Catalyst 7.7 Released

Teaf · 20 Jul 2007 at 08:11

So, just to clarify, these drivers have a performance drop in them for 2900 cards? If so I'll stick with my 7.6's

willhub · 20 Jul 2007 at 08:14

flibby said:
So, just to clarify, these drivers have a performance drop in them for 2900 cards? If so I'll stick with my 7.6's

They do in games like CSS/HL2, but they also enable Edge Detect for 12x and 24xAA.

knowledge123 · 20 Jul 2007 at 08:30

So, is it, currently, worth dl'ing these, and have they fixed the installer?

LOAM · 20 Jul 2007 at 09:43

well for me it started out well, CCC worked for the first time in a month and all looked peachy, 3D06 result was down a bit but who cares. Then the problems started. ETQW Beta just BSOD's upon load so I've had no option but to go back to the none CCC working 7.6 drivers.

It was late and I simply couldn't be bothered to do any real investigation as to what the BSOD was, all I noted was the file had ATI in it before I wearily killed the power and went to bed.

The gutting part was I had just got this machine stable for a week as well and even though CCC wouldnt work (i had a .net update from MS pencilled in as the main culprit for that, and as it was an ATI/AMD known issue it wasn't troubling me).

I'm killing my Vista X64 partition this weekend in favour of XP X64 so I'll see if it is a borked windows install (could be). If not this 2900 is bin bound and I will be heading in the NV direction for the first time in nearly 8 years.

LOAM

RavenUK · 20 Jul 2007 at 09:44

Screw the 7.7's, i can confirm these drivers cause the memory crash in world in conflict with XP as i tried it with 7.6 drivers and they work perfectly.

Darg · 20 Jul 2007 at 11:22

Sticking with 7.6s then for atleast another month

FreeStream · 20 Jul 2007 at 11:57

Does the EDGE thing work on X19x0 cards?

If not then ill stick with 7.3s.

Darg · 20 Jul 2007 at 12:15

Concorde Rules said:
Does the EDGE thing work on X19x0 cards?

If not then ill stick with 7.3s.

Supposedly it works on 12X but not 24X.

Last Kronin · 20 Jul 2007 at 12:36

Just had a 3 map round of ET:QW and it didnt crash once with me

killer_uk · 20 Jul 2007 at 19:07

willhub said:
The full game wont have much performance improvements, they make out there will be but it just wont happen, might aswell get some benchies now to compare with the final product, its not going to be much different.

Do you have any proof that they wont? Or are you just making that up?

LOAM said:
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Sounds like theres something up with the rest of your system rather than it being the ATI drivers.

eracer2006 · 20 Jul 2007 at 19:14

well tdu doesnt work with these

M0T · 20 Jul 2007 at 19:18

Tom,
Since you seem to have a connection to ati would it be possible for you to find out if software crossfire has changed since cat 7.5?

It worked fine in 7.4 but any driver after doesn't even display the option in the CCC.

Reverting back to 7.4 fixes the problem.

Vogon · 20 Jul 2007 at 19:42

eracer2006 said:
well tdu doesnt work with these

Does here .....

willhub · 20 Jul 2007 at 19:44

Vogon said:
Does here .....

Yea same here, works fine.

rico3 · 20 Jul 2007 at 22:47

yeah it works fine too....

Gerard · 20 Jul 2007 at 23:40

Does these drivers fix the fan issue or is that still there? Woulda thought that would be one of the first things they'd fix since it was so obvious. :confused:

willhub · 20 Jul 2007 at 23:46

Gerard said:
Does these drivers fix the fan issue or is that still there? Woulda thought that would be one of the first things they'd fix since it was so obvious.

Apparently there is no fan issue, this thing can spin up even when your not in Windows.

Gerard · 20 Jul 2007 at 23:48

I must be the only one i know off that never had an issue with the fan, i installed the entire bundle off the cd, drivers, hdmi sotware etc and the fan never once spun up, was easily as quiet as my gtx is now. :confused:

And does anyone know what happened the version sapphire were bringing out with the oversized heatpipes? that never seemed to materialise.

willhub · 20 Jul 2007 at 23:50

Gerard said:
I must be the only one i know off that never had an issue with the fan, i installed the entire bundle off the cd, drivers, hdmi sotware etc and the fan never once spun up, was easily as quiet as my gtx is now.

And does anyone know what happened the version sapphire were bringing out with the oversized heatpipes? that never seemed to materialise.

You think forcing the fan to 25% will be safe?

Gerard · 20 Jul 2007 at 23:51

willhub said:
You think forcing the fan to 25% will be safe?

Doubt it as the core does run really hot. Just dunno how i was able to get that working, i ended up reinstalling drivers off the net and the fan started kicking up, was afraid at the time the card was cooking itself. :eek: