mode and i have to restart. nvidia ain't perfect too, i don't like their way to disptribute drivers without giving the possibility to just upgrade the driver alone instead having to download the entire package each time they relase a new driver all over again. i am one of those ppl who don't really care about 1-2% performance gain in some games, but who cares for a rock solid system which should run 24/7... yet alone the VPU recover program is emberracing.. why does a vpu crash ? are the drivers so badly programmed ? i had many vidcards in my systems, some from nvidia, and some ati. those from nvidia didn't crash so often as the atis do. |
| roj | Dec 14, 2004 | 4.12 | 5 out of 5 |
To the individual who says ATI should have gotten it right a year ago with Valve: Obviously you know zero about the developement of any software. Things CHANGE between inception and delivery and things slip through the crack because of communications (or a lack of it). Given Valve's wonderful track record with the users with HL2 thus far, this doesn't overly surprise me. I've rarely seen a bad Catalyst release and this one is no exception. |
| igopoopeez | Dec 14, 2004 | 4.12 | 3 out of 5 |
Big improvement gaming-wise. My only problem is the fact that my tevelision output is to a video switcher. If it's not switched to my radeon's output when the driver initializes ( windows start-up ), CCC has to re-detect the display making my comps display to reset to 1024x768, causing my icons to rearange on the desktop and my theatre mode overlay setting to reset..... Quite annoying |
| mjm01010101 | Dec 14, 2004 | 4.12 | 2 out of 5 |
1. Requires re-programming of all display settings, preferences. 2. Monthly driver releases wouldn't be so bad if to PROPERLY uninstall and reinstall didn't take 20 minutes. 3. ATI you partnered with Valve for the release of HL2 over a year ago! You should have gotten it right then! |
| bsr500 | Dec 14, 2004 | 4.12 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI rocks x2 To the person that said they release drivers monthly because they cant get it right.. Both nvidia and ati release drivers to fix problems in games (most of which are originally the game developers fault), ATI just releases drivers more frequenty to fix things, whereas nvidia will have the same bug for months and months and months and months on end before they decide to fix it... ATI's monthly release is a good thing. Oh, did I mention.. ATI ROCKS! |
| krakokainer | Dec 13, 2004 | 4.12 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI rocks! Monthly updates because they FIX things. If its too hard for u 2 click on "install" you are too much of a fool to be posting at a tech site. Go take a basic computer class. |
| improvelence | Dec 7, 2004 | 4.12 Beta 2 | 5 out of 5 |
No problems at all with this driver, anyone having problems probably didnt uninstall there old drivers first or they are just plain morons. Noticeable increases in HL2. |
| Kr0m | Dec 3, 2004 | 4.12 Beta 2 | 3 out of 5 |
Might be why it's called Beta. |
| funky303 | Dec 3, 2004 | 4.12 Beta 2 | 3 out of 5 |
i get this funny error (even after a new OS install) that each second boot the driver crashes and goes to software render mode after the screen is almost 2 minutes black. i can hear programs starting und ppl ICQing but the screen is black, then suddenly i get the messagebox thatVPU recover didn't work and the driver switches to software render mode. that does NOT happen with 4.11 after simply reinstalling it. also a bug (maybe just on my machine) since 4.10 and the ati control center: when i use the windows own screen config menu and try to press the Extended config button i get a BSOD Ati definitively needs to work on their driver. the only positive thing on 4.12 is the increased performance in HL2.. stay with 4.11 if you're not playing HL2 all the time |
| FailedCRC | Nov 27, 2004 | 4.12 Beta | 3 out of 5 |
Catalyst's are a pain to install and since 4.08 they cause random (all be it infrequent) blue screens (as in completely blue, no debug text) in opengl apps. |
| mjm01010101 | Nov 15, 2004 | 4.12 Beta | 3 out of 5 |
crowbar82 Because laptop chips are updated by individual manufacturers of laptops. rating: ok. ATI needs to stop releasing monthly. Get it right the first time, guys. |
| marcos_cu | Nov 15, 2004 | 4.12 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
This is for XP only!!! |
| crowbar82 | Nov 15, 2004 | 4.12 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
Why doesn't this updates/drivers works on the laptop computers? |
| johnk119 | Nov 14, 2004 | 4.12 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
EXCUSE ME but version 4.11 contains a fix which allows the driver to take much greater advantage of cards containing 256mb of memory or more i wouldn't get 4.12 yet but 4.11 definetly since 4.10 doesn't adaquately use the cards memory for more info and to educate yourself go here http://www.techpowerup.com PLEASE BECOME KNOWLEDGABLE BEFORE YOU BASH SOMETHING |
| Banquo | Nov 13, 2004 | 4.11 | 2 out of 5 |
Seems like the drivers keep getting more bloated with each release, and more things get broken. ATI had come a long way turning around their bad driver reputation, but now they are going backwards again. |
| Vuron | Nov 13, 2004 | 4.11 | 1 out of 5 |
Since 4.10 its only getting worse, 4.11 still runs like s... compared to 4.09, it also uses a lot more memory and it automaticly sends information about your system to ati. I dont recomend anyone to install it, unless you need it for gaming, stick with 4.09 |
| Maddog666 | Nov 12, 2004 | 4.11 | 5 out of 5 |
If you cannot play video with Media Player 10, then start Media Player and change the video acceleration to none, (Tools,Options,Performance)play the video and if it works then you can turn the video acceleration back on. Hope this helps. |
| generallee5686 | Nov 12, 2004 | 4.11 | 4 out of 5 |
Im not going to give this a bad rating because its probably a good driver. I have the same problem as opchiasm. I can get the videos that dont work to work by finding a video that works and playing it over and over again then switching to the video that doesnt work over and over until the overlay kicks in. BTW this problem started with 4.10 and i just tried 4.11 and still the same problem. |
| opchiasm | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 3 out of 5 |
Can anyone tell me why Windows Media Player 10 stopped playing the video in mpg and wmv files - just black in the video area - since I installed this update? Seems to play avi's OK. Thanks. |
| golbex | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Ok, this time it builds support for HD monitors and improves the rotation feature. I'm not too interested in that stuff, but the new Artifical Intelligence feature intrigued me. It optimizes your graphics quality/performance depending on certain parts of the game. Now that's pretty cool. If you're a Doom 3 user, you'll want this, because the bugs are fixed. Though, I wish they'd work a little bit on improving some of the older games, too... CCC still has many bugs, but fixes will come in the next version. |
| sorahl | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 1 out of 5 |
Followup - I was not satisfied with the arrogant Gerry/Jerry's statement that it was my computer THEIR driver was perfect on his machine and called again. I reached a much more amenable Sr Tech this time who FULLY admitted there was a KNOWN bug in the new driver that did not enable multiple monitors to work. They are supposedly working to put out a warning regarding this. So. DO NOT INSTALL THIS new driver if you are using XP SP2 (as they say you must be running before installing it). Hope this helps someone! DO NOT install these new drivers yet. They may work for you, they may not. If they don't you are not going to get any help from ATI. I was just on the phone wiht them twice this morning and they just spouted the usual line you hear from Microsoft. "It works fine on my pc". My problem : after installation of the new drivers my dual display option does not function. It was not work ONLY after I installed the new drivers but ATI techs say it can't be the driver because it works fine here. So it must be you. Wait....let them fix the bugs (ONCE They acknowledge that they have a bug and then install it... Pathetic.... |
| olavinto | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 4 out of 5 |
I must say that I don't have anything bad to say about these drivers. I have been using Omega drivers several times but I always end up using ATI's original drivers. There are some features that are needed and some bugs but is there really any software available that doesn't? And you can download CATALYST without the Control Conter from ATI's website. Check out some obvious sources for information before you post, please... |
| FailedCRC | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 4 out of 5 |
bunghole apparently can't read minimum requirements for service packs. |
| Brian49 | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 4 out of 5 |
These drivers work fine on my system. |
| burfadel | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 2 out of 5 |
I never recommend the ATI generic drivers, there are better options around. Control centre, among other things is bloatware and could be much much smaller and still be more funtional and better looking. I have been using the omegadrivers version, available from www.omegadrivers.net They have a superior modified version based on the 4.10 beta. Its far more stable and reliable than the official ATI release (and its doesn't have Control centre). All the functions of the control centre including the AI are part of their own options screen, and everything works. This includes WMV acceleration! Superior, faster, and it works! What more could you want than use the omegadrivers version! |
| bunghole | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 2 out of 5 |
Tried these on fresh installs of both XP and 2000. I got blue screens both times on reboot. Reinstalled previous driver version and everything was fine. Later I tried the new ones again, and got a blue screen again... I don't know what the problem is but they're unusable for me. And FailedCRC (3 posts up ^^^) apparently has never heard of slipsteaming. Don't be insulting. |
| fightback | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 2 out of 5 |
I hate how ATI will never update the drivers for their laptop chipsets. Other than this, I put these drivers on my desktop AIW 8500 and tried to play Wolf ET... locked up pretty quickly. Uninstalled drivers and now I'm back to 4.8. Seems like ATI is trying to get the rep for bad drivers again. |
| mjm01010101 | Oct 15, 2004 | 4.10 | 2 out of 5 |
1. Lose all my settings each driver update. Unacceptable. I have two monitors setup and very specific settings, I don't want to lose these just for a driver release. 2. Control center does nothing when launched from the desktop/right click. 3. WMV "acceleration" basically screws up the display of WMV... I saw blocky pixels where I wouldn't with it turned off. 4. I want less drivers yearly, more stable releases. I won't be buying an ATI card next time around-- to me this is a mess... |
| Domingo | Oct 14, 2004 | 4.10 | 4 out of 5 |
I like the ATI drivers. I'll admit I like Nvidia's control panel a little more, but in general they're great. I think it's funny that people love to whine about some obscure games not working flawlessly when in reality 9 time out of 10 it's THE GAME with the issue and not the driver. Either way, I have both Nvidia and ATI cards in my machines and have found I like both equally. For a while Nvidia was sucking it up in terms of performance, but you've gotta love the newer cards. Hopefully ATI can keep up. |
| Morningdove | Oct 14, 2004 | 4.10 | 4 out of 5 |
ATI provides explicit instructions for installing driver updates which includes uninstalling the existing control panel and driver. If one chooses to disregard those instructions, it is only asking for trouble. In some instances one may get lucky and suceed, or at least think that they have suceeded, but I don't believe instructions would be written that specifically if they were not meant to be followed. |
| fightback | Sep 11, 2004 | 4.9 | 2 out of 5 |
I've been modding the moibility moder for awhile, since ATI is too lame to actually support their laptop chipsets with drivers and since my laptop manufacturer is too lame to put out new drivers for anything. Anyway, the modder worked with all the versions of the ATI drivers up to 4.8, but with the 4.9 drivers my screen would only run 1024x768 instead of 1280x800. Maybe I could do some more work to get it to function right, but I didn't feel like messing with it. I guess they have their excuse that they don't support laptops, but this was so annoying I had to go back to the 4.8 drivers. |
| czekar | Sep 11, 2004 | 4.9 | 5 out of 5 |
I have never, ever uninstalled old drivers before updating new ones and I have never, ever had a problem. My settings have always carried over perfectly. For those having trouble updating: It's not ATI, it's you! |
| Caleb | Sep 11, 2004 | 4.9 | 5 out of 5 |
You should try the new Catalyst Control Center. I, on the other hand, don't have many settings, so a new driver install is very smooth :) |
| mjm01010101 | Sep 10, 2004 | 4.9 | 2 out of 5 |
Here's what entails installing these drivers: uninstall your old drivers, reboot, [possibly] cancel some dialog boxes about windows installing drivers, install the ATI drivers, reboot, turn off annoyware in taskbar, then RESET ALL YOUR SETTINGS BACK TO HOW YOU HAD THEM, AS THEY ARE LOST. Unacceptable, especially with the "12 driver releases a year" methodology. Nvidia drivers install fine on top of each other, and they maintain your settings. 2 stars for horrendous QA. |
| thehunger | Sep 10, 2004 | 4.9 | 3 out of 5 |
Anyone have any idea where I can find the ATI DVD Decoder? When I reinstalled drivers for my Radeon 9600 Pro AIW, I was prompted for the original CD that came with the card. Sorry but I've lost that - what now? Slightly off-topic but still related, I think the ATI Multimedia Center skins suck and hate that I cant rearrange the order of my TV channels in the ATI TV Viewer app (for AIW cards). |
| dzjepp | Sep 10, 2004 | 4.9 | 5 out of 5 |
Seems pretty good so far. This one includes the new control panel. But you can still download one with the older (legacy) CP at: http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html |
| otto888 | Aug 19, 2004 | 4.8 | 1 out of 5 |
every time I up-date I can't watch TV!!!!!!!!!!!! they need to stop makeing up-dates! becuse they don't work! |
| jab1981 | Aug 17, 2004 | 4.8 | 4 out of 5 |
Seems pretty stable for me. Easy installation as always with ATI in my experience. If only they'd release the 4.9 drivers that help give Doom 3 some better performance. They really dropped the ball when it comes to OpenGL. |
| Toad | Aug 17, 2004 | 4.8 | 5 out of 5 |
Works For me. 9800 Pro 256. Spent 2 hrs. gaming. No gliches at all.. |
| guevara | Aug 16, 2004 | 4.8 | 5 out of 5 |
worked fine for me. |
| pipdipchip | Aug 16, 2004 | 4.8 | 2 out of 5 |
This doesn't have to do directly with 4.8 but it seems every time I update to a new version I get a bunch of errors. They may have been fixed in this last release but never the less. |
| skonrad | Aug 16, 2004 | 4.8 | 3 out of 5 |
@mjm01010101: Use a tool called driver cleaner (http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/). I chose a rating of (3) because I have not ATI card and just wanted to help mjm01010101! :-) |
| Aug 6, 2004 | 4.7 | 3 out of 5 |
http://www.fileplanet.co...140000/143966.shtml?r=5 help me if this really works then great and its drivers 4.9 beta made for doom email me at snitbender@msn.com and tell me what u think or im me on aim at kidcrzy269 | |
| abear27 | Jul 8, 2004 | 4.7 | 5 out of 5 |
Installed without a problem for me - even installing over-top the previous drivers. |
| .:zoo:. | Jul 7, 2004 | 4.7 | 5 out of 5 |
M8 i'd install this ATI drivers version and i'd cant found any problem in the process... My procedure was: -First. I uninstall my old ATIs drivers. Reeboot when prompet. -Second. Install new version and reboot when prompet. That was all. I'm using ATI Cathalys 4.7 right now and all is ok. :) |
| mjm01010101 | Jul 7, 2004 | 4.7 | 1 out of 5 |
These are the first ATI drivers to fail to install on my system. I've been updating every month since January fine. These fail, then state that I must install the "VGA adapter" driver beforehand. When I uninstalled the previous drivers I can no longer install the VGA adapter, only "ATI" shows up in the windows XP manufacturer's list. Currently stuck in limbo as it won't accept the new drivers, old drivers, nor standard Windows XP VGA drivers. terrible. |
| GrievousX | Jun 10, 2004 | 4.6 | 5 out of 5 |
If you would like to review the release notes, they are here: http://www2.ati.com/driv...t_46_Release_Notes.html |
| eL MaesTro | May 13, 2004 | 4.5 | 5 out of 5 |
Should you be experiencing some kind of performance decrease with CAT 4.5 it isnt a problem with the drivers. Its just they newly added activated AA (from the start). So you will get less FPS but better image quality. Of course you can modify all settings to your likes. |
| havvk | Apr 8, 2004 | 4.4 | 4 out of 5 |
Still cannot use my ROTATING LCD and Cat 4.4 together. Once I go to rotate my screen then rotate it back, then go to restart, my user profile stays locked in XP and restart takes literally 2-3 min when it usually takes max 10 sec. Need to fix this ASAP! |
| CyberDoc999 | Apr 8, 2004 | 4.4 | 3 out of 5 |
This new version fixed a couple of bugs but there are a couple of games that have stopped working. (Prince of persia) ATI what did you do to break my Prince of persia |
| Mar 12, 2004 | 4.3 | 3 out of 5 |
Still many bugs to work out to make it perfect even tho computers will never be perfect but they need to add more features to the drivers and more bug fixes. Also ATI when will you increase frame rates in games cause thier still lagy and im on a p4 (3.06), radeon 9700 pro cable connection. | |
| golbex | Mar 11, 2004 | 4.3 | 5 out of 5 |
Well, there ARE still lock-ups from my ATI card. I'm using a low class 7000 PCI, not one of those awesome 9xxx cards a lot of you have. They have been occurring less with each driver release, though. Everyone's setup is different. I'm probably one of those rare people that will keep getting hangs no matter what. Regardless, I give this driver a 5. |
| Neoprimal | Mar 11, 2004 | 4.3 | 5 out of 5 |
Golbex - I don't think those crashes are ati caused buddy. LOL. Are you ocing or something? Well I have the bottom of the barrel 9000 Pro 64mb that I got when it was released. I'm waiting for the prices to stabilize before I decide to buy another because I refuse to spend over 100 on a video card. So far I've found a 9600 Pro for 99....but I wanna wait a liiiitle longer to see what PCI express has in store for us AMD users. The driver, for me didn't do a whole lot (that is noticeable). Unlike many, I don't run benchmarks and tests, I look for real world performance changes and fixes in the games I have. My card is DX8 anyway. A noticeable difference is that I had some odd video corruption in neverwinter nights and have had to go with the 3rd party omegacorner releases for a while. This fix seems to have handled that. Haven't noticed any other problems with any other games. And I own quite a few. |
| QBgreen | Mar 11, 2004 | 4.3 | 5 out of 5 |
Bought A 9600 Pro for a song. So glad that I went with ATI, as this card for the money rocks big time. Every driver upgrade/update that I've applied (including this one) has been smooth and worthwhile. Good job, ATI! |
| FDisk80 | Feb 12, 2004 | 4.2 | 5 out of 5 |
Very Stable. And the FPS seems to gone up a little. In some games alot. |
| blackpages | Jan 31, 2004 | 4.1 | 4 out of 5 |
doesn;t warn for cards that only need the driver and control panel driver. installs multimedia driver for such cards and produces windows errors. |
| CPUGuy | Jan 20, 2004 | 4.1 | 4 out of 5 |
It's not a huge version jump. The 4 in 4.1 has to do with the year, 2004, and the .1 means it is the first driver release of the year. You just have to understand thier naming strategy... I personally don't like it, but who am I. |
| golbex | Jan 20, 2004 | 4.1 | 4 out of 5 |
I expected more coming from such a huge version jump... OpenGL shading enhancements for developer supported programs? Ok, um, whatever works! :D I do get the occasional 1 or 2 times a week crash using Catalyst. A big improvement over the 2.x versions I started with (I would crash about once a day or two). I see they've been working hard on stability. Keep working, guys - you're almost there! |
| hnaess | Jan 20, 2004 | 4.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Work as expected. But is possible to use these drivers or MS Windows Media Center 2004 with ATI Radeon 9800 in anyway (not by default). |
| xtool | Jan 20, 2004 | 4.1 | 5 out of 5 |
Got ATi9800XT + Athlon64, hope it helps. ATi rocks! |
| bsr500 | Jan 19, 2004 | 4.1 | 5 out of 5 |
ATI rocks!!! This release is suppose to improve stability, I recomend everyone upgrade to this version. |
| BillBraskey | Dec 18, 2003 | 3.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Regardless, if you are an unintelligent person and want to install this...get the full package from the ATI website, do not get the standalone driver. And follow the INSTRUCTIONS. Again I will state, this driver installs fine...On 3 different machines by the way. All you have to do is install it PROPERLY. |
| SumoHamster | Dec 18, 2003 | 3.10 | 5 out of 5 |
I'm also going to rate this a 5. I haven't found any flaws yet despite its 'beta' label. The new themes have a type of WindowBlinds feel to them, but they are nice and clean to look at. |
| Logistix | Dec 18, 2003 | 3.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Ive always been a fan of this program, at least compared to others of its kind, such as windowblinds other xp visual programs. This one, for me, works best with games, and doesnt seem to use too many system resources. The latest changes they have decided to make have been in my favor. I like the icons, and the new themes. Good job, gets a 5 for me. |
| rudolph | Dec 18, 2003 | 3.10 | 5 out of 5 |
dammit.. my last review was supposed to go under mmc8. oh well, the drivers deserve a 5 too.. no problems with them |
| KBUZZARD | Dec 18, 2003 | 3.10 | 5 out of 5 |
I generally agree with the others. BUT after years of ATI Rage this,TV wonder that and DVD software that wouldn't work I will have to say THIS Cat 3.10 and MMC 8.8 went quite well. I just built PC with AIW 9600 pro and MMC 8.6 software and had a 1 click REMOVE in add/remove that worked and new install before re-start went well, EXCEPT, Install DVD after DAO-MDAC and Before MMC 8.8 or DVD will not be there. MUCH IMPROVEMENT bv ATI. |
| CraigFoote | Dec 18, 2003 | 3.10 | 5 out of 5 |
Some other 'idiots' can't read I guess. This isn't beta. If he ran setup and it didn't work, it has at least one bug. Doesn't make it bad or in need of mindless defending. |
| roj | Nov 5, 2003 | 3.9 | 5 out of 5 |
Worked flawlessly for me. All I had to do on two different machines was to uninstall the drivers, control panel and software (without rebooting), then reboot, cancel the new hardware wizard and install the new drivers and reboot again. Totally flawless. Must be something in your system or perhaps did wrong. |
| ahb | Nov 5, 2003 | 3.9 | 5 out of 5 |
Don't bother yet, as the installation does not work. Says missing ".inf" file. The file is there, but apparently the setup app is looking in the wrong place. |
| Treize | Oct 9, 2003 | 3.8 | 5 out of 5 |
Good, fast, with some features, easy to use, and stable. All you want in a driver packet.:) |
| golbex | Oct 9, 2003 | 3.8 | 3 out of 5 |
When you download this one, you should know it has 2KXP in the filename. I think it's pretty safe to say you can use the XP one in 2000 ;) Oh, and I just had *3* graphics freezes and my XP system just completely froze. No choice but to power off... The crash recover didn't intercept ANY of those (and it's enabled), so I'm moving my rating down a bit. I *hope* VPU Recover is still at an early stage, because more work needs to be done on that. >_> |
| jpk311 | Oct 9, 2003 | 3.8 | 5 out of 5 |
where's the win2k version? I see an update for win98/ME/XP, but nothing for 2k! |
| Dwarden | Sep 10, 2003 | 3.7 | 5 out of 5 |
Minimum of problems with new drivers on over 50 machines with different Radeon cards ... i'm probably lucky ... |
| mosheved | Sep 5, 2003 | 3.7 | 1 out of 5 |
I updated my Radeon 7500 from the 3.6 to the 3.7 Catalyst driver. Now, none of my games recognize a video card in my computer and the 2D performance became terrible. I am switching back to 3.6. |
| toekneec67 | Sep 5, 2003 | 3.7 | 2 out of 5 |
I have the AIW 9700 Pro. I hate when ATI has new drivers. Why you might ask. If you have the AIW card, there is about 12 things to uninstall and install. When the driver gets updated, almost all there other stuff to support the AIW does too. You have to do everything in a certain order or sometimes it doesn't work. Why can't they just have 1 driver for the video, 1 driver for the AIW stuff. Not 12 different things to install. Everytime a new driver comes out, it takes me about 30 to 40 minutes to do all the updates. You could say, why put the updates on then, because they have enough software issues, I'm just hoping they fix them, so I install. |
| idsanity | Sep 4, 2003 | 3.7 | 5 out of 5 |
Finally! They fixed the bug with the original All-in-Wonder Radeon (aka 7200) where the MMC TV app caused XP to freeze up. I've been having the problem since November and tech support insisted it was something wrong with my setup. |
| gRimer | Sep 4, 2003 | 3.7 | 4 out of 5 |
Nice drivers, not if you have ATI 8500 card :), but i found a fix all you do after you install them and reboot is update to 9100 (so that your system think you have 9100, maybe same with 9000 but 9100 looked cooler ehe). Then it's all fast!! fast! 3DMark2001 SE i got 200 points more |
| roj | Sep 4, 2003 | 3.7 | 5 out of 5 |
"And ATI cards have countless bugs in 2D/3D business, creative, and desktop apps. Do you know what the latest Catalyst drivers offer to those users ?". I'm a business user. I test and recommend the hardware we use within my organization. We use ATI cards on 9000+ desktops. I have three words for you ssb: "Stop Talking Crazy". |
| Dwarden | Jul 16, 2003 | 3.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Funny ssb and You wanna tell me that nVidia offers ALL to these users ? Where u live? for me is nVidia in driver quality on 3rd place ... |
| ssb | Jul 16, 2003 | 3.6 | 1 out of 5 |
eL MaesTro i knew excactly what i was talking about. Take a look on "what's new", more gaming fixes and small cheats to gain a few fps. There are people who use their video cards and computer for more than just gaming. And ATI cards have countless bugs in 2D/3D business, creative, and desktop apps. Do you know what the latest Catalyst drivers offer to those users ? Nothing. Do you understand now what i mean ? |
| eL MaesTro | Jul 16, 2003 | 3.6 | 5 out of 5 |
@ssp yeah, super comment, youre really know what ur talkin about... |
| jim_phelps | Jul 16, 2003 | 3.6 | 1 out of 5 |
Another version, which stops sending a signal to DVI-out after waking up from suspend-to-RAM mode. The last version whithout this bug is 3.2 |
| Alex T. | Jul 16, 2003 | 3.6 | 5 out of 5 |
Best drivers ever! I love my 9800PRO! |
| franzj | Feb 3, 2002 | 6.13.10.6025 Beta | 5 out of 5 |
They still have a while to go on the AIW Radeon, which is covered under these new drivers. |
