ATI Catalyst 7.1 Beta for Window Vista Available

malware · Jan 1, 2007

ATI Catalyst 7.1 Beta for Windows Vista Available

This is a beta version of the upcoming Catalyst 7.1 Radeon driver from ATI/AMD. We are sure a lot of people will be really pleased to see it. The revision build of this archive is 8.33 and should be an interesting driver for sure. I can not stress enough that this is a beta driver which is distributed by ASUS. You use it at your own risk.

Download: ATI Catalyst 7.1 Beta for Window Vista (91.6MB)

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zekrahminator · Jan 1, 2007

Distributed by Asus :confused:

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EastCoasthandle · Jan 1, 2007

People are buying Vista :confused:

Corrosion · Jan 1, 2007

Yeah like 3 people ...

overclocker · Jan 1, 2007

im buying vista and halo 3 when it comes out.

EastCoasthandle · Jan 1, 2007

Vista fan: "I love how all my gaming frame rates decrease..."

Bob The Fish · Jan 1, 2007

Acer is giveing me a copy for free becuase i have a windows Wista compable labtop that i purched in setember. Not that i am going to istall it, its the its free and i want all thing given to me free.

WarEagleAU · Jan 1, 2007

mout12 · Jan 1, 2007

overclocker said:
im buying vista and halo 3 when it comes out.

halo3 is a console game. If you want a true PC game buy HL

OneCool · Jan 1, 2007

If anyone cares Crossfire works in Vista with this driver.

EastCoasthandle · Jan 2, 2007

But will it be the norm to have either CF or SLI in order to get any decent frame rates when using Vista...

Wile E · Jan 3, 2007

Nah, I'm sure we can take out some of the unnecessary overhead from Vista, when vLite releases. I'd be interested in seeing whether or not you can get it to run like XP, and retain full functionality.

Dehx · Jan 6, 2007

EastCoasthandle said:
Vista fan: "I love how all my gaming frame rates decrease..."

I ran some benchies.

My setup:

X1900XT, FX-60, 2 GB DDR400

Catalyst 6.11 in Windows XP
Css video stress test @ 1280x1024 no AA/AF : 176.5 fps

Catalyst 6.12 beta Windows Vista
Css video stress test @ 1280x1024 no AA/AF : 181.5 fps

Catalyst 7.1 beta Windows Vista
Css video stress test @ 1280x1024 no AA/AF : 215.3 fps

How about that? Ati's 2nd version of Vista RTM drivers and it whoops XP in the ass.

I think all of you sippers of haterade that have been looking at RC and Beta benchmarks in Vista need to look again once some RTM benchies come out. Cause I hated Vista and the 3d performance was dreadful. But when the final release was out, different story. Vista outperforms XP in every game I have thrown at it. Of course, that is for us ATI users, not sure about Nvidia seeing how they don't seem to have any decent Vista drivers out, and if they do they are probably crap. But ATI has been doing some serious work.

I honestly believe that this beta driver release shows how the driver model and hardware access in Vista is superior to XP.

Think hard about that, then actually test Vista out before you start trolling.

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Motherboard	GIGABYTE GA-P35-DS3P rev.2.0
Cooling	Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme + Noctua NF-S12 Fan
Memory	4x1 GB PQI DDR2 PC2-6400
Video Card(s)	Colorful iGame Radeon HD 4890 1 GB GDDR5
Storage	2x 500 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 32 MB RAID0
Display(s)	BenQ G2400W 24-inch WideScreen LCD
Case	Cooler Master COSMOS RC-1000 (sold), Cooler Master HAF-932 (delivered)
Audio Device(s)	Creative X-Fi XtremeMusic + Logitech Z-5500 Digital THX
Power Supply	Chieftec CFT-1000G-DF 1kW
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Processor	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430
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Memory	2GB G.Skill DDR2 800
Video Card(s)	Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600
Storage	WD 160 GB SATA hard drive.
Display(s)	Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900
Case	Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window).
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers).
Power Supply	ThermalTake 430W TR2
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Cooling	D5, 7/16" ID Tubing, Maze4 with Fuzion CPU WB
Memory	XMS 8500C5D @ 1066MHz
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Case	P180
Audio Device(s)	X-fi Plantinum
Power Supply	Silencer 750
Software	XP Pro SP3 to Windows 7
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Cooling	ZALMAN 9500A
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Video Card(s)	ATi Asus 5770
Storage	Seagate Barracuda ES 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s X2
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Motherboard	dell?
Cooling	2 built in laptop cooling fans
Memory	16GB DDR3 1600mhz
Video Card(s)	AMD Mobility Radeon HD m290x 4GB GDDR5
Storage	256 ssd and 512ssd
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Audio Device(s)	Sound Blaster
Power Supply	laptop brick
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Cooling	CM Hyper 212 plus
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Storage	Sandisk 120gb plus WD blue 1tb
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Case	XIGMATEK
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Power Supply	Cooler Master 500

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Cooling	MCR-320, DDC-1 pump w/Bitspower res top (1/2" fittings), Koolance CPU-360
Memory	3x2GB Mushkin Redlines 1600Mhz 6-8-6-24 1T
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Case	Technofront Bench Station
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Power Supply	ENERMAX Galaxy EVO EGX1250EWT 1250W
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