Ati Catalyst Mobility 7.1

Edit: for Control Panel version read down to post number 6

For your downloading pleasure:
http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

The ATI Catalyst Mobility™ 7.1 software suite for Windows XP contains the following:

ATI Radeon™ display driver 8.33
ATI Catalyst™ Control Center version 7.1


Operating Systems Supported
The ATI Catalyst Mobility™ software driver is Microsoft WHQL certified for the Windows XP operating system. AMD Inc. recommends that Windows XP service pack 2 or higher be installed.

System Integrator and Original Design Manufactures Support
The Catalyst™ Mobility™ software driver verifies system requirements before installation. The Catalyst™ Mobility™ software driver provides support for the following System Integrators and Original Design Manufactures: Table 1: Supported System Integrators and Original Design Manufactures
Alienware
FIC
rockdirect
NEC-CI

Arima
HyperSonic PC
Sager
Fujitsu
Siemens

Clevo
Mitac
Uniwill
ECS

Eurocom
MSI
Velocity Micro



Falcon Northwest
Pro-Star
VoodooPC





AMD Mobility™ product family support
The ATI Catalyst Mobility™ software suite for Windows XP is designed to support the following AMD Mobility™ products:

ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1800 XT
ATI Mobility; Radeon™ X1800
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1600
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1400
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1300
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X800 XT
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X800
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X700
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X600
ATI Mobility Radeon™ X300
ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9800
ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9700 series
ATI Mobility Radeon™ 9600 series

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Note: Certain mobile products are blocked from downloading the ATI Catalyst Mobility™ software driver available from the AMD web site. This is to protect systems from installing drivers that may disable features or functionality provided by the system manufacture.

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Resolved Issues
This section provides information on issues that have been resolved in the latest release of the ATI Catalyst Mobility™ software suite. These include the following:

Display corruption is no longer noticed when switching between windowed DOS prompt and a full screen DOS prompt. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24437
ATI Catalyst Control Center™: Help files on options that are no longer available are now removed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25228
ATI Catalyst Control Center™->Avivio Video->Theater Mode->Help: The Theater Mode Overlay Playback in Extended Desktop option is no longer available in the Catalyst Control Center Help file when using advanced View. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25229
ATI Catalyst Control Center™: Pressing F1 for Help on the display option no longer results in the For Display of limited resolution capabilities option being available for products that do not support this feature. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25230
Installing the AMD software driver no longer results in the ATI Catalyst Control Center™ failure to be displayed in the menu option when right-clicking on the desktop. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25231
The hibernation progress bar no longer fails to expand across the width of the screen when entering hibernation mode on a system containing an ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1600. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25232
PowerDVD 6.5: Playing an HD-DVD no longer results in corruption being noticed on systems running Windows XP and containing an ATI Mobility Radeon X1800. Further information can be found in topic number 737-24435

Known Issues
This section provides information on known issues associated with the ATI Catalyst Mobility™ 7.1 software driver for Windows XP.

ATI Catalyst Control Center->Video Adjustments: The ATI flag may fail to wave under the Windows Vista operating system Further details can be found in topic number 737-24436
Resuming from an S4 state on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1700 series of product may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25233

Ivan

 

Posted yesterday but under Acer:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=97808&highlight=catalyst

 

Thanks Ivan! Stillo won't work on the x200m I'll wager so it makes little difference to me!

Man I hope there's an Omega version of this!

 

Although you should have mentioned this in the updating drivers thread, thanks for the update.

(my post copied from other thread)
edit: Ok i had to make sure i had the same version of 3dmark05 to test (1.3.0). catalyst 7.1 got me 2470, omega 6.9 got me 2525, 6.12 got me 2510. Not too sure what i should do lol.

 

Not enough changes, particularly performance changes to warrant an update IMO.

 

Sorry guys if I wasted your time, perhaps this will cheer you up then!

You hate CCC? And like Control Panel? Then this can help:
Files
ATI Catalyst 7.1
Size: 24.2Mb
Hits: 2227
Author: ATI
Description: CP
Operation System: Windows XP/2000

http://www.ngohq.com/home.php?page=Files&go=cat&dwn_cat_id=18

Cheers,

Ivan

 

Still no sign of support for the X1700 as was mentioned in the driver update guide. I suppose the X1300 & X1400 include the X1350 and the X1450, but I'd be interested to know if anyone can install the ATI drivers with those cards.

Thanks for the update Ivan.

 

I actually use Catalyst Control Center for its excellent Avivo video converter!

 

Interesting that the X1700 gets a mention in the release notes under the known issues "Resuming from an S4 state on a system running Windows XP and containing an ATI Mobility Radeon™ X1700 series of product may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25233". So did ATI deliberately leave out support for the X1700 because they can't get the power management to work properly?

John

 

Don't know if this applies to Mobile Catalyst. But here's a link to the desktop Catalyst 7.1 performance analysis by Tweaktown, if you already haven't read it..

 

Yes usapatriot. That is the only thing I need CCC for. Unfortunately.

And ronkotus - thanks for the link. Seems that these are just nothing new to us with mobility GPUs.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

This update really did nothing haha =/ .

omega's 6.9 still gives the best performance. unfortunately its a little grainy on the x1000 series. can't wait for the new version though.

 

3d Mark 05 scores dropped about 50, 06 scores dropped about 100. Also, getting some corruption with text in some games. Hopefully 7.2 will be released soon and fix these problems.

 

That's really disappointing, thanks for sharing. ATI's updates leave me shaking my head sometimes.

 

7.1 is a little more stable when overclocked for me.

 

And when Chaz shakes his head, the whole forum shakes its head, and the new posters tremble.

 

ROFL, I didn't know I had that much influence around here.

 

With the driverversion 6.14.10.6641 (dunno what catalyst number) im getting 3010 marks in '06, and with the 7.1 catalyst im getting 3022 marks

 

Chaz your a deity here. I am sure people have made songs about your greatness. lol

On Topic: Hmm...I am not really sure what I should do. Some say 7.1 helps and some say it doesn't. I think I will just wait.
Tim

 

Don't get 7.1. stick with omegas for now unless you play company of heroes or dark messiah of might and magic.

 

Some people fixed their FEAR performance with 7.1. But may be just a coincidence.

I will not install it yet. My OC settings are stable enough on 6.11 that I have.

Ivan

 

So why does ATI not offer support for there own mobile gpu(x1700) anyone?

this is really weird don’t ya think I mean is it because they don’t offer this GPU to all their partners strange just plain ole strange there cant be any excuse for this.

 

Seeing how HP is not on the supported manufacturers list, does this work well with the HP nc8430?

 

Finally got around to uploading some screenshots from these amazing CCC 7.1 drivers on my X1400. These two games (Raven Shield and Chaos Theory), BF 2142, and The Sims 2 are the only games I have CDs for with me at school. BF works fine, but the other three have problems (some Raven Shield and Chaos Theory screenies below). The Sims only has corruptin in the menu and is fine once in the game. Patiently awaiting 7.2.

 

I got problems, too. With me is Titan Quest, Silk Road and NWN2. Oblivion stills working fine. Revert back to 6.9 until this problem is solved. Mine is X1400.

 

Wow! Those are some screwed up shots. You might almost think the card is overheating.. I have played FEAR, Oblivion, Company of Heroes, Morrowind and The Temple of Elemental Evil. No problems with Mobile Cats 7.1.

 

Ronkotus - thanks for the info - cause I play FEAR and CS:S mostly. So YOu say nothing is bad? Good to know. Anyway do you play FEAR online? If you do, join our NBR FEAR clan. www.thegamebooks.com. Mofo and Oz from NBR are also in. We play from time to time. It is fun.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I reverted back to 6.9 after I noticed the problems, it just took me a while to get around to posting some pics. All is back to normal will 6.9.

 

So definitely no 7.1 for me! "Don't fix it if it ain't broken" if my english is good enough.

Cheers,

Ivan

 

I've noticed probably an increase of 5 fps in CSS after changing to 7.1

I think they work fairly well...I havn't tried FEAR yet, but I'll be more than happy to get SS's to compare