Question:
Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
Hi,
I know I am not the only one experiencing this issue, I have searched the web over the last few weeks and encountered others who have mentioned it.
I recently installed Vista Ultimate(32 Bit) and upgraded the video drivers to ATI Catalyst 7.2. This was a clean install of Vista. Before the driver upgrade, the Vista GUI was functioning with the windows supplied drivers, but game performance was nowhere near where it should be.
Attempting the upgrade - the Catalyst Driver upgrade program was caught in a continuous loop, which resulted in a blank screen, after a necessary hard reboot the screen remains blank after the initial windows loading screen.
Here are the steps/workarounds I have attempted so far:
1. Extract the Catalyst 7.2 drivers and attempt to manually install them via the device manager. This results in the same symptoms as above.
2. Attempt to uninstall the windows default driver, install the standard VGA driver and then install the Catalyst 7.2 drivers. Same result.
3. Catalyst 7.1 drivers. Same result.
4. Clean installs of Windows Vista. Same result.
The strange thing is, I also tried some beta drivers from Catalyst during an RC2 try-out and they worked good. I can only figure something has happened in driver programming at ATI/Catalyst between that beta driver and the current driver that has caused this issue.
From other posts around the web, people have been offered various explanations from bizzare conflicts between the ddr ram and video drivers to laptop motherboard issues with Vista.
Given that the ATI drivers were compatible a few versions ago, what's going on?
System Configuration:
ASUS A6VA - Pentium M 770
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
ATI Radeon Mobility x700
2 GB DDR2 RAM
120 GB 5400rpm Hard Drive
Answer:
Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
I am experiencing the same on my Asus with an X700 128MB. It's not a big deal, the stock drivers that come with Vista work absolutely fine (until you get to gaming, but if you want to game, you shouldn't be running Vista in the first place). It'll probably be fixed in a future update.
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
I'm the rare breed that wants to game AND use vista :)
I think this is a problem, as it means that NO new drivers from ATI will work. I don't think ATI have even acknowledged this issue...
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
. mobility 9700/128mb
. 3700+ amd
. 80 gb 7200rpm (triple boot with xp and linux)
. vista ultimate
. 7_2 ati mobility catalyst (direct download from ati) since day 1 -been using ati driver since RC2 till now.
= ZERO issue
might want to check ur chipset driver!
cheers ...
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
Hi ghn, I know the driver is functioning for most people, thanks. I want to hear from people that are having this issue
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
I think this issue only exists for people with Asus A6000 ATI X700 cards. It's unique to us and us only. Maybe we should just wait for Asus to release a new video driver.
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
interesting that u mentioned only for asus, came across this link:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1544
quite odd
cheers ...
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
I am experiencing the same on my Asus with an X700 128MB. It's not a big deal, the stock drivers that come with Vista work absolutely fine (until you get to gaming, but if you want to game, you shouldn't be running Vista in the first place). It'll probably be fixed in a future update.
I have to agree about not using vista for gaming...i am using the stock drivers (no support drivers jus yet :() and catalyst 6.8(i think in vista) but havent bothered with games with it...not only that the drivers i have dont even support opengl...im sticking with xp until they improve vista for gaming...the only time i think i will install games on vista will be when halo 2 comes out for it...
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
I have the x700 and had almost zero issues. The only minor hiccup was after installation the ATi icon refused to launch Catalyst Control Center. Actually I couldn't launch it from anywhere but after about 10 or so double clicks it was working :)
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Re: Everyone with this Vista ATI Catalyst Problem - Raise their hands
I have the same problem!
System Configuration:
ASUS A6VA - Pentium M 770
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit
ATI Radeon Mobility x700
maker, you have resolved the problem?
Mark