ATI Catalyst 7.12

EL1TE

20 December 2007 - 23:47 Hot!

AMD have released version 7.12 of their ATI video card driver package.

The Catalyst™ software suite 7.12 contains the following:

Radeon™ display driver 8.442
Multimedia Center™ 9.16 (Windows XP only)
HydraVision™ (Windows XP only)
HydraVision™ Basic Edition (Windows XP only)
Remote Wonder 3.04 (Windows XP only)
WDM Driver Install Bundle
Southbridge/IXP Driver
Catalyst™ Control Center Version 7.12

Download: ATI Catalyst 7.12 | Release Notes

Link: Home Page

26 Comments

thank you god. the last one sucked, heopfully this makes UT3 better.

rajputwarrior said,

thank you god. the last one sucked, heopfully this makes UT3 better.

nothing in the release notes about UT3
and the performance increases are for 3dmark and CoD

AWESOME!

Coz like, yeah. I play 3dmark every day now..... *rolls eyes*

Raa said,

AWESOME!

Coz like, yeah. I play 3dmark every day now..... *rolls eyes*

best game evar!
stuff like this made me glad i went to nvidia
not a single issue since my switch and much better performance

Ouch, their new drivers page is horrible. Solid black background, red text. Do they have to suck at everything they do these days?

They are owned by AMD afterall

FusionOpz said,

They are owned by AMD afterall

Too bad that isn't very relevant. I'm sure AMD doesn't walk into their offices just to tell them what colors to use.

Come on now, red/black have been ATI since forever now. Jeez...

Erm, their logo is red and white. Not that it really matters, it's horrible web page design no matter what the company colors are. Having red text on a black background is just idiotic.

Oh gawd... still forcing steam in the install... canceling it aint pretty

No it doesn't... just uncheck "free games offer".

Cephas said,

No it doesn't... just uncheck "free games offer".

And where is that option? When I install all I get is the option for Earthism and Install Drivers. I just click exit setup once it gets to Steam. It is pretty stupid to try and force us to install that each time. You'd at least think they'd put some functionality in there for detecting whether or not steam was already installed so we wouldn't have to mess with this each time...

LipSmacker said,

Chose the "Custom" install option rather than "Express" ... not hard. :P

LipSmacker said,

When the ATI Installer appear select Custom

Then later will appear a menu which let you install only what you want.

;)

^ Nvidia is no better. I alternate nvidia/ati products each time I upgrade and I've found both companies drivers have glaring issues.

I wish there were some more players in the 3D card market. I miss 3dfx and PowerVR.

This driver supports the 9500 and higher (PCI, AGP and PCI-E).

Rob2687 said,

This driver supports the 9500 and higher (PCI, AGP and PCI-E).

Whoa whoa! So they've actually FIXED the problem with previous drivers (7.7 - 7.11) not working on AGP?

tried installing this while running SP1 RC and the drivers will not install, says its an unsupported operating system! Ouch

Which version of the RC are you running? I have SP1 installed on my system and they installed fine. Could be a bug in ATI's installer though (I did a clean install of SP1 w/Vista Ultimate).

Lexcyn said,

Which version of the RC are you running? I have SP1 installed on my system and they installed fine. Could be a bug in ATI's installer though (I did a clean install of SP1 w/Vista Ultimate).

the latest RC. I installed that over my Vista install with 7.11 and 7.12 barked at me..

so does these actualy work with agp cards now ?? cos my x1950 pro has never liked the other drivers since 7.6

These drivers DO NOT work for my x1950pro agp card , Thanks ATI you ******s , back to 7.6 drivers for me AGAIN

lol

see this: http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati.php

Download: http://www.omegadrivers.net/ati/win2k_xp.php (Only XP is supported at this time)

Mmm how will this drivers work on an x800gto???

Fubar, make sure you do a clean uninstall of the drivers. I had to go in and make sure all files folders and reg keys were gone before I could use drivers above 7.7 on with my x1650 card. (damn software vendors and they're ratty uninstallers)

Kr0m said,

yeah i did all that , cleaned out the folders ran CC cleaner and it still gives me the directx draw failure crap , total pain in the arse

Please Log In or Register to post a comment.

Neowin

Where unprofessional journalism looks better.

ATI Catalyst 7.12