ATi Catalyst v6.6 Drivers out

ATi Catalyst v6.6 Drivers out

Steven Parker on 27 June 2006 - 11:25 · 11 comments & 5041 views

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Thanks to edgarf28 for this update, ATi have released a new version of the catalyst driver suite yesterday.

This particular software suite updates both the ATI Display Driver (version 8.263), and the Catalyst® Control Center (version 6.6). This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The ATI Catalyst® software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

Report your findings with this update, better or worse?

Download: ATi Catalyst v6.6 | 34.8 MB (Requires Net Framework)

Link: Release Notes | Back Page News Discussion

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#1 AnarKhy on 27 Jun 2006 - 13:38

hate ati drivers, next time i will buy nvidia

#2 corey1138 on 27 Jun 2006 - 14:24

Im forced to agree, ATI cards are great cards, the drivers are strange.

(1 reply) #3 rob.derosa on 27 Jun 2006 - 20:26

strange how?

#3.1 Croquant on 28 Jun 2006 - 04:11

There's nothing really wrong with ATI's drivers per se. It's the damm Catylist Control Center (the CCC) and it's dependence on MS's .NET framework that's the problem. You have no choice if you use a X1800 or newer, but if you're running X850's or earlier, use the Control Center version. The Control Center is not avalable from ATI anymore, but you can still get it if you Goolge for it.

#4 travl0r on 27 Jun 2006 - 23:46

waiting for the omega's

#5 El-Diablo on 28 Jun 2006 - 01:52

I've never had a problem with the official ATi Drivers, i actually find them to be quite alright.

#6 whitedragon on 28 Jun 2006 - 18:05

The official ATi drivers seem to work better than the Omega drivers on my X1900XTX.

#7 Munki on 29 Jun 2006 - 13:49

Got it and installed it, ty.

#8 cipher1024 on 30 Jun 2006 - 13:43

the drivers are fine...maybe your systems are crappy

well most probably! hehe

now maybe you're installing the control center which requires .NET

i bet you know .NET causes the pc to crawl. Try just the drivers and let the aplications control the graphix. provided you have a v.good performance gaming PC then you'll see satonishing results.

I mostly installl the drivers ...rarely the control center. BUT if I do, i make sure i disable the runtime which is run by a "delay" if you've noticed using msconfig.

also a service to disavle is the ati smart, ati hotkey poller and driver user mode framework or sth like this using the services.msc

to recap; the DRIVERS are great, they even enabled an extra feature which was disabled for cards <X800 the AA adaptive antialiasing.

NVIDIA sucks...taking an example from their mobo built-in firewalls...I have a state of the art machine and the first time on a clean install of windows the firewall then enabled crashed my system...so wise thought to disabled...

later

#9 cipher1024 on 30 Jun 2006 - 13:45

one more; the officials always work better than the omega. The omega is using old files in combination to new ones. Well, for being a new one means there's sth wrong with the old one...WTF no idea why one could use unofficial drivers or tools that run at boot and cause hellot resource boning

#10 mfinn999 on 05 Jul 2006 - 13:27

On ATI's download page download the file that says "Display Driver Only" and then google for "ATI Tray Tools". It gives you all the options, but can be loaded only when you need to change the settings. It's better than ATI's control panel or Control Center, IMO.

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