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Catalyst 7.6 released
ATI has updated the Catalyst display driver for all 9500 series and newer cards, taking the version number to 7.6. Numerous issues have been resolved, and there are also significant performance improvements for Half Life 2: Episode 1 and Dark Messiah Might and Magic when using a dual 2900 XT setup. Full release notes are available on the ATI website, with the download links as follows:
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I get some desktop corruption with 7.5 sometimes (move a windows over them and it gets fixed, but annoying still). Will try these if it's better. Any previous 7.x didn't have it.
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nice!
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wonder if these will work. I have the unfortunate problem of my monitor not working with the 7.5s
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But my friend with a similar pc to mine but with a X1800XT 512MB he totally lost the image on screen. May try them out if these problems are know to be fixed.
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I registered just to say: Me too!! But it only happens on firefox Anyone knows how to fix it?? |
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cough cough omega drivers cough cough my drivers rule!!!
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I wish there were leet drivers for nvidia :/
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7.5 and 7.6 vista gave awful color, very dull, but then you have to set CCC color settings to MCE black and white levels and the color is back to normal.
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omega are alot more stable than the ati i have found with my setup
omega also makes nvidia drivers i believe |
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lol 7.6's actually dropped my performance. I reverted back to 7.5 and its back where it was.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was in for an rma. lol.
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Not necessarily. Often, yes. Always, no. Decent tweaks will be able to improve performance without the loss of image quality, or perhaps increase image quality without losing performance. I don't know what the Omega drivers are like, but when I used them in the past they were no better than ATI's offering. People seem to think that one person working alone can do a better job than a big team of ATI programmers.
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Omega drivers are made by a nice guy....Used to talk to him alot, he then stopped...Quite relegious too
![]() As for the drivers themselves he USED to make Nvidia ones...Dont really know why he stopped...The ATI ones have the same quality as the reference ones but they are a bit faster due to some optimisations that exist in the drivers but ATI ( NVIDIA ) never use them due to some incompatibilities in certain games / systems.
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I tried before installing any ati drivers and it was OK, also ive tried pretty much all the latest FF versions, from 2-3
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I was wondering if this desktop corruption isn't due to a vga monitor on a dvi port, what u guys with the same problem say??
And im yet to format the system after installing the card.... |
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I have used many with both ATi and Nvidia cards, warcat.....omega......Z etc I dont use them at the moment purely because the modded drivers tend to be a release or two behind ATi's or NVidia's offerings and generally there are improvements to be had with their generic offerings in such early days of DX10 and Vista so IIMO it's counter productive in any early cards development to use modded drivers, once things have settled down and most of the optimisations have already been had from the generic ones, for me thats the time to try the modded. It's also nice to see that you insult anyone in here......I am sure you must have a lot of friends in the world, I think that perhaps before you start guessing computer issues and jumping to conclusions on subjects you clearly know little about....... you learn a few "people skills".
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