W3J performance gains with the mobility catalyst 7.3?

Greetings all,

Just reformatted/reinstalled my W3J. I remember late last year I changed over from the Omega drivers I was using over to the (then) new mobility catalyst driver (6.7) and got a significant jump in my 3dmark05 score. Well, now that I've had to reformat, I went back to www.ati.com/online/mobilecatalyst and downloaded the latest 7.3 thinking it should be even better. But after installing the 7.3, every time on startup afterwards it tells me that I need to install a certain version of the .net framework (v2.0.50727) and something about a .net framework initialization error. Then, after I go to Windows update and download .net version 2.0 and install it, it then tells me on startup that "could not load file or assembly MOM.Implementation, version 2.0.2635 or one of its dependencies". This happens whether I uninstall CCC and the W3J stock driver first and then install the new 7.3, OR if I just try to install the 7.3 over the old stock driver. Anyone else on a W3J run into this problem with 7.3? Any workarounds? Is there even any performance gain over the 6.7 anyway to even bother with it? If no workarounds, anyone happen to have an active link to the old 6.7 or 6.8 mobility catalyst drivers from last fall? May be easier to just go back to those (no install problems) . . .

Thanks, from the owner of both a W3J and a W3V (both from Justin actually) Though unfortunately now my wife has "taken over" my W3V for herself . . . * sigh *

 

I would also like to know if 7.3 did anything worth upgrading for. I have the 6.8 drivers installed (6.9s and stock were not working with PowerPlay), but it would be cool to know if the 7.3s are worthwhile. BTW, running XP Pro.

 

I had no problems installing 7.3 on my W3J. I haven't ran any benchmarks, but in my opinion there is a noticeable performance boost in OpenGL games such as HL2 .. but again, I don't have any hard data to prove it.

One other thing, I know some of you W3J owners are getting restarts when the optical battery reaches 0%. I'm happy to report that I haven't yet experienced this problem yet with 7.3. I've tested a number of other drivers, and this seem to be the only one that work with the optical battery.

Hope this helps. Cheers !

One other thing, I did not install the Control Panel and I am not running Power Play.

 

Posts: 0 - How'd he manage that? But for the record if you get MOM.Implementation and other similar errors such as CLI.Implementation etc... that means you need to uninstall the CCC, then install dotNet2.0, then reinstall the CCC. Don't even need to take the drivers off. What I do is if I see that popup that I need dotNet2.0 I go and download it and install it and then click OK and finish the install with no problem. Most ATI packages include the required software as well by default.

Cat

 

No specific problems here.

~ Brett