Tantawi Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 This release note provides information on the latest posting of AMD's industry leading software suite, Catalyst™. This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver (version 8.342), and the Catalyst™ Control Center (version 7.2). This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst™ software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability. Catalyst™ 7.2 introduces a brand new version of the Catalyst™ Control Center for Windows XP. The new Catalyst™ Control Center delivers a number of significant enhancements: * Significant performance gains; Catalyst™ Control Center start-up time has been substantially reduced, and overall responsiveness has improved. * Reduced system resource usage * New 3D preview which significantly improves the ability for users to understand the benefits of enabling the many Catalyst™ features of their ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerator * Increased stability * Native 32 and 64-bit support Performance Improvements: Open GL performance improves for all ATI Radeon™ X1000 series products. Gains of up to 25% in Doom 3, 48% in Quake 4 and 21% in Prey can be seen on a variety of ATI Radeon™ X1000 cards. These performance gains are noticed under the Windows Vista operating system. Full release notes: https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2...ease_notes.html Download Driver: http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Still no FireGL support? Oh well. The Mobile x1600 drivers seem to work fine for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TokyoKiller Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Can anyone upload the file onto a file sharing service? I have a Dell laptop and I can not download unless its from Dell, which only has like version 6.2 or something. I am asking for the Radeon Mobility version... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tantawi Posted February 21, 2007 Author Share Posted February 21, 2007 Just thought to post my opinion here instead of the main post. I like how AMD (ATI) is dealing with the whole drivers situation in Vista AND in XP, unified drivers with an ACTUAL requested changes/fixes, I really wish I had an ATI card now!! </rant> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baskingridge Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Can anyone upload the file onto a file sharing service? I have a Dell laptop and I can not download unless its from Dell, which only has like version 6.2 or something.I am asking for the Radeon Mobility version... Which Dell? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJLunacy Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 AMAZING STILL NO AIW Support!!! ATI is really dropping the ball. Thanks for the update though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
balupton Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 i just posted in another topic about 10 mins ago saying that i was having some problems with the new drivers, hopefully this will fix them, good timing ati :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Warwagon MVC Posted February 21, 2007 MVC Share Posted February 21, 2007 does this fix error code 43 for anyone as I read on a forum someone talked to ATI and they said they would fix it in the one of the next few driver releases, though I thought it was a chipset problem, but it seems to be only with ATI cards, so who knows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikejd1 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 wow, nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phalesafe Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Open GL performance improves for all ATI Radeon? X1000 series products. Gains of up to 25% in Doom 3, 48% in Quake 4 and 21% in Prey can be seen on a variety of ATI Radeon? X1000 cards. These performance gains are noticed under the Windows Vista operating system. Me likey! Now my wife might actually be able to enjoy using all her openGL based apps again. Now if nvidia would get better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-byte Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 (edited) Hopefully this fixes the problem with the ATI X1950XT cards in Vista, when running fullscreen apps. Update: Nope, the bug is still there. The service ATI external utillity still crashes the displaydriver when running fullscreen apps. Edited February 21, 2007 by [X]-bYtE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudie32 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 (edited) reboot fixed it. working good. Had to download the multilanguage install. The English one said "file not found". Increased my vista graphics score from 3.8 to 3.9. Now sees card as x1300/x1550 series. Edited February 21, 2007 by djdanska Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ToneKnee Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 AMAZING STILL NO AIW Support!!! ATI is really dropping the ball.Thanks for the update though. Maybe so, but Nvidia dropped the ball harder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiagosilva29 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 WTF? This doesn't installs the video drivers! Thunk.exe: INF error Video driver not found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJLunacy Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Maybe so, but Nvidia dropped the ball harder. I could care less how hard they dropped their ball, i don't use nVidia. Good thing I don't have a 1950 AIW I would be throwing some bricks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalsoft Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 hmmm seems to have speeded up my x800GTO dont know what they did but i like it :D, loving the quick releases aswell! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted February 21, 2007 MVC Share Posted February 21, 2007 Can anyone upload the file onto a file sharing service? I have a Dell laptop and I can not download unless its from Dell, which only has like version 6.2 or something.I am asking for the Radeon Mobility version... Just go to http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/ it will always let you download the latest mobile drivers! If you have Vista they have scrapped that verification rubbish :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 Thanks, downloading now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jesse Carlton Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 I could care less how hard they dropped their ball, i don't use nVidia.Good thing I don't have a 1950 AIW I would be throwing some bricks. what are you talking about aiw support??? it's supported by catalyst and there's no such thing as an x1950 AIW, x1900 was the last model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJLunacy Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 what are you talking about aiw support??? it's supported by catalystand there's no such thing as an x1950 AIW, x1900 was the last model If you owned a AIW you would know what I was talking about. I was referring to the lack of AIW support meaning the soft encode and lack of functionality with the TV tuner. Try using MCE under Vista with AIW you will be disappointed. 50 Off, focus on my point instead of model numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MRisos Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Does anyone get a bluescreen after the login screen? Vista Ultimate 32bit ATI X800XL AGP 7.1's work fine but 7.2's bluescreen after logging in.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anguilla1980 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 I just ran the 7.2 installer, choose upgrade, it checked my hardware and software, gave me options to upgrade the driver and CCC like it should but it also gave me the ATI driver for my ATI motherboard chipset!!!!!! 7.1 didn't even have the ATI chipset driver. Upgrade went smooth, rebooted and refreshed my index score and both my aero and 3D figures stayed the same but my HD performance went from only 5.1 to a 5.3! Nice improvement if you ask me considering a 5.1 is pretty good anyway. I was hoping for a increase in my aero and 3D though, Oh well, maybe the next driver version will help that... I only have an X1300 128MB btw... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~D~ Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Anyone else having problems starting Control Center (CLI.exe) up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ar3s Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Anyone else having problems starting Control Center (CLI.exe) up? Me. using 1950xtx. can't start it up. control center goes to the basic one with only 1 option. has errors on installing too. weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lim3918 Posted February 22, 2007 Share Posted February 22, 2007 Hi everyone, I am using Acer Travelmate 8102 series notebook having mobility radeon x700 graphics in it. May i know whether this works with my laptop? Cause previous versions i tried will display some artifacts on 3D graphics. Example: grass on land cant be seen, trees having black cloth "tied" from the tree top down to the root side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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