Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[Night Hawk]

If you look closer on the download page you will find the link for the previous driver versions.

Radeon model cards:

For the 64bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

For the 32bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers
(note Vista 32bit seen there but still for 7)

Embedded/integrated motherboard Radeon:

For 64bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

For 32bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

Now for even older versions going back as far as the 7.1 an alternate 3rd party site carries them at ATI Catalyst Drivers Downloads

They carry them all the way upto the latest available there while this would be for older model series cards mainly since most will go directly to the AMD/ATI site for the latest.

 

[scoopeeedoo]

If you look closer on the download page you will find the link for the previous driver versions.

Radeon model cards:

For the 64bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

For the 32bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers
(note Vista 32bit seen there but still for 7)

Embedded/integrated motherboard Radeon:

For 64bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

For 32bit 7, Previous Catalyst™ Drivers

Now for even older versions going back as far as the 7.1 an alternate 3rd party site carries them at ATI Catalyst Drivers Downloads

They carry them all the way upto the latest available there while this would be for older model series cards mainly since most will go directly to the AMD/ATI site for the latest.

Oooops! Bad observer, scoopeeedoo!!!
I thought it had to be like that, but too lazy to go back & see...
Inexcusable...

Thanks for getting me on the right track!

 

[smarteyeball]

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 have and they have been good for me on a few titles where crossfire was previously broken and just flat out Blue screening.


Although I had issues installing these over the top of 10.6 - I had to do a driversweeper install to get Crossfire working again.

 

[PhaseShift]

[...]they have been good for me on a few titles where crossfire was previously broken and just flat out Blue screening.

Although I had issues installing these over the top of 10.6 - I had to do a driversweeper install to get Crossfire working again.

Hmm... Crossfire was definitely bluescreening for me, to the point where I'm now just running a single 5770. Maybe I should give these a shot.

 

[Night Hawk]

Here I run a single 5750 model card with a dual monitor setup but kept running into OpenGL problems with the 10.5, 6, and 7 releases. There was never any general display problems just old titles simply would not run.

Something in the latest I have to say is definitely hampering running older title pc games where OpenGL support is required. I've been hearing this from others besides seeing that here. The 10.4 however is still available if any of the newer three are causing anyone problems and seems to work well.

 

[Airbot]

10.7b

GPU-76: ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 Update Driver for OpenCL™ 1.1 Support

 

[Night Hawk]

Thanks! I'll have to give this one a try here and update this post in a bit.

I see the 10.7a beta page is now blank when going to look that up.

Nope! Still seeing the same thing on the 10yr. old title with the patch on.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: WolfSP.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3bf17241
Fault Module Name: StackHash_a0a9
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 5f4c4720
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: a0a9
Additional Information 2: a0a98c790c20213ffbc5598622bca245
Additional Information 3: 4073
Additional Information 4: 4073006330ab8e1a5f13a997c3c3616f

I'm doomed! and that wasn't Doom either.

 

[smarteyeball]

10.7b

GPU-76: ATI Catalyst™ 10.7 Update Driver for OpenCL™ 1.1 Support

Updated OpenCL - older 3D driver than 10.7a (doesn't contain Starcraft 2 AA fix etc)

 

[Night Hawk]

That's interesting since someone asking about going back to the older Cat. versions was having problems with the same game with the 10.7 installed.

Here the problem is being seen mainly with one older stubborn title that simply refuses to run with anything newer the 10.4 as you saw from error info. Surprizingly that same error is identical to the information found so far about a 1.11 patch while the game's cd is a bit newer seeing a later 1.33 patch.

The latest versions also now see the Hydravision support added to them which tends to make me wonder if this is the possible cause effecting older titles. But I'm also looking at the ATI Stream Software Development Kit (SDK) v2.1 to see if that will make any difference.

 

[stormy13]

Thanks! I'll have to give this one a try here and update this post in a bit.

I see the 10.7a beta page is now blank when going to look that up.

Nope! Still seeing the same thing on the 10yr. old title with the patch on.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: WolfSP.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3bf17241
Fault Module Name: StackHash_a0a9
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 5f4c4720
OS Version: 6.1.7600.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: a0a9
Additional Information 2: a0a98c790c20213ffbc5598622bca245
Additional Information 3: 4073
Additional Information 4: 4073006330ab8e1a5f13a997c3c3616f

I'm doomed! and that wasn't Doom either.

This might help with those old OpenGL games,

CATALYST and OpenGL - what works and what doesn't - Rage3D Discussion Area

Post #28 summarizes it the best,

Let me break it down a little simpler if i can.

The older version of openGL only had x amount of extensions, lets say 50 for example sake.

The newer versions of openGL have added extensions over the years. So again for example sake lets say were up to 75.

Some of these older games were hard coded to expect only 50 extensions, and when they request the list if more than 50 show up BOOM GOES THE WORLD.

It's a combination of crappy programming and the natural progress of a graphics API really.

Basically it isn't the drivers but the games themselves.

If the newer drivers are working or needed for DirectX games try adding this,

View attachment atioglxx.zip

to the game's folder. That should force the game to use it instead of the latest version that gets install in the System32 folder (or SysWOW64 on 64 bit systems).

 

[Night Hawk]

I suspected it would be something like that. I'm not the only one lately running into this type of problem with the older titles however as you can see from just discussion there alone.

For the Hydra vision feature AMD/ATI likely had to make a change in extensions in order to see the correct increase in number starting with the 10.5 version to get that going there and with the 10.6 before adding the Hydra vision into the mix.

This particular title was 98 as well as XP compatible when released so you could expect it was hard coded based on the old AGP architectures. When looking now in the system32 folder you will see the atiglpxx.dll file which sounds like it won't be seen when putting the 10.7 back on again.

Post #15 was also one to note there as well for listing the old title most effected for anyone interested. Sof I +II + III(last sequel 2005) are installed here as well as rtcw. Sof III is far newer and has another problem for that one however. Now to see if extracting that into the main folder root or the gl sub folder(refer to image attached) will work once the 10.7 is tried again.

Good catch on that one! stormy13 Now to see if it works out on these different titles at least.

NADA! Stubborn aren't they?! RTCW saw this.

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: WolfSP.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3bf17241
Fault Module Name: atioglxx.dll

Note the atioglxx.dll was the fault module when the "graphics driver not working" message appeared for that one. Sof II simply saw the same type of stopped working popup with similar error info while SoF I saw an entirely grey screen.

Unfortunately I think will be a continuing problem people will be making inquiries about for those that still prefer to run the older titles. On the 10.7 was installed a fresh install of DX9c followed the restart to insure the older DX was present to see that covered as well.

SoF I saw the same while the second attempt for SoF II saw...

Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: SoF2.exe
Application Version: 0.0.0.0
Application Timestamp: 3db457db
Fault Module Name: StackHash_621c

Added here as a reference.


I just came across one reply on the AMD site where someone mentioned turning off the Direct Draw in the 10.7 release to solve game crashes with a few recent titles. Age of Empires was one title as well as someone reporting improvement with online multiplayer games; no titles specified. This will be looked into here.

 

[swarfega]

10.8 due 25th/26th.

 

[Night Hawk]

That will be worth a look to see if they found a few solutions for the older game problems. All I could get out of AMD's game site there was a "we're still working on it!" which didn't say much.

 

[swarfega]

Sounds like Adobe on flash 64 :roflmao:

 

[Airbot]

August 25, 2010

10.8 is out.

Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/catalyst_108_release_notes.pdf

 

[Wishmaster]

August 25, 2010

10.8 is out.

Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

http://www2.ati.com/relnotes/catalyst_108_release_notes.pdf

Been waiting, Thanks.

 

[Brink]

Thank you Aaron. First post updated.

 

[Gilly]

Has anyone got an explanation why ATI haven't fixed the overclocking issue,resulting in high idle clocks?
We was told when 10.5 was released that the only reason for the high idle clocks was to combat the problems that people using eyefinity were experiencing.
Now it seems like they dont want you too overclock-_-
-----------------------------------
EDIT
no noticeable changes or better performance for me
& seem to be getting lower fps in mafia 2

>>>back to 10.4

 

[Night Hawk]

Sounds like Adobe on flash 64 :roflmao:

Great! Just great! That's all we need! You can see how that went at AMD Game Forums - Latest Catalyst Versions and Older Game Titles; Too Many OpenGL Extensions?

As you can see that was a fast brush off rather then allowing any chance to reply even run a few questions for any developers to answer back on.

As you can see from that copying the what file? OpenGL file without naming which one was the reply(brush off) seen there. The closest match found is the "atiglpxx.dll" found in the system32 folder. "gl" being OpenGL for the 10.4 version.

I restored an image to the second drive here being the same make and model for testing the IE 9 beta and may as well try the 10.8 there. I'll know soon enough if they addressed the OpenGL problems.

 

[Wishmaster]

I wonder if that roughly translates as:

"Yea, we know, but have NFI what to do about it."