ATI Release XP & Vista Driver Hotfix For 4850

ten80p · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:04

Article
http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=291464

File here
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894

knowledge123 · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:08

Good find! Now we just need someone to bench the difference~ :cool:

Mr Paul · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:30

Do these work on older cards?

knowledge123 · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:31

Mr Paul said:
Do these work on older cards?

Nope, just for the 4xxx series

Mr Paul · 20 Jun 2008 at 16:33

Surely they would as AMD use a unified driver model.....

Final8y · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:05

Im going to try them on my 3x3870.
May have the GRID profile in them thus not needing to rename.

Schnippzle · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:15

Final8y said:
Im going to try them on my 3x3870.
May have the GRID profile in them thus not needing to rename.

Let us know how you get on

Indy500 · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:17

Mr Paul said:
Surely they would as AMD use a unified driver model.....

The 8.5s don't support anything older than the Radeon 9500. So not really.

psychas · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:18

oh nice find man even more better performance go CHU !!!!!

Mr Paul · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:31

sr4470 said:
The 8.5s don't support anything older than the Radeon 9500. So not really.

I mean 2900 series

It's older

Indy500 · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:33

Mr Paul said:
I mean 2900 series It's older

This is a specific hotfix though, not quite the same as a normal release. Yes, I am running an older card than the 9500 (and I know lots of others who are).

Final8y · 20 Jun 2008 at 20:39

EDIT: Well they work on my 3x3870.

Broken Hope · 20 Jun 2008 at 21:06

sr4470 said:
This is a specific hotfix though, not quite the same as a normal release. Yes, I am running an older card than the 9500 (and I know lots of others who are).

ATI hotfixes tend to support all the same cards as the normal Catalysts, which is the 9500 and newer.

Indy500 · 20 Jun 2008 at 21:09

Broken Hope said:
ATI hotfixes tend to support all the same cards as the normal Catalysts, which is the 9500 and newer.

I've been having problems in KOTOR with 8.5s, perhaps I'll try this hotfix then if they persist..

thefishdude · 20 Jun 2008 at 21:54

8.6's are out now also i belive

Final8y · 20 Jun 2008 at 22:01

Vista SP1 was not installed.

GRID seems to be getting multi GPU now without the renaming

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LoadsaMoney · 20 Jun 2008 at 22:22

ATi showing Nvidia up again with driver support, first they release an official WHQL driver for their 4800's before the cards are even out, and now they have released another driver, what a start eh, 4850's only been out 1 day, 4870 not even out yet, Nvidia OWNED.

queamin · 20 Jun 2008 at 22:24

LoadsaMoney said:
ATi showing Nvidia up again with driver support, first they release an official WHQL driver for their 4800's before the cards are even out, and now they have released another driver, what a start eh, 4850's only been out 5 days, 4870 not even out yet, Nvidia OWNED.

This is where i think ati can and will do well

Indy500 · 20 Jun 2008 at 22:26

queamin said:
This is where i think ati can and will do well

Used to be the reverse in the days of the original Radeon v Geforce 256\Geforce 2.

queamin · 20 Jun 2008 at 22:27

sr4470 said:
Used to be the reverse in the days of the original Radeon v Geforce 256\Geforce 2.

Yes it was and ati were quite bad and people still bring it up as thought is the same now