Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[nkarytia]

Would that legacy driver perform better than the vista driver I use now (in Win 7)?

 

[Punkychan]

Hi, newbie here.The reason why I joined this forum is because I have the same issue as you all are but concerning dual monitors.
When my W7 was on RC , it was running well on dual monitors either with MS drivers or later part I installed the ATI drivers.
A few days ago I installed the retail version of W7 Ultimate but dual monitor set up won't work.If single , (either VGA or DVI or HDMI ) works fine.I"ve installed and reinstalled (countless time !) the drivers , still won't work.Any ideas anyone ?

my graphic is onboard AMD Radeon HD3200..and I even swapped the cables a few time thought that it was faulty.
Regards

 

[Punkychan]

Hi, it's okay now.I installed the latest ATI CCC 9.1 drivers at the moment works perfectly but still testing..

 

[cmillens]

Any details on what you did to get the install for the 9.1 drivers to work?

Running Windows 7 RTM x64 here with dual radeon 4870's and the Catalyst Install Manager pukes on install everytime.

 

[Zen00]

Try it with compatibility on first, see if that makes a difference. Shouldn't need to though.

 

[CityGirl]

Hotfix available, too

I upgraded Vista Ultimate yesterday to Windows 7 Ultimate. It rocks! Small problem, though. My Catalyst had to be uninstalled prior to, and didn't want to reinstall afterward, correctly. Dell was of no help as I have a 6 month old loaded Studio 1535, which wasn't eligible for the free Win 7 upgrade. Little did I know, even thought the Microsoft advisor said OK, Dell wasn't and no where did I find that on their website. After an extensive and frustrating chat with a Dell service tech, I found the hotfix myself on the ATI website. It is not on the Radeon 3400 series driver update page. I found it by Googling. I uninstalled the driver, reinstalled, then applied the hotfix. Perfect!

 

[Punkychan]

No idea..I downloaded it and did a normal install and up to date seems to work perfectly..

 

[CityGirl]

Do use the uninstall tool in the driver, then your favorite registry clean-up tool, reboot, and install the latest driver, then apply the hotfix. All should go well. Good luck!

CG

 

[Zen00]

I wouldn't suggest using a registry clean up tool.

Instead there's something you can download to remove ATI drivers, I can't remember what it's called.

 

[SlackerITGuy]

Boot in Safe Mode, run Driver Sweeper, then CCleaner.

You're good to go.

 

[nkarytia]

To completely remove it, go to the Programs and Features select the ATI and then select uninstall everything. No need for third party tools or safe mode.

 

[smarteyeball]

To completely remove it, go to the Programs and Features select the ATI and then select uninstall everything. No need for third party tools or safe mode.

Actually, sometimes there is.

 

[Punkychan]

I used Perfect Uninstaller..helped me a lot through all these years esp for the stubborn ones !

 

[unifex]

Hi, I have a maybe strange question for you guys. I am using the HD 2400 XT card (that's PCIe). It works perfectly fine, with two monitors and the latest ATI driver - currently 9.11 although the actual driver version is 8.671. Now, I have only downloaded and installed the driver, not the Catalyst Control Center. The question is - what does it do? I had it before in Vista, but I never really used it, although it ran a few processes on start up. In 7 I decided against installing it, and everything works fine (and by the way 7 starts up way faster than Vista, on the same hardware). But the question is still - am I missing anything without the CCC?

 

[torrentg]

CCC is only needed if you want to tweak things like screen size on a tv. If you are satisfied with how your monitors look, you don't need it.

It can also make tweaks to how games perform. That however, is best left to the settings of any particular game. Again, not really needed here either.

To sum it up, if you're happy, leave CCC off. If you ever do want to install CCC, you can disable it from starting with Windows.

CCC can also overclock but if you want to do that type of thing, use ATI Tray Tools instead.

 

[unifex]

Thanks, TorrentG!

 

[doakh]

Installed Windows Ultimate. During installation ATI driver 8.632 installed along with sound card driver. I tried to install ATI 9.11 (8.671) driver only and install bar stops about 2/3 the way through.
Any suggestions? Thanks

 

[Legacy]

Installed Windows Ultimate. During installation ATI driver 8.632 installed along with sound card driver. I tried to install ATI 9.11 (8.671) driver only and install bar stops about 2/3 the way through.
Any suggestions? Thanks

First, extract the driver to C:\ATI

Once extraction is done, close the installer.

Then boot to safe mode. Open device manager. Right click the video card. Update driver software. Browse. Let me pick. Have disk. Browse. Now find the extracted .inf in the driver folder for display, double click it. Hit ok. Hit next. After it's done installing, boot to normal mode.

 

[doakh]

Thanks, it worked flawlessly!

 

[SlackerITGuy]

CATALYST 9.12 from Sapphiretech:

http://markholmes.sapphiretech.com/Drivers/Catalyst/9_12/catalyst_9.12_windows_7_vista_dec14.zip

   Warning

These are not from the official ATI website in the first post.