ATI Radeon Guide and Catalyst Driver Updates

megatron · 1 Apr 2006 at 01:18

8BaLL said:
I am a Counter Strike Source and BF2 Player and i have noticed that my player and gun models are way to dark i am pritty sure its to much shadows i am running a X800 GTO 128MB PCI-Express i think it may have something to do with the catalyst control centre anyone else have this prob and have you resolved it Thanx

I use the contrast at 200 in a profile, also adjust monitor if still too dark (not a problem on a TFT now I guess).

Sumanji · 2 Apr 2007 at 01:01

Hey,

Is there any chance we could add some Mobility Catalyst info into the FAQ?

Cheers,

Suman

Coolasmoo · 2 Apr 2007 at 18:12

Hi,

I keep meaning to update this but with moving over to nvidia for the time being im not upto date with ATi side of things.

I will add bits as i can , but at the moment i just keep the driver links updated as best i can

megatron · 2 Apr 2007 at 20:24

On first glance it looks horribly out of date since you have not mentioned any x1xx0 cards in the supported list.

Coolasmoo · 2 Apr 2007 at 21:34

megatron said:
On first glance it looks horribly out of date since you have not mentioned any x1xx0 cards in the supported list.

Fixed

Oh and changed theme to green

MaXXeH · 22 Jul 2007 at 16:44

cat uninstaller link has changed
https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/drivers/cat-uninstaller.exe

ReDGryphoN · 5 Mar 2008 at 11:26

New drivers ready for 32bit vista

Crossfire X at last !!

http://www.directx10-games.com/Sample_vista_8-471-80222a-60170.exe

64bit ready tomorrow

ReD

adriancal · 29 Jun 2008 at 13:10

Hey all
When my lovely new 4870 arrives tomorrow morn which
driver software should I install?. The software on the included
cd or the hotfix thats available?. I have been looking on the
driver section of the ati/amd website and there doesn't seem
to be an option for 4000 series cards yet?.

Azza · 29 Jun 2008 at 13:25

Download the 8.6 drivers and then download the 4800 series hotfix.

8.6 from here

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

hotfix from here

http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=35298

sastusbulbas · 21 Jul 2008 at 19:41

So any new and improved drivers for the HIS AGP 3850 card, the drivers on the disc didn't work and I had to install the hotfix 8.5 drivers when I got my card.

And some recent update seems to be cuasing my ATI drivers to disapear

sastusbulbas · 29 Jul 2008 at 21:00

OK so does anyone have any idea what is going on with my drivers?

Almost every day I now have to do a system restore due to my ATI drives I think? As the computer boots up as if they are not installed and I get poor graphics every so often.

Message I get when I try to start ATI CCC to see what is happening.

Quote,
No ATI graphics driver is installed, or the ATI graphics driver is not functioning properly. Please install the ATI driver appropriate for your ATI hardware.

The other note I get in the device manager is,

Quote,
Device Status. This device cannot start. (Code 10)

Now when I do a system restore back a few days to a week, it works fine again, all be it for a day or so.

So any ideas? Is this a driver issue?

The ATI drivers supplied with my HIS AGP 3850 card don't work with it, neither do ATI's official drivers it seems? I got my card working without fault for a good few months with the first available 8.5 hotfix drivers, then this started and I tried ATI's latest which did not work, then HIS 8.501 I think which worked for a day. Have not yet found 8.6 or 8.7 to try.

I'm at a loss here.

megatron · 30 Jul 2008 at 00:31

Try reinstalling your motherboard drivers.

sastusbulbas · 30 Jul 2008 at 08:19

?

As in completely remove all ATI drivers and software? Or completely remove all Drivers and software including the chipset drivers which ATI does not recommend.

Then re-install the mobo drivers?

Then what about the ATI drivers?

Or do you mean get rid of the ATI drivers and card?

PS the drivers on the card are the ones that work, not the early hotfox ones, I must have got them mixed up.

Yesterday I removed all drivers apart from the mobo chipset ones, as ATI did not recommend doing so. And I re-installed the drivers supplied with the card. As ATI 8.7 did not find any appropriate software or hardware, and HIS's latest gave me a black screen.

Should I try intalling ATI 8.7 or HIS 8.501 on top of mine or see how long it takes before another restore is needed?

megatron · 30 Jul 2008 at 16:40

Reinstall the mobo drivers over the top, IIRC this solves the problem of ati drivers being unable to be installed and it replaces the gart part of the driver. Reinstalling without removing the drivers cant hurt.

miker1 · 5 Sep 2008 at 12:09

Hi - The link to the Catalyst Uninstaller no longer works

crunchyfr · 17 Nov 2008 at 14:45

here is a useful link you could add to the first post ..... a psu calculator
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
its kept up to date and has all the latest gpu's listed

FatRakoon · 17 Nov 2008 at 15:14

crunchyfr said:
here is a useful link you could add to the first post ..... a psu calculator
http://www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
its kept up to date and has all the latest gpu's listed

Bloody hell, are PSU calculators still being used?

1kiwi · 17 Nov 2008 at 15:27

According to that i should be using a PSU which is 2 X as powerful as my 620HX lol

johnodc · 31 Jan 2009 at 14:08

Might be worth adding the ATI HDMI Audio Driver too the list.
As it dosn't come with the standard driver pack from Ati.
Link: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

megatron · 1 Feb 2009 at 16:00

johnodc said:
Might be worth adding the ATI HDMI Audio Driver too the list.
As it dosn't come with the standard driver pack from Ati.
Link: http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=xp/hdmiaudio-xp

What is that driver for? What hardware?