Official Catalyst 7.3 drivers out for XP and Vista rate them here

shanok · Mar 29, 2007, 12:44 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CATALYST maker

I know its a mystery. If it wasnt for a clean install that you did I would blame the system, but this has me perplexed. If you roll back to Cat 7.2 no problems right?

That's correct.

It's tricky to roll back though since in Vista you can't really uninstall the drivers in safemode.

I never had to test that scenario when I testing Vista so now I'm wondering which genius made that decision.

Funnily enough I also spoke too soon on my wife's system. The LCD panel stopped working after about 12 hours

So now I've gotta get a new PSU to see if that fixes it.

junka · Mar 29, 2007, 01:07 AM

Up to now, fingers crossed, no issues in Vista except for when I try to create a profile CCC crashes, but lets face it that CCC thing is never going to work 100%.

Aurahead · Mar 29, 2007, 01:41 AM

Working very good here. No problem at all. Everything sems to be smooth and nice.
Iam running on Vista32.

Dark79 · Mar 29, 2007, 02:13 AM

Looks like I gotta go back to 7.1 as 7.3 is giving me the same BSOD that 7.2 did when enabling Crossfire (0x0000010E Video Memory Manager has encountered an unexpected error).

Actually I knew 7.3 was going to be a problem during the install. When it tries to install the video card drivers, the app hangs and I lose all USB devices (including my mouse). I have to install the drivers manually and then install CCC afterwards. Didn't have to do this with 7.2

This was tried on clean install of Vista 32-bit.

System is as follows:

DFI Infinity 975x
Intel Core 2 Duo E6300
ATI X1800XT Crossfire Edition
MSI X1800XT
2GB Patriot RAM
1 x Samsung SATA3.0 160GB
1 x Samsung SATA3.0 500GB
Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit

7.1 works fine. Strangely enough I was able to get 7.2 working fine under Windows XP. Haven't had a chance to see if 7.3 works in it though.

Dyre Straits · Mar 29, 2007, 02:28 AM

I actually wish we could separate the driver threads between Windows Versions. Those of us not using Vista (yet) could actually be encouraged to stay away from it longer due to all the problems with it here.

Anyway, I DO have a problem that seems to reoccur with each new updated drivers: Everytime I reboot the system I get the old default Windows Desktop settings. I don't use those and prefer to set my own.

Is there anyway to make my settings stick sooner than after I've rebooted for a week or so?

cuke2u · Mar 29, 2007, 04:15 AM

Hi, I am also getting the exact same BSOD with these drivers and vista, which I didn't get with the 7.2's. I have also tried a fresh install to no avail, these drivers have a serious issue that ATI really need to look at...

My System:
Asus P5B Premium Vista Edition
Intel Core 2 Duo E6600
Tuniq Tower
Vista Ultimate
Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Tenth Anniversary
2x Samsung 320gbs SATA II
Pioneer DVR-111D DVDRW
ATI X1900XT-X
Dell 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD
Lian Li A10A case
Antec Neo HE 550 watt PSU

f4stf0rw4rd · Mar 29, 2007, 04:20 AM

Ok my first post here. First time I installed the 7.3's CCC wouldn't start. Then I uninstalled everything using the Ati uninstall utility. Ran CrapCleaner, ran DriverCleaner PE, rebooted in Vista in 640*480 resolution (F8 during start-up), installed the driver rebooted and CCC starts *Yippie*.

Although everything seems fine, the driver won't switch between 2D and 3D speeds. All 3D apllications run using 2D speeds.

Anyone got a solution for this?

Specs are in the sig.

cuke2u · Mar 29, 2007, 05:21 AM

Hi, I have raised a ticket with ATI giving them all information to my system...
ChrisC

**temeteus82** · Mar 29, 2007, 05:26 AM

Giving 6 since the "upgrade" didn't work.

*CATALYST maker* · Mar 29, 2007, 10:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by slyder314

Hi!!I don't know if this can help but i have also BSOD with Vista Ultimate,P5W DH Deluxe(chipset 975)and fresh install of Catalyst 7.3.It seem to be a "recurent" problem with Vista/Cat 7.3 ans Intel 975.Some guy's on different forum report that kind of issue with similar configuration.Thank's for your fgood work Terry!!

(sorry for my poor english...)

It's my first post and i see im a member here since.......... April 2003,...lol

Welcome slyder... Hey maybe you can do me a favor... start up a new thread just on this topic so I can see who else is having that problem and what is common with their configuration. Full system specs listed if possible please.

keeler · Mar 29, 2007, 11:00 AM

OK Terry, started a new thread to collect just the Vista related issues...

Rick

junka · Mar 29, 2007, 12:40 PM

I cant believe this a set of Vista32 drivers that are actually stable Ive been stressing these 7.3 since yesterday and they seem to be working lovely, great quality, nice speed, all games running top notch.
There was something a little iffy with those 7.2 though, when I tried to uninstall them they crashed Vista.
I might for once give a set of Cat drivers a positive vote.

theonlybabyface · Mar 29, 2007, 01:22 PM

Cat 7.3's BSOD for me as well after install.

Eeastcoasthandle · Mar 29, 2007, 02:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dyre Straits

I actually wish we could separate the driver threads between Windows Versions. Those of us not using Vista (yet) could actually be encouraged to stay away from it longer due to all the problems with it here.

Anyway, I DO have a problem that seems to reoccur with each new updated drivers: Everytime I reboot the system I get the old default Windows Desktop settings. I don't use those and prefer to set my own.

Is there anyway to make my settings stick sooner than after I've rebooted for a week or so?

Agreed, can we have a:
Official Cat 7.X XP
Official Cat 7.X Vista

Poll? Some of us have no interest in Vista while others know that Vista (by design) is not 3rd party driver friendly. And, would like to know how well the Cat does using xp? Most people who respond don't indicate if they have XP or Vista and have no way to gauge the votes when they say it's good or bad based on OS (because there is no OS indicated). I mean early Vista adapters shouldn't influence XP users of what could be a good Cat release. Vista owners have problems with most 3rd party drivers to begin with:
ATI
Nvidia
Sound Blaster
Logitech
etc
and several other drivers out there. Therefore, having problems with Cat is not an isolated incident. I am looking for isolated incidents with a stable OS, XP.

<to any Mod or Admin>

theonlybabyface · Mar 29, 2007, 03:57 PM

I agree in a sense but to be honest, this is the first BSOD I've had with Vista. It is a far superior OS than XP. XP would BSOD much easier IMHO.

DJShamrock · Mar 29, 2007, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theonlybabyface

I agree in a sense but to be honest, this is the first BSOD I've had with Vista. It is a far superior OS than XP. XP would BSOD much easier IMHO.

Yup my first BSOD with Vista too. I was hoping the BSOD would at least have some cool new graphics at least. Like maybe a gif of my PC getting raped by Bill Gates or something. Meh.

jpinard · Mar 29, 2007, 09:33 PM

So are there any XP users who have the previous driver's CCC errors cleared up? I'm seeing nothing from XP users...

H03 · Mar 30, 2007, 04:00 AM

Mr ATI Man,

Hi, this is my first post because I have been searching invane trying to find a way to get 7.3 working with vista. I am having the same blue screen problem as some other people here.

After updating to 7.3 display drivers system will get stuck in a continous reboot, bluescreen, reboot cycle and the only way to stop it is to go safemode and use system restore to roll backup.

AMD x2 64 4600+
74Gig Raptor
2Gig Giel 667 DDR2
DFI Infinity NF Ultra II M2
ATI X1900

I for the life of me cant work out what is except for the possibility of DEP???

Please HELP!!!

Zeatrix · Mar 30, 2007, 08:52 AM

But seriously, I just bought an Acer 8215WLMi and upgraded to Vista. Why the heck shouldn't I be able to have the latest driver?!? Acer NEVER updates their drivers. The latest on their site is the freaking RTM betas... Sigh

Why in the world wouldn't they want to allow the Catalyst drivers? It would save them a lot of time since the Catalyst fixes problems that people would call them to get fixed.

Vengeful#1 · Mar 30, 2007, 09:27 AM

Installed the XP pro 7.3ccc driver set without any problems! gained FPS in CSS SOURCE and Live for Speed with no crashes or bluescreens to report as yet, good set of drivers i gave em a 10.

SeaWulf · Mar 30, 2007, 10:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpinard

So are there any XP users who have the previous driver's CCC errors cleared up? I'm seeing nothing from XP users...

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Will install Saturday and will post my experience. As always will use the drivercleaner method of installing.

Am using 7.1 since I was unable to use Cross fire with 7.2s. CCC/7.2 itself seem fine but I was unable to determine whether crossfire was a driver or CCC issue. Did report the issue to ATI
...............It is unfortunate that most posters are Vista users so we XP users have no idea what to expect or whether our experience is unusual etc.

As always this is a great site!

junka · Mar 30, 2007, 12:04 PM

Well, thought it to good to be true, these drivers have to be the zhittyest out of the 3 sets of 7.xx for Vista
Every game Ive tried up to now jerks and splutters and stalls for that long I'm thinking its crashed, not only that but the graphic quality is no where nears good as 7.2, so Ive rolled back to 7.2 and alls okay. What is wrong with ATI these days, the drivers are abysmal.

against · Mar 30, 2007, 12:15 PM

There is a seperate thread created for Vista problems with the 7.3 set of drivers.

Vista users please use that thread to whine and moan in

----

Still using 7.2 and ATT with no hotkey poller and haven't been happier...

Eeastcoasthandle · Mar 30, 2007, 03:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by against

There is a seperate thread created for Vista problems with the 7.3 set of drivers.

Vista users please use that thread to whine and moan in

----

Still using 7.2 and ATT with no hotkey poller and haven't been happier...

Yes, please do

Since some believe Vista to be superior to XP, right? If that was remotely true you wouldn't be crying that ATI, Nvidia, Sound blaster, etc drivers don't work. You would simply depend on what Vista give you and be done with it

Eeastcoasthandle · Mar 30, 2007, 06:42 PM

XP
x1900xtx
Cat 7.3
24" monitor

I am pretty happy with this cat. I updated from Cat 6.10 to Cat 7.3. It is a bit faster in BF2. Just Cause demo, CS:S and DOD:S seem to run fine. My only concern is the black screen/reboot I got when control/alt/dlt out of BF2.

. That never happened in cat 6.10. This only happened once as I only tried it once. I will try again later just to see what happens. However, after a few rounds of BF2 online I am pretty impressed with these drivers so far.

Edit: I control/alt/delete out of BF2 several more times without out any problems now. I did it about 5-7 times without issue. So far, these are the best drivers since 6.3 muhahaha!!!
Cats that I had no issue with
6.3
6.10
7.3
All others either would not allow me to properly OC or black screen whenever I played BF2 or some other game.

Robert McClelland · Mar 31, 2007, 12:10 AM

yes it's true I think it's best drivers ever for me. I scored awesome 6536 in 3dmakr03 much better then 6400 scored last set I give them a perfect ten also.

slickric21 · Mar 31, 2007, 05:55 AM

I run XP and I have to say these 7.3 drivers have cleared up all the errors I was getting with 7.2.

On top of that they seem to have the lightest footprint on system resources of any Cataylst i've ever used - only one instance of MOM.exe and CCC.exe running @ 5000k a-piece, the CCC starts up quicker & doesn't they don't badger my firewall at all like 7.2 did every 5 minutes.

On the whole the best set of cataylst I've ever had On my rig

SeaWulf · Mar 31, 2007, 09:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jpinard

So are there any XP users who have the previous driver's CCC errors cleared up? I'm seeing nothing from XP users...

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XP user here

Installed today using Driver Cleaner Net "process"

So far very good set. I was unable to enable crossfire at all with 7.2. I then went back to 7.1 but I could use Crossfire with limited games. EU III, Civ 4 and Railroads had however major graphics anomalies.

Additional 7.1 drivers had for me a problem with going from 2d "speeds" to 3D GPU Speeds and sticking.. so far clocking away at 621/720 in 3D.

With this set so far I can play those games with no problems . So I am very happy
about this set.

BTW I used ATI Tool to control fan settings on my cards and I do not overclock. Have VIsta Premium Software but looks like I will put off converting for several months

Matth · Mar 31, 2007, 12:50 PM

Bit the bullet and updated from 6.9 to 7.3 (remove/install method) - even with an older card, I'd say these are quite snappy.

One gripe about the install procedure, it's REALLY bad if you have a firewall or security monitor with process control, as there are SO many "network enabled process launches" to OK.

jpinard · Mar 31, 2007, 04:04 PM

XP users. Thanks for your reports! I will update to these and give them a test drive in my games too. I'm playing Sims 2, C&C 3, and Gal Civ 2 DA - so my experience will be a bit different (but hopefully fast and stable).

Mar 29, 2007, 01:07 AM	#62
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	Up to now, fingers crossed, no issues in Vista except for when I try to create a profile CCC crashes, but lets face it that CCC thing is never going to work 100%. __________________

Mar 29, 2007, 01:41 AM	#63
Aurahead DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	Working very good here. No problem at all. Everything sems to be smooth and nice. Iam running on Vista32. __________________ [COLOR=#455b64] [/COLOR]

Mar 29, 2007, 04:15 AM	#66
cuke2u DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I am also getting the exact same BSOD with these drivers and vista, which I didn't get with the 7.2's. I have also tried a fresh install to no avail, these drivers have a serious issue that ATI really need to look at... My System: Asus P5B Premium Vista Edition Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Tuniq Tower Vista Ultimate Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Tenth Anniversary 2x Samsung 320gbs SATA II Pioneer DVR-111D DVDRW ATI X1900XT-X Dell 2407WFP 24" Widescreen LCD Lian Li A10A case Antec Neo HE 550 watt PSU __________________ Asus P5B Premuim Vista Edition Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 Crucial Anniversary (2x1gb) 2x Samsung 3200g ATI X1900XT-X

Mar 29, 2007, 04:20 AM	#67
f4stf0rw4rd DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Ok my first post here. First time I installed the 7.3's CCC wouldn't start. Then I uninstalled everything using the Ati uninstall utility. Ran CrapCleaner, ran DriverCleaner PE, rebooted in Vista in 640480 resolution (F8 during start-up), installed the driver rebooted and CCC starts Yippie. Although everything seems fine, the driver won't switch between 2D and 3D speeds. All 3D apllications run using 2D speeds. Anyone got a solution for this? Specs are in the sig. __________________ ABIT KN8-SLI, AMD 64 3500+ (Venice) 2512MB Corsair XMS-3200C2 Sapphire X1950XT Maxtor DX740, Samsung S-ATA 160 GB, Tagan TG480-U22 480W NEC ND-3250 DVD Windows Vista BE 32Bit Last edited by f4stf0rw4rd; Mar 29, 2007 at 04:28 AM. Reason: typo

Mar 29, 2007, 05:21 AM	#68
cuke2u DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 75 Rep Power: 0	Hi, I have raised a ticket with ATI giving them all information to my system... ChrisC __________________ Asus P5B Premuim Vista Edition Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 Crucial Anniversary (2x1gb) 2x Samsung 3200g ATI X1900XT-X

Mar 29, 2007, 02:13 AM	#64
Dark79 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Looks like I gotta go back to 7.1 as 7.3 is giving me the same BSOD that 7.2 did when enabling Crossfire (0x0000010E Video Memory Manager has encountered an unexpected error). Actually I knew 7.3 was going to be a problem during the install. When it tries to install the video card drivers, the app hangs and I lose all USB devices (including my mouse). I have to install the drivers manually and then install CCC afterwards. Didn't have to do this with 7.2 This was tried on clean install of Vista 32-bit. System is as follows: DFI Infinity 975x Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 ATI X1800XT Crossfire Edition MSI X1800XT 2GB Patriot RAM 1 x Samsung SATA3.0 160GB 1 x Samsung SATA3.0 500GB Windows Vista Ultimate 32Bit 7.1 works fine. Strangely enough I was able to get 7.2 working fine under Windows XP. Haven't had a chance to see if 7.3 works in it though.

Mar 29, 2007, 11:00 AM	#71
keeler DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Central Texas Posts: 16 Rep Power: 0	OK Terry, started a new thread to collect just the Vista related issues... Rick

Mar 29, 2007, 12:40 PM	#72
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	I cant believe this a set of Vista32 drivers that are actually stable Ive been stressing these 7.3 since yesterday and they seem to be working lovely, great quality, nice speed, all games running top notch. There was something a little iffy with those 7.2 though, when I tried to uninstall them they crashed Vista. I might for once give a set of Cat drivers a positive vote. __________________

Mar 29, 2007, 01:22 PM	#73
theonlybabyface GO CANUCKS GO!!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 140 Rep Power: 0	Cat 7.3's BSOD for me as well after install. __________________ [COLOR=Silver]MY MACHINE : Intel Q6600 \| ASUS Maximus Formula \| 4 x 1GB Team Xtreem DDR2-800 \| EVGA 8800GTS "G92" \| X-Fi Platinum \| Enermax Infiniti 720 \| Samsung 224BW KIDS MACHINE : Intel Xeon 3060 \| Intel BadaXe2 \| 2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 \| BFG 8800GT OC \| Audigy 2 ZS \| OCZ GameXStream 850 \| [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver]Samsung 204B[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Mar 29, 2007, 03:57 PM	#75
theonlybabyface GO CANUCKS GO!!! Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 140 Rep Power: 0	I agree in a sense but to be honest, this is the first BSOD I've had with Vista. It is a far superior OS than XP. XP would BSOD much easier IMHO. __________________ [COLOR=Silver]MY MACHINE : Intel Q6600 \| ASUS Maximus Formula \| 4 x 1GB Team Xtreem DDR2-800 \| EVGA 8800GTS "G92" \| X-Fi Platinum \| Enermax Infiniti 720 \| Samsung 224BW KIDS MACHINE : Intel Xeon 3060 \| Intel BadaXe2 \| 2 x 1GB Kingston DDR2-667 \| BFG 8800GT OC \| Audigy 2 ZS \| OCZ GameXStream 850 \| [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver]Samsung 204B[/COLOR] [COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR][COLOR=dimgray][COLOR=Silver] [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Mar 29, 2007, 09:33 PM	#77
jpinard DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	So are there any XP users who have the previous driver's CCC errors cleared up? I'm seeing nothing from XP users... __________________ [COLOR=blue]DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D ... AMD 64 FX-57 @2.85 Gig no extra voltage ... 2 Gig Patriot 3200LL RAM 2.5-3-2-5 1T ... ATI X1900 XTX ... Creative Labs X-Fi Xtrememusic ... Forton FX600-GLN 600 Watt[/COLOR]

Mar 30, 2007, 04:00 AM	#78
H03 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Mr ATI Man, Hi, this is my first post because I have been searching invane trying to find a way to get 7.3 working with vista. I am having the same blue screen problem as some other people here. After updating to 7.3 display drivers system will get stuck in a continous reboot, bluescreen, reboot cycle and the only way to stop it is to go safemode and use system restore to roll backup. AMD x2 64 4600+ 74Gig Raptor 2Gig Giel 667 DDR2 DFI Infinity NF Ultra II M2 ATI X1900 I for the life of me cant work out what is except for the possibility of DEP??? Please HELP!!!

Mar 30, 2007, 08:52 AM	#79
Zeatrix DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 38 Rep Power: 0	But seriously, I just bought an Acer 8215WLMi and upgraded to Vista. Why the heck shouldn't I be able to have the latest driver?!? Acer NEVER updates their drivers. The latest on their site is the freaking RTM betas... Sigh Why in the world wouldn't they want to allow the Catalyst drivers? It would save them a lot of time since the Catalyst fixes problems that people would call them to get fixed. __________________

Mar 30, 2007, 09:27 AM	#80
Vengeful#1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Australia Posts: 18 Rep Power: 0	Installed the XP pro 7.3ccc driver set without any problems! gained FPS in CSS SOURCE and Live for Speed with no crashes or bluescreens to report as yet, good set of drivers i gave em a 10.

Mar 30, 2007, 12:04 PM	#82
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	Well, thought it to good to be true, these drivers have to be the zhittyest out of the 3 sets of 7.xx for Vista Every game Ive tried up to now jerks and splutters and stalls for that long I'm thinking its crashed, not only that but the graphic quality is no where nears good as 7.2, so Ive rolled back to 7.2 and alls okay. What is wrong with ATI these days, the drivers are abysmal. __________________

Mar 30, 2007, 12:15 PM	#83
against DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	There is a seperate thread created for Vista problems with the 7.3 set of drivers. Vista users please use that thread to whine and moan in ---- Still using 7.2 and ATT with no hotkey poller and haven't been happier...

Mar 30, 2007, 06:42 PM	#85
Eeastcoasthandle DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 175 Rep Power: 0	XP x1900xtx Cat 7.3 24" monitor I am pretty happy with this cat. I updated from Cat 6.10 to Cat 7.3. It is a bit faster in BF2. Just Cause demo, CS:S and DOD:S seem to run fine. My only concern is the black screen/reboot I got when control/alt/dlt out of BF2. . That never happened in cat 6.10. This only happened once as I only tried it once. I will try again later just to see what happens. However, after a few rounds of BF2 online I am pretty impressed with these drivers so far. Edit: I control/alt/delete out of BF2 several more times without out any problems now. I did it about 5-7 times without issue. So far, these are the best drivers since 6.3 muhahaha!!! Cats that I had no issue with 6.3 6.10 7.3 All others either would not allow me to properly OC or black screen whenever I played BF2 or some other game. Last edited by Eeastcoasthandle; Apr 1, 2007 at 05:24 PM.

Mar 31, 2007, 12:10 AM	#86
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,349 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	yes it's true I think it's best drivers ever for me. I scored awesome 6536 in 3dmakr03 much better then 6400 scored last set I give them a perfect ten also. __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun"

Mar 31, 2007, 05:55 AM	#87
slickric21 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Norwich, Uk Posts: 72 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I run XP and I have to say these 7.3 drivers have cleared up all the errors I was getting with 7.2. On top of that they seem to have the lightest footprint on system resources of any Cataylst i've ever used - only one instance of MOM.exe and CCC.exe running @ 5000k a-piece, the CCC starts up quicker & doesn't they don't badger my firewall at all like 7.2 did every 5 minutes. On the whole the best set of cataylst I've ever had On my rig __________________

Mar 31, 2007, 12:50 PM	#89
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,203 Rep Power: 58 System Specs	Bit the bullet and updated from 6.9 to 7.3 (remove/install method) - even with an older card, I'd say these are quite snappy. One gripe about the install procedure, it's REALLY bad if you have a firewall or security monitor with process control, as there are SO many "network enabled process launches" to OK. __________________ Mary had a little lamb, Her father shot it dead Now Mary takes her lamb to school, Between two crusts of bread

Mar 31, 2007, 04:04 PM	#90
jpinard DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	XP users. Thanks for your reports! I will update to these and give them a test drive in my games too. I'm playing Sims 2, C&C 3, and Gal Civ 2 DA - so my experience will be a bit different (but hopefully fast and stable). __________________ [COLOR=blue]DFI LP UT NF4 Ultra-D ... AMD 64 FX-57 @2.85 Gig no extra voltage ... 2 Gig Patriot 3200LL RAM 2.5-3-2-5 1T ... ATI X1900 XTX ... Creative Labs X-Fi Xtrememusic ... Forton FX600-GLN 600 Watt[/COLOR]