ATI Official catalyst 7.11 are out

[Crotale]

LOL how am i being a smart ***? that ROFL wasnt to u.

And i am rite!!!
Why wait for other's with compatibility issues, when they probably dont have the same PC set up as you do. So just because they are having issues dont mean u will also.
That's commonsense from a technical stand point.

Simply put, I would rather check around for others who have similar setups and use similar games, programs and OS to see if they have issues. It is a matter of convenience for me. If my system is running smoothly and not crashing, I normally wait on drivers. I prefer stability over small performance gains, since my systems are usually tweaked pretty well in the first place.

And I don't give a **** if you think you are "rite" or not, because it is a personal preference on both our parts, nothing more and nothing less. I only posted my first post to put an alternate view on the driver update issue.

[exil3]

I installed 7.11 for my HD 3870 on a WinXP AMD PC with NVIDIA chipset. Works for me.

Hey i got a question for you, or anyone with a 2900 card. Im also running 3870

My x1950 AGP didnt have overdrive support.
Im pretty sure i read somewere, That ati made it only avalible for pcie cards.
And I dont see it anywere?

Well, smart@ss, when I installed UT2004 a few years ago on my system at the time, I had a 9600XT. I went through five driver builds before ATI finally had one that would allow me to UT2004 without crashing back to the desktop. No other games did that, only UT2004. After installing each driver build and experiencing no success, I could revert back to the driver on the OEM disk and everything ran just fine. I had to run on older drivers for the better part of a year.

Not all driver related issues crop up right away after a build is released.

LOL how am i being a smart ***? that ROFL wasnt to u.

And i am rite!!!
Why wait for other's with compatibility issues, when they probably dont have the same PC set up as you do. So just because they are having issues dont mean u will also.
That's commonsense from a technical stand point.

Also you dont know these people and thier pc skills> Ive delt with plenty of ignorant know it all gamers IM NOT REFERING TO ANYONE IN THIS FORUM who ive built pc's for and they couldnt get a game to run and it was my fault i built them a computer that wasnt compatible..
And id take a look at it, sure enough they f**ked up there drivers bad...so i had to uninstall them and manually remove allllllllllllllllllllllll there system32 lets say ati i had to go remove all the ati drivers files from the sys32 and sys32/driver folder and clean all the ati regestry entries left over.. and reinstalled the ones that caused there game to crash in the first place.
Guess what it was fixed.

Just saying you cant always go by what others say.

[Crotale]

They run fine, not everyone has the same PC setup as you, so why would you wait for others?
If u run into problems simply uninstall and rollback to your previous driver

Should only be concerned about new hardware compatabity, software is easly fixable

ROFL

Well, smart@ss, when I installed UT2004 a few years ago on my system at the time, I had a 9600XT. I went through five driver builds before ATI finally had one that would allow me to UT2004 without crashing back to the desktop. No other games did that, only UT2004. After installing each driver build and experiencing no success, I could revert back to the driver on the OEM disk and everything ran just fine. I had to run on older drivers for the better part of a year.

Not all driver related issues crop up right away after a build is released.

[Sincreator]

Thanks exile. I have no problems, and now my OC tool works better allowing me to get 5-10 fps more in ut3. More if I OC more on my x1950gt 512meg GPU.

[brainisfried]

I installed 7.11 for my HD 3870 on a WinXP AMD PC with NVIDIA chipset. Works for me.

[Ultron]

Thats generally a bad idea especially with ATI drivers...

Incorrect. It's a good rule of thumb. There are exceptions from time to time, however, like the one you mention.

Yea for the paranoid.

You need to chat with martin because even he says to wait longer than I do. I'm just a realist here. Don't jump for a new driver build the instant it comes out. It may turn out to be a stinker. It's just common sense, not paranoia.

[Hickeroar]

They work fine for me with UT3, using a 2900Pro.

Notice how in the full release notes that it says if you are playing crysis, you should stick with the 7.11 beta "hotfix" drivers. Why would an older beta of 7.11 be officially suggested by ATI to use in crysis over the newer and official whql 7.11??

WHQL means it went through the MS certification process. The "official" date may be older on the hot fix ones, but the WHQL drivers are probably truly older. Those WHQLs could have been sent to MS for certification a couple weeks ago.

[exil3]

FYI it's always best to stay one driver iteration behind, regardless of video card brand. Only exceptions would be if a new driver fixes a known issue with a current driver.

Yea for the paranoid.
This and the 7.11 "crysis hotfix" beta say nothing about any preformance increase in COD4 when in fact i got a good boost in FPS and was able to put all textures to very high @1680x1050 when before i had to set to medium. Not to mention it fixed my lag issue with Blacksite area51. And this is with my
x1950 pro not my new ones

FYI, Its one thing to be book smart another to have hands on experience with something. so just because it says nothing about a fix for a certain game dosnt mean anything.

[martinblank]

FYI it's always best to stay one driver iteration behind, regardless of video card brand. Only exceptions would be if a new driver fixes a known issue with a current driver.

Thats generally a bad idea especially with ATI drivers, because in their last two releases (7.10 and 7.11), there have been noticeable performance improvements across the board and tons of necessary fixes in new and old games alike.

im still using version 6.2 omega edition, anything avobe that causes my card to crash on any Direct3d games, OpenGL doesnt have this problem

card: ATI Radeon x1900xtx

not sure if someone else had this issues before, maybe my card is broken or something

Thats really bad, the 6.2 cats are so old it's not funny. I would totally uninstall your current version and then use a driver cleaning program to get them out for good, then update to 7.11 and see if they work. If not, it's time for a format

[Tørmentør]

im still using version 6.2 omega edition, anything avobe that causes my card to crash on any Direct3d games, OpenGL doesnt have this problem

card: ATI Radeon x1900xtx

not sure if someone else had this issues before, maybe my card is broken or something

[Ultron]

FYI it's always best to stay one driver iteration behind, regardless of video card brand. Only exceptions would be if a new driver fixes a known issue with a current driver.

[Slagg]

Thank you Malakai

[Malakai]

Press: F10

[Slagg]

Using HD2900XT's and the latest drivers. My question is where is the console? ~ doesn't work. And I say booooo to the options menu. If I wanted to play a game on my xbox360 I would.

[exil3]

Note to all: I make it a habit to never install brand-spanking newly released ATI drivers. I really do like ATI cards (I am using an X800 XL) but I always wait to see how well their drivers work in the wild before I install. In other words, I let everyone else be the guinea pigs.

They run fine, not everyone has the same PC setup as you, so why would you wait for others?
If u run into problems simply uninstall and rollback to your previous driver


Should only be concerned about new hardware compatabity, software is easly fixable

I'll be waiting on this then. Thanks.

ROFL