Catalyst 7.10 for Windows XP/2K - Review and Rate Them Here

*CATALYST maker* · Oct 11, 2007, 03:27 PM

go get em

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

[COLOR=#003c28]Performance Improvements

[/COLOR]The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10:

Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550
BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations
Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products
FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 products

[COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System [/COLOR]

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

Call of Juarez: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the in-game graphics options to higher settings no longer results in the game failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29541
Call of Juarez: Setting up a multi-player LAN game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product no longer results in corruption being noticed 737-29917
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Pressing the Alt+Tab keys when playing the game no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28491
GTA San Andreas: Enabling AFR mode and CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed in the opening cinematic of the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29543
Might and Magic Heroes V: Display flicker and corruption is no longer noticed when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29913
The composite video slider values are no longer automatically applied without clicking on the Apply button. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28812
Setting the language option to any of the supported languages other than English no longer results in the help page for Advanced Color failing to be displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28822
Using live TV on a system containing an ATI HD 2900 XT product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the application failing if the Catalyst™ 7.6 driver is installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28823
A Windows error message no longer occurs when game settings are set to their highest levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28830
Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29534
Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system that has a CRT connected to it, followed by swapping the display devices no longer results in invalid refresh rates being listed in the Display manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29536
Windows Dream Scene Content: Corruption is no longer noticed when attempting to run the preview for the chosen clips. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28856
Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 or less no longer results in corruption being noticed when attempting to play an HD-DVD using the Cyberlink player. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29550
Playing a HD-DVD or Blu-ray title using PowerDVD followed by rotating the display device by 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29552
Enabling video mode within the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties->Adjustments no longer results in the Enable Video Mode check box becoming grayed out if the Catalyst Control Center is closed and then restarted. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29920
Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Current setting text is no longer misplaced in the Content Viewing Selection for Component Video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29922
Catalyst Control Center->HDTV Support->Predefined and Custom HDTV Formats: Selecting a different format and clicking the Apply Format button no longer results in the Add button becoming grayed out. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29924
The text is no longer truncated in drop down menu of the ATI OverDrive warning pop-up message. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29925
Clone mode can no longer be enabled for software CrossFire™ configurations under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29985
The Refresh rate for 576i/p is no longer listed erroneously as 20Hz/34Hz in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29909
Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ Xpress 12x0 series of product no longer results in the HDMI display device failing to be detected under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29910
Chronicles of Riddick: A very dark display image is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X800 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29911
All high resolutions are now displayed in the Displays Manager and Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29912
Corruption is no longer noticed in the ATI Catalyst End User License Agreement when using the Swedish version of the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29914
Tearing artifact is no longer visible on OTM display when playing back any video using Overlay with OTM enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 727-29915
Horizontal line corruption is no longer noticed when AFR mode is enabled and vsync is disabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29916
Attempting to play HD-DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product no longer results in hardware mode not being available for all display resolutions. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29982
Attempting to playing certain DVD's using WinDVD 7 and enabling hardware acceleration no longer results in the DVD failing to play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29918

[COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System [/COLOR]

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in the game failing to launch and an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29554
On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515
Playing an HD Blu-ray title using Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra for Blu-ray and HD-DVD followed by open multiple windows and moving them around the desktop no longer results in the windows background not being re-drawn properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28831
On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515
Running Google Earth in OpenGL mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on the desktop and the mouse pointer is moved around. Further details can be found in topic number737-29932
Stranglehold: Frequent stutters are no longer noticed when using dynamic resources. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29949
Attempting to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product no longer results in a VPU Recover occurring when looping the introduction of the title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29962

More Release Notes Information is found on the Drivers Download site. Be sure to check it out.

Dark Lord · Oct 11, 2007, 04:20 PM

guess ill find out in a bit if these work with the x1950 agp cards.

works fine on my 1950xt.

Nick0323 · Oct 11, 2007, 05:15 PM

Anybody tried these drivers yet on their x1950pro agp? Preferably the HIS model

Dark Lord · Oct 11, 2007, 05:22 PM

works on my 1950xt agp, no reason it shouldnt work on the pros.

Nick0323 · Oct 11, 2007, 05:27 PM

In which case I'm tempted to give them a try later, cheers bo.

Whats MOM.exe? Can I disable it cause it still crashes every time I go to shut down. I really would like to use the CCC but not if this error still occurs.

vf- · Oct 11, 2007, 05:35 PM

Anyone that has Crossfire having success with these for Quakewars?

I'm getting blue corruption noise in Crossfire with two X1950XTX's as well as flickering on off vehicles/players and certain buildings. This was suppose to be fixed!

Can anyone confirm this? the corruption is more annoying with Quakewars which is not much help when the majority of time the players etc are invisible with a slight fast shimmer during ETQW gameplay. Blue horizontal corruption interferance lines like you get on a TV in certain places that show at random on the screen. The flickering of players etc bring on the noise which is also causing it to kill performance.

Also when Crossfire is enabled the load times are hugely increased in Quakewars, once you're in game it becomes a slide show. After 10 seconds or so the performance is back. In single card mode the map load times are fast plus no other problems. This is with the old Crossfire dongle setup.

Can anyone confirm these problems with X19xx as well as 29xx?

Invisible vehicles (Quad) and building with Crossfire enabled.

OldBuzzard · Oct 11, 2007, 05:37 PM

I'm still having the problems detailed here:

IL2 1946 & dual monitors

Nick0323 · Oct 11, 2007, 06:10 PM

Success, they work

Good work guys and may I say Finally LOL

Da_Jewish_Fonzy · Oct 11, 2007, 10:05 PM

I got a nice little 3Dmark06 boost. So far so good.

vf- · Oct 11, 2007, 10:56 PM

Also why when a game crashes if the game uses say 1680x1050, and your desktop resolution is 1920x1200. If the game crashes like TF2 when Crossfire is enabled, the desktop is stuck at 1680x1050. This still happens when Crossfire is not set. This also happens with NFS: Most Wanted.

Even though *Apply the new display settings without restarting* is checked. Trying to switch back to the native desktop display resolution, the ATI drivers ask for a system reboot for the settings to take effect!

Robert McClelland · Oct 12, 2007, 12:11 AM

I try these in the morning when I downloading them

These better work with my TDU if not I might have go back to 7.8 drivers

TB_ · Oct 12, 2007, 12:26 AM

I got a 10% fps boost in HL2 so thats okay, lets hope the UT3 tweaks are in good order for the beta.

junka · Oct 12, 2007, 02:01 AM

Oi!!!! Wheres the poll?

Dyre Straits · Oct 12, 2007, 02:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by junka

Oi!!!! Wheres the poll?

Hold onto your britches, man! I just got home from work. LOL!

bman · Oct 12, 2007, 04:19 AM

It's the third driver that doesn't work in my x1950 pro AGP.... It's unbelievable... They know the drivers don't work and they dont get it fixed!

I bought quite some games that have specific fixes in the latest drivers and i've kept myself from playing them but i'm finding this wait unberable and i'm starting to think that this problem will never get sorted!

For the first time in years using ATI hardware, I'm really disapointed with ATI right now!

Dyre Straits · Oct 12, 2007, 04:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bman

It's the third driver that doesn't work in my x1950 pro AGP.... It's unbelievable... They know the drivers don't work and they dont get it fixed!

I bought quite some games that have specific fixes in the latest drivers and i've kept myself from playing them but i'm finding this wait unberable and i'm starting to think that this problem will never get sorted!

For the first time in years using ATI hardware, I'm really disapointed with ATI right now!

See my post and suggestion here:

http://www.driverheaven.net/1092014-post8.html

Nick0323 · Oct 12, 2007, 08:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bman

It's the third driver that doesn't work in my x1950 pro AGP.... It's unbelievable... They know the drivers don't work and they dont get it fixed!

I bought quite some games that have specific fixes in the latest drivers and i've kept myself from playing them but i'm finding this wait unberable and i'm starting to think that this problem will never get sorted!

For the first time in years using ATI hardware, I'm really disapointed with ATI right now!

They worked fine for my X1950PRO AGP

If what Dyre said doesn't work try the following...

1) Uninstall ATI driver, CCCm wdm, uninstaller (anything AMD related)
2) reboot into safe mode
3) Go to Device Manager and uninstall the display adaptors
4) Open DriverCleanerPro
5) Run a Cab Cleaner and the SP2 Cleaner
6) Now run DriverCleanerPro and select everything AMD related
7) Reboot into normal windows mode
8) Install just the display driver.

Nick0323 · Oct 12, 2007, 08:14 AM

One thing that still cheeses me off is the 'MOM.exe' error from the CCC when you shut down windows, it only delays my shut down by a second but its frustrating to see its still doing it since they introduced this process back in Catalyst 7.2

Bart1987 · Oct 12, 2007, 09:44 AM

I gave them an 8, so far everything is running fine, I haven't really noticed any differences in performance, but CCC has changed a bit and they're finally working on my x1950pro agp. I did get an error the first time I tried to install them: "setup will only run in administrator mode" then I tried to install them in safe mode, but it just didn't see the videocard and finally tried it again in normal mode and they did install. But I'm happy they're working, so not going to complain about the install problems I had :P

Rosco[CoF] · Oct 12, 2007, 10:17 AM

I'm having the same problem with these drivers as I had with the 7.9 on my daughters PC with a x800Pro. With both drivers, I lost all support for DirectX. OpenGL apps would work fine, but everything that used DirectX would crash. Even the Direct3D Acceleration test in the DirectX Diagnostic Tool would fail under all three tests. It is becoming frustrating and not sure what the cause is. And yes, ran Driver Cleaner in safe mode after uninstalling, newest version of DirectX 9.0c installed, the whole ten yards.

PC Specs are:
MSI KT880 Delta motherboard
AMD AthlonXP 3200+
1GB Kingtson memory
ATI Radeon x800Pro AGP
WinXP SP2

Davoren · Oct 12, 2007, 11:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rosco[CoF]

I'm having the same problem with these drivers as I had with the 7.9 on my daughters PC with a x800Pro. With both drivers, I lost all support for DirectX. OpenGL apps would work fine, but everything that used DirectX would crash. Even the Direct3D Acceleration test in the DirectX Diagnostic Tool would fail under all three tests. It is becoming frustrating and not sure what the cause is. And yes, ran Driver Cleaner in safe mode after uninstalling, newest version of DirectX 9.0c installed, the whole ten yards.

PC Specs are:
MSI KT880 Delta motherboard
AMD AthlonXP 3200+
1GB Kingtson memory
ATI Radeon x800Pro AGP
WinXP SP2

I have exactly the same problem here, only that I'm using a Sapphire x1650 Pro AGP. (Thanks for saving me the extra typing ^-^)

regards
Davoren

Rosco[CoF] · Oct 12, 2007, 11:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Davoren

I have exactly the same problem here, only that I'm using a Sapphire x1650 Pro AGP. (Thanks for saving me the extra typing ^-^)

regards
Davoren

You are welcome. This issue is also why I am going to refrain from voting in the poll. I'd like to tell everyone how they work for me, but unfortunately they do not work at all. So, I will have to hold my vote until I can hopefully resolve this matter.

WiseAzz1 · Oct 12, 2007, 06:33 PM

Best driver Ive seen in a long time from ATI for me.
Those having issues did you check the smart gart settings after install?
last 3 or 4 sets seem to not enable AGP WRITE and READ.PCI WRITE AND READ you have to manually set everything on and sometimes reinstall chipset driver to get them to work.

Rosco[CoF] · Oct 12, 2007, 07:35 PM

Thanks Wise, I'll check that out and let you know if it worked for me or not.

letterboy1 · Oct 12, 2007, 07:46 PM

My card is the HIS x1950 Pro Turbo 512 MB

The 7.8s at first screwed up my desktop icons but after an additional reboot it fixed itself.
The 7.9s totally didn't work; couldn't boot into WinXP except in safe mode to uninstall them again.
The 7.10s work. they installed fine and I ran Silent Hunter 4 for a couple of hours with no problems.

Not sure yet what games can benefit from this new adaptive AA, so I'll have to read up on it.

Anyway, too bad that these recent driver sets are so quirky. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the next game I try to play won't work . . . fingers crossed.

Robert McClelland · Oct 12, 2007, 07:54 PM

I give them a 4 Performance UmImprovements I want see more in that for my x700pro card I scored 4059

last set was over 4100 for 7.9 drivers but I'm not going back that finaly got TDU working because of 1.66A patch issue that was causing my desktop crash.

Rosco[CoF] · Oct 12, 2007, 10:10 PM

I had to give them only a 1. No DirectX with these drivers. Reverted back to 7.8 and the Radeon x800Pro AGP works fine once again.

Wize,
I checked what you suggested. AGP Read&Write, PCI Read&Write and Fast Writes all enabled, Direct3D tests failed. Maybe this card and or AGP slot is no longer supported?

Robert McClelland · Oct 12, 2007, 11:06 PM

Mine was agp write is off allways but other are all enble
Here hint everone if you should really get more ram. It really helps the system out. I just got a 1gig of stick of ram for my system now. I have 1gig for my games and 512 for windows which it really used anyway.

junka · Oct 13, 2007, 04:13 AM

WELL DONE the ATI crew....

Well I never, after all these years ATI are back on the case and have actually release a good set of drivers, tested these on all my games and find they are, nice and fast the graphics are very nice and up to now they are bug free and stable for me. Keep it up the ATI crew, your on a winner. I have finally put my Cats version 6.10 to rest, long live Cats version 7.10.

Davoren · Oct 13, 2007, 06:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by WiseAzz1

Best driver Ive seen in a long time from ATI for me.
Those having issues did you check the smart gart settings after install?
last 3 or 4 sets seem to not enable AGP WRITE and READ.PCI WRITE AND READ you have to manually set everything on and sometimes reinstall chipset driver to get them to work.

Thanks for the suggestion, but only 7.8 disabled the AGP and PCI writes and reads for me, 7.9 and 7.10 did not. Also for 7.8, it was impossible to get them to turn back on manually even with reinstalling the chipset drivers. Anyway, while 7.7s seem to work fine for me I actually used this opportunity *cough* to switch back to the 7.6s since those were reportedly the ones that still worked fine for everybody with AGP.

regards
Davoren

Oct 11, 2007, 03:27 PM	#1
CATALYST maker ATI driver guru Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: ATI, Canada Posts: 763 Rep Power: 47	Catalyst 7.10 for Windows XP/2K - Review and Rate Them Here go get em Advanced Micro Devices Inc. [COLOR=#003c28]Performance Improvements [/COLOR]The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10: Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550 BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550 Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products World in Conflict DX9 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 products [COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System [/COLOR] This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include: Call of Juarez: Enabling CrossFire™ and setting the in-game graphics options to higher settings no longer results in the game failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29541 Call of Juarez: Setting up a multi-player LAN game on a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product no longer results in corruption being noticed 737-29917 Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter: Pressing the Alt+Tab keys when playing the game no longer results in the Windows Vista operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28491 GTA San Andreas: Enabling AFR mode and CrossFire™ no longer results in corruption being noticed in the opening cinematic of the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29543 Might and Magic Heroes V: Display flicker and corruption is no longer noticed when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29913 The composite video slider values are no longer automatically applied without clicking on the Apply button. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28812 Setting the language option to any of the supported languages other than English no longer results in the help page for Advanced Color failing to be displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28822 Using live TV on a system containing an ATI HD 2900 XT product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the application failing if the Catalyst™ 7.6 driver is installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28823 A Windows error message no longer occurs when game settings are set to their highest levels. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28830 Hot-plugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29534 Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system that has a CRT connected to it, followed by swapping the display devices no longer results in invalid refresh rates being listed in the Display manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29536 Windows Dream Scene Content: Corruption is no longer noticed when attempting to run the preview for the chosen clips. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28856 Setting the display resolution to 1600x1200 or less no longer results in corruption being noticed when attempting to play an HD-DVD using the Cyberlink player. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29550 Playing a HD-DVD or Blu-ray title using PowerDVD followed by rotating the display device by 90 degrees no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29552 Enabling video mode within the Catalyst Control Center->TV Properties->Adjustments no longer results in the Enable Video Mode check box becoming grayed out if the Catalyst Control Center is closed and then restarted. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29920 Catalyst Control Center->Basic View: Current setting text is no longer misplaced in the Content Viewing Selection for Component Video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29922 Catalyst Control Center->HDTV Support->Predefined and Custom HDTV Formats: Selecting a different format and clicking the Apply Format button no longer results in the Add button becoming grayed out. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29924 The text is no longer truncated in drop down menu of the ATI OverDrive warning pop-up message. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29925 Clone mode can no longer be enabled for software CrossFire™ configurations under Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29985 The Refresh rate for 576i/p is no longer listed erroneously as 20Hz/34Hz in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29909 Hot-plugging an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ Xpress 12x0 series of product no longer results in the HDMI display device failing to be detected under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29910 Chronicles of Riddick: A very dark display image is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X800 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29911 All high resolutions are now displayed in the Displays Manager and Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29912 Corruption is no longer noticed in the ATI Catalyst End User License Agreement when using the Swedish version of the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29914 Tearing artifact is no longer visible on OTM display when playing back any video using Overlay with OTM enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 727-29915 Horizontal line corruption is no longer noticed when AFR mode is enabled and vsync is disabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29916 Attempting to play HD-DVD title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product no longer results in hardware mode not being available for all display resolutions. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29982 Attempting to playing certain DVD's using WinDVD 7 and enabling hardware acceleration no longer results in the DVD failing to play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29918 [COLOR=#003c28]Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System [/COLOR] This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include: DIRT: Launching DIRT with CrossFire™ enabled no longer results in the game failing to launch and an error message being displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29554 On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515 Playing an HD Blu-ray title using Cyberlink PowerDVD 7.3 Ultra for Blu-ray and HD-DVD followed by open multiple windows and moving them around the desktop no longer results in the windows background not being re-drawn properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28831 On certain products playing back VC-1 and H.264 content with display resolution set at 1360x768 or higher no longer results in screen flashing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28515 Running Google Earth in OpenGL mode no longer results in corruption being noticed on the desktop and the mouse pointer is moved around. Further details can be found in topic number737-29932 Stranglehold: Frequent stutters are no longer noticed when using dynamic resources. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29949 Attempting to play an HD-DVD or Blu-ray title on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series of product no longer results in a VPU Recover occurring when looping the introduction of the title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29962 More Release Notes Information is found on the Drivers Download site. Be sure to check it out. __________________ Follow me on Twitter for exclusive Catalyst news and updates http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker What evil person came up with this scheme? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0qXZTOtszI Have either a CPU, an ATI GPU (X1600 and higher), or a Playstation 3? Join team 51394 the DH and ATI team for Folding@Home http://folding.stanford.edu/download.html Last edited by Dyre Straits; Oct 11, 2007 at 04:15 PM.

Oct 11, 2007, 04:20 PM	#2
Dark Lord DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,584 Rep Power: 66 System Specs	guess ill find out in a bit if these work with the x1950 agp cards. works fine on my 1950xt. __________________ Last edited by Dark Lord; Oct 11, 2007 at 04:56 PM.

Oct 11, 2007, 05:15 PM	#3
Nick0323 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	Anybody tried these drivers yet on their x1950pro agp? Preferably the HIS model __________________ PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 500W Chipset: nFORCE 750SLi Mobo: ASUS P5N-D, BIOS revision 0601 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12mb cache, 2.66GHz GPU: Gainward Bliss 9600GT, Engine 700MHz, Memory 2GHz, Forceware 175.19) RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition, PC8500 (1066MHz), 2x2GB Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic HDD1: Western Digital Raptor, 160GB, 10,000rpm HDD2: Maxtor Diamondmax 22, 32mb Cache, 7200.11, 500GB HDD3:Maxtor Diamondmax 21, 16mb Cache, 7200.10, 320GB (External via Icy Box) 3D Mark 05 - 17,500 3D Mark 06 - 12,000

Oct 11, 2007, 05:22 PM	#4
Dark Lord DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Grand Rapids, MI Posts: 5,584 Rep Power: 66 System Specs	works on my 1950xt agp, no reason it shouldnt work on the pros. __________________

Oct 11, 2007, 05:27 PM	#5
Nick0323 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	In which case I'm tempted to give them a try later, cheers bo. Whats MOM.exe? Can I disable it cause it still crashes every time I go to shut down. I really would like to use the CCC but not if this error still occurs. __________________ PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 500W Chipset: nFORCE 750SLi Mobo: ASUS P5N-D, BIOS revision 0601 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12mb cache, 2.66GHz GPU: Gainward Bliss 9600GT, Engine 700MHz, Memory 2GHz, Forceware 175.19) RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition, PC8500 (1066MHz), 2x2GB Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic HDD1: Western Digital Raptor, 160GB, 10,000rpm HDD2: Maxtor Diamondmax 22, 32mb Cache, 7200.11, 500GB HDD3:Maxtor Diamondmax 21, 16mb Cache, 7200.10, 320GB (External via Icy Box) 3D Mark 05 - 17,500 3D Mark 06 - 12,000

Oct 11, 2007, 05:35 PM	#6
vf- DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 47 Rep Power: 0	Anyone that has Crossfire having success with these for Quakewars? I'm getting blue corruption noise in Crossfire with two X1950XTX's as well as flickering on off vehicles/players and certain buildings. This was suppose to be fixed! Can anyone confirm this? the corruption is more annoying with Quakewars which is not much help when the majority of time the players etc are invisible with a slight fast shimmer during ETQW gameplay. Blue horizontal corruption interferance lines like you get on a TV in certain places that show at random on the screen. The flickering of players etc bring on the noise which is also causing it to kill performance. Also when Crossfire is enabled the load times are hugely increased in Quakewars, once you're in game it becomes a slide show. After 10 seconds or so the performance is back. In single card mode the map load times are fast plus no other problems. This is with the old Crossfire dongle setup. Can anyone confirm these problems with X19xx as well as 29xx? Invisible vehicles (Quad) and building with Crossfire enabled. Last edited by vf-; Oct 11, 2007 at 08:44 PM.

Oct 11, 2007, 05:37 PM	#7
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek? Join Date: May 2003 Location: Cincinnati, OH Posts: 2,224 Rep Power: 83 System Specs	I'm still having the problems detailed here: IL2 1946 & dual monitors __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Oct 11, 2007, 06:10 PM	#8
Nick0323 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	Success, they work Good work guys and may I say Finally LOL __________________ PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 500W Chipset: nFORCE 750SLi Mobo: ASUS P5N-D, BIOS revision 0601 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12mb cache, 2.66GHz GPU: Gainward Bliss 9600GT, Engine 700MHz, Memory 2GHz, Forceware 175.19) RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition, PC8500 (1066MHz), 2x2GB Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic HDD1: Western Digital Raptor, 160GB, 10,000rpm HDD2: Maxtor Diamondmax 22, 32mb Cache, 7200.11, 500GB HDD3:Maxtor Diamondmax 21, 16mb Cache, 7200.10, 320GB (External via Icy Box) 3D Mark 05 - 17,500 3D Mark 06 - 12,000

Oct 11, 2007, 10:05 PM	#9
Da_Jewish_Fonzy Me>You Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Da Hood Posts: 507 Rep Power: 0	I got a nice little 3Dmark06 boost. So far so good.

Oct 11, 2007, 10:56 PM	#10
vf- DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 47 Rep Power: 0	Also why when a game crashes if the game uses say 1680x1050, and your desktop resolution is 1920x1200. If the game crashes like TF2 when Crossfire is enabled, the desktop is stuck at 1680x1050. This still happens when Crossfire is not set. This also happens with NFS: Most Wanted. Even though Apply the new display settings without restarting is checked. Trying to switch back to the native desktop display resolution, the ATI drivers ask for a system reboot for the settings to take effect!

Oct 12, 2007, 12:11 AM	#11
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,344 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	I try these in the morning when I downloading them These better work with my TDU if not I might have go back to 7.8 drivers __________________ "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"

Oct 12, 2007, 12:26 AM	#12
TB_ DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 38 Rep Power: 0	I got a 10% fps boost in HL2 so thats okay, lets hope the UT3 tweaks are in good order for the beta.

Oct 12, 2007, 02:01 AM	#13
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	Oi!!!! Wheres the poll? __________________

Oct 12, 2007, 04:19 AM	#15
bman DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	It's the third driver that doesn't work in my x1950 pro AGP.... It's unbelievable... They know the drivers don't work and they dont get it fixed! I bought quite some games that have specific fixes in the latest drivers and i've kept myself from playing them but i'm finding this wait unberable and i'm starting to think that this problem will never get sorted! For the first time in years using ATI hardware, I'm really disapointed with ATI right now!

Oct 12, 2007, 08:14 AM	#18
Nick0323 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: London Posts: 324 Rep Power: 0	One thing that still cheeses me off is the 'MOM.exe' error from the CCC when you shut down windows, it only delays my shut down by a second but its frustrating to see its still doing it since they introduced this process back in Catalyst 7.2 __________________ PSU: Coolermaster iGreen 500W Chipset: nFORCE 750SLi Mobo: ASUS P5N-D, BIOS revision 0601 CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, 12mb cache, 2.66GHz GPU: Gainward Bliss 9600GT, Engine 700MHz, Memory 2GHz, Forceware 175.19) RAM: OCZ Reaper HPC Edition, PC8500 (1066MHz), 2x2GB Sound: Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeMusic HDD1: Western Digital Raptor, 160GB, 10,000rpm HDD2: Maxtor Diamondmax 22, 32mb Cache, 7200.11, 500GB HDD3:Maxtor Diamondmax 21, 16mb Cache, 7200.10, 320GB (External via Icy Box) 3D Mark 05 - 17,500 3D Mark 06 - 12,000

Oct 12, 2007, 09:44 AM	#19
Bart1987 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 634 Rep Power: 0	I gave them an 8, so far everything is running fine, I haven't really noticed any differences in performance, but CCC has changed a bit and they're finally working on my x1950pro agp. I did get an error the first time I tried to install them: "setup will only run in administrator mode" then I tried to install them in safe mode, but it just didn't see the videocard and finally tried it again in normal mode and they did install. But I'm happy they're working, so not going to complain about the install problems I had :P

Oct 12, 2007, 10:17 AM	#20
Rosco[CoF] DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 165 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I'm having the same problem with these drivers as I had with the 7.9 on my daughters PC with a x800Pro. With both drivers, I lost all support for DirectX. OpenGL apps would work fine, but everything that used DirectX would crash. Even the Direct3D Acceleration test in the DirectX Diagnostic Tool would fail under all three tests. It is becoming frustrating and not sure what the cause is. And yes, ran Driver Cleaner in safe mode after uninstalling, newest version of DirectX 9.0c installed, the whole ten yards. PC Specs are: MSI KT880 Delta motherboard AMD AthlonXP 3200+ 1GB Kingtson memory ATI Radeon x800Pro AGP WinXP SP2 __________________ Consoles are schwag

Oct 12, 2007, 06:33 PM	#23
WiseAzz1 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 43 Rep Power: 0	Best driver Ive seen in a long time from ATI for me. Those having issues did you check the smart gart settings after install? last 3 or 4 sets seem to not enable AGP WRITE and READ.PCI WRITE AND READ you have to manually set everything on and sometimes reinstall chipset driver to get them to work.

Oct 12, 2007, 07:35 PM	#24
Rosco[CoF] DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 165 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Thanks Wise, I'll check that out and let you know if it worked for me or not. __________________ Consoles are schwag

Oct 12, 2007, 07:46 PM	#25
letterboy1 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Columbus, GA. USA Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	My card is the HIS x1950 Pro Turbo 512 MB The 7.8s at first screwed up my desktop icons but after an additional reboot it fixed itself. The 7.9s totally didn't work; couldn't boot into WinXP except in safe mode to uninstall them again. The 7.10s work. they installed fine and I ran Silent Hunter 4 for a couple of hours with no problems. Not sure yet what games can benefit from this new adaptive AA, so I'll have to read up on it. Anyway, too bad that these recent driver sets are so quirky. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if the next game I try to play won't work . . . fingers crossed.

Oct 12, 2007, 07:54 PM	#26
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,344 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	I give them a 4 Performance UmImprovements I want see more in that for my x700pro card I scored 4059 last set was over 4100 for 7.9 drivers but I'm not going back that finaly got TDU working because of 1.66A patch issue that was causing my desktop crash. __________________ "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"

Oct 12, 2007, 10:10 PM	#27
Rosco[CoF] DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 165 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I had to give them only a 1. No DirectX with these drivers. Reverted back to 7.8 and the Radeon x800Pro AGP works fine once again. Wize, I checked what you suggested. AGP Read&Write, PCI Read&Write and Fast Writes all enabled, Direct3D tests failed. Maybe this card and or AGP slot is no longer supported? __________________ Consoles are schwag

Oct 12, 2007, 11:06 PM	#28
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Some Where in Ohio Posts: 6,344 Rep Power: 103 System Specs	Mine was agp write is off allways but other are all enble Here hint everone if you should really get more ram. It really helps the system out. I just got a 1gig of stick of ram for my system now. I have 1gig for my games and 512 for windows which it really used anyway. __________________ "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"

Oct 13, 2007, 04:13 AM	#29
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 217 Rep Power: 0	WELL DONE the ATI crew.... Well I never, after all these years ATI are back on the case and have actually release a good set of drivers, tested these on all my games and find they are, nice and fast the graphics are very nice and up to now they are bug free and stable for me. Keep it up the ATI crew, your on a winner. I have finally put my Cats version 6.10 to rest, long live Cats version 7.10. __________________