Catalyst 7.6 Vista 64 drivers

[dedejean]

I have cat 7.6 drivers installed on my vista 64 and i am having serious problems.

1. Washed out colors across all applications and desktop.
2. Low 3d games performance (1680x1050 0AA 0AF all high = 45-60 only???? WTF)

Anyways, ive researched all over google and found out that this is a known problem. Several forums have been frustrated with this too... guru3d and driverheaven.

I will try to revert to 7.4 and/or 7.5, see if i get any improvements.

For you with the same problem, please share your experiences and confirm if 7.4 or 7.5 will fix the problem (LOL, i shouldnt say fix because they are older versions)

Edit: I read from other community forums that changing color settings to MCE will do the trick (problem #1) but that is too high contrast and doesnt look good either.

 

[Stumps]

the 7.6's work fine on my P-D 820@3.4GHZ/ Sapphire X1950Pro AGP running Vista Ultimate x64.

 

[dedejean]

@stumps
no washed out colors? hmm.. wonder why the inconsistencies. How about gaming performance? Any gains from 7.5?

 

[Stumps]

Originally posted by: dedejean
@stumps
no washed out colors? hmm.. wonder why the inconsistencies. How about gaming performance? Any gains from 7.5?

the Colours are fine, I haven't played to many games on it (it's my file server) but I haven't noticed any real difference's between the 7.6's and 7.5's.

while it is hardly an ideal way to fix things, have you tried reformatting and doing a fresh install of windows/

 

[dedejean]

@stumps
not yet.. i only did clean registry of all drivers and reinstalling them to no avail. That was my last resort before i confirmed that it was driver related.

btw, what driver cleaner should i use? the 0.40 or the driver cleaner pro (older version... dunno if support vista)?

 

[Stumps]

just download the latest version...

 

[Chadder007]

New version of Driver Cleaner costs $$$.

 

[nullpointerus]

Have some free space on your disk? Vista can shrink its boot partition and create a new partition for you to do a clean installation.

To do this, you right-click on Computer, select Manage, click OK at the UAC box, and go to Disk Management. Google something like "Vista boot partition shrink" for suggestions if Vista says it can't shrink the partition by the 10 GB or so required for a fresh Vista installation. Then boot the Vista DVD and do a second (clean) installation on the free space.

If your drivers work fine on a clean installation, then you know there's a problem with your old Vista partition. If not, then there's a different problem with your rig--possibly a hardware problem such as a PSU issue or an unstable overclock.

FYI, I never encountered the brightness bug on Vista 64 through several installations, but it did happen on Vista 32. :shrugs;

 

[dedejean]

No need to reinstall vista now... i reverted back to catalyst 7.4 and everything is well now... back to vibrant colors and my fps games were improved. Although some of my games dropped 5-10fps... you really cant win em all.