ATI Catalyst Drivers and Windows 7 RC


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As some of you will know, I'm still learning a lot ;)

My knowledge is generally good and I was confident enough to install the Windows 7 beta.

Now, because of many deadlines looming in the next few weeks, I cannot do a clean install of the release candidate, so I am in the middle of doing an upgrade (I have done the work-around and it is now upgrading :)).

Just before it upgraded though, it said it recommends I uninstall 5 programs as they may not function properly after the upgrade, most of which could be re-installed again.

I decided to continue the upgrade at the moment and just uninstall them later, if I need to; however, I am confused as two of those 'programs# were ATI drivers. ATI Catatlyst something or other...

Has anybody else had a problem with incompatible ATI drivers? If so, is there anything I can do? Will my computer work enough for me to be able to upgrade to any compatible updates which are specifically for the release candidate?

I don't really know much about drivers, but I'm worried that when this release candidate finishes installing, my computer will not work :p

Any help or links to compatible versions would be very much appreciated :happy:

(P.S. Please don't say "you shouldn't install development builds unless you know what you are doing" as I do know what I am doing with just about every other OS installing issue, just not this one. Also... I couldn't wait any longer :p I was still on build 7000)

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There are beta drivers of ATI Catalyst on the ATI/AMD support site, I have been using them without a problem. Usually Windows 7 installs drivers for your GPU anyway but if you want Catalyst then just pop over to thier support website and you can download and install them just like other drivers.

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Juts uninstall the drivers and install the windows 7 ati drivers after the upgrade: (vista drivers should work fine too if your card is too old for the wdm1.1 drivers)

ATI offers windows 7 drivers right on their site:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx

What ati card do you have?

Thanks for the quick reply :)

That sounds easy enough, thanks.

I'm more of a software guy though so still learning and unfortunately don't know how to check which ATI card I have :/ :blush:

How do I do that please? 'Control Panel > System'? Device Manager?

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Just go to the windows experience index(right click computer>properties>windows experience index) and go to "view and print detailed performance information"

Under graphics it shows the model, where mine says "9600gt"

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Just go to the windows experience index and go to "view and print detailed performance information"

Under graphics it shows the model, where mine says "9600gt"

Brilliant, I'll check it out after the upgrade :) Thanks a lot for your help and the screenshot, I really do appreciate it :happy:

Always learning ;)

There are beta drivers of ATI Catalyst on the ATI/AMD support site, I have been using them without a problem. Usually Windows 7 installs drivers for your GPU anyway but if you want Catalyst then just pop over to thier support website and you can download and install them just like other drivers.

Thanks for your input also :) Much appreciated!

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