Catalyst 6.4 is out

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Crossfire AFR mode now works in Oblivion. Users wanting HDR with FSAA still
need to use the "Chuck" release, though.
 
http://www.ati.com
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I have a Radeon X850XT and I downloaded, uninstalled 6.3 and then
installed 6.4 and this is the first time in a very long time that I
needed to go back to 6.3.

The first time I started the Catalyst Control Panel, it caused an
error and shut down, Microsoft created an error report and sent it
out. It seemed to be working okay after that.

I also have an old ATI TV Tuner (PCI). For some reason it wanted to
go through an initialization wizard when it is started. When I did
get it working, it seems like every channel showed a gray NO SIGNAL
box right in the middle of the screen, and there definitely is a
signal.

When I discovered it wants to go through the initialization routine
every time it starts up, I went back to 6.3.

Al
 
Tony DiMarzio said:
http://www.ati.com
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Installed 6.4. Had no problems. Performance doesn't seem to have changed at
all. One thing that I DID like, however, is that this time I was able to
replace the "C:\Documents and Settings\$user\Local Settings\Application
Data\ATI\ACE\Profiles.xml" that exists after installing Cat 6.4 from a
cleaned state with the profiles.xml (From cat 6.3) that contains the
profiles I painstaking created in Cat 6.3. Previously, the profiles.xml's
were not compatible from release to release which meant your profiles were
completely mangled.

Would be nice if there were an easier way to export/backup CCC profiles.

Tony
 
Tony DiMarzio said:
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It's still a piece of #&%@ with my AIW 800XL PCIE card with regards to the
TV portion. If I don't care about watching/recording TV, it's fine.
Unfortunately, I use it to record TV shows. Falling back to 6.2 yet again.
 
It's still a piece of #&%@ with my AIW 800XL PCIE card with regards to the
TV portion. If I don't care about watching/recording TV, it's fine.
Unfortunately, I use it to record TV shows. Falling back to 6.2 yet again.
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Those All in Wonder's sure have a bad reputation on line.

Oddly enough, I've got a 3dfx 3500 running in an old box
with hacked drivers in Win2k that can even record video
(pretty small image though). The TV portion works great
still. I recall a friend's old all in wonder card just went
bottoms up after about 18 months, just unwatchable.
 
I was reading this and I thought I would be smart and update the drivers for
the AIW Radeon 9600 I just got for my 4 year old P4 1.5 GHz system. I had
just recently intalled the card and the setup from the included Catalyst CD.
All worked fine including the TV etc. I went ahead and installed the new
Catalyst and my TV function totally crapped with halting jerky pictures that
would freeze. Everything else seemed OK but I hadn't actually tried any
demanding apps yet. Went back to the CD installation and all is well again.
What gives with this thing? It was listed as the choice for my type of
card.
 
I think that after all my useless tentative to find another system to
read chipset temperature I've to go back to 6.2. Until this version
OcGuru (vGuru) for X600Pro works very well, but, as I wrote in an
another message, from 6.3 it crashes at the open. Problem (really
itsn't a problem but it's a bless due the lack of noise) is that
recently I removed the fan on the card, and instead of it I've
installed a Zalman passive heatsink. So sometimes I've to check
temperature to verify that all is ok, expecially during the next month
when summer temperature will be high.

MbMax
from Italy
 
Chris Dalziel said:
I was reading this and I thought I would be smart and update the drivers
for the AIW Radeon 9600 I just got for my 4 year old P4 1.5 GHz system. I
had just recently intalled the card and the setup from the included
Catalyst CD. All worked fine including the TV etc. I went ahead and
installed the new Catalyst and my TV function totally crapped with halting
jerky pictures that would freeze. Everything else seemed OK but I hadn't
actually tried any demanding apps yet. Went back to the CD installation
and all is well again. What gives with this thing? It was listed as the
choice for my type of card.
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The version on the CD probably pre-dates ATI's decision to remove the
ability to turn off the TV on Demand function, which is constantly buffering
(recording) video, taxing your old cpu.
 
Alex Moreau said:
The version on the CD probably pre-dates ATI's decision to remove the
ability to turn off the TV on Demand function, which is constantly
buffering (recording) video, taxing your old cpu.
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If you have followed this group, you would know that with Cat 6.3 and above
you have to manually install the WDM drivers in order to maintain full
functionality of the MMC. Don't know what they are smoking at ATI, but they
are about to lose a long time customer (I have purchased more than a dozen
ATI cards in the last 5 years alone). Someone thinks the Unified Stream
driver is a better concept, but they should be publicly flogged.

Bobby
 
NoNoBadDog! said:
If you have followed this group, you would know that with Cat 6.3 and
above you have to manually install the WDM drivers in order to maintain
full functionality of the MMC. Don't know what they are smoking at ATI,
but they are about to lose a long time customer (I have purchased more
than a dozen ATI cards in the last 5 years alone). Someone thinks the
Unified Stream driver is a better concept, but they should be publicly
flogged.

Bobby
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Hi Booby,
As you can surmise from my late response, I haven't been following this
group as much as I'd like. It's interesting that a manual install of WDM
drivers fixes the always on TOD. I'm still using 9.08 on my AIW x800xt. I'm
ok with those drivers for now, and just ordered the AIW x1800xl (along with
a new MB and RAM), so it will be interesting to see what happens with that
card and the WDM drivers.

ALso, since Vista is on its way out, I will have to use newer drivers
anyway, so, hopefully, ATI will switch brands (of whatever they're
smoking...) and produce some decent drivers. I suppose it'd be too much to
ask that they produce decent software as well. Any 3rd party suggestions?

Thanks,
Alex
 
I haven't upgraded any ATI software since I purchased the HDTV Wonder
in September 04. Whenever I attempted it, something was malfunctioning.
Has it improved since then? I already hate recording shows with it
because of how bloated the software is, and I hate it even more because
it won't let me capture with software like VirtualDub (unlike the
previous ATI card I had). Not to mention it's too bloated to capture to
an uncompressed format like raw AVI or HuffYUV, and whenever I capture
to MPEG it bleeds the colors together.
 
Nelson C. Woodstock said:
I haven't upgraded any ATI software since I purchased the HDTV Wonder
in September 04. Whenever I attempted it, something was malfunctioning.
Has it improved since then? I already hate recording shows with it
because of how bloated the software is, and I hate it even more because
it won't let me capture with software like VirtualDub (unlike the
previous ATI card I had). Not to mention it's too bloated to capture to
an uncompressed format like raw AVI or HuffYUV, and whenever I capture
to MPEG it bleeds the colors together.
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I was considering one of the Fusion cards for a while,:

http://www.fusionhdtv.co.kr/ENG/products/


You can also check out the forums here for some pretty good info from HTPC
enthusiasts:

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/index.php?

Also:
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/forumdisplay.php?f=26

Lots of good information and people willing to answer questions.

I can't really say which cards support VirtualDub

Alex
 
If the 6.2 drivers work and do what you want, why do you upgrade them?
Is there some function missing from your setup or do you just like to
whine about new releases?
 
KCB said:
If the 6.2 drivers work and do what you want, why do you upgrade them? Is
there some function missing from your setup or do you just like to whine
about new releases?
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Wrong branch for your response.

Alex
 
NoNoBadDog! said:
If you have followed this group, you would know that with Cat 6.3 and
above you have to manually install the WDM drivers in order to maintain
full functionality of the MMC. Don't know what they are smoking at ATI,
but they are about to lose a long time customer (I have purchased more
than a dozen ATI cards in the last 5 years alone). Someone thinks the
Unified Stream driver is a better concept, but they should be publicly
flogged.

Bobby
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Hi Booby,
As you can surmise from my late response, I haven't been following this
group as much as I'd like. It's interesting that a manual install of WDM
drivers fixes the always on TOD. I'm still using 9.08 on my AIW x800xt. I'm
ok with those drivers for now, and just ordered the AIW x1800xl (along with
a new MB and RAM), so it will be interesting to see what happens with that
card and the WDM drivers.

ALso, since Vista is on its way out, I will have to use newer drivers
anyway, so, hopefully, ATI will switch brands (of whatever they're
smoking...) and produce some decent drivers. I suppose it'd be too much to
ask that they produce decent software as well. Any 3rd party suggestions?

Thanks,
Alex


Hi,

Could you please explain to me how you manually installed the WDM drivers,
I have tried everything I know how to install them., but can't... and it
won't,

Thanks
Steven
 
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