Can't install ATI Catalyst drivers for X1950Pro


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I seem to be having weird problems with the RC ;)

In the beta (7000) I could install the Vista drivers for my Radeon X1950Pro graphic card and it worked flawlessly.

Unfortunately, ATI decided not to support old graphic cards - only Radeon HD 2000 and upper are supported with a WDDM 1.1 compatible driver.

So I wanted to install the 9.3 version - the last one to support X1950 and older chips. Unfortunately, the installer tells me there were errors. In the log file, it says "Driver Install: the specified driver package was not installed for matching devices.".

Is there anything I can do? Or is my graphic card doomed? It works fine on Vista...

edit - the drivers provided with Windows 7 (Radeon x1950 Series (Microsoft Corporation - WDDM)) seem to work fine, but only with the desktop and Direct3D games - ATI Catalyst Control Center doesn't work and there is no support for OpenGL (which only runs in software mode - and that's slow as hell and won't let me play Quake 4). Please help!

edit 2 - installing 9.2 version caused the screen to go blank during installation. After resetting my computer, a standard VGA driver was loaded and the ATI CCC displayed a message saying there's no ATI hardware detected. Rolling back the driver restored the Microsoft one. I guess ATI won't care about an outdated graphic board - even though 99% of current games run fine in DX9 (maybe except Crysis).

Edited by soulburner
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Hey there. I had the same problem.

ATI have moved the X1950 and all cards before it to the legacy range. Therefore, they are not providing proper win 7 drivers yet. Its not clear from the website if they will.

I have one of the Vista drivers installed just fine, I think it was 9.2. The screen is supposed to go blank for up to 30 seconds when the driver is installing.

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