Catalyst Software Suite 7.8

[Dazog]

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

[NienorGT]

You should really make a better post when you post a news, now I can't post mine witch as more information...

AMD released August Drivers package today.

According to reports from the tech site techPowerUp! the new drivers fix a critical flaw in Vista where the Vista Kernel was exposed by the drivers.

More Here and Here.

Download drivers Here (Complete release notes on the Download page)

[mikejd1]

figures, i just formatted my machine last night and put 7.7

[x-byte]

How lazy we are....

Changelog

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:

• Call of Duty->United Offensive: Having all of the in-game settings at their maximum levels along with the Catalyst™ Control Center->3D aspect set to Optimal Quality no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit) operating system failing to respond after a short period of game play. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28793
  

• The default audio device is no longer set to ATI HD Audio after installation of the display driver for the ATI Radeon™ HD2900, HD2600, and HD2400. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28483
  

• Hot-plugging a CRT to a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ X1100/1150 series of product no longer results in extended desktop mode failing to be applied. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25801
  

• Enabling CrossFire™ followed by disconnecting and then reconnecting the CRT display device no longer results in duplicate video options being seen within the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27457
  

• Enabling CrossFire™ followed by setting AA to 14x and AF to 16x no longer results in the AA showing a setting of 0x level when disabling CrossFire™ and unchecking the AA option in the 3D aspect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27458
  

• Making changes to the Color aspect found in the Catalyst™ Control Center without applying the changes no longer results in the Reactivate ATI color controls button remaining active after the Catalyst™ Control Center is closed and then re-launched. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27459
  

• Enabling CrossFire™ followed by setting the OverDrive™ clocks to their maximum settings no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center failing to accurately report the requested OverDrive™ values. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27621
  

• Performing an un-install of the display drivers on a CrossFire™ configured system no longer results in extended desktop mode becoming active resulting in all of the desktop icons failing to appear. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28478
  

• Catalyst™ Control Center->3D->Anti-Aliasing: Unchecking the option to Use Application Setting found in the 3D aspect page when CrossFire™ is enabled no longer results in the maximum AA setting being 6x. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28479
  

• Performing either a custom or express install of the display driver no longer results in the system possibly failing to respond and the installation of the driver failing. This issue was known to occur when using an ATI Radeon™ X1950 CrossFire™ Edition product installed on in a system containing an Intel975. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28481
  

• HDMI audio stutter is no longer heard when playing MPEG clip at certain resolutions on some HDMI device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28484
  

• The Scaling options found in the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer disappears when relaunching the Catalyst™ Control Center after applying optimized and custom formats for Component Video. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28855
  

• Connecting a secondary display device (CRT) and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in invalid refresh rates being available in the Display Manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28787
  

• Making adjustments to the Gamma, Brightness, and Contrast and not applying the changes no longer results in the desktop image failing to return to its default color values when performing a hot-reboot of the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28787
  

• All supported display resolutions are now available in the Display Manager when connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28789
  

• Performing an un-install of the display driver no longer results in the display entering an extended desktop mode and the desktop icons failing to be displayed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28478
  

• Setting the Avivo Video Brightness to less than 0 within the Catalyst™ Control Center no longer results in a white frame being created in the Windows Media Player when fullscreen mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28790
  

• The Enable ATI Overdrive clocks for 3d applications is no longer available on non supported products such as the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product. Further information may be found in topic number 737-28477
  

• Setting the Avivo Video De-interlacing setting to auto, motion adaptive or vector adaptive no longer results in certain DVDs, menu videos and some special features failing to benefit from the options. Further information on this issue may be found in topic number 737-27196
  

• The color depth no longer changes to 8bpp when enabling or disabling CrossFire™ for the first time. Further information may be found in topic number 737-28485
  

• Connecting a TV followed by removing the display resolution of 640x480 from the mode table no longer results in the both the TV and LCD failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28490
  

• An unhandled exception no longer occurs when running an OGL application and resuming from S3 under Vista on various ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1200/1250/1300 series products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27960
  

• Windows Media Player: Playing a DVD in full screen mode no longer results in vertical bar corruption being noticed during playback. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28497
  

• DVD display no longer blinks in red when Overdrive is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28794
  

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

• Star Wars knights of the Old Republic 2: Corruption is no longer seen when running the game on some members of the ATI Radeon™ Xpress 1200/1250/1300 series of products. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27098
  

• CounterStrike Source, Day of Defeat Source, and Half-Life 2 Episode 1, Excessive fog is no longer noticed when playing these games. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28795
  

• The Overscan/Underscan slider bar is no longer enabled when setting display resolutions of 1280x1024 or higher on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 XT series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28843
  

• Adobe After Effects 8: The application no longer fails to load on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ X700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28796
  

• PowerDVD6: Momentary desktop corruption is no longer noticed when minimizing the DVD playback window after stretching the playback window approximately 80%. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28797
  

• The system no longer becomes unresponsive and no longer requires a reboot while randomly moving Video Player window from primary to extended desktop under certain hardware configurations where the second adapter is an ATI Radeon™ X1200/1250/1270 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-27092
  

• A warning message indicating CrossFire™ cannot be enabled because some 3D applications are running or the interconnect cable is not connected, or the motherboard has no communication channels between PCI-Express slots is no longer displayed when using a motherboard with an Intel I965 chipset. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28798
  

• The CrossFire™ page is no longer greyed out and cannot be enabled when attempting to use a software CrossFire™ configuration on a system using a motherboard with an Intel I975 chipset. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28799
  

• The Avivo components are now listed in the ADD/Remove Programs after installation of the display driver. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28800
  

• Switching HD-DVD titles during playback with hardware acceleration enabled no longer results in the playback to be blocked. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28802
  

• WinDVD8: Playing a DVD and changing the video setting to Hardware Acceleration mode no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-28803
  

Edited August 13, 2007 by [X]-bYtE

[Dazog]

How lazy we are....

Changelog

https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2...ease_notes.html

holy was just about to finish posting this.

Some people are impatient ;p

[x-byte]

If you gonna post something, finish it. And don't make som silly first post. Then we don't have x people complaining.

[Dazog]

If you gonna post something, finish it. And don't make som silly first post. Then we don't have x people complaining.

Can't link to the notes directly, ATi has an antileech script :)

[WindowsOnIMac]

holy was just about to finish posting this.

Some people are impatient ;p

I hope all have noticed that these drivers cannot be installed on Apple Intel PCs using Mobility Radeon chipsets, such as the Intel iMacs and the MacBooks.

Donald McDaniel.

[ironsight2000]

close to 100mb for drivers wow they take up more room every time

[marc2003]

71mb for the 32bit vista set compared to 38mb for the 7.7s. they better be good. :p

[ironsight2000]

64 bit 96.8MB

[Shof]

I wonder how big is too big for drivers :o

[+wd40 Subscriber²]

You can download just the drives alone and not the full package. These are just the driver package sizes. With Vista you have to download the whole thing.

Windows XP 32bit: 14.6MB

Windows XP 64bit: 4.0MB

Vista 32bit: 71.3MB

Vista 64bit: 96.8MB

[Miuku.]

Who uses the CCC anyway - just download the driver :-)

[Lee]

Thanks for the news... I can't believe they keep adding to the CCC filesize, it's like 71MB.

[noroom]

Who uses the CCC anyway - just download the driver :-)

I would love to not have to use it, but it offers functionality that isn't available otherwise. Or is there some kind of workaround?

[NienorGT]

You can try ATiTrayTools for Overclocking/3DSettings (you may even do per game settings)

It's mush better IMO

[amrinders87]

71mb for the 32bit vista set compared to 38mb for the 7.7s. they better be good. :p

There is a new folder in Packages\Apps called WebPam. It looks like its some RAID utlitliy and it is 33.3 MB.

Also they have included ATI chipset drivers.

[rajputwarrior]

eh, went from 55 frames per sec in the hl2 lost coast test (settings maxes 1680x1050) to 43. yeah no thanks, imma stick with my 4 month old omegas

[eilegz]

too bad omega dont run on vista i would get it otherwise

[NEVER85]

Do I have to uninstall 7.7 before installing 7.8? I'm relatively new with ATI technology.

[noroom]

I just install them on top of each other. Never given me a problem.

[x-byte]

Do I have to uninstall 7.7 before installing 7.8? I'm relatively new with ATI technology.

It's recomended

[PrEzi]

Here's a LITE package of the Catalyst 7.8 Drivers for Vista ENGLISH VERSION ONLY.

What was removed :

-Steam (so - DON'T check the free games offer and steam in the installer :) )

-Promise WebPam RAID array Control manager

Those who use Mainboards with ATI chipsets AND RAID controllers from Promise

should remember, that the Promise drivers WON'T be updated with the Lite drivers !

Everything else is there ! Compressed by 7-Zip as a self-extracting archive, no need to install 7-zip!

Download :

http://rapidshare.com/files/49016346/7-8-vista32-dd_ccc_wdm_enu_50974.exe

SIZE : 36.9MB !

and X-Byte : I did the upgrade function from cat's beta for vista until now and found not a single problem, so - uninstall not needed on my rig :)