New ATI Catalyst Drivers are out!

ATI released their Catalyst 7.5 drivers:

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/integrated-vista32.html


These drivers brought my Gateway MT3707's 3Dmark05 score up from a pathetic 541 to a rock solid 565!!!


Also Creative released updated drivers for Vista 32/64!
And Nvidia released new Vista drivers (158.24) for it's 8800 series! http://www.nvidia.com/object/winvista_x86_158.24.html

 

Hmm, I don't feel any performance improvement.

 

here is a quick link to thier mobile catalyst 7.5 drivers for xp
http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/

 

I do not think the upgrade is worthwhile to Windows XP users.

 

well i upgraded to it and i dont rly notice much difference in performance

 

There rarely are any performance improvements, especially for mobility radeons. New versions usually only fix bugs and problems with previous drivers.

 

Unless ur running a HD 2000 series, i doubt it makes a difference..

 

It gave me a "VPU Accelerator Error" after a few hours of use (during which the unit locked up). Catalyst 7.4 did the same thing.

I guess its back to 7.3................

 

Hopefully you didn't install Mobility Radeon driver, because it's the wrong one for ATi Radeon Xpress 200M. This is the correct one for Xpress 200M: http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/integrated-xp.html

 

It was 7.3 that i had the most problems with. It would crash as soon as i booted up and kept on crashing games too. Was awful, 7.5 seems ok on this now though

 

The 30+ is well within 3DMark's error range.

 

Unfortunately, the IGP/Motherboard Catalyst version you linked is the one I installed. I saw the X200M in the release notes, but both 7.4 and 7.5 will not run stable for whatever reason.

 

Strange that new driver version brings a fatal problem. Though, you may consider turning VPU recover off in the Catalyst Control Center, since it can cause problems (and that seems to be your case).
Quoted this from ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide @ http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_8.html

Also consider doing "the absolute clean" driver installation if you still come across problems. For this check the Old Catalyst Removal section in the ATI Catalyst Tweak Guide @ http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_3.html

But there's propably not much to gain by updating from 7.3 to 7.5 version, so you may just leave it as it is.

 

question- what are the omega drivers like and how do they effect game play?
Would be wanting the version for the mobility x1600.
Was looking on their site and could only find the january release!

 

Thanks for the link !

 

Anyone use these drivers for X1700 on Xp?, If so, How did it go?

 

I ran this executable, installed, and it still shows that I am running CCC 7.2! Anyone experience the same thing?

Josh

 

Use Omega because I have an x1600 too and it works find and its stable...

 

is 8.342 the newest driver from ATI?

 

I am an idiot and just realized that these are desktop drivers that need to be modified.

I installed 7.5 but it washed out my display a little bit and made the screen a little bit darker. CCC 7.4 runs great however.

Josh