CATALYST 7.4 drivers out

ray · 18 Apr 2007 at 20:46

Drivers page:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

Release notes:
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_74_release_notes.html

AndyOcUK · 18 Apr 2007 at 20:57

Nice one - Vista 64 support too!

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LoadsaMoney · 18 Apr 2007 at 20:59

Yeah i miss ATi's fantastic driver support, official set for both XP and Vista regular as clockwork every month, even support Crossfire in Vista to.

Darkwave · 18 Apr 2007 at 21:02

I wish that Nvidia could do this.

AndyOcUK · 18 Apr 2007 at 21:09

Ulfhedjinn said:
I wish that Nvidia could do this.

Ditto

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Cyber-Mav · 18 Apr 2007 at 22:15

anyone tried this driver out then?

lay-z-boy · 18 Apr 2007 at 22:34

Too lazy, 7.3's are fantastic enough

black86 · 18 Apr 2007 at 22:34

yes 3 point increase for me in 06

Princey · 18 Apr 2007 at 22:35

Really impressed with the openGL performance, gettting a rise of 10fps in Doom 3 engined games.

Cyber-Mav · 18 Apr 2007 at 22:36

black86 said:
yes 3 point increase for me in 06

heheh
ill stick with 7.3's too. unless there is a bigger differences for x64 users.

i like upgrading after a few releases, can then reep the rewards of 3 or more driver releases combined into one.

NVIDIA_x64 · 18 Apr 2007 at 23:12

I am lovin ATI too much with there cool drivers (for vista WHQL) but i have a nvidia GPU so as we all no **** drivers.

HighlandeR · 18 Apr 2007 at 23:25

bit difficult to say Nvidia drivers are **** tbh, not this week anyhow, and when one guys saying 3 point increase yet nvidia owners are enjoying a 1000 point increase

Lets hope Nvidia make this a habit like ATI do.... and lets hope ATI actually release something

Cyber-Mav · 18 Apr 2007 at 23:42

both nvidia and ati should have merged. then you get the fast driver release of ati and the fast hardware release of nvidia. you can;t loose

Darkwave · 18 Apr 2007 at 23:47

Cyber-Mav said:
both nvidia and ati should have merged. then you get the fast driver release of ati and the fast hardware release of nvidia. you can;t loose

True, but prices would go through the roof.

jaric · 18 Apr 2007 at 23:55

Typical. I only got around to installing the 7.3's yesterday

drak3 · 19 Apr 2007 at 00:07

I ll restore my pc with a fresh installation image and give it a try. Had ALL sorts of problems with 7.3 and games in vista 32bit. Especially CnC3!

ps: One fact about ATi is driver support. +1 point in my book for my next buy.

Tute · 19 Apr 2007 at 00:16

Sounds like a stupid question, but do the Cats include all chipset drivers for ATi based motherboards?

I'm looking for updated drivers for my motherboard, but it just points me at the Catalysts.

Could somebody with an ATi chipset please enlighten me?

drak3 · 19 Apr 2007 at 00:19

When I install cats, I get some filter drivers for the nbridge. I am not sure if thats all needed. However, vista device manager shows no signs of missing drivers for the mobo. And is quite old.

SkeeterUK · 19 Apr 2007 at 20:09

Im still on 7.1 xp 32 bit drivers. Is there any real need to move to 7.3 or 7.4 drivers? Based on my comp setup (see sig).

LoadsaMoney · 19 Apr 2007 at 21:05

drak3 said:
When I install cats, I get some filter drivers for the nbridge. I am not sure if thats all needed. However, vista device manager shows no signs of missing drivers for the mobo. And is quite old.

Yeah northbride is all you need for an ATi mobo.