Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[Night Hawk]

Once any version is found to be buggy I always wait a few before taking a leap! So far however the only two I ran into any real problems with was the 7.9 while still running Vista and now the 10.5 being a problem but quickly solved!

 

[stormy13]

10.5 Hotfix is up now for non HD 5xxx series users,

ATICatalystHotfix

ATI Catalyst™ 10.5a Hotfix features:
The ATI Catalyst 10.5a Hotfix provides resolution for the following issue:

• Battlefield: Bad Company 2 - Long load times for new maps when using a Windows® 7 / Windows Vista® based system with an:
  • ATI Radeon HD 4xxx series graphics card
  • ATI Radeon HD 3xxx series graphics card
  • ATI Radeon HD 2xxx series graphics card

 

[Brink]

Thank you Stormy. Hotfix added to first post.

 

[Night Hawk]

Well as the truckers often say I'll wait a few and until then say: "10.4! good buddy". :roflmao:

 

[smarteyeball]

This was the first problematic Cat. version seen here since the 7.9!

Remember the installation dramas with 9.4?

 

[Night Hawk]

I was probably the only one who didn't actually have any while many were not so well off with that one! The 7.9 and it's patch was a waste of time and had been as buggy as this new one!

The 10.4 went back on and not glimer of anything showing when you have a good one on save the download somewhere and then try a newer one when needed!

The 9.6 was the better over the 9.5 to replace the 9.4 there. That seems to be the key if you run into a headache with one wait until the second to follow is out and not beta unless utterly necessary but the final. Rushing at each newer one every time is like fixing what isn't broke and risks breaking something.

 

[Gilly]

these 10.5 drivers are garbage they making my gpu run in 3d mode all the time:huh:
every release fixes a problem and introduces new problems ffs

 

[mpcrsc562]

Just an observation

I was reading thru this post yesterday, http://www.sevenforums.com/graphic-cards/88494-win-7-64x-xfx-hd5670-problems.html, and came across this:

Hello,
Any reason in particular you chose the ATI version of the driver? XFX cards often have some differences in their drivers to work correctly with their versions of both nVidia and ATI graphics cards. You can download 10.5 for your XFX card at their site, it was released 3 days after ATI released their version.

I kept track as I have XFX's 5870 XXX Edition and noted they still had 10.4 listed until just a few days ago, 10.4 was less responsive so I reverted back to 10.3, have not tried 10.5 yet.

If you don't have a user account there you have to have one, all you need is the s/n or model of your card and an email address, the account is free.

XFX US website is at Home

So, I was like, "I didn't know!" So I downloaded 10.5 from XFX's website (as I was still running 10.4), removed the old drivers, ran driver sweeper, then installed the new drivers. When everything was up and running, I ran WEI -- and lost a tenth of a point in both Graphics and Gaming graphics. When running 10.4, they were both 7.3 and now, both 7.2.

Please don't think I'm all up in arms about the loss of a tenth of a point, but it is just curious to me--that's all. Every other time after intalling new drivers, my scores have remained the same. Again, it's not a big deal to me in the least, but when reading other posts in which I see "10.5 Hosed Me!" and other stuff like that, I was just wondering...

No problems since the update, so all is good.

 

[Night Hawk]

The thing I saw right off was a buggy update there. The 10.4 is a working and stable release over what I saw right away with the 10.5 unfortunately. I think AMD is trying to cover too many model series by different makes in just one release of the catalyst since each model series even has a different set of vpu chips!

Consider how many models by various makes there are from the 2400s up through the latest 5970s! Right before the last build ran into a hardware problem the 10.3 acted up on the old Radeon HD 2600XT there showing you see a bad one every so often like the 7.9 and 9.4s.

 

[sandman]

I had to roll back to the 10.4 blue screen with the new 10/5 on my Windows 7 64 bit with Hd 5670 ATI card works after the roll back perfectly.

 

[Night Hawk]

The 10.5 is buggy and this only confirms that further unfortunately for anyone who missed getting the 10.4 while that was up at the support site.

 

[cloud8521]

man the hotfix they put out screws my CCC over XD

 

[sandman]

My P5K Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit works perfectly so far with the 10.5 CCC with a HD5670 video card.

 

[Night Hawk]

man the hotfix they put out screws my CCC over XD

You ran into the same problem with the patch I ended up seeing with the one for the older 7.9 version. Without even using the software disk for the card on the last build the latest when new was the buggy 7.9 and later patch where I had to wait for the 7.10 just to get everything on!

My P5K Windows 7 Ultimate 32 bit works perfectly so far with the 10.5 CCC with a HD5670 video card.

That sound quite like what I saw with the 9.4 where many saw hassles with that one while it went right on here without a hint of any problems. For the most part the buggy versions always seem to work out for a few select makes and models while the rest will see some problem.

 

[smarteyeball]

I think I'll just stick with the mysterious 8.74 drivers - less glitchy overall than 10.4 and 10.4a with this card.

By the sounds of it 10.5, by and large 10.5 is not going to be remembered fondly.

 

[Night Hawk]

I don't too many here want to recall the 9.4 either!

 

[smarteyeball]

lol, I don't.

Although headaches aside, the main issue was with the installer itself. Once you manually pointed device manager to the driver, it was quite a fast release from memory.

You are right though, they are trying to cover too many varying cards with 'one driverset fits all'.

 

[Night Hawk]

Before AMD bought ATI out you would see 2-3 model lines covered and then discontinued from support real fast. But you rarely ran into too many Bad Cat.s since they would drop model lines too fast being another problem to contend with.

I'm suprised that AMD hasn't followed suit like Creative did by having a selector for each model series as well as type of card when you first arrive at the support site. That would allow for covering the increasing number of model types in each series as well multiple series in progression to divide things up a bit.

 

[Seven Eleven]

I had to roll back to the 10.4 blue screen with the new 10/5 on my Windows 7 64 bit with Hd 5670 ATI card works after the roll back perfectly.

i got bsod with atikmdag.sys on 10.4 while playing GTAIV and opening Steam overlay thingy :/

too scared to try it now on 10.5.

 

[rvbfan]

I must live right or something, because I've had
nothing but praise for ATI's drivers.