Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

yeah they unnofficially support the 96xx in 9.3....
they only show in the release notes the ones officially supported by amd....
(meaning its there but its not getting the usual bigfixes these hd cards are having...)
and to anwser your q's yeah its supported under 9.3....
the two build strings in 9.3...

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"ATI RADEON 9600/X1050 Series" = ati2mtag_RV350, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4150&SUBSYS_300017AF
"ATI RADEON 9600/X1050 Series Secondary" = ati2mtag_RV350, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_4170&SUBSYS_300117AF

they have unoficial support as far as the 9500 series...

win7 said:

No no no.. Let me explain more clearly...


9.4 - Does it still support the older cards or has the support stopped like amd said it would?

smarteyeball said:

I believe so. 9.3 was the last to support it.

Seemed clear enough to me...

For future clarity purposes:
www.google.com

What you are not looking at is which version of Windows is selected but which catalyst version. While Vista drivers will work in 7 and still have the same catalyst number that doesn't necessarily mean the 7 equivalent supports certain older cards.

If you select XP as the OS the release notes will list the older models without question. Those go back to the 7xxx series. The Vista equivalent only goes back to the 9xxx Radeons there. But those should work well on 7 while not being the 7 Cat. 9.4 which by the way went on here without a problem for the second temp for the 7077.

What all that shows is that the 9xxx seires isn't going to be supported by AMD on 7. For the most those would be older AGP cards to start off with. While the 9s up through the latest are supported for Vista it seems AMD is dropping the X1xxx series there as well.

win7 said:

We posted at the same time, i was refering to nighthawks post.

lol, sorry mate. Damn cross posting

The best way to see the necessary drivers go on for an older is to go for the last Vista update available for that series. When the release notes are showing support for the 2xxx models and newer those are referring to the newer designs seen with the chips on the cards themselves being supported having the correct drivers.

When simply tossing any drivers on and still seeing an old card work is mainly due to the generic drivers included in Windows taking over. The best and smart move is not to install any at first with a fresh install of Windows but wait for the updates to show optional hardware updates to allow that to see the correct ones installer.

Or without the catalyst the alternate move is to download the set needed by going through the selection process choosing the model series at the support site. The main reason for not seeing official support goes right back to the newer vpu chips seen on the progress model lines where the drivers/catalysts are written to work with those.

At least AMD covered more model lines then ATI did. With ATI after every 3 or 4 catalyst updates one model line would be dropped entirely! In fact the 9xxx was already history when AMD first bought ATI out. They just picked up from there and started offering support up until Vista.