ATi Catalyst 2.5 Drivers

[Bovinicus]

The latest drivers from ATi are available for download off their website. I just installed them and they seem to be working fine. In fact, Neverwinter Nights seems to be running a little smoother. I am very pleased with ATi as of late. Oh yeah, and VSync can be Always On now. M00T!

 

[eplebnista]

 

[Lizardman]

again with the smiley face an no comment.. eh eplebnista.

I will just stick with cat 2.2 as they have given me no problems so far on my r8500

 

[CurtCold]

Installed them, seems to be better on the 8500, enabled fast write with rage3d, and bios, helped out the smoothness of games. (didn't realize it wasn't turned on)

No issues with the 2.5's here.

 

[Bovinicus]

Lizardman, I would highly suggest upgrading to these drivers. You are a few updates behind, and there have definitely been some quality, performance, compatbility, and useability improvement in the driver set. I am running the 2.5s now and have yet to come across problems.

 

[SFang]

works great for me.

 

[ALstonLoong]

works great on 8500LE ....

 

[stryder2929]

i'll get em for my 9700pro tonight

quick question, do i just update or should i remove the old drivers (2.4 i guess) first?

also another thing

when i enabled fastwrite and agp8x before, it gave me performance issues with unreal tournament 2k3

will i still get those issues with the updated drivers or is it worth a shot?

 

[mamisano]

Originally posted by: stryder2929
i'll get em for my 9700pro tonight

quick question, do i just update or should i remove the old drivers (2.4 i guess) first?

also another thing

when i enabled fastwrite and agp8x before, it gave me performance issues with unreal tournament 2k3

will i still get those issues with the updated drivers or is it worth a shot?

Remove old Display Drivers and Control Panel --> Reboot
Install Display Drivers --> Reboot
Install Control Panel --> Reboot

 

[Tates]

Guide to Uninstall ATI Drivers Completely!

 

[stryder2929]

alright sweet, thanx guys

 

[pillage2001]

Follow the guide. Everything runs much better when you clear the registry and all.

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: mamisano

Originally posted by: stryder2929
i'll get em for my 9700pro tonight

quick question, do i just update or should i remove the old drivers (2.4 i guess) first?

also another thing

when i enabled fastwrite and agp8x before, it gave me performance issues with unreal tournament 2k3

will i still get those issues with the updated drivers or is it worth a shot?

Remove old Display Drivers and Control Panel --> Reboot
Install Display Drivers --> Reboot
Install Control Panel --> Reboot

Installing the new Drivers and CP without rebooting in between also works fine.

 

[Chadder007]

I uninstalled, cleared the registry and all but I have problems with RTCW....the face of the guy on the menu screen is screwed up. Half of his head is totally gone. Also in UT2k3 demo, you can still see through the floor and ceilings.

 

[wnied]

Me likey the new 2.5 cats. Makes my DoD experience 100x better for my Ati Radeon VE.

~wnied~

 

[Thor86]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
I uninstalled, cleared the registry and all but I have problems with RTCW....the face of the guy on the menu screen is screwed up. Half of his head is totally gone. Also in UT2k3 demo, you can still see through the floor and ceilings.

You might want to try and re-config these games for video settings.

 

[NucEm]

I updated the VIA drivers (4.45) then removed older ATi driver before installing ATi's cat. 2.5 driver. The AGP 4X finally works but the Fast Write does not. I'm using an 8500 installed in a ABIT VP6 with a pair of 1GHZ P-3's running XP Pro. (Anyone have any thoughts on the Fast Write?) The new ATi driver seems okay with UT2003. I did lose about 5% with 3Dmark score.

I spoke too soon. The AGP 4X enabled in the bios now causes the system not to boot. Its interesting that when the system has been up and running for a while the AGP 4X can be enabled and things seem to work just fine. If I shut the system down for a few hours the system will post then crash. I wonder if the cap's are starting to fail?

 

[lung]

It's too bad that they seem to have broken the overlay for videos though. Myself and others have noticed that with the 2.5s your video overlay basically becomes purple and green. Imagine a black and white picture becoming purple and green... Hopefully a new version will be out very soon along with the final of DirectX 9. In games though, I have seen a boost right across the board in all games that I play.

 

[Adul]

time to test it on my bro's 9500

 

[rbV5]

Seem to be working great for me, no video overlay problems, fastwries on, 4X AGP enabled fine. WDM drivers check out fine, capture working right. So far so good.

 

[lung]

My video problems are gone now... Very strange. All that I had really done was shut my comp down at night, and when I started itup the next day, the video was fine..

 

[Glitchny]

no problems with overlay here, opnly issue with mine was that i had to go into the xp admin settings and make sure that ATI smart was set to run all the time and on its own... without that my computer said that i didnt even ahve directx installed... was quite scary. but other than taht small issue no problems at all. overlay works fine

glitch

 

[DoobieOnline]

HOLY CRAP! I just today converted from the Ti4600 to a 9700 Pro and I have to say I'm happy so far. My highest 3DMark2001SE score was 14757 with the Ti4600 OC'ed to 315/730 using 40.72 Det's, but with the 9700 Pro at default settings and the Cat 2.5's I just popped 16016! I was really skeptical about giving ATi another go after having some probs in the past with the original Radeon and then an 8500LE, but if things stay this sweet I may hang out for a while. UT2003 Benchmark increased a bit, too. From 180/74 @ 1024x768 with the Ti4600 to 211/77 with the 9700 Pro. I'll have to play a few games - RTCW, MOHAA, and some UT2003 to see if everything is kosher but everything is good so far (knock on wood).

 

[elkinm]

Do these drivers generaly give a performance bost from previeos versions? I am seing a significant boost in UT2003 on my old radeon I also updated to the latest patch so maybee that is doing some good. The only problem is that after some time of serious game play the system freezes and then recovers at 640x480 4bit collor requiring a restart. Is this from the drivers or could it be the patch?

Thanks