Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[stormy13]

I updated to the 12.4 catalyst driver from 12.3 but the catalyst control center says I have 12.1 now?? I already uninstalled from progs/features and removed and deleted driver from dev manger. Y U NO UPDATE CORRECTLY??

Likely a typo in the INF or that particular registry entry didn't get updated on your system for whatever reason. Look at the packaging version as well as the Direct 3D version instead, as the Catalyst version number will show whatever the last version installed was. Other than convenience, it doesn't mean or affect how the drivers work.

The beta/leaked drivers don't have anything in that line and will show whatever was last installed. It can also show whatever you want it to just by making a change to the line responsible for it before installing,



That is actually the 8.97 beta (which will likely end up being the 12.5). I made the change from the previous beta when there were some questioned asked as to what version they really were. The line responsible for it isn't present in the INF so it didn't get updated when I installed the 8.97, and the CCC just shows whatever was there from before.

 

[A Guy]

AMD Catalyst 12.4a Hotfix

We’ve recently identified an issue where some of our legacy graphics products are producing certain artifacts in Diablo III with our latest release of Catalyst™ 12.4. This issue only affects users of ATI Radeon™ HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600 and 4500 graphics cards under Windows® Vista® and Windows 7.

AMD Catalyst

A Guy

 

[dsperber]

Just to talk about AMD's installer, and Driver Sweeper again...

Happened that I've been pestered with a Windows Update reminder lately, that my Catalyst 12.3 could use an update to 12.4. So I decided to just go ahead and do it. Take the requisite "system image" backup for protection, and then I went at it.

Decided to give the much-hyped "install it right over your existing installed setup" approach another try (although I was naturally skeptical it would succeed). My setup is relatively complex, with two 1920x1200 24" LCD monitors, two ATI TV Wonder 650 PCI/PCIe cards, one 4-tuner cablecard-enabled Ceton card, and lots of Windows Media Center going on.

Anyway, I ran the 12.4 installer and it seemed to finish. Interestingly, no errors. Then I re-booted, and all looked good. Then I tried to open CCC and it did not open. That familiar symptom of the spinning blue circle as CCC attempts to start and initialize, and then it disappears as CCC fails to complete. This can of course happen if you have a significant mismatch between versions of CCC and the driver, but in this case both should have been 12.4. Of course there's no way to really know, since CCC itself can't open!

Ok, run Driver Sweeper to analyse/cleanse everything AMD, and reboot. Once back to generic MS VGA support, I then ran the 12.4 ATI installer again. Interestingly, completed with some type of warning/error message but when the log was examined everything was shown as SUCCESSFUL. There were no warnings, and no errors.

Re-boot again, and everything looks good. Obviously now running ATI driver instead of MS generic.

Try to start CCC by right-click on desktop, and CCC does not appear on the context menu so that I cannot select it!!! I guess it was probably the victim of the install process which claimed something had not run properly in that warning/error message at the end of the install, even though on the log CCC showed as "SUCCESSFUL".

Oh well. Run the ATI installer again, and this time uncheck everything available except for CCC (which IS checked for install, with the description at the bottom of the dialog showing "current version not installed"). This custom install for CCC only seems to complete successfully (no errors or warnings).

And magically, sure enough when I right-click on the desktop there is CCC in the context menu. And when I select it and INFORMATION/SOFTWARE, sure enough there is the 12.4 version of both driver and CCC shown.

Mission FINALLY accomplished... but again, it really just never runs smoothly for me. It's always some kind of a battle. But I would not give up Driver Sweeper, as for me it is reliable whereas as the ATI Install Manager -> UNINSTALL is not.

 

[Phone Man]

Maybe I am just lucky as I have never had a problem updating my drivers. I follow the AMD recommendations from their site. Use the AMD Catalyst Install Manager and remove old software, reboot, install new drivers.

20870InstallGuideforATIHardware&Drivers

GPU-57: How to uninstall pre-existing graphics card drivers from a Microsoft Windows based system

Jim

 

[p5200]

retrieving install exe./files for 12.4 Calalyst update

I hope I'm not posting in the wrong area but, a box popped up on my screen about the new update so I took it. My question is, is there a place in windows/sys.32 that I could find an install exe. etc. that I could transfer to a usb flash drive so I could also update my backup tower without having to use more of my limited internet bandwidth? I usually, go to the website and save, my download so I can transfer it to the second tower but, forgot this time. It's now installed on Win. 7 64 bit pro. Thanks for all help!

 

[FerchogtX]

As far as I know there is an update utility that ckecks your system and VGA to see if there is an available update for you, you choose your download location and you are done, that what I did when I installed W7 on my desktop.

 

[A Guy]

AMD Catalys 12.4b Hotfix Driver

Issue Description:

We’ve recently identified an issue where some of our legacy graphics products are producing certain artifacts in Diablo III and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim with our latest release of AMD Catalyst™ 12.4. This issue affects users of ATI Radeon™ HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600 and 4500 graphics cards.

Resolution:

This issue has now been addressed with the AMD Catalyst 12.4b hotfix driver. Users of the ATI Radeon HD 2400, 2600, 2900, 3400, 3600 and 4500 graphics cards should download this hotfix driver.

AMD Catalyst

A Guy

 

[BugMeister]

rumours are flying that Wednesday may see 12.5 WHQL..

 

[Brink]

I hope so.

 

[stormy13]

Unconfirmed yet but,

AMD to halt monthly driver releases

There should be a public announcement today, but I have been allowed to share this info right now.

• AMD will end monthly Catalyst driver releases starting with Catalyst 12.5 (which won't exist). They have decided to focus harder on quality and improvements vs regular updates which may not bring many new things. This way there will be no need for two separate driver development paths every month: one to get the official WHQL driver and another that keeps doing the regular driver development.
• We should expect more "hot fixes" and "preview drivers" when new games are released or urgent fixes are required.
• There is a beta driver we are testing right now that fixes the Eyefinity tearing on the third monitor when mixing outputs. I have verified that it works with Southern Islands based cards, so I don't know if it will work with previous cards. Anyway, if no major issues are found, this driver should be publicly available next week.

 

[brianzion]

AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta Driver >>> AMD Catalyst

Last Updated
5/31/2012
Article Number
GPU-163
With the release of the AMD Catalyst™ 12.6 Beta driver (“Catalyst”), AMD would also like to announce that we are moving away from our Monthly Catalyst release plan. Our goal is to ensure that every Catalyst release delivers a substantial benefit to our end users; as we have today with the release of the Catalyst 12.6a Beta. We will still continue with the Catalyst naming convention; Catalyst: Year.Month. You just won’t see a new driver every single month. We are confident that this will only benefit the end user; you’ll only need to upgrade to a new Catalyst driver, when it makes sense.

We would also like to announce the introduction of our new AMD Issue Reporting Form. We made a number of improvements to the older Catalyst Crew Feedback form, making it more comprehensive, ensuring high quality feedback. Feedback is very important in every product company’s life, especially in our fast paced environment. This is not just a check-box for us – we take these reports very seriously. We will review every report posted here and investigate every issue encountered. Please use this form whenever you encounter something worth mentioning.

 

[brianzion]

mmmm going back to 12.4 had a blue screen installing 12.6 beta

 

[M1GU31]

Well they might release one next week because max payne 3 is coming out in 8 hours according to steam and I bet it's going to need some update to ccc to run it properly,this is my prediction.

 

[brianzion]

i have gone back to 12.4 all is running ok now the beta 12.6 may be ok for other machines i have left feedback on the amd site with my problems of trying to install it i still go by the old saying "if it aint broke dont try to fix it" sometimes

 

[M1GU31]

Tried the beta drivers,runs fine on my rig and played a couple games with no problems.Although performance is exactly the same as the previous driver for my rig,all I noticed is that some of the flickering i had in the witcher 2 went away so that's a plus. Gta iv on the other hand has problems now,getting the dreaded out of video ram problem when loading my save now.Guess il'l either rollback or wait until the official driver is out and try it again and see if the problem continues. All was fine with the previous driver and now gta iv has memory leaks,could be something with the game its self or the driver did something.As of now I will investigate some more and find out the source and see if rolling back drivers fixes it or not and try the game again today since that happened to me yesterday and see if the problem persist or not.

EDIT:The problem was with the game its self, a simple command line code in the main directory fixed the memory leak. Just had to type this in -memrestrict 681574400 and save it as commandline.txt in the main directory of the game.So the drivers are fine and having no problems with them so far.Using amd drivers 12.6beta with a 6870 gpu

 

[BugMeister]

and the May 22nd 12.6 BETA runs lovely in crossfire..

 

[BugMeister]

yikes, there's an even newer one (HD5000 series and above only..)

AMD Catalyst 12.x (8.980.0 June 4) Unofficial BETA download from Guru3D.com

 

[stormy13]

And now one even newer than that one,

AMD Catalyst 12.x (9.00 June 12) Unofficial BETA - Guru3D.com Forums

P.S. It also has updated AHCI/RAID drivers in it for those with AMD based motherboards,

  [B]AMD AHCI controller driver distribution list[/B]
  [B]Version [/B]1.2.001.0331, 04/11/2012 
   
  LHx64             - Vista, x64
  LHx86             - Vista, x86
  Win7x64         - Windows 7, x64
  Win7x86         - Windows 7, x86
   
  [B]Supported chipsets[/B]
  
  SB7xx family
  SB8xx family
  Hudson-1/2/3 family
  SB9xx family
  SP5100
   
  [B]Installation Notes[/B]
   
  The driver can be installed either during OS setup or as an update 
   
  To install the driver during OS setup use a setup dialog window on Vista and higher (u[COLOR=black]se the advanced settings to configure the Windows Setup program to use the specific driver; click “[B][B]Load[/B] [/B][B][B]Driver”[/B][/B] to load the specific driver from the media that includes the driver[/COLOR]).
   
  To install the driver as an update use the Windows Device Manager.
   
   
  [B]Revision History[/B]
  
  1.2.001.0331
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Fix: System hang-up on some BIOS implementations
   
  1.2.001.0329
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Win7 to Win8 update failure fix (BSOD 0x BE)
   
  1.2.001.0327
   
              Fixed:
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]READ NATIVE MAX ADDRESS EXT failure
   
  1.2.001.0321
   
              Fixed:
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]ZPODD hot swap support added (optional, available only w/ appropriate BIOS support); 10 sec delay should be observed between device un-plug and hot-plug; “Safely Remove Hardware and Eject Media” applet recommended to be used to eject a CDROM before physical removal.
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Port Multiplier support is enabled by default on eSATA ports.
   
  1.2.001.0317
   
              Fixed:
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Roxio SW prevents ZPODD to enter the ZP mode
   
  1.2.001.0301
   
              Fixed:
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Roxio media erase failure
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]DVD region tab might be absent, when the “Properties” menu item is clicked in the Device Manager
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]The sequence of operations - the PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL (Prevent = 1) command, a pause longer than 1 min, the PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL (Prevent = 0) command or  PREVENT ALLOW MEDIUM REMOVAL (Prevent = 1), Sleep, Resume prevents a ZPODD to enter the ZP state
   
  1.2.001.0296
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]_SDD/_GTF methods evaluation added
   
  1.2.001.0292
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Power DVD disk eject failure fix
   
  1.2.001.0282
   
              Fixed:
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Possible failure to enter power saving states having ongoing ZPODD activity 
   
  1.2.1.275
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Memory usage optimization 
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]ZPODD power on incurred 10 sec delay workaround
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Potential DMA overrun bug fix
   
  1.2.1.263
              
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Performance optimization
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Boot Optimization
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]TRIM implementation
   
  1.2.1.238
   
  Added
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Zero Power ODD support (if enabled in BIOS; Windows 7 only); the ZPODD is powered off after 60 Sec w/o media inside and tray closed (for tray type ZPODDs)
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]DAPS support
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]DIPM Setting Index 3 added to AHCI Link Power Management Settings (in addition to existing Active(0), HIPM(1) and HIPM+DIPM(2) ) and can be chosen to any Power Scheme using the inbox utility powercfg.exe
  
  1.2.001.210  
   
              Renamed
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]amdsata.inf -> amd_sata.inf
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]amdsata.cat -> amd_sata.cat
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]amdsata.sys -> amd_sata.sys
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]amdxata.sys -> amd_xata.sys
  
  1.2.001.197
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT][COLOR=black][FONT=&quot]Fix a bug where FUA was re-enabled after hibernation / de-hibernation operation and it is now disabled under all conditions.[/FONT][/COLOR]
   
  1.2.0.164 
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Minor bug fix
  
  1.2.0.147 
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Slight performance improvement
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]FUA is changed to be disabled by default
  
  1.2.0.144 
   
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Slight performance improvement
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Port Multiplier enumeration optimization
  [FONT=&quot]-          [/FONT]Velocity test numbers improved
  
  1.2.0.125 – first release

 

[Brink]

Thank you Richard. I shall give them a try now.

UPDATE:

So far, so good.

 

[BugMeister]

yep - these run beautifully..!!