ATI Catalyst 7.5

[perkam]

i just uninstalled and the brightness and color came back. Then i tried again from scratch and once again my LCD goes dim and washed out. Anyone have any help?

UPDATE: Just went back to 7.4 and all is well again. BOO 7.5!!!

Correction: BOO VISTA !!!



Perkam

[ahmad]

Wowzers. x1900XTX, with 7.3 max settings i got 125fps in CSS stress test.

Now, same thing, maxxed settings no AI, HQ AF, 159FPS. Thats insanity.

[ahmad]

And yes it seems they have improved the quality of their filtering (or so it appears).






Check the writing on the gun, the back of the gun and the tips. And you can see, 30FPS more in the exact same situation. EDIT: nm you cant see I cropped it out.

[1Day]

@ perkam "And the grasshopper's rejoiced and were silent"

The new drivers seem to have given me a slight improvement in 3Dmark scores across the board. Still not convinced I like the CCC part of the package however.

[Syn.]

i just uninstalled and the brightness and color came back. Then i tried again from scratch and once again my LCD goes dim and washed out. Anyone have any help?

UPDATE: Just went back to 7.4 and all is well again. BOO 7.5!!!

Correction: BOO VISTA !!!



Perkam

Vista will dim your screen after boot because you should see the UAC come up but it dosnt, guessing vista bug. Reboot the PC and everything will be fine, to me it only happend twice also first time it went away by it self after 30 sec.


CORRECTION: Its a different problem to before tried editing contrast/birghtness but dosnt work.

[NightCrawler™]

It screwed up my OpgenGL games at 1680x1050.... I get a grey screen on the left half and the game on the right...
Thanks Ati... you bunch of.... [censored]

[adamsleath]

...so does it fix aa probs genrally??? like in hl2 and bf2142? (with x2900xt)

[NapalmV5]

well, i guess this is it for me and ati

@ 7.5, same image scaling/improper rez problems as before, ive had it!

7.1 still the last one that 1920x1080 rez worx properly for me

deeply regret not getting the 8800GTX when released

[NightCrawler™]

So the 7.1 do support propper scaling... as in not stretching the image to panel size..??

[NapalmV5]

7.1 supports proper scaling.. as in scaling image to full panel size

7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5: @ centered timings/ @ full panel size just doesnt work

depending on the drivers, if its not the centered timings issue, its 4:3 rez streched to 16:9 but of course thats usually fixed with the help of ccc by adding 1080p support

6.6beta were the last drivers that 1920x1080 ever worked properly without ccc

either someone very smart/bright @ ati is messing up the drivers or its done intentionally for whatever reason/s this has been going on ever since the wonderful release of 6.6final

its not the displays/video cards, its the unacceptable drivers

[NightCrawler™]

So let me get this straight... a 1280x1024 game always gets stretched to 1680x1050 on my Samsung 225BW...
I can solve this by using the 7.1 cats or add the 1080p support...?

I don't use CCC but ATT....

[NapalmV5]

the way that sounds to me is that since you're doing a 4:3 game it will always get stretched to 16:9 depending on your monitor settings..


i just wanna clarify the 2 issues on 1080p rez,

stuck @ centered timings - full panel size no worky
or
4:3 and 16:9 rez stretched - usually fixed via ccc by adding 1080p support *sigh* when the video card/display surely supports 1080p

[NightCrawler™]

That's exactly what's happening..... and I know my monitor supports centered timings yet the image/game always gets stretched to full panel size instead of adding the black bars left and right...

[NapalmV5]

ive just tried a game @ 4:3

display aspect settings,
@ native - 4:3 proper image (black bars left/right)
@ full - 4:3 stretched image

@ 7.1 cats


which drivers u using?

[NightCrawler™]

I'm using 7.3 now... 7.4 gives me BSOD's and 7.5 screws up all my OGL games...
Gonna give the 7.1 a go later on...

[madcho]

x1900xt512 always at stock speed love the 7.x drivers.

7.1 fine
7.2 fine
7.3 nice
7.4 great
7.5 trying now ^^

[NightCrawler™]

The 7.1 still stretches the screen..... sigh.....

[TimPrice]

for problems with colors in 7.5:

advanced catalyst control center/color/ 2 new modes of color -> pc standard (new whitty colors) & microsoft MCE (normal)

[Proesterchen]

i just uninstalled and the brightness and color came back. Then i tried again from scratch and once again my LCD goes dim and washed out. Anyone have any help?

I've had dimming issues with v7.4 under Vista x64 (X1800XT, CRT), the dimming occuring often after recovering from standby or hibernation. Could always fix it by changing resolutions. Odd thing, to say the least.

[Proesterchen]

deeply regret not getting the 8800GTX when released

The 8800 GTX is really not the card to wish for, if you're worried about bad Vista drivers.

The state of Vista drivers is simply saddening.

[ahmad]

for problems with colors in 7.5:

advanced catalyst control center/color/ 2 new modes of color -> pc standard (new whitty colors) & microsoft MCE (normal)

I don't see this option.

[Syn.]

for problems with colors in 7.5:

advanced catalyst control center/color/ 2 new modes of color -> pc standard (new whitty colors) & microsoft MCE (normal)

cheers works fine now

[DilTech]

And yes it seems they have improved the quality of their filtering (or so it appears).






Check the writing on the gun, the back of the gun and the tips. And you can see, 30FPS more in the exact same situation. EDIT: nm you cant see I cropped it out.

Take a look at the texture on the wall in the back, it's a bit more washed out on the 7.5's in comparison.

I do agree the gun looks better though, but kind of odd that one part would look better and another looks worse.

[madcho]

i was on 7.4, today i used the 7.5 for css 2-3 hours.

=> incredible more fast

thx AMD

[LowRun]

Take a look at the texture on the wall in the back, it's a bit more washed out on the 7.5's in comparison.

I do agree the gun looks better though, but kind of odd that one part would look better and another looks worse.

It's your eyes dude.