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ATI Control Panel
Vesion: 6.13.10.3041
Filesize: 5.63MB

Windows XP Driver
Vesion: 6.13.10.6200C
Filesize: 5.63MB

Windows ME/98 Driver
Vesion: 4.13.01.9069
Filesize: 6.36MB

WDM Capture Driver
Version: 6.13.10.6168 v1
File size: 3.40 MB

Performance Gains




CodeCreatures score is improved by 20% at 4X AA for 9700 series products

NASCAR 2002 framerate is up as much as 18% across the entire RADEON products line

NHL 2002 performance is up as much as 35% across the entire product line (largest gains on RADEON 7500/8500)

Performance on legacy (dx6 and dx7) apps is improved by as much as 15% for RADEON 9700 Series products


Features Added


DX Override Refresh Rate - Users can easily override refresh rate limitation imposed by both Windows 2000 and Windows XP, which limits the default refresh rate to 60 HZ when applications are run at a different resolution than the resolution of your desktop. Currently users are only able to override the refresh rate for DirectX applications, a future driver release will allow users to override the refresh rate for OPEN GL applications as well.

CATALYST 02.4 gives provides users with a new level of stability using SMARTGART 2. SMARTGART 2 gives users access to both the basic and advanced functionality through two control panel pages:

The Catalyst 02.4 driver also offers customer-setting options for formats supported by YPrPb monitors/TVs. Televisions are typically over scanned (i.e., the actual image goes marginally outside of the normal viewing area of the display). Selecting an Optimized Format will compensate for this over scanning, for the chosen format, and allow the entire desktop to fit the viewing area. Or read the PDF file HERE

Tell us what you think in our forum.

Thanks goes to Mr.B for this one

DeathscytheFish

I don't know if anybody else is getting this, but on the XP Start Menu when you go to the programs and it shows all of them, some of the items are shadowed out from overlapping the rest of the start menu. If anybody else has this problem, let me know so I know it's not just me

jcastill

Control Panel:
http://www.prodigyweb.net.mx/castill...0-3041-efg.exe

Windows 2k/Xp:
http://www.prodigyweb.net.mx/castill...0-6200-efg.exe

Windows 9x/Me:
http://www.prodigyweb.net.mx/castill...1-9069-efg.exe

Please report your speed.

feedback

Everything in the ATI smartgart util is greyed out- I have no PCI read/write or AGP read/write- my performance is sucking, and I can't get AGP working in any of the drivers now. Help!

gadabout

Reply to DeathscytheFish: I am not getting that effect at all. All my windows and start menu look fine. Reply to feedback: I installed these drivers over the 6193 and it all worked out okay. I have access to my smartgart and all. You may want to uninstall your drivers and start again. You may want to follow the guide hereUninstalling ATI Drivers I find it to be very excellent.

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feedback

I completely uninstalled them and it still didn't work.

shuki

I also did a clean driver install (like I always do!) and have no problems with start menu->programs and I have full access to smartgart utils..... Having great performance with these drivers and am really, really happy

6193 drivers - 9774 3dmark

Tried DX9 along with DX9 driver - 9678 and had slow down spots and big FPS dips in RTCW and MOHAA so immediately hit sys restore.

6200C drivers - 9802 and my MOHAA spearhead has never looked or performed better. Good job ATI!

Zardon

I installed this set after the DX9 set I was testing and they perform very well. Nice opengl performance as well. smooth.

patje

I haven't found much info on these drivers yet, (just released of course) but will these drivers FINALLY support mobility chipsets??

I'am already praying for a yes

I would test it out myself, but I don't have my laptop with me right now.

So if any of you peeps knows something about this, please share it with us.

Regards

Patje

Edoardo

I installed the XP Driver 6.13.10.6200
just before they that had to be removed from driversheaven
on my mobility M6 Dell - after having uninstalled the plutonium 6166 - and they are OK (except for a few glitches).

Edo

DarkFoss

I'm very impressed with these drivers UT2K3 seems faster and smoother, EverQuest is also just a tad faster.

Only minor issue I have is with the Smartgart utility fast writes will not stay enabled after rebooting when prompted. It's enabled in the bios . All in all a great effort by Ati these drivers are keepers

patje

i'll be a little more specific, i have radeon mobility 7500 on win2k, will that work??

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Edoardo

why don't you try?
if they don't work, boot in safe mode, remove them and reinstall your old ones.

as long as you follow the *right* procedure for uninstalling (see the ati drivers forum here) you'll be fine.

Edo

Mr.Floppy

are these drivers really newer then the last-released?
just curious cuz the last had v6228, these are listed as v6200C .

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feedback

The non-catalyst drivers work, but the new ones dont. All but Omega's drivers give me an error about needing to install a standard VGA driver first, or inf driver not found.

dissonance

the inf file has no info about the Mobility card's, to bad because i really would like to run the lastest driver on my laptop

brainbizz

thats the point!

what has to be changed to get these (and other drivers in the future) drivers running on a mobility (M7 or M9)?

come on, pros... i think someone out there knows the way to patch those drivers... please...

Mr.Floppy

did you try to uninstall the drivers properly and then (i think it was) in safe-mode to install the new ones manually , reboot and THEN start the setup.exe?
works fine for me

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feedback

Yes. This is all on a completely fresh install of XP

Edoardo

Same for me,
I tried these on my Mobility M6 Dell system ... and the setup refused to proceed

Zardon

well I dont want to spoil a surprise so ill whisper it


**Cyborg is working on a new set **

brainbizz

thats exactly what i need. hope it will be released soon

feedback

I have another problem too involving vsync. Now (after installing the 6200 drivers a while ago with a modded inf file), every driver set installed (even on a clean copy of windows, though not reformatted!) has this problem where when in an openGL game, when the fps drops below the vsync level, it gets REALLY SLUGGISH, and I know this is not normaly because it used to work perfectly. The game seems to slow down time wise as the fps rate drops, where as it used to be almost unnoticable.

This is only openGL games...

skinlab

well i just installed them, windows seems a bit slower to start up but then its fine, maybe caus its a first restart?

also, it says that my AGP is 1x in the control panel, but in wcpuid it says the command is 4x, which one is right?

thanks.

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WCPUID - Smartgart is sometimes buggy...

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jackasster

hope cyborgs version comes out soon !!!!!!!!!!!

AvA

The same as for a lot of other forum posters:

I'd like to know how to make "normal" driver releases to work on a Mobility (M7 in my case) system.
I have a feeling it's not something too difficult to acheive.

As a laptop user I have to wait either for Omega releases or Dell 's ones.
And to be honest both of them aren't really frequent.
(I'm not complaining about Omega's work: I'm still using his drivers, and I'm pretty happy about them; Dell's ones instead tend to suck!)

Thanks in advance...

murdoch

I am unable to set the smartgart to work. When I hit retest it says on however after resetting it goes back to the off position. This is also the same for the AGP 1x-4x, defaults back to one. I have the ATI radeon 8500 and a jetway 266B motherboard. I thought the 8500 could do 4x

Mr.Floppy

i could and does for me. did you enable agp 4x in your mobo's BIOS? did you install the latest agp-drivers for your chipset?

(just the standard-questions here from me, sry :|

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