Latest AMD Catalyst Video Driver for Windows 7

[Night Hawk]

The 10.8 once again failed as expected with the older Legacy to XP compatible titles suggesting you may just have that right on the money! Since gaming is big business and game titles move along much faster then versions of Windows for sure they are simply interested in what works for the latest in that area apparently.

Eventually when enough complaints are seen and people start going elsewhere they will then be saying: "woo hold on a minute! We now have something to patch this!"?! The problem however is seeing the "graphics driver can't be loaded" error when simply following the advise of copying the OpenGL driver into a game's folder with not just one old title alone.

Besides all that however other things should be working well for the non gamers. For those that like to run the "golden oldies" every so often however the 10.4 would seem to be the last to see what the oldies require.

 

[cloud8521]

10.8 is a very bad driver accually. it causes mouse problems in 2 games (if not more) from what ihave found it happens in Guild wars and uncharted waters online. really needs a hotfix

 

[stormy13]

You let them know about it,

http://www.amdsurveys.com/se.ashx?s=5A1E27D27E29B0E3

Good idea for anyone with issues to report it, the more reports of a problem they get the better chance of it getting fixed.

 

[DreemWarrior]

Drivers include next-gen GPU codes

AMD brought a handful of new features and improvements to the table yesterday with the release of its latest Catalyst graphics driver suite. In an unusual reveal, it seems one of the files also contained code-names for as many as 35 unreleased products which upon further inspection appear related to the upcoming Radeon HD 6000 Series of GPUs, otherwise known as Southern Islands.

Read more here...
http://www.techspot.com/news/40088-catalyst-drivers-include-nextgen-gpu-code-names.html

 

[Night Hawk]

"If the shoe fits wear it!" Like I was saying their focus is not on the older things but on looking forward.

The survey option is one way to push an issue however on things like the OpenGL problems as far as enticing them to work on a solution. These companies typically won't worry about someone's gaming favorites when out 3-5yrs. or older without enough people making some similar mention of the problems they run into.

 

[Seven Eleven]

10.8 is a very bad driver accually. it causes mouse problems in 2 games (if not more) from what ihave found it happens in Guild wars and uncharted waters online. really needs a hotfix

10.8 and 10.7 messed up gfx (awful textures, missing shader effects etc) in Oblivion.
was afraid to even try others.

re-installed 10.6.

 

[neo101]

Baatfam,
- when you say 'upgrade' from Vista to Win7 are you doing a 'clean' install on a newly formatted, clean hard drive?

It's the only way to hopefully solve problems you might be having!

Also, update your motherboard bios to latest and set it to defaults until you are up and running - just in case!

Crysis is dying on my pc now (driver lock_ups)

Update

10.8's are working fine for me - it was Crysis causing the crashes. Found solution for 'Reckoning' level on the internet!

To finish the level, right click on Crysis icon > Properties > click on 'Target' panel and add (a space, then) -dx9 after the end of the quote marks > like this

"C:\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Crytek\Crysis\Bin32\Crysis.exe" -dx9

 

[fireberd]

I have a 4850 and Soldier Of Fortune will not run with anyting past 10.3 Catylist and 8.712 driver. I've tried every version past the one that works and SOF will not initialize with any of them.

It's not a SOF/Win 7 compatibility issue as I've tried running it in XP and Vista compatibility modes and it doesn't make any difference.

I have Win 7 64 bit.

 

[SleeStak]

there is a new Catalyst Application Profile available for download for AvP and BF:BC2 talked about here that is supposed to finally fix many of the performance issues with crossfire and these two games

the 10.8a profile should also be available sometime later on the official AMD.Game.Com site

 

[Night Hawk]

I have a 4850 and Soldier Of Fortune will not run with anyting past 10.3 Catylist and 8.712 driver. I've tried every version past the one that works and SOF will not initialize with any of them.

It's not a SOF/Win 7 compatibility issue as I've tried running it in XP and Vista compatibility modes and it doesn't make any difference.

I have Win 7 64 bit.

I run SoF and SoF II as well as RTCW with the 10.4 without any problem. the 10.5 and newer is where the change is seen for those older titles.

I've tried copying the OpenGL driver from the 10.4 into the game folders as well and only ended up seeing the "cannot load graphics driver" error message for them.

I will wait now to see if there is any progress with the next few following the 10.8.

there is a new Catalyst Application Profile available for download for AvP and BF:BC2 talked about here that is supposed to finally fix many of the performance issues with crossfire and these two games

the 10.8a profile should also be available sometime later on the official AMD.Game.Com site

That's strictly for Crossfire setups. Even the page there cautions about that. It's for all versions 32bit and 64bit alike XP, Vista, 7 seen at the ATI support. Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

 

[stormy13]

That's strictly for Crossfire setups. Even the page there cautions about that. It's for all versions 32bit and 64bit alike XP, Vista, 7 seen at the ATI support. Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

No it isn't,

Official Catalyst Application Profiles FAQ! - Rage3D Discussion Area

 

[Night Hawk]

That's strictly for Crossfire setups. Even the page there cautions about that. It's for all versions 32bit and 64bit alike XP, Vista, 7 seen at the ATI support. Drivers & Support | GAME.AMD.COM

No it isn't,

Official Catalyst Application Profiles FAQ! - Rage3D Discussion Area

Did you read the review on the other page as far as description?

AMD provided us with a new CrossFireX Application Profile today that its claims fixes and improves scaling with CrossFireX performance, particular in two titles, Aliens vs. Predator and Battlefield: Bad Company 2.

CAP 10.8a - ATI CrossFireX Application Profile 10.8a Performance | [H]ard|OCP

It's written mainly for improving performance with Crossfire setups. Notice that review centers on two recent game titles as well not the older games were the problems are being seen.

Whie it may be a fix for the recent when only one card is present it was never intended to address the OpenGL issues people are now seeing with the older ones.

 

[neo101]

Found this Website does a pretty impartial 'assessment' of Catalyst drivers each month and double checks AMD? claims for improvements each month.

Also recommends for last two months, to stick with 10.4's!

ATI Catalyst 10.8 Windows 7 Driver Analysis Final Thoughts :: TweakTown USA Edition

 

[Night Hawk]

They started with a large change seen with the 10.5 version and still haven't seen everything worked out yet from the looks of things.

"frame rates be none and gaming not be non existant" would be a better analogy for those running older titles. That article recommends going back to the 10.4a or 10.5 where the problems began in the first place.

Apparently in the rush to outpace NVidia's SLI they missed on the more basic elements as far as gamers are concerned. Now to see them bounce back from this over the next few.

 

[Seven Eleven]

Found this Website does a pretty impartial 'assessment' of Catalyst drivers each month and double checks AMD? claims for improvements each month.

Also recommends for last two months, to stick with 10.4's!

ATI Catalyst 10.8 Windows 7 Driver Analysis Final Thoughts :: TweakTown USA Edition

nice find!

looks like 10.6 is last driver without major problems (except old opengl titles).

 

[Airbot]

September 8, 2010


10.8b Hotfix

   Information

ATI Catalyst 10.8b Hotfix Features:

• ATI Radeon™ HD 4870 X2 and ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 use both Graphics Processing Units (GPU) for high performance
• Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2 with forced on Anisotropic Filtering (AF) using ATI Catalyst Control Center can improve performance

GPU-77: ATI Catalystâ„¢ 10.8b Hotfix

 

[Night Hawk]

That will be a help for some people. Here's the notation on this one.

Note! This hotfix is provided as is and is not supported by AMD. It has not completed full AMD testing and is only a driver update.
Applicable Products:
This article applies to the following configuration(s):

• Hardware
  • ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 series of products
  • ATI Radeon HD 4850 X2 series of products
• Software
  • ATI Catalyst Control Center
  • Ubisoft H.A.W.X 2
• Operating System
  • Windows 7 32-bit Edition
  • Windows 7 64-bit Edition
  • Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
  • Windows Vista 64-bit Edition

 

[smarteyeball]

That should hopefully make a lot of disgruntled 4870x2 users happy. They've been screwed for months.

 

[Night Hawk]

I'm still stuck with the 10.4 here for the time being and certainly now the feeling of being in the same club they have been in. At least that will solve their hardware side of things with that.

 

[Milennin]

I have a problem with this, when I start up my PC I get this "WARNING" saying:

"The Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version of your enabled graphics adapter. Please update your ATI graphics driver, or enable your ATI adapter using the Displays Manager."

I tried both things, but couldn't find the options to do so.
I looked at the link in this thread, but none of the options give me to chose for the videocard I use (NVIDIA GeForce GT 240).

What do I do?