Best ATI drivers?

[potato28]

I'm using 7.4's with CCC installed, but I'm having errors with evey game I play. Should I go back to the 7.2's with 7.1 CCC or go with 7.3's?

 

[Zenoth]

And are you 100% certain that your errors in "every" games you play are caused directly by the GPU drivers ? You know ... when there is errors in games, it can be caused by SO many variants that pointing at GPU drivers right away might be a little premature. Is your OS stable in the first place ? Do you over-clock ? If so, did you verify your OC'ed hardware's stability with precision and came to definitive conclusions ? If no OCs are concerned, then are you using the lastest BIOS version ? Is your CPU model compatible with the BIOS version you're using ? Do you have the latest Chipset/Mobo drivers ? Sound drivers ? Latest DX version installed ? Etc ... etc ... etc.

As for CCC, do yourself a favor and just don't use it, errors in games or not, there is no reasons to use it over ATi Tray Tools in the first place.

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Zenoth
And are you 100% certain that your errors in "every" games you play are caused directly by the GPU drivers ? You know ... when there is errors in games, it can be caused by SO many variants that pointing at GPU drivers right away might be a little premature. Is your OS stable in the first place ? Do you over-clock ? If so, did you verify your OC'ed hardware's stability with precision and came to definitive conclusions ? If no OCs are concerned, then are you using the lastest BIOS version ? Is your CPU model compatible with the BIOS version you're using ? Do you have the latest Chipset/Mobo drivers ? Sound drivers ? Latest DX version installed ? Etc ... etc ... etc.

As for CCC, do yourself a favor and just don't use it, errors in games or not, there is no reasons to use it over ATi Tray Tools in the first place.

I think I might disable the CCC... they usually dont work too well for me anyways...

 

[Rottie]

you can install 7.4 driver without CCC because CCC is lousy

 

[potato28]

Originally posted by: Rottie
you can install 7.4 driver without CCC because CCC is lousy

I just uninstalled the CCC.

 

[Eirgorn]

I am also using the 7.4's and I think I will uninstall the CCC tonight, but I am having some problems with ATT and I was wondering if anyone knew what I was doing wrong.

I can install ATT no problems, and it runs fine initially (shows temps, can OC etc) but after a restart I have to reinstall it every time. I probably need to post more info about the actual error, but I think it points to a missing file (.dat?) and Im forced to uninstall/reinstall it to get it to work again.

Any ideas? I can post more info when I get home tonight.

x1950GT on Vista Home Basic x32

 

[nullpointerus]

Do you have the latest beta (0.27) of ATITool?

A number of Vista issues were fixed in that update.

 

[Eirgorn]

I was using ATT (ATI Tray Tools) - sorry for the confusion.

I had also downloaded ATITool 0.27 - but all the options were greyed out (possibly because of CCC?) so I decided to try ATI Tray Tools and ran into the above problems.

 

[Mem]

I was going to say 7.4s until I tried them with my 9700NP and backup PC,can't get simple 1680x1050 res mode,had to use Omega drivers,(latest was 7.1s) at least my desktop looks nice on XP now in my backup PC .

 

[jzodda]

Omega said some new drivers are coming about a week or so ago. Hopefully soon. For me I never use any other drivers for my radeons

 

[CrystalBay]

7.2 FTW

 

[Shawn]

I've had problems with 7.3 and 7.4 displaying my HD-DVD movies properly (there is image corruption). 7.2 Drivers work fine but CCC takes up 100% of the cpu when i try to play an hd-dvd. I finally uninstalled CCC and have had no problems now.

 

[palindrome]

Whenever I get driver problems, it means its time to reformat, drivers SHOULD NOT be an issue unless something else is conflicting