NEW Mobility Catalyst Drivers out! (Ver 7.1)

Were at it again!!
ATI Mobility Catalyst 7.1 drivers are out.

Just remember that ATI officially does not support Acer laptops in there drivers. They may work, they may not. I have the 6.11's on my Aspire 5672 and they work perfectly.
Remeber to create a restore point if you run into any problems.
Good Luck


Link to ATI Mobility Catalyst drivers:
http://www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

 

has anyone had the ballz to try these yet or has everyones graphics been error-free enough not to try these. I am sticking with the 6.11's for now. No problems for me.

 

I have 7.1's and they're fine on xpress 1100

 

Just updated to 7.1 on my 5672 (x1600) today, and all is well so far!

 

Any benchmarks for comparison to older stuff?

 

I have the 7.1s on my 5674 and they cause some problems. If I don't have the settings on the middle default settings, I get artifacts.

 

8204, installed today, works fine, no problems so far.

 

Catalyst 6.8 seems to give better performance in games but other than that the 7.1's don't seem to bad on my 8204. The drivers still have crappy WMV9 hardware acceleration but its no longer technocolor galore.

 

How do you tell what version Catalyst you have installed? Also, any place I can find the 6.8's instead of the current 7.1's?

 

In the Catalyst control center, there should be a tree called Information or something of the sort. Expand it and select Software information. It'll list the catalyst version there.

http://www.3dnews.ru/download/drivers/ati/
This is where I originally got my copy of 6.8's because I missed the update and ATI apparently doesn't archive it's old driver releases or else I just haven't found them. Anyway, they seem to work fine, no virus or random Russian crap. The only thing I found odd was that it would list itself as Catalyst 6.7 in the Information section but it obviously wasn't because the 6.7's for me = WMV9 hardware acceleration in technocolor. Hope that helps

 

Thanks so much for the help, unfortunately I'm feeling a little obtuse about this. I did what you said and don't see any "pretty" 6.7, 6.8, 7.1ish numbers in that listing. This is what I see, maybe you can mak heads and tails of it and help me figure out which version I have:

Driver Packaging Version 8.241.3-060504a1-033170C-Acer
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 6.14.10.6606
2D Driver File Path System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\{7CACBDBB-F423-4A20-8398-9ED57AD54C63}\0000
Direct3D Version 6.14.10.0407
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.5757
CATALYST® Control Center Version 1.2.2315.20449

So do I have 6.14? 1.2.2? 8.2? Sheesh..

Thanks again for your help!

 

I don't know specifically what version that is, but it's old. It's an Acer OEM version too. But, if you don't have any current problems with your drivers and you're satisfied with your gaming performance or the like, then there's no reason for you to upgrade.

 

Good to see more positive feedback then negative. Matt are you overclocking your graphics card. What settings are you talking about, you ingame settings or the quality settings in the control panel? Is you 5674 similar to the 5672?

Zoomastigophora, I noticed (and hate the fact) that ATI's website is horrible compared to Nvidia. We need better release notes and archives. That just makes me believe that they do not support there "older" hardware as much as Nvidia would. Still the Acer 5672 is still pulling strong (even though its really easy to find its max, being a underclocked X1600)

 

Moe I had the same package on my Acer. I would assume its more in the relm of 6.4 or 6.5 drivers. There definelty newer then the ones posted on Acers website(They suck at upgrading drivers). I havent tried the new 7.1's but ATI Mobile version 6.11 work great, especially if your playing newer games like Company of Heroes or Need for Speed Carbon. Those standard Acer drivers are crap unless you don't play games. Ohh and if you plan on playing Unreal 2004 dont use the 6.11's. They dont work well with this set.

 

uh gman4u2 you know the main reason 6.11 --> 6.12 was that frame rates in CoH doubled between the two.

you'll notice CoH runs twice as fast with 6.12 instead of 6.11

 

Honestly, CoH played smoother for me on 6.8's than they seem to on 7.1's (I'm assuming that improvements are usually cumulative and so the 6.12's FPS increase carries over to 7.1). Still, I haven't fully tested the 7.1's in CoH campaign. I know the 6.8's had texture issues on some of the later missions (as in the ground and parts of buildings would vanish).

 

Im curious how its fine on the xpress1100 I just tried and won't load for me.

 

I still have the original on my 5672 w/ X1400 ATI card. What drivers would be best to upgrade to? I don't need the newest, but would like a little better boost in the graphics dept. for Splinter Cell. Stability though is very important, I use this lappy for work too. Thanks!

 

I had the same problem, just use the "hacked" version if you want the updated driver

 

I've read the forum here and also the big 5672 howto thread....

I bought a 5672 awlmi coreduo1.73, 1024 RAM, x1600, 120GB HDD

I uninstalled 7.1 drivers I had after that I used driver cleaner and installed the omega drivers (cat7.1 based).
The problem is that when ingame I was normally using a resolution 1024x768 and it was fullscreen (w/o black stripes on both sides). Now I dont have perfect fullscreen (black stripes). So I installed the 7.1 driver back (from backup DVD) and still have these black stripes

question:
how can I get perfect fullscreen on 1024x768 on omega OR original catalist drivers (something like panscan)

Possible reason : I accidentally deleted the i386 folder with all the win drivers for everything...

THX

Solved: in the ATIcontrolcenter/notebook panel properties/atributes there is an option to "scale image - ful panel size"

that solved my problem. sorry for the inconvenience

Mlakator