Catalyst 8.8 released

lay-z-boy · 21 Aug 2008 at 03:59

JimAroo said:
Anyone got these working on Vista x64?

I know someone said they are downloading them, but they never said if they are working fine or not.

I'm on vista x64. I'm not going to give up though, going to see if I can get them working some how.

pieman109 said:
Gotta agree there mate, unfortunately at least I'm not the only person having probs. I'm slowly leaning towards getting an nvidia offering next time providing its cheap enough. Never had probs at all with their drivers.

Indeed, unless it improves I can't see me keeping these cards for that long.
However I will give them that I have never encountered such ridiculous speeds before in the games I've tried.

*edit* I've got them to install now.

Needed to uninstall everything to do with ati, reboot, driver sweep, reboot, check for any other files and then install.

Might get round to some testing after a bit of shut-eye.

JimAroo · 21 Aug 2008 at 04:02

I'm probably going to get a 4870 later this week, I run x64 vista.. was just wondering how much fun I am going to have with compatibility issues.

Final8y · 21 Aug 2008 at 04:28

pieman109 said:
Still no joy with the CCC. getting really hacked off with all the versions of these drivers now. the only ones that'll instal are the 8.6 and those are from the installation disc.

Install the 8.8 drivers over the top of 8.6 ?.

Talrinys · 21 Aug 2008 at 07:19

Still crashes when i insert a DVD, this is just stupid :s

Pulse · 21 Aug 2008 at 07:32

Any news on this for people who had working drivers before? Do they offer any improvements?

eyetrip · 21 Aug 2008 at 07:45

I am a little confused about the hotfix linked to above the drivers - are they for the 8.8's? Also they link through to a page which tells me I was trying to access an unauthorised download.

Either way am downloading now, though won't have much time for testing.

Duke · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:09

Grabbing them now, ta.

sibeer · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:15

Hmm, don't know whether to risk this or not??

SS-89 · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:31

JimAroo said:
I'm probably going to get a 4870 later this week, I run x64 vista.. was just wondering how much fun I am going to have with compatibility issues.

No problems for me.

slimsymeat · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:33

8.8 Vista 32-64 package is just the CCC. D/L the driver separately, install then run the CCC install.

Rangler · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:34

Go for it

, Downloading these now..
Just finnished re flashing my 4850 to 1.2v gonna see what clocks i can get now..

SS-89 · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:38

I do recommend that people use the seperate driver and ccc packages (in general not just for this release). The all in one package did give me problems, switched to the seperate ones (obviously installing the driver first) and now it's fine.

Rangler · 21 Aug 2008 at 08:42

Ditto what SS says, go for the driver first then reboot.

Have installed ATI driver using the above method on XP32, Vista 32 + 64 bit versions with no problems so far

MR.B · 21 Aug 2008 at 09:04

X2 on Vista 64-Bit here, and just got these working.

Does anyone ever get the desktop set to 8-Bit colour in Display Settings when a new ATI driver is intalled? I have to set it to 32-Bit, then set my native res, then reboot or Aero will not enable.

Miss the old NV days, could just install drivers on top of each other, no driver cleaner ****, and they just worked, so did Aero and the native res was set automatically.

SS-89 · 21 Aug 2008 at 09:14

MR.B said:
X2 on Vista 64-Bit here, and just got these working.

Does anyone ever get the desktop set to 8-Bit colour in Display Settings when a new ATI driver is intalled? I have to set it to 32-Bit, then set my native res, then reboot or Aero will not enable.

Miss the old NV days, could just install drivers on top of each other, no driver cleaner ****, and they just worked, so did Aero and the native res was set automatically.

No. Mine goes back to native res and 32 bit after install, and I've never needed to use Driver Cleaner either.

J.D · 21 Aug 2008 at 09:50

SS-89 said:
No. Mine goes back to native res and 32 bit after install, and I've never needed to use Driver Cleaner either.

Drivers have been easy with ATI and Nvidia for me as well. Before I sold my 2900Pro it was easy to do benchmarks every month on the 2900 with every driver release. No hassle at all when switching between the 8800GTX and the 2900Pro, not even once. I'm thinking that the 4870 will be easy for me also.

I go through the same process with both Nvida and ATI in driver removal. Uninstall the drivers first, boot into safe mode, driver cleaner gets used, restart, back to desktop install drivers and restart again and bingo. I'll never install drivers on top of one another unless it's been stated to do so as I want to see the drivers performance fully knowing that any remnants of the previous version is not present so I can trust the performances I get.

Also my friend with 4870s on a DFI X48 and Vista x64 has had no issues at all installing drivers yet.

SS-89 · 21 Aug 2008 at 10:00

J.D said:
Drivers have been easy with ATI and Nvidia for me as well. Before I sold my 2900Pro it was easy to do benchmarks every month on the 2900 with every driver release. No hassle at all when switching between the 8800GTX and the 2900Pro, not even once. I'm thinking that the 4870 will be easy for me also.

I go through the same process with both Nvida and ATI in driver removal. Uninstall the drivers first, boot into safe mode, driver cleaner gets used, restart, back to desktop install drivers and restart again and bingo. I'll never install drivers on top of one another unless it's been stated to do so as I want to see the drivers performance fully knowing that any remnants of the previous version is not present so I can trust the performances I get.

Also my friend with 4870s on a DFI X48 and Vista x64 has had no issues at all installing drivers yet.

I haven't bothered with DC recently just used the normal uninstall utility and then installed using the seperate packages.

Skyboat · 21 Aug 2008 at 10:02

ATI's uninstaller doesn't remove all traces of their software, so I always run DriverSweeper after a reboot before installing the newer drivers straightaway afterwards.

J.D · 21 Aug 2008 at 10:19

SS-89 said:
I haven't bothered with DC recently just used the normal uninstall utility and then installed using the seperate packages.

Skyboat said:
ATI's uninstaller doesn't remove all traces of their software, so I always run DriverSweeper after a reboot before installing the newer drivers straightaway afterwards.

Don't you just appreciate when someone answers for you

. Multi-Quote rules!.

Woot 4870 is here!!

. Grid was included also (cheers OCUK

).

SS-89 · 21 Aug 2008 at 10:32

Skyboat said:
ATI's uninstaller doesn't remove all traces of their software, so I always run DriverSweeper after a reboot before installing the newer drivers straightaway afterwards.

Yep I'm well aware of that, but until I run into compatability issues I honestly cant be bothered to run DC. Laziness rules