10.7 Beta (Appear to be newer than upcoming WHQL)

Alright...

WHQL is being released today. But we know that ATi has to send in drivers 2 weeks in advance for WHQL certification.

These betas appear to be only a week old. Your choice.

GPU-74: ATI Catalyst? 10.7 Preview Driver for OpenGL ES 2.0 Support

 

these aint for mobility radeons right ?

 

From the AMD download site,

Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):

* Hardware
o ATI Radeon™ HD 5xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
o ATI Radeon HD 4xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
o ATI Radeon HD 3xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
o ATI Radeon HD 2xxx and ATI Radeon Mobility equivalent series of products
o ATI FirePro™ Professional series of products
* Software
o ATI Catalyst Control Center
* Operating System(s)
o Windows 7 32-bit Edition
o Windows 7 64-bit Edition
o Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
o Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
o Windows XP Professional / Home
o Windows XP Media Center Edition

 

oh ......

I missed the "Mobility" part .... thx m8

 

I really hope this fixes the HDMI issues and sleep crashes.

 

Hurray for ATI Catalyst betas.
Thanks for sharing this info.

 

when you try it can you keep us posted because there is no release notes on that thing

 

Just installed this but still says 10.6 in control center?
driver versions are:

2D : 8.01.01.1047
Direct3D: 8.14.10.0768
OpenGL : 6.14.10.10071

 

Check the actual dates of the drivers. If they are recent, it'll be 10.7 beta. Betas usually have the old driver number in CCC.

 

In device manager the driver info is:

Date 18/07/2010
Version 8.753.2.0

 

WHQL now released



10.7 WHQL

32 bit vista & windows 7 ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

64bit vista & windows 7 ATI Catalyst? Mobility Display Driver

 

Wasn't aware these were issues. No HDMI Sleep issues here for any of the drivers.

 

Any info with the new 10.7 release that the "install issue with 10.6" is solved or that Xfire now runs better???

 

for the HD 4570 these drivers are absolutely a no go .... -200 marks in 3DMark06 Vs 10.3a

 

How do they perform in games or vantage? 200 marks in 06 is neither here nor there these days, especially as the programme is as much a CPU benchmark as anything else.

 

Still no support for switchable Intel graphics, according to the release notes.

 

yeah 10.7 has no switchable support.


*shrugs*

10.7 beta did install on my envy14 though. same way 10.6 beta did.

you run it. screen goes blank when the driver is installed. you wait awhile til the hdd stops being used (you wait like 3-5 minutes for the install to finish since windows is still working fine).

then you shut it down from the power button (set it to shut down not sleep) and when you reboot things should work fine.


with the 10.6 alpha from there I was able to install 10.6 whql without issue. just got 10.7 beta to install, haven't tried to install 10.7 whql yet.

 

sucks like hell with Catalyst A.I. is off which is my default ever since 10.3a because when it was on the other releases for me it had a huge frame drop ..... but on the other hand when you turn on Catalyst A.I. u get seriously smooth game play and somewhat increased framerates for some reason on this release

 

Do you have to uninstall current drivers before doing this? I did uninstall and then could not install neither 10.7 beta nor drivers in swsetup, it just installed c++ components and then said that all component are up to date. And of course on radeon GPU and no CCC. Any ideas?

 

I have issues with sleep too. Stupidly annoying.

 

I didn't uninstall since well when I tried that I lost display altogether.

stupid envy

 

They're two separate things.

The sleeps crashes, are just that. Every 10th-12th time I put the machine into sleep, it turns off the screen and hangs. Annoying, especially when I use sleep 8-9 times a day.

The HDMI issues are detection related. I run an external display at home, and if I boot up with it plugged in, no problem. But if I try to detect the display from windows, or try to hot plug, it says the display isn't there and disconnects it.

The official sager 9.12's don't do this, but then you lose a good chunk of performance and other fixes.

 

Sounds like an issue on your part. Asus, MSI or Dell aren't having this issue and few times I glanced in Clevo, haven't seen this problem mentioned.

 

There are other w860cu and w870cu owners that have this problem. It's just not a huge issue, so most of us just live with it.

 

wonder if the beta is better than the whql.

haven't gotten around to installing the release drivers

 

This driver crashed after the install, but a reboot solved that.

 

they're the exact same driver. The Beta has added OpenGL2.0 support, that's it.

incorrect, at least 80% of people have the sleep problem with the M17x, as well as some other issues.

 

alright then.

 

Official 10.7's have been released:

http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/radeonmob_win7-64.aspx

 

How can you tell if the 10.7 update worked and was installed correctly? I don't know where I can see this at? Thanks,

 

I posted the wrong link initially... make sure you download the correct one.

 

I have problems resuming from sleep, even with these drivers. I tried it again, and as soon as i resumed, the display driver crashed and i had to force reboot. Stupid thing is in the event log.

Sadly, back when i had vista x64 in the 9.xx driver days, I never had this issue. Ever since I upgraded to W7, this is the result.

Its a known issue with the hd 3650 in the satelitte a300.

 

read that vsync is broken in 10.7 beta and 10.8 beta.

 

People who work with OpenGL will probably appreciate the beta drivers. I ran Cinebench OpenGL bench (64-bit version) and Cinebench 10 score went from 3137 to 4523 (44% improvement), Cinebench 11.529 even more impressive: from 4.31 to 11.46 (whooping 166% improvement).