ATI Catalyst 7.4 Display Driver Released

[mascaras]

ATI Catalyst 7.4 Display Driver Released

AMD/ATI has released new official drivers for ATI based video cards. This release of Catalyst has improved OpenGL performance under the Microsoft Vista operating system for all Radeon X1000 series of products, in both single card and hardware CrossFire configurations. Typical improvements of 15% or more can be seen in games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey, with enthusiast class of products seeing improvements of 30% or more. This release of Catalyst also adds the Avivo Video Converter for Windows Vista (32-bit). Head over the AMD/ATI download section and select the proper Catalyst driver for your operating system and video card.

Source: AMD/ATI

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=29669

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[NickS]

Sweet

Thanks for the notification. Gonna hafta DL these babies.

[deathman20]

Alrighty, hope these work in Vista compared to the 7.3 drivers.

[Marduk_25]

A few links for faster download

- Catalyst 7.4 (Windows XP 32bit)
- Catalyst 7.4 (Windows Vista 32bit)
- Catalyst 7.4 (Windows Vista 64bit)

[rommel]

Alrighty, hope these work in Vista compared to the 7.3 drivers.

Ditto:

I had BSODs with 7.3 until I used the Beta 7.3 with a hotfix for Vista32.

[Sparky]

Heh I just upgraded to the 7.3's like a week ago lol. Any improvement over the 7.3's in XP? Does 7.4 work for F@H?

[Super strokey]

im not installing these till i know they work on vista... not after all the trouble they game me last time

[ZoLKoRn]

Thank you, mascaras

[Hooker]

Great, off to creating a restore point (also victim to the 7.2/7.3 BSODs - Vista64 here though) and installing them ^^. I love new driver release days.

[Syn.]

BSOD was due to an .exe file that is part of catalyst suite that detects 2nd displays, if you simply stopped this at startup your good to go.

Also with these cats.

ATI's Folding@Home
Folding@Home is a distributed computing project designed by the Stanford University. The application performs intensive simulations of protein folding. This simulation will help researchers uncover how certain diseases develop. Folding@Home uses distributed computing to simulate protein folding, the workload is broken up into small work units and distributed across hundreds of thousands of computers over the internet. You can help find the cure to many different diseases! To join Folding@Home, follow these steps:

Download ATI's Catalyst™ software suite
Download the Folding@Home GPU client application
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Note: If you have an ATI Radeon™ X1600 or higher, download the GPU client (either console or GUI version) not to be confused with the CPU "Graphical client". If you do not have an ATI Radeon™ X1600 or higher, then download the CPU client.


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Enter the ATI team number 51394 and start folding!
For more information on Folding@Home visit: http://ati.amd.com/technology/stream...g/folding.html

[Nano2k]

Work fine here, tested in COD2 and WOW with Vista 32bits.

With every new version, playing in Vista feels more and more the same as XP.

[Hooker]

No problems here either, works flawlessly so far...

[nn_step]

ATi/AMD seems to be working really hard on their drivers

[Sparky]

I'll go ahead and upgrade to the 7.4's, maybe that strange BSOD issue that some have mentioned was part of my stability problem (passed orthos 16 hours yet at some point had a reboot for some random reason). Downloading now.

ATi/AMD seems to be working really hard on their drivers

Yup, better than nvidia apparently

[Gambit_2K]

Have they gotten clonemode to work correctly under Vista? When I clone my desktop with my TV my maximum resolution for my screen is 1024*768 (not the CRT-TV, but my TFT). All versions of Cat has been this way. In XP it works just fine.

[GLENBOY]

anybody run a comparison against earlier drivers on xp to see if these improvements crossover for windows xp rather than vista

[-Acid-]

I had the 7.2 to 7.3 bsod problem
ended up having to use a beta driver
downloading now

fingers crossed

[TReese]

these drivers seem to be working great for me --> had issues with 7.3

[Eastcoasthandle]

7.3 is the best freaking drivers eva! Not sure why I should update at this point.

[safan80]

ATi/AMD seems to be working really hard on their drivers

Yeah
at the expense of releasing new hardware and no they aren't going to release the entire R6xxx family together, so the wait has been a big waste as well

[eXceeded]

hmm no mention of DX10 parts in the inf... means it won't be this month for them, and also we'll have a similar launch of driver confusion with this series as with the X1900 launch.....

[nn_step]

Yeah
at the expense of releasing new hardware and no they aren't going to release the entire R6xxx family together, so the wait has been a big waste as well

Patience is a virtue, I don't know about you but the X1900XT was worth the wait.

[Scimitar]

It looks like they work for folding. Some good info posted here.

http://forum.folding-community.org/

[Sparky]

Patience is a virtue, I don't know about you but the X1900XT was worth the wait.

Had my X1900XT not screwed up I'd still be using it. Got it a year ago. But really this X1950XT that they gave me in replacement is just a little faster, little cooler running extension of that card IMO.

It looks like they work for folding. Some good info posted here.

http://forum.folding-community.org/

Good to know!

[STEvil]

Will have to pick them up this weekend and see if CCC actually works now..