Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[Night Hawk]

If you still have the 9.3 backed up somewhere pass it along here! Otherwise until the 9.5 or 9.6 is out I'll be stuck with the 9.1.

 

[smarteyeball]

Here's all the older Cat versions:

ATI Catalyst Drivers Downloads

 

[wkancyr]

Im still have the same problems with 9-4, hard but not impossable to install and still have multi-display problems. Still waiting on something quick and easy. I've only got 7068 and see an overall improvement

 

[Night Hawk]

I would remove the 9.4 totally and simply grab one of the older catalyts for the time being. That will save a lot of headaches until the next one or two updates sees all that corrected.

When browsing the drive for storage I ran into the Cat. 9.2 x64 as well as seeing the 9.1. Somehow I forgot to copy that over to the same folder on the x64 partition there.

 

[cjfradenburg]

Well I could not resolve this ATI driver issue...

I was using the on-board HD 3200 video in Vista64 when I upgraded to Win7 and that worked...
But yesterday I threw in an HD 3650 card and could not get the drivers to load...
Not even the beta 7 driver listed above...even tried Patrick's instructions to no avail...

My only option was to re-install Vista64 and then install the drivers for the card...
Once I finish getting everything loaded and setup tonight, I will upgrade to Win7 again and see what happens...

It better work...I like 7 and don't want to go back to Vista...

Hi,
Have same problem as BAATFAM above, only I can't even get my new "Radeon HD 3650 1GB" to display anything past the Win7 Logo Splash (the little rotatating, 4-colored thingy). The OS contiues to boot, as evidenced by much hard drive machination but the screen is black...not even a mouse pointer. Have tried intalling a PCI vid card, along with the 3650 PCIE unit, in hopes of having some type of display whereby I can see to install the 3650's drivers but no luck there either.

This is using the latest (4-9-2009 9.4) drivers from AMD, which are branded as Windows 7.

Appears that AMD/ATI has some more work to do on their Win7 driver set, I guess.
Anybody out there have any insight into this prob?

Chuckie

 

[Night Hawk]

The Catalyst 9.4 is boogered! I've hearing complaints from several here already on the need to manually install those!

Plus if you have the onboard video enabled in the bios that will hamper things right from the start. You need to get in there to see that turned off as well as going into the device manager later to disable the drivers there as well.

The onboard is conflicting with the new being the automatic default display adapter. Someone just had a link for the 9.3 catalysts I don't have bookmarked at the moment that should go right on and work without problems!

For getting around the 9.4 for 7 problem I'm not sure if anyone has tried substituting the Vista version of that instead to see if those will go on without problems. Drivers & Tools | GAME.AMD.COM

Blast! The only 9.3 I keep coming across is for Linux seen at ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.3: Download ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.3

I still have the 32bit 9.2 you can try uploaded to the file sharing link at http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/06c03b88b4_44.01MB

The 64bit 9.3 I uploaded to http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/01d8f03864_61.13MB

Just remember besides which catalyst version you have on that the onboard has to be switched off when installing a separate card.

 

[smarteyeball]

Blast! The only 9.3 I keep coming across is for Linux seen at ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.3: Download ATI Catalyst Linux Display Driver 9.3

Mate, did you even look at the other posts on this page?

I've already linked to to all the older Windows CAT drivers.... Try 5 posts up... :huh:

Here's all the older Cat versions:

ATI Catalyst Drivers Downloads

And the 9.4 Vista driver is the same download as the 7 driver....

 

[Night Hawk]

Mate, did you even look at the other posts on this page?

I've already linked to to all the older Windows CAT drivers.... Try 5 posts up... :huh:



And the 9.4 Vista driver is the same download as the 7 driver....

The file sharing link there is for the 9.2 32bit while the second is for the 64bit 9.3 from the site you linked earlier. The 9.2 was downloaded direct from ATI.AMD some time back and stored locally.

Sometimes you may have to try more then one version to get them to see the drivers go correctly. It never hurts having more then one available.

 

[smarteyeball]

That's why I'm going back to 9.3....

9.4 has been a wash out for me on Seven

 

[Night Hawk]

I would! I think I may have mentioned the problem seen some time back with the 7.9 where the patch they put out for that was useless in most cases! The 7.10 helped a big deal while the 7.11 then saw things cleared up.

The disappointment now at the support site is no longer seeing the link for older catalysts forcing you to look for 3rd party sites still having those onhand. For the old cards then you would expect to end up at guru3d.com or some other site for that.

 

[smarteyeball]

It's poor of AMD not to have at least a few of the older Cats available. From memory, nvidia still keeps a few older drivers available as well.

Fingers crossed 9.3 will cut down on a few BSOD's

Ahh, the joys of trouble shooting. I'm sick of reading crash dumps

 

[Night Hawk]

This is one reason why I may have 2 or 3 different catalyst hanging around here. Usually once a good one is one I tend to be reluctant to rush into the next update just by simply seeing the next number inline. That helps when swapping one build for another on a fast pace where I don't have to go right to the update site for the latest when I already have a working Cat. to toss on.

And yes seeing no more older catalysts available without contacting the support staff for a link for one can be a real hassle when the latest like this one is bad news!

NVidia has seen some bad ones as well while they maintain updates that go back a few years there when looking for an update for older models or old AGP cards for that matter. The one thing seen with AMD after buying ATI out however is seeing drivers available for older cards while ATI before that would simply drop support too fast!

 

[smarteyeball]

Dropping support for older cards would be more understandable and tolerable if it meant much better support for the remaining cards. Unfortunately that just doesn't seem to be the case

Logic would dictate that if each release supports less cards, then having older drivers readily available would help retain disgruntled customers. Taking away support and then easy access to older drivers is enough to be a "catalyst" itself in pushing people to a rival manufacturer. Consumers have long memories.

Logic is like oil. It's a rapidly depleting resource

 

[Night Hawk]

The reasoning you have to look at seen by AMD there was having a selection process for OS then model series you select from like Radion, Fire GL, and so forth. The present catalysts go back to the X1000s there but not for much longer.

The idea when they took over was to cover the bases on wider basis for those still running older models while no longer carrying all versions of the catalysts themselves. The problem with that however is now being seen with the 9.4 where you can't simply go back and download the 8.9 for example that may have been running perfect before deciding to grab the latest.

 

[darkassain]

what i found out after much tweaking is that if you you choose Compatibility mode to Vista Sp1 you can see the rest of the options (if you GPU is supported under the inf file which i found out on downloading 9.4 didnt but updating from 9.4 beta did..:sarc so i finally have 9.4 working...

 

[smarteyeball]

Is compat mode for when your installing? I should have tried that when I went back to 9.3 earlier today. It still had the same 'lets not install the drivers via the installer' trick...

"So far" 9.3 has swapped BSOD's for appcrashes.... The same drivers with the same games in Vista and it's running trouble free. I'm sick of this build

 

[Night Hawk]

You likely found the problem there by both needing to be run in the Vista compatibility since this is all tied to the installer. I have a second install of the 7077 I can boot into to test that idea out on since that was only a temp install there.

Just found one way to get older versions. http://products.amd.com/en-us/QuickSearch.aspx?q=support

Once you are at the site there you select an older model at least in the 2000s from the list of the different series of cards. Since the latest several still support those you may end up with the previous catalyst.



The search there however is for the driver package not seeing the catalyst included. http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownlo...ct=2.4.1.3.2&lang=English&rev=&ostype=Windows 7 Beta - 32-Bit Edition

 

[darkassain]

Is compat mode for when your installing? I should have tried that when I went back to 9.3 earlier today. It still had the same 'lets not install the drivers via the installer' trick...

yeah the downloaded installer that extracts all the files is the one that gets the change

"So far" 9.3 has swapped BSOD's for appcrashes.... The same drivers with the same games in Vista and it's running trouble free. I'm sick of this build

lol im guessing in 7077 right?
well i believe these drivers are not as rigorously tested as the vista ones since these are "beta" drivers....

 

[win7]

So has support now stoped in 9.4 for the older cards like radeon 9600?

 

[Night Hawk]

When going to http://game.amd.com to select the latest from that site to see the Catalyst included that's where you are running into the problematic 9.4 beta for 7. The other AMD site simply carries the basic drivers only. There you select the model series you are running to get the correct driver set.

For arriving at AMD first and then not getting lost the way they have it set up now you select which you are looking for at http://support.amd.com/us/Pages/AMDSupportHub.aspx



With the catalyst you would pick the upper arrow to end up at the game.amd.com page. For the older models like that one you would only get the drivers without catalyst at the lower arror shown there.