Cat 3.7. Initial Impressions?

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Anyone got anything good/bad to say about them?

Is there a list anywhere in what is fixed/altered?
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There's a link to the list on the download page at ati.com.
 
Anyone got anything good/bad to say about them?

Is there a list anywhere in what is fixed/altered?
 
MS Flight Sim 2004 wouldn't run on my system* with Cat 3.6 so I had to
backup to 3.2. I loaded 3.7 and all's well :). IMHO, ATI is doing a pretty
good job solving problems with new drivers. Rumor has it that there are
awesome goodies in store for us with 3.8.

* ABIT BE6II, P3 600 MHz Coppermine, 256 RAM, ATI 95900 Pro, 2-WD 80G JB
HDs, Formac 20" LCD display. I know, I know, it's a terribly slow system
but I'll put together my new box in a few months. ABIT IC7-G, P4 3.2G CPU,
512 Mushkin Hi-Perf RAM, PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool 510 Deluxe PS.
Plextor Premium 52/32/52 CDRW, Plextor 48/24/48 CDRW, Lian-Li PC-75 USB
aluminum full tower case, blah, blah.
 
MS Flight Sim 2004 wouldn't run on my system* with Cat 3.6 so I had to
backup to 3.2. I loaded 3.7 and all's well :). IMHO, ATI is doing a
pretty good job solving problems with new drivers. Rumor has it that
there are awesome goodies in store for us with 3.8.

* ABIT BE6II, P3 600 MHz Coppermine, 256 RAM, ATI 95900 Pro, 2-WD 80G
JB HDs, Formac 20" LCD display. I know, I know, it's a terribly slow
system but I'll put together my new box in a few months. ABIT IC7-G,
P4 3.2G CPU, 512 Mushkin Hi-Perf RAM, PC Power & Cooling Turbo Cool
510 Deluxe PS. Plextor Premium 52/32/52 CDRW, Plextor 48/24/48 CDRW,
Lian-Li PC-75 USB aluminum full tower case, blah, blah.
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I was disappointed. 3.7 still hasn't addressed my brightness issue.
Coming out of a 3D screensaver or game, the brightness settings (as well
as the rest of the settings under the color tab) all reset back to
defaults. This makes my LCD very bright and very washed out.

It's a small thing but still a pain to have to open up the control panel
every time it changes.

Dean
 
You know I like the ALL in 1 DL and install, But I'll be damned if it didn't hiccup froze...cnrl alt del revealed a series of
cmdinstall lines....endtasked and the process proceeded. Not much difference on my 9700 but the 7500 seemed much better in UT and
that demo of Call of Duty. I didn't benchmark the thing just played the games I've played over time.
 
just a thought....I had this on a CRT, it ended up being 'Adobe gamma loader' that was conflicting/causing the problem.
 
JAD,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately that was the first thing I have
checked.

Dean
 
As others have posted, there is a long list of fixes (and bugs to be fixed)
on the ATi site. I suspect that it's a hang-over from the Omega drivers,
but I see that the 9700 Pro clock rate on my system has remained at 378 /
337. The colour temperature is cooler.

John
 
The Call of Duty demo crashes every time with a corrupted display with
Catalyst 3.7, and had no crashes under 3.6.

This is on a Abit NF7-S + 9700pro + WinXP.

rms
 
The Call of Duty demo crashes every time with a corrupted display with
Catalyst 3.7, and had no crashes under 3.6.

This is on a Abit NF7-S + 9700pro + WinXP.
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Works fine for me - Gigabyte 9700 Pro, Windows 2000 Pro.
 
There are still those annoying horizontal and vertical border lines
in games like Commandos 3, Operation Flashpoint, and Lock-On.

See this preview video from Lock-On. The bug stands out really nice in the
night. The lines are visible for the first 10 seconds in the cockpit and
at the end of the video.

ftp://ftp.ubisoft.com/games/lomac/media/Night_Frog.zip
 
Cold said:
JAD,

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately that was the first thing I
have checked.

Dean
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Have you submitted feedback to the catalyst driver team? If not then it may
never be fixed! If so, maybe let them know a few more times :o)
 
I was disappointed. 3.7 still hasn't addressed my brightness issue.
Coming out of a 3D screensaver or game, the brightness settings (as well
as the rest of the settings under the color tab) all reset back to
defaults. This makes my LCD very bright and very washed out.

It's a small thing but still a pain to have to open up the control panel
every time it changes.
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I'm disappointed in the 3.7 driver set also. I've had an issue on my Radeon
9100 since the 3.5 drivers came out. If I have a lot of files in a folder
and open it in the File explorer with "list" view, then scroll horizontally
too fast, the whole folder looks like someone smudged wet ink. The fonts
run together and create the smudged look next to the actual filename. It
lists something similar to this as being fixed in this driver set but it's
not. I have to turn down the adapter's hardware accelleration one notch to
fix it. Doesn't happen in the 3.4 drivers though.
 
that sounds like a 'refresh rate' problem....is your monitor a CRT or LCD?
CRT? check to make sure you have the correct INF for your monitor loaded...
Description in display properties should be the name of your monitor ..not plugn play or default anything.
 
It's a CRT and I do have another problem with the monitor and the ATI card
which I never had with 3 other brand of video cards. The monitor is a NEC
Multisync XV17+ and ever since I upgraded to the ATI card from a Geforce 2,
I've had a problem where the monitor won't sync with the card at all until I
get the refresh rate up to 75 or higher and the monitor named. It makes
installing new drivers a challenge. Everytime I uninstall one driver to
install a new one, I reboot to windows and the monitor just constantly goes
dark over and over. The same kind of thing that happens when you change
screen resolutions and it goes dark momentarily. I basically have to
install new drivers half blind because it's continuous. This is on Windows
XP and XP is able to name the monitor properly once the card's drivers are
installed. I still have the constant screen blanking if I click on anything
until I'm able to set the refresh rate higher then the 60mhz default.

But that problem happens with the ATI card and any driver set. This 2D
problem in explorer only began with the Cat 3.5 drivers. If I go back to
3.4 the problem disappears.
 
IC yes! i have an NEC also Multisync 5 or 6 efg or something like that (its on the system in the garage) anyway I had that
problem also under XP....under Win ME its works perfectly.


This 2D
problem in explorer only began with the Cat 3.5 drivers. If I go back to
3.4 the problem disappears.
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Well yeah if the driver revertion solves it then It sounds like its the driver....although why wouldn't be common? At least one more
person here would have the problem, you would think.

what thes highest refresh allowed for it...have you cranked it up to that?
 
IC yes! i have an NEC also Multisync 5 or 6 efg or something like that (its on the system in the garage) anyway I had that
problem also under XP....under Win ME its works perfectly.
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Well, I'm sure not going back to Win ME. :) It has the same problem in
Windows 2000 but not with linux which I toy with every once in a while.
This 2D


Well yeah if the driver revertion solves it then It sounds like its the driver....although why wouldn't be common? At least one more
person here would have the problem, you would think.
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I posted about it a while ago but never got any replies. It only occurs
when using the "list" view in Explorer and when there are a lot of
individual files in a folder to scroll through. I reported it to ATI at
any rate. I like the card but I have to say this Radeon is by far the most
finicky card i've ever used and I've been through quite a few over the
years.
Huh. I just decided to play with it a bit more while posting this. If I
set the screen color quality to 32bit, the problem also disappears. Only
seems to be happening at 16bit which the card defaults to on install.
 
ahh yes the ney sayers of ME, ;^) the ME machine does all the downloading of music, playing of games etc....XP (nt kernal) is now
the favorite flavor of worm infestation, heheh which is what was said about XP(nt kernal) in the home was going to do.....which is
gonna happen to any OS that becomes TOO popular for the cyber chaos nazis I guess. the 98 stuff is still victimized but its becoming
less and less (at least from my end) thats why i keep it. That and some legacy Lmedia printer drivers unavailable for XP.

Anywho.....seems like the display drivers that are native to NT based OS's are your problem...strange/annoying one I'm sure.
 
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