ATI Catalyst 8.7 Display Driver released

ATI Catalyst 8.7 Display Driver released

Marcel Klum on 21 July 2008 - 19:08 · 17 comments & 14003 views

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

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#1 venejo on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:02

Why on ATI drivers even on this one, i cannot see the arrow or the cross sign when copying or moving files with drag & drop?.

Last edited by venejo on 22 Jul 2008 - 12:34

(1 reply) #2 thealexweb on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:05

I have a rather old ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card, does this new Driver support it.

#2.1 Digix on 21 Jul 2008 - 21:59

ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series ATI Radeon™ X700 series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series ATI Radeon™ X600 series
ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 series ATI Radeon™ X550 series
ATI Radeon™ X1950 series ATI Radeon™ X300 series
ATI Radeon™ X1900 series ATI Radeon™ 9800 series
ATI Radeon™ X1800 series ATI Radeon™ 9700 series
ATI Radeon™ X1650 series ATI Radeon™ 9600 series
ATI Radeon™ X1600 series ATI Radeon™ 9550 series
ATI Radeon™ X1550 series ATI Radeon™ 9500 series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X1900
Series
ATI Theater 600™
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X1800
Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X600
Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ 2006 Edition
ATI Theater™ 550 PRO
ATI All-in-Wonder™ X800
Series
ATI All-in-Wonder™ 9800
Series
ATI Theater 650™ ATI All-in-Wonder™ 9600
Series

#3 Mystic on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:06

check their website and go through the configuration...

(1 reply) #4 Pandya on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:17

Release notes say desktop support back to the Radeon 9500. Don't think these support your Radeon 7000.

Nothing majorly new or juicy as far as I could see in the release notes, just a general bugfix and minor performance increase driver.

#4.1 GP007 on 21 Jul 2008 - 21:12

You'll probably notice more with the newer 48xx cards imo. Older cards would get very minor performance boosts at best.

#5 venejo on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:27

These drivers supports from ATI Radeon™ X800 series and Up.

#6 ataris_kid on 22 Jul 2008 - 00:10

This fixed the issues I was having with Steam games and my X1950XT --

"Running various games on a system containing an ATI Radeonâ„¢ X18x0 series of product no longer results in Time-out Detection and Recovery (TDR) when having Catalyst AI set to Advanced. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35828"

Apparently that was an issue with the X19x0 cards as well. Oh well, fixed! =)

(2 replies) #7 Ender2070 on 22 Jul 2008 - 03:23

Hopefully it fixes my 4850

#7.1 Beastage on 22 Jul 2008 - 10:59

(Ender2070 said @ #7)

Hopefully it fixes my 4850

Lol... you forgot to specify what was wrong! if it is heat... I doubt drivers will fix it.

#7.2 tsupersonic on 22 Jul 2008 - 13:11

(Beastage said @ #7.1)

(Ender2070 said @ #7)

Hopefully it fixes my 4850

Lol... you forgot to specify what was wrong! if it is heat... I doubt drivers will fix it.

Actually you'd be surprised what drivers can fix.

(1 reply) #8 LipSmacker on 22 Jul 2008 - 12:33

Two things that really annoy me about the Radeon driver/software updates:

1) They always try to throw a bunch of garbage down your throat . It used to be that they wanted you to install Earthism or Steam. Now they want to install a free trial of WOW. Just give us the drivers and CCC, nothing else.

2) It seems more often than not the version of CCC packaged with the latest driver is usually an older version than the version of CCC that you already have.

#8.1 TRC on 22 Jul 2008 - 20:03

I agree, having those stupid toolbars and offers are annoying enough but to include them with a device driver is just sheer stupidity. Stop it AMD, we know you're going broke but give us a break here.

(1 reply) #9 foonacha on 22 Jul 2008 - 15:04

No "Hotfix" 8.7 for AGP on Vista as of yet

Why can't they release at the same time as the Std drivers?

#9.1 Foub on 22 Jul 2008 - 17:59

Same problem with XP as well. You should go to the card's manufacturer for a driver. i.e. Sapphire. They had a fix under 8.6 for AGP for both XP and Vista for their cards.

#10 Daokoras on 22 Jul 2008 - 19:17

I hope this wont crash my Display Drivers in Vista like 8.6 did

#11 Alex_is_Axel on 24 Jul 2008 - 19:24

Just thought id let anyone know whos interested, i have an ATI Radeon 9600pro and i dont seem to get any atim2tag errors on my event viewer anymore and it hasnt crashed during any games. Ill keep you posted if it does still continue but they may have resolved that old graphiccard error bug

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