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Ati 9.7 Ccc
leaked ATI 9.7 drivers here..
http://www.overclock.net/software-news/ ... eaked.html
- comes with a few design changes to CCC - works well in Win7
http://www.overclock.net/software-news/ ... eaked.html
- comes with a few design changes to CCC - works well in Win7
- the whole universe is running in BETA mode - we're working on it.. beep..!!
New ati catalyst driver (9.8)
Has someone already tested this new video driver on X3TC ?
Any performance improvements noticed ?
Any performance improvements noticed ?
J'ai du me pencher de trop près sur le chaos de l'univers, j'ai tout pris dans la tronche.
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Probably more for Off-Topic forum.
It works fine for me with X3TC (Vista x64) although with no noticed improvements in my game (still typically 50-70fps except near vanilla complexes). It took 10 mins to install and with a couple of Vista 'Continue?' dialogues and there was also a lot of hard drive thrashing during installation and on first restart. More so than I noticed with earlier version installs. It might just be my Anti-Virus being extra cautious mind. AMD do seem to spend a lot of time installing advertising splash screens and unwanted trial/freebies when all I want is the update!
Reading the Release Notes, the update is really just better Crossfire support so I would not have expected any real effect on X3TC for me in any case. I prefer to keep up to date, whatever the actual content though.
It works fine for me with X3TC (Vista x64) although with no noticed improvements in my game (still typically 50-70fps except near vanilla complexes). It took 10 mins to install and with a couple of Vista 'Continue?' dialogues and there was also a lot of hard drive thrashing during installation and on first restart. More so than I noticed with earlier version installs. It might just be my Anti-Virus being extra cautious mind. AMD do seem to spend a lot of time installing advertising splash screens and unwanted trial/freebies when all I want is the update!
Reading the Release Notes, the update is really just better Crossfire support so I would not have expected any real effect on X3TC for me in any case. I prefer to keep up to date, whatever the actual content though.
My biggest problem was moving from 9.6 -> 9.7 (with CCC)... something must have borked somewhere, basically L4D (often played enough for me) was running rather slow, not necessarily framerate (around 50) but my mouse movement would lag, using the sniper rifle I would notice it more.
I tracked it down to smoke effects and similar effects which would push the card (put it this way, my HD4850 should not be struggling). Tried reverting back to 9.6 and my driver could not be found, so tried to reinstall (using Driver Sweeper too) and so on, did this to 9.5 and still had the same problem.
Eventually just gave up and reinstalled the 9.7 driver (without CCC this time) - I haven't tested it with the CCC but it all seems fine now, working at the usual 100-150fps when ingame. Now it is working I am reluctant to upgrade to 9.8, and seeing the release notes, it seems like a wise decision atm
I tracked it down to smoke effects and similar effects which would push the card (put it this way, my HD4850 should not be struggling). Tried reverting back to 9.6 and my driver could not be found, so tried to reinstall (using Driver Sweeper too) and so on, did this to 9.5 and still had the same problem.
Eventually just gave up and reinstalled the 9.7 driver (without CCC this time) - I haven't tested it with the CCC but it all seems fine now, working at the usual 100-150fps when ingame. Now it is working I am reluctant to upgrade to 9.8, and seeing the release notes, it seems like a wise decision atm
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It seems they fixed/improved HDMI audio detection/usage again, it took the liberty of assigning the HDMI device as my primary audio output - screwed me over for 5 minutes until I figured out what the problem was.
Just disable the new device if its a problem and reassign your old device as default (you may have to restart audio apps, or they won't play audio/might crash).
Just disable the new device if its a problem and reassign your old device as default (you may have to restart audio apps, or they won't play audio/might crash).
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version 9.10 - Windows7 - 32-bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-32bit
version 9.10 - Windows7 - 64-bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-64bit
- works fine..!!
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-32bit
version 9.10 - Windows7 - 64-bit:
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catal ... ws-7-64bit
- works fine..!!
- the whole universe is running in BETA mode - we're working on it.. beep..!!
Great seems like they still haven't fixed the ccc cannot start beacause your driver is to old or your gfx isn't enabled.
Driver installs fine and everything is enabled
Hello 2 hours of driver installing until the blasted thing works again
Ever since 9.2 ati drivers have been ****
Oh well i hope they fixed the flicker in red alert 3 and mild flicker in TC
Driver installs fine and everything is enabled
Hello 2 hours of driver installing until the blasted thing works again
Ever since 9.2 ati drivers have been ****
Oh well i hope they fixed the flicker in red alert 3 and mild flicker in TC
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i always uninstall then reboot then device manager remove the card whit lingering driver reboot then CCleaner and driver sweeper reboot again install driver package reboot install ccc package reboot ccc does not support these drivers or your card is not enabled.BugMeister wrote:strange..
- mine were downloaded and installed within 5 minutes
- with no hiccups at all
- maybe you should've scrubbed the old ones out before you started..
i get this every flipping time and only after the 4 or 5 round of installing them does it work.
I am thinking ccc doesn't like windows server 2008 with hyper-v in sleep mode.
running as admin also doesn't solve the problem.
And any other drivers doesn't give this problem
Just a question as I see lots of people using lots of Apps when DL'ing new drivers. For both 5 years of Nvidea and 4 years of ATI I have simply gone to the site and installed the new drivers without doing anyhting else, right over the top. In 9 years I have never had an issue but I read of people having to go through all kinds of song & dance with half a dozen apps & tools just to do the same thing. Is there a strong reason for this (i.e something will actually happen), none of my friends use apps, same just DL from site and that's it, again nothing has ever happened to them either.
Sorry not a hijack, was just talking in the pub with several mates and we all had seen people having to do much more for a simple driver update and we could not work out if we were missing something?
Seems silly if it is so, surely any graphics driver developer worth any salt (!) would design the new install to clean up prior to the new driver anyway!
Sorry not a hijack, was just talking in the pub with several mates and we all had seen people having to do much more for a simple driver update and we could not work out if we were missing something?
Seems silly if it is so, surely any graphics driver developer worth any salt (!) would design the new install to clean up prior to the new driver anyway!
VURT The only Feathers to Fly With......
For a long period of time I did the same as yourself muppetts, but just one driver out of the blue seemed to go wrong for me (and then a later driver). Generally speaking doing that doesn't seem to cause problems often, but it could happen - usually whenever that happens I have to resort to digging around and trying to flush out whatever was left behind if I have problems.
So now I usually just uninstall the ATI Install Manager and within that there is an option to "Express Uninstall All ATI Software" which so far seems to remove everything. The only problems I have had recently is an upgraded CCC which started being funny (I think 9.7) since then I haven't used it - just the driver.
So now I usually just uninstall the ATI Install Manager and within that there is an option to "Express Uninstall All ATI Software" which so far seems to remove everything. The only problems I have had recently is an upgraded CCC which started being funny (I think 9.7) since then I haven't used it - just the driver.
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check this out - it's full of useful info:
http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html
- especially page 3
- it shows how to completely scrub old ATI drivers..
http://www.tweakguides.com/ATICAT_1.html
- especially page 3
- it shows how to completely scrub old ATI drivers..
- the whole universe is running in BETA mode - we're working on it.. beep..!!
Thx bugmeister but that guide isn't relevant to my case.
However after visiting the win2008workstation forums http://www.win2008workstation.com/forum/ i found the solution.
apparently the ati installer doesn't install all the drivers and you have to do it manually.
first install ccc then device manager update/install the drivers from the extracted package reboot and done.
Worked like a charm.
However after visiting the win2008workstation forums http://www.win2008workstation.com/forum/ i found the solution.
apparently the ati installer doesn't install all the drivers and you have to do it manually.
first install ccc then device manager update/install the drivers from the extracted package reboot and done.
Worked like a charm.