Digitalx Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Not sure if this has been posted yet or not but stumbled upon them, haven't got round to trying them yet. 737-39069: ATI Catalyst Windows 7 Preview Driver Package The information in this article applies to the following configuration(s): * Radeon? HD 4000 Series * Radeon? HD 3000 Series * Radeon? HD 2000 Series * Mobility Radeon? HD 4000 Series * Mobility Radeon? HD 3000 Series * Mobility Radeon? HD 2000 Series * AMD 780G * AMD 780V * AMD 790GX * Windows 7 ATI Catalyst Windows 7 preview driver package - includes the Windows 7 driver, and the ATI Catalyst Control Center (with limited feature support). To download the Catalyst Windows 7 Preview Driver , please click on the links below: Catalyst 32-bit Windows 7 Preview Driver Catalyst 64-bit Windows 7 Preview Driver To view the release notes for the Catalyst Windows 7 Preview Driver, please click the link below: Catalyst Windows 7 Preview Driver Release Notes Note: This driver is provided as is and is not supported by AMD. It has not completed full AMD testing. http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default...uestionID=39069 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 looks like they are learning from the whole vista driver debacle and are testing earlier. Hopefully nvidia follows suit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Typhoon87 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 ATI had better launch drivers than Nvidia did, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrambo Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 ATI had better launch drivers than Nvidia did, But crappy hardware and now that they have HD4870 the picture in driver department is different. http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=c...59&Itemid=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurmoth Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 But crappy hardware and now that they have HD4870 the picture in driver department is different.http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=c...59&Itemid=1 What exactly does that have to do with nVidia's poor driver support at Vista's launch? Those drivers aren't for Windows 7 now are they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrambo Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 What exactly does that have to do with nVidia's poor driver support at Vista's launch? Those drivers aren't for Windows 7 now are they? Nvidia drivers at Vista's lunch were perfectly good here Forceware as well as NForce. I didn't have major problem on it, nor it caused Vista instability and BSOD. Performace wasn't up to standards but that came later with newer releases which is understandable. Nforce and Forceware are top notch now. I can see only ATI users are screaming about not having proper crossfire support for example for newer games etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nvidia drivers at Vista's lunch were perfectly good here Forceware as well as NForce. I didn't have major problem on it, nor it caused Vista instability and BSOD. Performace wasn't up to standards but that came later with newer releases which is understandable. Nforce and Forceware are top notch now. I can see only ATI users are screaming about not having proper crossfire support for example for newer games etc. are you day dreaming ? they are crap ! they keep crushing the windows with a little nice bsod ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrambo Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 are you day dreaming ?they are crap ! they keep crushing the windows with a little nice bsod ! Not here buddy. I say problem is between chair and keyboard. I wish i know what the heck people are doing with their system, and how they manage to get BSOD because i didn't get that since Windows 98, not counting BSOD i get when i do overclocking for myself and other people caused by not having enough voltage or inproper memory timings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Not here buddy. I say problem is between chair and keyboard. I wish i know what the heck people are doing with their system, and how they manage to get BSOD because i didn't get that since Windows 98, not counting BSOD i get when i do overclocking for myself and other people caused by not having enough voltage or inproper memory timings. no no no ! since when have you been using vista ? i was using it since the very beginning for you knowlodage there driver were very buggy and crush the computer , forceware series 100.xx which was supposed to be proper driver for vista WHQL or whatever they call em and there was nothing overclocked (if you can get those set of driver try them and tell me who many crush you had) not mentioning all those odd "the driver has crushed and has been recovered " there driver became really stable with forceware ~160.xx and that what like five/six month after vista release ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nvidia drivers at Vista's lunch were perfectly good here Forceware as well as NForce. I didn't have major problem on it, nor it caused Vista instability and BSOD. Performace wasn't up to standards but that came later with newer releases which is understandable. Nforce and Forceware are top notch now. I can see only ATI users are screaming about not having proper crossfire support for example for newer games etc. LOL my 7600gs could hardly play cs:s when vista was first released. Later when they got better fps was on par with xp. their launch drivers were awful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hjf288 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nvidia drivers at Vista's lunch were perfectly good here Forceware as well as NForce. I didn't have major problem on it, nor it caused Vista instability and BSOD. Performace wasn't up to standards but that came later with newer releases which is understandable. Nforce and Forceware are top notch now. I can see only ATI users are screaming about not having proper crossfire support for example for newer games etc. This guy must be smoking crack.. The amount of issues early nVidia drivers had with "Display driver has stopped responding" was ridiculous at launch.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 ATi have been very smooth with their drivers for most part since 6.x specially during vista development. nvidia did have hard time during that period though. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070206-8784.html http://forum.osnn.net/showthread.php?t=84041 etc etc etc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesVault Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 looks like they are learning from the whole vista driver debacle and are testing earlier. :no: there's nothing new in that, because both ATI and NVIDIA released beta/preview drivers for Vista since the early beta builds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ci7 Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 :no: there's nothing new in that, because both ATI and NVIDIA released beta/preview drivers for Vista since the early beta builds. except that they were crappy drivers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digitalx Posted November 25, 2008 Author Share Posted November 25, 2008 they're still available publicly to anyone who wants to see and compare ati's pre-release/beta/preview drivers for vista and nvidias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nmesisca Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Not here buddy. I say problem is between chair and keyboard. I wish i know what the heck people are doing with their system, and how they manage to get BSOD because i didn't get that since Windows 98, not counting BSOD i get when i do overclocking for myself and other people caused by not having enough voltage or inproper memory timings. hahah this one is hilarious. wish I could have called you when my rig was continuosly crashing on the stupid driver. it started working (sort of) with the 165 version. If you didnt have any of them, great for you buddy, but that doesnt make the thousands of unsatisfied customers any more happy after spending hundreds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panda X Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nvidia: That still happens to this day. For other people that is. After those 25 crashes in one hour while idle listening to music, I went online and ordered an ATI. Haven't regretted it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrambo Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nvidia: That still happens to this day. For other people that is. After those 25 crashes in one hour while idle listening to music, I went online and ordered an ATI. Haven't regretted it. The problem is BIOS flash people do on their Nvidia cards. I have seen people with exact system i have with that problem. It mostly happens with SLI, didn't see it happening with GTX200 series but i heard of it. Things like mismatch cards with different clock speed will cause it as well. I never had this problem. I used SLI 8800GTX, now i'm on GTX280 SLI. Not sure what to tell you. Enjoy your ATI card i suppose. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mordkanin Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 looks like they are learning from the whole vista driver debacle and are testing earlier. Hopefully nvidia follows suit. Indeed. Plus, it's nice to see that they aren't repeating their god-awful Mobility Radeon driver policy of "Screw off. No drivers for you." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Examinus Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Indeed.Plus, it's nice to see that they aren't repeating their god-awful Mobility Radeon driver policy of "Screw off. No drivers for you." They provided Mobility for Vista beta and RTM for a while, then just randomly stopped. :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Indeed.Plus, it's nice to see that they aren't repeating their god-awful Mobility Radeon driver policy of "Screw off. No drivers for you." yeah that really annoys me. I am forced to use old drivers on my notebook because gateway never updates theirs. Nvidia does the same thing to notebook users too though :( Not here buddy. I say problem is between chair and keyboard. I wish i know what the heck people are doing with their system, and how they manage to get BSOD because i didn't get that since Windows 98, not counting BSOD i get when i do overclocking for myself and other people caused by not having enough voltage or inproper memory timings. When I installed vista when it first came out it was on a stock non oc'd dell and I had all the proper drivers and such. but games performance was GOD AWFUL. but after many driver updates it eventually equaled xp in gaming performance and I could finally stop dual booting. Nvidias launch drivers were definitely poor. They are fine now though. There is like a 1-2 fps difference between vista and xp at the most. I did not get any bluescreens or anything though (luckily). Those **** nvidia drivers are a huge reason vista has bad rep today. and when I built the computer I have now I had no problems at all because of the greatly matured drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevember Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 looks like they are learning from the whole vista driver debacle and are testing earlier. Hopefully nvidia follows suit. ATI did same with Vista, they had drivers testing in early alphas, its Nvidia need to learn. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjrambo Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Windows 7 uses same driver model like Vista. It should not be a big of deal this time around. Also i'm sure ATI and NVIDIA will play with DX11 on Vista platform. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waruikoohii Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 Nvidia drivers at Vista's lunch were perfectly good here Forceware as well as NForce. I didn't have major problem on it, nor it caused Vista instability and BSOD. Performace wasn't up to standards but that came later with newer releases which is understandable. Nforce and Forceware are top notch now. I can see only ATI users are screaming about not having proper crossfire support for example for newer games etc. Maybe you didn't have problems, but in the first six months of Vista's life, nVidia's graphics drivers caused ~50% of all Vista crashes. That means something was horribly wrong with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winlonghorn Posted November 25, 2008 Share Posted November 25, 2008 looks like they are learning from the whole vista driver debacle and are testing earlier. Hopefully nvidia follows suit. Yes, if anything NVidia needs to light a fire under their driver devs to get this done. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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