ATi Catalyst 8.2 drivers now available

ATi Catalyst 8.2 drivers now available

Cytoned via AMD on 13 February 2008 - 19:52 · 21 comments & 21289 views

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AMD GAME! has released their latest ATi Radeon video drivers which now stands at Catalyst™ 8.2.

Performance improvements with this release of Catalyst™ includes Company of Heroes DX10 frame rates increasing as much as 20% across all of the ATI Radeon™ HD 2x00 series of products and on all ATI Radeon™ HD 3x00 series of products. These performance improvements are even larger (up to 30%) for CrossFire™ configurations.

The drivers can be downloaded here:

Download: Catalyst drivers for Windows XP (32-bit)

Download: Catalyst drivers for Windows XP (64-bit)

Download: Catalyst drivers for Windows Vista (32-bit)

Download: Catalyst drivers for Windows Vista (64-bit)

For more information on Catalyst 8.2 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the Catalyst 8.2 release notes here.

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#1 Burst404 on 13 Feb 2008 - 20:09

Is AMD pulling their head out of their arses? (or is AMD pulling ATi's head out of their arse?)

I hope so, either way. It will be nice to see some competition for nVidia, then maybe they (nVidia) will step up and correct the bugs that infest the SLI systems, and so on...

Wow, I just talked a lot and didn't really say anything... meh.

(2 replies) #2 ana04 on 13 Feb 2008 - 20:22

Yay.. The funny dot is gone that came with the 8.1 drivers when catalyst tray icon was enabled..

#2.1 Beastage on 17 Feb 2008 - 23:02

THAT DOT IS THE MOST STUPID, ANNOYING AND EVIL THING I EVER SEEN!

Thank god 8.2 fixed it.

#2.2 Atlonite on 18 Feb 2008 - 03:06

(Beastage said @ #2.1)

THAT DOT IS THE MOST STUPID, ANNOYING AND EVIL THING I EVER SEEN!

Thank god 8.2 fixed it.

you could have easily fixed it by turning off the system tray icon for ccc

#3 Volatile on 13 Feb 2008 - 21:54

Nvidia and ATI bounce back and forth.

#4 tripleXit on 13 Feb 2008 - 21:55

Does anyone know if these drivers work with AGP cards? Did ATI update the "hotfix" too?

(2 replies) #5 Xenomorph on 13 Feb 2008 - 22:03

I'm wondering about AGP support as well.

I have a Radeon 9800 Pro AGP sitting at home, and I seem to recall support for that (and other cards such as the nice X1950 Pro AGP) seemed to die after the 7.6 release or so.

#5.1 -Hiroshi- on 15 Feb 2008 - 14:32

I believe they dropped AGP support and kept quiet about it, my older machine sports a Radeon 9550 that can't go past early Cat 7 drivers. Really got me steamed too, how can a company suddenly drop support and go so far as disable AGP video cards and not do anything about it? Been using ATi since Windows 9X, and switched to an nvidia card when I got a new PC. Honestly, I couldn't recommend an ATI card anymore.. to anyone. :/

and yeah, I can speak english, honest, what I was getting on about was how ATI could bugger their AGP cards and not say anything or note anywhere that installing these drivers will harm your OS configuration?

#5.2 Laslow on 15 Feb 2008 - 19:09

(Xenomorph said @ #5)

These drivers work fine on my x850 Pro AGP, so I'm pretty sure they'd work on a x1950. I'm not too sure about the 9k series however.

#6 HoochieMamma on 13 Feb 2008 - 22:22

Awesome, so many fixes for my media center using the x1250 and HDMI!

Plus that dot is gone too

#7 +bmdixon on 13 Feb 2008 - 23:02

Haha! I thought that dot was just me! Downloading now...

#8 The Walker on 13 Feb 2008 - 23:24

Linux isn't even mentioned in the release notes.

#9 tripleXit on 13 Feb 2008 - 23:47

Why would it be? These are the Windows release notes. You have to look at the Linux page to find those release notes.

#10 tiagosilva29 on 14 Feb 2008 - 00:23

These 8.* releases jam my PC on right click in the desktop for folders...

#11 Powerchordpunk on 14 Feb 2008 - 00:36

Gives me an error saying it will install an older version of CCC

#12 Doli on 14 Feb 2008 - 00:57

Downloaded 8.1 yesterday (2/12) and the next day 8.2 comes out

(1 reply) #13 +Ironman273 on 14 Feb 2008 - 02:25

I found I never used the Control Center for anything so I've been downloading just the drivers for the last couple of releases. Can anyone think of a downside?

#13.1 Powerchordpunk on 14 Feb 2008 - 05:23

For single-display systems, it's most prominent and useful features are the ATI Overdrive overclocking tool and the ATI PowerPlay controls (for power management / economy).

#14 Sky_Omega on 14 Feb 2008 - 19:18

If anyone's been having trouble playing DVD's via Windows Media Center/Player on Vista 32-bit (Home Premium, but prob others) 8.2 seems to resolve a bug preventing play of non-specific DVD's meaning a 3rd party DVD player is required. Anyone Else experiance this out of interest? Been plaguing me since Nov >.<

(Forum Post On Topic: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?show...entry589208154)

#15 barteh on 15 Feb 2008 - 23:52

does anyone ever use the catalyst control center? I personally just use the driver.

#16 Atlonite on 18 Feb 2008 - 03:10

well i have to use it as there is no OC abillity in atitraytool for my HD2600xt's as of yet (i think unless there's a beta version i dont know about) but thats the only reason for ccc use otherwise i ATI tray tool for everything else though

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