Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[Cixoos]

One question changing from internal hd 3200 to hd 5450 card.

currently using 10.1 + southbridge driver.

When installing hd 5450 do i need to uninstall current driver and install one for hd5450?

 

[smarteyeball]

One question changing from internal hd 3200 to hd 5450 card.

currently using 10.1 + southbridge driver.

When installing hd 5450 do i need to uninstall current driver and install one for hd5450?

Yes. Uninstall the current driver / Catalyst suite before installing the new card.

 

[Cixoos]

Thanks,

what about the southbridge driver? i know that has AMD USB Filter Drive etc

 

[smarteyeball]

Yes, remove the Southbridge driver too. I believe it's only necessary for hybrid crossfire, which I doubt the 54xx will support anyway.

If it's necessary, it will be installed again anyway.

Manually create a restore point for extra precaution.

(start "search bar"> type Create > Create a Restore point > create )

 

[chaser24]

On a fresh install of Win 7 X64, using AHCI, for Intel X25-M as OS drive, with ASUS EAH 5870 vid card - having major issues trying to get Catalyst 10.1's installed. As referenced in this lengthy thread - the install never completes (tried many many times on a Gigabyte X58A-UD7 and driver installation never completed). Yesterday got my Classified E760 mobo in, and bench tested and installed Windows 7 X64 again. When I did a full install of 10.1 Cat's - I got an error message again - but the drivers and CCC actually installed. I don't feel that comfortable knowing these drivers aren't working right - is there any workarounds for driver installation that I have missed? Should I install in safe mode, as administrator? I could use any and all help please! I've spent nearly 2 weeks trying to iron out this bad installation package, thanks much in advance.
aS

 

[chaser24]

Problem resolved by removing old drivers - reinstalling Cat 10.1 Hotfix drivers using custom install options. I deleted HDMI, Avivo and the part that was hanging up in their installation package, the AMD Drag and Drop Transactions. After doing this I got a totally clean install with no issues or hangs. Driver shows up as 8.690.3.1000 in Device Manager & GPU-Z.

 

[Fafnr]

I just installed 10.1 on my HTPC and it *killed* it.

Basically, I can't play any kind of HD video (or, couldn't - I immediately switched back to Win 7 default drivers).
Trying to play these videos had 2 differing strange result, depending on the player.
Using XMBC, I just got no video.
Using Windows Media Center, my whole computer would crash, the screen filled with artefacts - green and white lines, etc.

Has anyone else experienced this?

My system is:

AMD x240e
HD3200
2GB Ram

 

[kpo6969]

8.703 Feb.10/10 (Cat 10.x) Win7/Vista/XP

8.703 Feb.10/10 (Cat 10.x) Win7/Vista/XP - Guru3D.com Forums

 

[Airbot]

Thanks, will try these out. Seems like some good reviews.

 

[skunksmash]

may give these a run a little later...... 2D & 3D are unchanged though, & i don't use CCC AT ALL!!

 

[smarteyeball]

8.703 Feb.10/10 (Cat 10.x) Win7/Vista/XP

8.703 Feb.10/10 (Cat 10.x) Win7/Vista/XP - Guru3D.com Forums

Thanks for the heads up. Going to give them a go.

Sucks to see people are complaining about still having issues with the games I'm actually playing though




EDIT:

These beta drivers dropped my WEI from 7.7 to 6.0, lol :sarc:

 

[Coolness]

8.703 Feb.10/10 (Cat 10.x) Win7/Vista/XP

8.703 Feb.10/10 (Cat 10.x) Win7/Vista/XP - Guru3D.com Forums

Thanks for the heads up. Going to give them a go.

Sucks to see people are complaining about still having issues with the games I'm actually playing though




EDIT:

These beta drivers dropped my WEI from 7.7 to 6.0, lol :sarc:

Fail? Can drivers do that? I thought the WEI was purely based on hardware info.

 

[Airbot]

EDIT:

These beta drivers dropped my WEI from 7.7 to 6.0, lol :sarc:

There must be something going on with these drivers lately or Windows itself. Ever since 9.11 or so, whenever I run the wei assessment after installing the new ones, it will put both graphics scores at 6.0.

then I can run it again, and it will go back to 7.5.

Happened a few times to me already. I can either run the assessment with the gpu fan on auto from ccc and it will be 7.5, or turned up nearly all the way, and it will be 6.0. Or vice versa.

Seen a few others mention getting 6.0 too.

 

[smarteyeball]

At first I thought it may have been a bottleneck

But I had to actually manually delete the contents of C:\Windows\Performance\WinSAT\DataStore

And then re-run it.



It's interesting to note that since I lost 2GB module, I dropped from 7.8 to 7.7 - Winsat does like quantity.

 

[Airbot]

I always run the assessment from the Advanced Tools, on the left side.



Instead of from the bottom right on your shot there. Not completely sure if there's a difference between the 2 but I think the former option clears older scores.


Good call on the thought of a bottleneck though.

 

[smarteyeball]

I always run the assessment from the Advanced Tools, on the left side.

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Instead of from the bottom right on your shot there. Not completely sure if there's a difference between the 2 but I think the former option clears older scores.

It's supposed to, but it didn't. It made no difference until I manually deleted the datastore contents.



Damn you bottleneck Jones

 

[skunksmash]

running these drivers without a hitch, fps has remained the same across the board.... benching is unchanged.

they're just as good as the previous 8.70 RC2 IMO..... (still showing ''cat 9.12'', when will that revision stop plaguing me )

 

[skunksmash]

spoke too soon....... my system just crashed like never before, it locked up completly with tiny green artifacts all over the screen , im really hoping ts related to this new driver & not a developing H/W issue.

b/c what i just saw i'd usually relate to faulty H/W , if it happens again i'll revert to the RC2 driver, if it continues after that.....''can anyone say RMA'' :sarc:

 

[swarfega]

This is why I only download drivers from official websites. This version isnt showing on the amd site yet.

 

[stormy13]

Catalyst 10.2 is up and available,

Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

Link to the release notes,

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_102_release_notes.pdf