AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 9.7 Driver Suite

[Altered]

i hear catalyst 9.7 for xp today or tomorrow

ATI Catalyst™ 9.7 Display Driver for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition is posted.

 

[fullinfusion]

I must put in my 2 cent's worth.... ATI finally put out a driver that makes my tri-fire real happy!!! GG ATI

 

[Nick89]

There is no new interface for the windows XP version. Just installed 9.7's and nothing new with the interface for me.

 

[Mussels]

There is no new interface for the windows XP version. Just installed 9.7's and nothing new with the interface for me.

i have two opinions on this matter.


1. Damn. i dont really like it.

2. Another reason to tell XP users to get with the times

 

[fullinfusion]

i have two opinions on this matter.


1. Damn. i dont really like it.

2. Another reason to tell XP users to get with the times

Yeah but ya know....

XP gives a tad higher clock then the later.... I agree it only gets better with upgrades.. +UPDATES

 

[AsRock]

There is no new interface for the windows XP version. Just installed 9.7's and nothing new with the interface for me.

Good it's bad enough as is.

i have two opinions on this matter.


1. Damn. i dont really like it.

2. Another reason to tell XP users to get with the times

Yeah the new Win 7 \ Vista one is so much better "COUGH"

I don't like either of them.

 

[sixor]

i hate the new gui, useless tons of clicks

 

[DRDNA]

I tested these 9.7's and found a BIG MAJOR HIT in OpenGL...Dont believe me just run Furmark once you install 9.7 and see....I took a 6000 point hit....everything else was about the same as 9.6 for me , the 9.7's seemed to be 1-5 FPS slower than the 9.6...I rolled back to 9.6 and will wait to test the 9.8 as i don't want to settle for the OpenGL hit. Just my two cents worth.

 

[Mussels]

are you sure the hit wasnt JUST in furmark?

 

[TheMailMan78]

I gained 30+ points in 3dmark 06. Edit: I lost 600 points in Vantage

 

[Meecrob]

Good it's bad enough as is.



Yeah the new Win 7 \ Vista one is so much better "COUGH"

I don't like either of them.

then I think you should probably just give up and buy a mac or run linux and forget gaming and the like, because vista/7 are here to stay, well at least for 2 years when win8 comes out and is even more mac-ish then 7.

 

[emel2ald]

-*-

Lock and Load!

Lock yung ngai

 

[Sir Alex Ice]

First welcome to the forums. If WoW is not holding the settings its the games issue not ATI. To fix this problem I would say you need to ether wait for a patch or lock your config file.

Usually games have an ".ini" file or a "config" file that holds all your settings so you don't have to re-enter them every time. I suggest you find this file and edit it to your settings via the text editor all windows OS have. Once you make everything the way it "should" be lock the file. Then start the game. This will keep the game from resetting your preferred settings. This works with any game. That should solve your problem. You might even be able to manually start your crossfire via this file.

Good Luck! I would offer more help but I don't have WoW.

Well, oddly enough, this new Catalyst seems to not have a problem remembering AA setting in WoW.
Folding@home seems stable, at least so far.

Haven't done any benchmarks yet.

 

[DRDNA]

are you sure the hit wasnt JUST in furmark?

No I am not sure of that...but furmark is openGL...what other benches are just OpenGL? Even with the 6000 point drop I am sure OpenGL still wouldnt be a problem ....Hmmm I wonder

 

[AsRock]

then I think you should probably just give up and buy a mac or run linux and forget gaming and the like, because vista/7 are here to stay, well at least for 2 years when win8 comes out and is even more mac-ish then 7.

Hows that ?.. XP x64 runs all my games i want to play including new releases. Until DX11 has settled in there's no point.

The one and only game i was going to play in even DX10 was Alen Wake and look whats happened to that.

I have a copy of Vista of MS for free when they were giving them away so if a odd game does come DX10 only i be just fine .

 

[Meecrob]

xp x64 is not xp, its server 2003, and its "ok" but honestly, if you cant adapt and move along, soon you will be stuck not being able to play alot of newer games, even ones that should work on xp/2k3 just fine, hell look how many games wont install or start on win2k now days without tricking it into thinking its on xp or even vista!!!

and I am not win7 fan, incase it came off that way, I use server 2008 and love it

MS also gave me vista ultimate, I hated it(pre service pack) and traded it to a friend who now dosnt use it because he to is on server 2008

 

[Mussels]

IF you can get drivers for your hardware under XP 64, its a good OS. Its a big IF however, as a lot of companies outright ignored it.

 

[AsRock]

IF you can get drivers for your hardware under XP 64, its a good OS. Its a big IF however, as a lot of companies outright ignored it.

Well i got it back when the 3800x2's were $330 chips which is like 3 year ago and never had a issue with getting X64 drivers. There was a minor issue later when SP2 came out for 32bit XP but with most things you were able to work around it.

I've had 3 issue in total which have been game issue's with dumb setup installers which is also fixable too.

I heard a load of people having issue's with it like for scanners and printers and stuff.

I'll use it as long as i can till forced to change as i am a avid gamer but till now at least there has been no reason and cannot justify spending more cash on a OS just to get a tweaked version of Vista with DX11 as seen as there's no game yet maybe in a year there might be a hand full..

Maybe by then Vista will have DX11.

Now if Win7 had a version were EVERY thing was stripped out of it and i do mean every thing and was aim just for games i would have a different thoughts about it.

But anyways 9.7's been working ok in games for me except with GPUTool which from time to time will give me a error when testing for stability.

Still have the issue in SOME games scaling issue's and refresh rate has to be changed and game has to be ran once then the refresh rate can be set back to 60hz again.

How i see this is a game issue and possibly a driver\CCC issue. A Game called Trine worked fine till they changed some thing in their 1.2 patch. But a quick change of refresh rate solves it permanently as far as i can tell.

 

[Mussels]

i've had a lot of hardware that had no XP64 drivers (or bad ones) - creative sound cards, web cameras, TV tuners, printers, that kind of thing.

If you run mainstream hardware from big companies (and no extra peripherals) then you should be ok. That said, vista x64 and 7x64 have a lot better driver support than xp 64 ever did.

 

[AsRock]

i've had a lot of hardware that had no XP64 drivers (or bad ones) - creative sound cards, web cameras, TV tuners, printers, that kind of thing.

If you run mainstream hardware from big companies (and no extra peripherals) then you should be ok. That said, vista x64 and 7x64 have a lot better driver support than xp 64 ever did.

Well out of all them things i only have a HP printer and it works 100%. A friend had a TV tuner and yes he was left in the dark too . I do believe my sound blaster live worked though and there was 1 reasons i stopped using it. No optical port but was no driver issue though. How ever if i remember correctly a later version of the SB Live! did have a issue with XP X64 ( a low profile ) which was no were near as good as the original one i had which had died.

My game pad works(Fang), joystick, printer, Track IR 3\4, Diamondback mouse, iPod, camera and UPS works perfectly.

Maybe i'm just one of the lucky ones. If i was using XP 32bit then that be a whole different matter and would be either using Vista x64 or thinking of getting Win7.

 

[Meecrob]

i've had a lot of hardware that had no XP64 drivers (or bad ones) - creative sound cards, web cameras, TV tuners, printers, that kind of thing.

If you run mainstream hardware from big companies (and no extra peripherals) then you should be ok. That said, vista x64 and 7x64 have a lot better driver support than xp 64 ever did.

1. creative sucks, their supports been utter shit since the sb16 days, it just became more noticeable as time went on.

2. webcams dont get driver updates, the companies tend to view them as desposible devices you should just buy a new one of(bastards)

3. tv tuners, alot dont have "official" x64 drivers, but if you look up the chip and dig around with google a bit, there are drivers for most conextant/rockwell and other common chip based cards, the card makers just dont post them because they want you to buy a new card.

3. printers, if its a ltp/para port printer you can easly get it working, if its USB you can normally get it working at least in a basic fashion using a generic usb print driver, wont have all the features of a full driver, but u can print.

4. scaners, yet another device that companies see as disposable, and just want you to buy a new one, any time a new OS comes out that changes driver models you endup needing a new one 9/10 times.

yeah there are devices that dont have x64 drivers, but enlarge the same devices lack vista drivers, and if you go back in time, alot of devices that worked on 9x or nt4 didnt ever get 2k or xp drivers

Not really MS's fault but the device makers being bastards, my advice if you dont like that crap, dont buy from companies that do it, and email them letting them know why you wont buy their products again.

 

[TheMailMan78]

i've had a lot of hardware that had no XP64 drivers (or bad ones) - creative sound cards, web cameras, TV tuners, printers, that kind of thing.

If you run mainstream hardware from big companies (and no extra peripherals) then you should be ok. That said, vista x64 and 7x64 have a lot better driver support than xp 64 ever did.

I run Vista 64 without a problem. Honestly I think a lot of more people are going 64bit than before due to the about of RAM thats now available for cheap. I've even seen a lot of OEMs going x64 with consumer lines. The days of crappy 64bit drivers I think is long since over.