Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[neo101]

Thanks you were right! it seems to work as you said. Boy it is great to have users like you all thanks again
Lysle

Lysle if it helps you, download microsoft "compatability prog" from their website, that's how I found a few un-needed/out of date drivers on my old socket A/Agp board.
It also flagged the .net sp1 that an old game had loaded on!
M/soft compatability prog works running on Win 7 too!

Don't forget to download m/soft June 2010 DirectX 9 redist update drivers!

 

[Night Hawk]

Thanks you were right! it seems to work as you said. Boy it is great to have users like you all thanks again
Lysle

Lysle if it helps you, download microsoft "compatability prog" from their website, that's how I found a few un-needed/out of date drivers on my old socket A/Agp board.
It also flagged the .net sp1 that an old game had loaded on!
M/soft compatability prog works running on Win 7 too!

Don't forget to download m/soft June 2010 DirectX 9 redist update drivers!

One thing found here lately was from setting an old Socket A case with a 128mb GeForce FX5200 AGP card and finding the old outdated cd version drivers and software as well went right onto a fast install of the 32bit 7. Even the onboard sound and board drivers worked normally. The MS updates found a few others as well.

As for DX9c I kept the redistributed version from 2006 and see that installed on 7 as well as it had been when originally used for Vista. For older pc games in particular I still use the install DX9 option seen in those since the game installers will then detect that particular installation and run normally.

The compatibility troubleshooter is another option seen in the right click menu as well as the compatibility tab for getting installers for the previous versions to run and install as well as the Windows 7 Compatibility Center for both softwares and hardware updates. Windows 7 Compatibility: Software Programs & Hardware Devices: Find Updates, Drivers, & Downloads

 

[stormy13]

For those not adverse to beta drivers,

GPU-74: ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.7 Preview Driver for OpenGL ES 2.0 Support

ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 Beta Driver Feature:

The release of this software driver from AMD delivers support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 industry standard being developed to bring plug-in free 3D graphics to the Internet through open-source web browsers.

which will be newer than the official Cat 10.7 when they come out some time this week.

 

[Airbot]

10.7 is available.

Downloads

 

[stormy13]

Release notes link doesn't work, try this one instead,

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/Catalyst_107_release_notes.pdf

 

[Airbot]

hmm, one I posted works for me still.

 

[Pinoy55]

Thanks for the heads up sir Airbot!

 

[stormy13]

hmm, one I posted works for me still.

Clear your cookies or try another browser and it won't. This is where it will take everyone else,

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. - Unauthorized Download

 

[Airbot]

Ok yeah, it does it now without changing or clearing anything. I took it out, you have the one you posted up there anyways.

 

[Night Hawk]

Blast! I guess the 10.7 is another No Go! I don't what they changed starting with the Cat. 10.5 but the same problem persists with the 10.6 and this one as well. Something causes a few old apps and a few old titles to crash every time you go to start them up.

When the 10.4 is put back on they all run as good as new.

 

[scoopeeedoo]

Personaly i had to switch back to 10.6...
10.7 makes "Split Second" jolting...

 

[Fumz]

10.7 were a no go here too. They're almost as fast as 10.6 and not nearly as crisp.

 

[Night Hawk]

You no longer see OpenGL support in any of the three versions past the Cat. 10.4 evidently. I've been hearing the same complaint on not seeing old titles able to run as well as the other problems. Hopefully they wll clear this stuff in the next few releases.

 

[Airbot]

For those not adverse to beta drivers,

GPU-74: ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.7 Preview Driver for OpenGL ES 2.0 Support

ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 Beta Driver Feature:

The release of this software driver from AMD delivers support for the OpenGL ES 2.0 industry standard being developed to bring plug-in free 3D graphics to the Internet through open-source web browsers.

which will be newer than the official Cat 10.7 when they come out some time this week.

10.7a Beta/hotfix drivers released today.

GPU-75: ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.7a Beta Driver

 

[Night Hawk]

I'll have to pass that along to someone running into the atikmdag.sys problem even when reverting back to the Cat. 10.4. He was advised to simply clean everything off and go for the basic drivers only. Have to see if this one will allow some old titles to run in the meantime!

 

[Gilly]

well done ati 3 consecutive bad drivers
still seem to be punished for overclocking gpu which results in stupidly high idle clocks
10.5 was pretty bad
10.6 was very bad
and 10 .7 particular with crossfire is just totally broken


again well done ati

 

[Night Hawk]

I just finished submitting some additional feedback on the three latest versions running into these types of problems with different makes and models powered by ATI drivers/catalyst. Hopefully they will look into this a bit for the 10.8.

The WDM drivers are no longer bundled with the full catalyst which could be something to consider as a cause for some problems. That's now a separate download. You can read that in the latest version's release notes.

 

[PhaseShift]

10.7a Beta/hotfix drivers released today.

GPU-75: ATI Catalyst™ 10.7a Beta Driver

Has anyone tried these yet? I'm curious if these would help fix my freezing problem.

 

[scoopeeedoo]

10.7a Beta/hotfix drivers released today.

GPU-75: ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.7a Beta Driver

Has anyone tried these yet? I'm curious if these would help fix my freezing problem.

I did... deception...
Still on the 10.6 which is not the best yet as i heard, but i'm a "two-month-only "ati" user so i don't have an older one to try...
Anyway 10.6 is better for me than 10.7 (beta or not)...

I begin to regret Nvidia... :sarc:

 

[FerchogtX]

Seems that it doesn't affer something for me to try... too bad