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ATI Catalyst 7.4 Display Driver Released

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AMD/ATI has released new official drivers for ATI based video cards. This release of Catalyst has improved OpenGL performance under the Microsoft Vista operating system for all Radeon X1000 series of products, in both single card and hardware CrossFire configurations. Typical improvements of 15% or more can be seen in games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey, with enthusiast class of products seeing improvements of 30% or more. This release of Catalyst also adds the Avivo Video Converter for Windows Vista (32-bit). Head over the AMD/ATI download section and select the proper Catalyst driver for your operating system and video card.

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I think after the 7.3 problems,...I am going to wait for some other brave soul to test these out!!!
 
:laugh: Man I just downloaded mine last week 7.3,so someone post results :)
 
what about Windows XP performance??
 
malware you are abit slow
i won about 15min before you posting the news :D
 
malware you are abit slow
i won about 15min before you posting the news :D

You're welcome ;)
I'm sorry if it was posted in our forums first, I don't have much time to read the latest threads...:o
 
Just tried it with the x800 in my sig. With 3dMark06, I received the same score at stock clocks with 7.4 as I did overclocked with 430/401 with 7.3 (1296 in Vista x64). Not bad!
 
I think after the 7.3 problems,...I am going to wait for some other brave soul to test these out!!!

well that explains where all those bsod were coming from... wish i knew about that hotfix back then lol, i've been getting bsod for ages now been driving me mad
 
now if i could figure out why i get "cannot find any installable compenents" error when installing any cat drivers in vista i may install these.. having to just use the raw driver and traytools :(
 
Just installed them now, but display drivers only. Should I install CCC or do I not really need it? Never bothered to install it with 7.3 either.
 
They seem to be going ok for me sor far... I will do a bench this arvo when I get home to see if there is any improvement........
 
I installed it, seems the same except it fixed a bug I was having in CCC before, havn't ran any benchmarks.
 
i just got vista ultimate installed today so i decided to try these, games run really good, but if i try and enable crossfire i get a bsod hmmmm.....
 
i just got vista ultimate installed today so i decided to try these, games run really good, but if i try and enable crossfire i get a bsod hmmmm.....
Dual GPU drivers don't really seems to be ready on vista.
nVidia couldn't get SLI going on the 8800s either...:shadedshu
 
Tried 7.4 from 7.2

My only test, CS:Source, and i went from 151.8 FPS to 150.6FPS. Huge diff :D

Hmmm, tested FEAR...

7.4:
Min:26
Average:56
Max:137

7.2:
Min:26
Average:57
Max:138


Nice 15-30% increase :wtf: :p
 
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You're welcome ;)
I'm sorry if it was posted in our forums first, I don't have much time to read the latest threads...:o
i posted the download before everyone else if am not mistaking :roll:
 
I installed it, no blue-screens. I haven't had the time to test any games, though. And I'm definitely not benchmarking...if I notice anything odd, I'll post it.
 
lol i just uninstalled 7.3 and installed 6.12 as they are stable on my system but the 7.3's are not stable on my system.Good luck with the 7.4's:toast:
 
what about Windows XP performance??

I got a 36 point jump in 3dmark06 from 7.2 - 7.3, going from 7.3 - 7.4 I got a 8 point jump, not as much but it aint gone down, all other settings in my rig were exactly the same ;)
 
Ill give this a try when I get home.
 
7.3
x1900xtx
XP SP2
Is the best since 6.3
MUHAHAHAHAHAHA
 
I got the occasional blue screen of death in 7.3, so far no problems in 7.4.
 
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