Tuesday, June 26th 2007

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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21 Comments on Catalyst 7.6 released

#1
OnBoard
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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WarEagleAU
Bird of Prey
wonder if these will work. I have the unfortunate problem of my monitor not working with the 7.5s
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#5
selway89
WarEagleAUwonder if these will work. I have the unfortunate problem of my monitor not working with the 7.5s
Hmm I tried them and found the colours on the display felt very cold and not all there, had a brief moment where I lost my screen.

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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#6
djisas
OnBoardI 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.
Woot??
I registered just to say: Me too!!
But it only happens on firefox
Anyone knows how to fix it??
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#7
TXcharger
cough cough omega drivers cough cough my drivers rule!!!
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#8
hat
Enthusiast
I wish there were leet drivers for nvidia :/
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#9
Jonnycat
TXchargercough cough omega drivers cough cough my drivers rule!!!
Okay, so I've heard of those, and while I realize they are more configurable (I think), what else? Do 'ya get more 3D frames with 'em?
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#10
hotrippr
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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#11
TXcharger
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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#12
yogurt_21
lol 7.6's actually dropped my performance. I reverted back to 7.5 and its back where it was.
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#13
dwax
TXchargercough cough omega drivers cough cough my drivers rule!!!
Tried these, ran good untill i opened Google Earth. The water lookrd like it was in 256 colors instead of 32 bit.
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#14
Wile E
Power User
OnBoardI 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.
I'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was in for an rma. lol.
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#15
Kasparz
TXchargeromega are alot more stable than the ati i have found with my setup

omega also makes nvidia drivers i believe
LMFAO nubcake, omega TWEAKS drivers and TWEAKS means lower image quality but better performance.
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#16
Jimmy 2004
KasparzLMFAO nubcake, omega TWEAKS drivers and TWEAKS means lower image quality but better performance.
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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#17
HellasVagabond
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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#18
OnBoard
OnBoardI 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.
djisasWoot??
I registered just to say: Me too!!
But it only happens on firefox
Anyone knows how to fix it??
Well not happened so far with 7.6:es and now you mentioned could have been firefox that left some parts of it to desktop.
Wile EI'm glad I'm not the only one. I thought I was in for an rma. lol.
Hehe, good to see that there were others and not just my imagination =)
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#19
djisas
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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#20
djisas
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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#21
Tatty_Two
Gone Fishing
KasparzLMFAO nubcake, omega TWEAKS drivers and TWEAKS means lower image quality but better performance.
As you are probably aware, there are a whole host of modders out there that mod drivers, some mod as you say for performance, some for specifically IQ at some cost to performance and some for an improved balance of the two, many dont acheive a great deal, one or two actually do.

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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