Catalyst 7.11 Drivers for Vista: Read and Discuss Here

Dyre Straits · Nov 22, 2007, 04:55 AM

[COLOR=#800080]AMD GAME! Drivers and Utilities[/COLOR]

Be sure to choose the version that best suits your system!

RELEASE NOTES!

Stability Improvements:

Highlights of resolved issues:

NOTE: Crysis Players Should Continue Using the Crysis Hotfix Drivers!
Bioshock: Pulling the lever in the chamber no longer results in the game failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30493

Bioshock, Lost Planet, and World In Conflict: Connecting certain dual link display devices to certain ATI Radeon™ 2x00 series of cards no longer results in limited display resolutions being available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30090

Call of Juarez: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in flickering being noticed when playing the DX10 version of the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29540

Doom 3: Playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in display corruption being noticed when using the console commands. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29978

Fable: A black ring is no longer seen around the player character. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29939

Hellgate, Lord of the Rings, PT Boat, and World in Conflict: Corruption is no longer noticed when AA is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30487

Rainbow Six Vegas: Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 and applying the in-game settings to high no longer results in corruption being noticed when using an HDMI display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28826

Roxio Creator Premier v9: MyDVD: Attempting to burn a DVD no longer results in the burn process failing at the encoding preview. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29937

Serious Sam: the Second Encounter Demo: Game play is no longer delayed when playing the game on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29933

For a FULL DETAIL of the Release Notes, download the PDF here:

http://game.amd.com/us-en/content/pdf/Catalyst_711.pdf

thecaretaker · Nov 22, 2007, 04:41 PM

I may have missed a thread somewhere, but it looks like the monitor brightness option has been dropped now. I can't find the link now under the colour tab?

Also, for some reason, openGL seems less stable. Demos like legomania completely crash my system now and the card stopped working. I get the message windows had to restart the ati drivers.
http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/...y.zip&fileinfo

Previous driver versions used to flicker wireframe in this demo, but it never crashed out before.

X1800XTTOP · Nov 25, 2007, 10:32 AM

Directx10 perfromance is very low, unacceptably low. Choosing DX10 over DX9 in eg. crysis means a 30% performance loss.

People are finding out AA performance on HDxxx0 isnt all that bad, infact its on pair with G80/G92 hardware. What seems to be troubling the HD series, from the start, is infact AF-performance - wich seems to be a joke. On top of that, ati enforces HQAF on HD-hardware, wich i assume futher decrease AF-performance.

There is no logic here ATi, NONE.

AdaptiveAA used to be unusable, but you (ati) finally got it fixed, but AF has always been perfect (on older hardware), although now it has a bigger hit than AA! Something should be done about this.

thecaretaker · Dec 3, 2007, 12:36 PM

Well, I am very suprised, suprised at how quiet this forum is. There was a time when 100s of people would have posted here within hours of a driver release with a host of problems and issues.

You can hear a pin drop in here now lol

Now, is this a sign that ATI have got things right and everyone is happy these days?

Has Driverheaven taken a nose dive in the popularity stakes?

Has everyone ditched Vista and gone back to XP?

Has everyone ditched ATI and purchased a rival card?

Am I the only person on the planet that still finds issues with these drivers? Am I talking to myself... Is there anybody out there........

Nov 22, 2007, 04:41 PM	#2
thecaretaker DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK Posts: 32 Rep Power: 0	I may have missed a thread somewhere, but it looks like the monitor brightness option has been dropped now. I can't find the link now under the colour tab? Also, for some reason, openGL seems less stable. Demos like legomania completely crash my system now and the card stopped working. I get the message windows had to restart the ati drivers. http://www.scene.org/file.php?file=/...y.zip&fileinfo Previous driver versions used to flicker wireframe in this demo, but it never crashed out before. __________________ My Demoscene website My Caretakers Website

Dec 3, 2007, 12:36 PM	#4
thecaretaker DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: UK Posts: 32 Rep Power: 0	Well, I am very suprised, suprised at how quiet this forum is. There was a time when 100s of people would have posted here within hours of a driver release with a host of problems and issues. You can hear a pin drop in here now lol Now, is this a sign that ATI have got things right and everyone is happy these days? Has Driverheaven taken a nose dive in the popularity stakes? Has everyone ditched Vista and gone back to XP? Has everyone ditched ATI and purchased a rival card? Am I the only person on the planet that still finds issues with these drivers? Am I talking to myself... Is there anybody out there........ __________________ My Demoscene website My Caretakers Website

Nov 25, 2007, 10:32 AM	#3
X1800XTTOP DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Feb 2006 Posts: 346 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Directx10 perfromance is very low, unacceptably low. Choosing DX10 over DX9 in eg. crysis means a 30% performance loss. People are finding out AA performance on HDxxx0 isnt all that bad, infact its on pair with G80/G92 hardware. What seems to be troubling the HD series, from the start, is infact AF-performance - wich seems to be a joke. On top of that, ati enforces HQAF on HD-hardware, wich i assume futher decrease AF-performance. There is no logic here ATi, NONE. AdaptiveAA used to be unusable, but you (ati) finally got it fixed, but AF has always been perfect (on older hardware), although now it has a bigger hit than AA! Something should be done about this.