AMD (ATI) Catalyst 7.5

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AMD/ATI have released their latest set of video card drivers for both Windows XP and Windows Vista, Catalyst™ 7.5.

New Features:

DirectX 10 driver support for the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT (single card and CrossFire™ configurations) for Windows Vista
This release of Catalyst™ introduces the ATI DirectX 10 driver for the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT, for both single cards and CrossFire™ configurations. The ATI DirectX 10 driver used in combination with the Radeon™ HD 2900 XT (and an application designed to take advantage of the power of the DirectX 10 API) delivers incredible graphics effects never seen before on the PC.
Second Generation ATI Theater™ 650
This release of Catalyst™ introduces the second generation ATI Theater™ 650. This product will provide support for the new MCE 2006 requirements such as DRM support. Further, it will include features to support ATI All-In-Wonder products. It will also provide improved TV quality and Broadcast Flag support which enables full US terrestrial DTV support.

Performance Improvements
OpenGL performance is improved on the ATI Radeon™ X1950 XTX at high resolutions (1920x1200 or greater) with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled. Doom 3 and Quake 4 improves as much as 13-18%, and Prey improves at least 15.6%. The ATI Radeon™ X1950 Pro and X1650 XT also sees improvements in Doom 3 and Quake 4 of up to 14.1% at higher resolutions with anti-aliasing and anisotropic filtering enabled.

Download for: Vista 32bit | Vista 64bit | Radeon XP 32bit | Radeon XP 64bit | Radeon MCE

Link: Driver Page | Forum Discussion (Thanks Dazog)

#1 WICKO on 01 Jun 2007 - 00:54

Nice, hopefully this will have fixed some of the issues we saw in the 2900XT reviews, maybe even bump up the performance a bit.

(2 replies) #2 eilegz on 01 Jun 2007 - 01:09

where are the mobility radeon drivers for vista

#2.1 rob.derosa on 01 Jun 2007 - 06:48

Currently AMD does not provide any driver support for Mobility Radeon™ products. All driver and technical support for Mobility Radeon™ products is provided by the original laptop or notebook manufacturer. The drivers that are available for download at ati.amd.com are for desktop products only.

#2.2 DomFel on 01 Jun 2007 - 11:38

To anybody looking for ati mobility drivers:
For WindowsXP go to this link: http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

For Windows Vista: download the latest suite for desktops, then modify the drivers using this tool:
http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/

(1 reply) #3 DKAngel on 01 Jun 2007 - 01:09

least ati have the game in the bag with drivers, half the shiz in nvidias drivers dont work

#3.1 Davebo on 01 Jun 2007 - 12:44

Trust me - ATI's drivers are crap as well. We need a decent 3rd choice in the video card marketplace...

(1 reply) #4 Marshalus on 01 Jun 2007 - 01:19

Since when did ATI start bundling junk with their driver installers?

#4.1 Nexus- on 01 Jun 2007 - 06:11

Now i guess. The earth thing looks like pure junk and steam isnt junk.
However i do think neither should be bundled with the installer, you do have a choice via checkboxes and they dont attempt to hide it like spyware would.

(1 reply) #5 NinjaGinger on 01 Jun 2007 - 10:37

Any issues with these drivers, it seems to put my PC monitor into hibernate and cannot bring it back until I go in safe mode and roll back to 7.4. Help would be appreciated. Should say the issue is in the install procedure, you know how your monitor flashes as it is installing new drivers.

#5.1 Beastage on 01 Jun 2007 - 10:42

Same!!! this drivers are bugged! I have 3 PC's with 3 diffrent ATI cards , running 2 XP's and 1 Vista -- same problem in all!

#6 devn00b on 01 Jun 2007 - 16:46

cant use 32bit color depth with these drivers or it puts my lcd into a smaller non native resolution.

#7 TR1GG3R on 01 Jun 2007 - 18:14

these drivers killed my card or near enuff to not want to use it to play games i have a x1800 crossfire edtion and over half of the settings in lineage 2 are greyed out compaired to 7.4's where i could have everything full whack ive even reverted back to 7.4's and the options still greyed out way to go ati u seem to break drivers rather than fix them

#8 Westling on 02 Jun 2007 - 08:56

Well after I installed 7.5 I get a resolution to wide for my widescreen...

I use 1680x1050 and it worked great with last version but this new one is no good.

#9 Solid Edge on 03 Jun 2007 - 20:38

I installed these drivers updating from 7.1 They seem better, really on games like madden07 and NFS most wanted. I have no problems and the install went smooth(for once)

#10 kevpan815 on 05 Jun 2007 - 22:36

Works Great With Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Beta 3, Just Fyi.

#11 Kr0m on 08 Jun 2007 - 20:18

I too have this problem.
I first had it in WindowsXP which resulted in the previously mentioned issues. My monitor would just cycle in the power off/mode before it got the login screen.
I recently installed Vista Home Basic on a 2nd harddrive, which is dual booting fine. Downloaded the proper drivers for my system, rebooted and they installed fine. Since my resolution was still in 800x600, I went and changed it to 1440x900 then this is when I experience the same problem as I had in XP. My monitor cycles on/off.
Hardware:
Monitor: LG 194WTX (Digital)
Video Card: ATI Radeon x1650 Pro 512MB AGP
Motherboard: Asus P4P800S-X
HD0: WinXP
HD1: Vista Home Basic 32bit

(It's good to know others out there are having this same problem. Now I have the task of trying to get the 7.5s off of Vista and installing the 7.4s.)

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