ATI Catalyst 6.2 now available.

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Include native support for X1900 series.

Not for my AIW X800XT AGP, though. I installed
it and was stuck in 640x480 4-bit color (16 color)
mode! I rolled back the driver and it's working fine
back at 6.1.

Tom Lake
 
Tom Lake said:
Not for my AIW X800XT AGP, though. I installed
it and was stuck in 640x480 4-bit color (16 color)
mode! I rolled back the driver and it's working fine
back at 6.1.

Tom Lake
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Well, I just couldn't give up. I uninstalled 6.1 again and reinstalled 6.2
and it works fine now.
Whew!

Tom L
 
Tom Lake said:
Well, I just couldn't give up. I uninstalled 6.1 again and reinstalled
6.2 and it works fine now.
Whew!

Tom L
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Glad to hear it :)

So far so good for me.

Running on X1900XTX. Haven't ran benchmarks yet, but all seems well.

Tony
 
Tom said:
Well, I just couldn't give up. I uninstalled 6.1 again and reinstalled 6.2
and it works fine now.
Whew!
Click to expand...


the only fool proof way to do it is to make an image of the clean
windows install without any video drivers...then on every change reload
the image...sad but true :)
 
Tom Lake said:
Not for my AIW X800XT AGP, though. I installed
it and was stuck in 640x480 4-bit color (16 color)
mode! I rolled back the driver and it's working fine
back at 6.1.
Click to expand...

Just the same here on an X1800XT. Stuck in 16 color 640x480 although the
system thought it was using the ATI drivers and let me choose 32bit color
and resolutions up to 2048x1536 applying them did nothing.

A second install got the driver working.

However, as if control centre wasn't crap enough already they seem to have
screwed it up even more. Overdrive settings were lost so I had to try to
set it up again (some of the screw up might have been in 6.1, I didn't have
to touch anything when I installed that).

The automatic clock configurator now consistently crashes my system while
testing memory speed, never crashed before although the memory clock it
came up with was over optimistic. It barely warms the GPU also, any modern
3D app will have the fan spinning and the GPU temp up to 70C in a few
seconds, 10 minutes of the configurator and the GPU hadn't even reached
70C. Then the check box for "enable overdrive for 3D apps only" is checked
and grayed out, no indication why. From testing it doesn't enable overdrive
for windowed 3D apps only full screen so that's crap.

Then every time set and apply a new clock it pops up a yes/no dialog
moaning about overclocking and unchecks and grays out the "Preserve ATI
overdrive settings at loggin" check box. I discovered that flipping to
another control canter panel then back again un-grays this checkbox so I
can check it and applying that gives me the moaning dialog again FFS.

Then I press the help button and Firefox comes up saying "Firefox can't
find the file at /C:/Program." and another two tabs open with sites named
"files" and " technologies" which it can't find. The pile of poo can't even
open a HTML file.

I installed 6.1 again and that left me with 640x480 in 16 colors so it
looks like 6.2 screwed up something and left it screwed up, then after
re-booting the second install of 6.1 the system starts trying to install
unsigned WDM drivers which I cancel and now one of the drivers for my
Brother MFC printer is crashing on shut down. I gave up an restored my
system drive from a recent image to get back to 6.1.

Having recovered I am going to leave it alone but I noticed 6.1 can't open
the help file either and the "enable overdrive for 3D apps only" box is
unchecked and grayed out.

Considering how long they have been working on it, the huge resources it
takes, what little work it actually has to do, and they can't even make
help and checkboxes work properly - If I had anything to do with it I would
sack the "Control Center Development Team".
 
Well, I just couldn't give up. I uninstalled 6.1 again and reinstalled 6.2
and it works fine now.
Whew!

Tom L
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I always run the ATI CAT uninstaller (available at the ATI website)
before installing new drivers and never have an issue.
 
the only fool proof way to do it is to make an image of the clean
windows install without any video drivers...then on every change reload
the image...sad but true :)
Click to expand...

Nah, just run the ATI CAT uninstaller first and you won't have any
problems. I believe that is what ATI recommends too.
 
Try this too.

This finds and wipes clean hidden files leftover after uninstalling ATI and
NVIDIA device drivers, including WDM drivers. You would be suprised what you
find.

DH Driver Cleaner Professional Edition
http://www.drivercleaner.net
 
Was there actually anything wrong with the drivers included on the X1900
CD... that the 6.2s fixed?
 
First of One said:
Was there actually anything wrong with the drivers included on the X1900
CD... that the 6.2s fixed?
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Not really. Except that the drivers weren't bundled in a convenient
InstallShield package (ala CAT web downloads) and the fact that 3DMark0(x)
saw the drivers as a hacked set and wouldn't let you publish those scores.

Now the drivers officially support X1900 series in the same publicly
available driver package. Just feels like a cleaner install this way.

Tony
 
I have same card. Did you just update the video drivers?
Or did you install the entire Catalyst package, which I
think comes with, and installs MMC 9.13?

I'd like to keep the original MMC 9.03 I have now, that came
on the original CD. Thanks for the advice.

Gary
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