Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[jpcjr]

ATI Radeon 9250

I was wondering if the catalyst 9.7 driver will make the ATI Radeon 9250 work with Win7. I am a little skeptical about purchasing this card, because I don't see much praise for it working.

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

[Night Hawk]

Welcome to the Se7enforums! jpcjr

The oldest seeing anything in the way of active support is the 9500s. You'll have to go through the older catalysts found at guru3d or one of the few other sites that still tend to archive them. Your best option of course would simply be getting into a much newer card if possible.

 

[jpcjr]

Thanks, I found an EVGA I am looking into. I found out the ATI has Directx 8 and Win7 needs Directx 9.

 

[Night Hawk]

Actuall if you are referring to Direct X itself 7 comes with 11 DirectX 11 Details (just in time for the beta builds) while DX9c can still be installed for things like older pc games.

Gradually newer cards will require 10 or above once XP is phased out entirely as seen with previous versions of Windows.

 

[jpcjr]

Well, I just need a cheap graphics card until my current mobo fries. My mobo is not that great and I like Windows 7. I just bought the upgrade when it was on sale for $49.99

 

[mickey megabyte]

Why is it no one bothers to read the release notes for each catalyst version?

i agree - RTFM!

but ati/amd would make it a lot easier if the release notes weren't always in damn pdf format - they are text only files FFS!

 

[Night Hawk]

i agree - RTFM!

but ati/amd would make it a lot easier if the release notes weren't always in damn pdf format - they are text only files FFS!

Tell me about it! Sometimes adobe can't even read some of pdf files I run across at other sites as well.

A simple release note right on the same page as the download mentioning the series it supports would be all that was needed so people would know right off if the selected update is the correct one for the card they run.

jpcjr does that card mention having any DX10 support? 7 should still go on while you might run into some gaming and media problems if it doesn't.

 

[ShaolinMilk]

I just bought an ATI RADEON HD3850 and the latest catalyst driver does not install at all! It's like it doesn't detect my graphics card and just bypasses installing the driver. It installs the Catalyst Control Center, but does not install the actual driver itself.

So I got fed up with trying to install this and used the CD that came with the package itself. I used that and installed it even though it told me its not certified, etc. Now, the driver FINALLY installed, but alas, another problem comes up. The aero theme works, but is extremely laggy. My computer feels so slow when I use the aero theme so I had to switch it to the other themes. What can I do to fix this?

 

[Night Hawk]

Well welcome aboard the Se7enforums! ShaolinMilk

You are not the only one running into problems with the latest Catalyst 9.7 for sure. Join the club! I saw the 9.4 go on without fuss while everyone else ran into problems with that one. Airbot saw the 9.7 go on however while it was our turn for seeing problems I guess!

Give the 9.6 a try there since that didn't cause any problems for anyone so far.

 

[ShaolinMilk]

Thank you for the warm welcome!

I have one question: Where exactly do I download that version?

 

[Airbot]

Thank you for the warm welcome!

I have one question: Where exactly do I download that version?

You can get it from here if you want. Great place to find older versions of clean software. Just click on the 32 or 64 bit Vista (same for Windows 7) link there, and older versions will be at the top right there.

 

[ShaolinMilk]

You can get it from here if you want. Great place to find older versions of clean software. Just click on the 32 or 64 bit Vista (same for Windows 7) link there, and older versions will be at the top right there.

When I try to install the older versions, it says my driver is already up to date and it's not working with the aero theme properly.

EDIT: Also, the latest display driver for ATI is Radeon™ display driver 8.632. The one I have right now is 8.452 and when I open up the newest version(9.7), it says I have the latest version which is 8.452

 

[Night Hawk]

If you notice the ATI folder at the root of C enter that and into the "support" folder. Once inside that you will see the sub folders for the one or more catalyts versions you have installed so far and can use the setup.exe file there to select the uninstall option.

Just be tha sub folder is the last and latest you installed when using that version's setup file to insure everything is removed properly first before going for the 9.6.

 

[Airbot]

You might also try using this to uninstall any leftovers after you use the catalyst uninstaller. Follow the instructions on their page though carefully. After you've done that, turn it off and you might check and make sure you card is properly seated in it's slot inside your comp, maybe take it out and re insert it.

Download the 9.7 (cuz that still might not be your problem, just being the 9.7), unblock the setup in it's properties, Run it as an administrator, and tell us if you had any luck. And fill out your system specs for your profile.

 

[ShaolinMilk]

You might also try using this to uninstall any leftovers after you use the catalyst uninstaller. Follow the instructions on their page though carefully. After you've done that, turn it off and you might check and make sure you card is properly seated in it's slot inside your comp, maybe take it out and re insert it.

Download the 9.7 (cuz that still might not be your problem, just being the 9.7), unblock the setup in it's properties, Run it as an administrator, and tell us if you had any luck. And fill out your system specs for your profile.

Okay, I have just done that and it still does not detect my display driver. It says to install the catalyst control center and the other stuff, but it does not say anything about the display driver. I tried this in both 9.6 and 9.7.

 

[Airbot]

You tried all of that? Used Driversweeper, Checked the card, removed and re seated it? Made sure everything is connected and seated properly? Sorry, have to ask simple questions to rule them out. Have you tried just downloading the Display driver from AMD and installing that as admin? You haven't filled out your system specs so no one knows what kind of hardware you have or if you're running x86 or x64.

 

[ShaolinMilk]

You tried all of that? Used Driversweeper, Checked the card, removed and re seated it? Made sure everything is connected and seated properly? Sorry, have to ask simple questions to rule them out. Have you tried just downloading the Display driver from AMD and installing that as admin? You haven't filled out your system specs so no one knows what kind of hardware you have or if you're running x86 or x64.

Yes, I have done all of that. I have just done it again to double check and it still does not work. There's one thing I need to ask, does it matter if it's sapphire or not? Mine is the sapphire version.

Also, I'm running on an x86, intel pentium 4 3.0ghz, 2gb ram with an asus p4s800 mobo.

 

[Night Hawk]

Once you have the drivers off make sure to restart the system. Windows should then prompt you with the "new hardware found, installing drivers" message upon a fresh detection of the card. This will insure all previous drivers are unloaded.

The brand of card won't matter since the drivers are for the ATI chip itself.

 

[ShaolinMilk]

Once you have the drivers off make sure to restart the system. Windows should then prompt you with the "new hardware found, installing drivers" message upon a fresh detection of the card. This will insure all previous drivers are unloaded.

The brand of card won't matter since the drivers are for the ATI chip itself.

I have done all of that and there's nothing that pops up about saying new hardware found. It detects my display driver as the standard vga one.

 

[Airbot]

try and see if you can install the new driver this way in Smarteyeballs post here, but for the 9.7 drivers.

Instead of driver breaker, how about DRIVER DOMINATOR ?, I got Catalyst 9.4 installed! IN YOUR FACE ATI!

In the end I got it by doing an express install where catalyst installed, but the drivers didn't. Catalyst then informed me it was incompatible with the current drivers.

NEXT:

Device manager > Display adapters > update driver software.

THEN:

Browse my computer for driver software > Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer > Have disk

Then pointed it to:

C:\ATI\Support\9-4_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu\Driver\Packages\Drivers\Display\LH6A_INF.CH_78303.inf

It installed and one re-boot later it's done with crossfire re-enabled

The small step I missed was the "have disk". I was just pointing to the folder itself. My fault for following a bad direction on the amd forums

http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-...catalyst-driver-windows-7-a-17.html#post64410