New Radeon 9700 WinXP drivers (from Dell)...

[Spicedaddy]

Get them here (14.6MB)


These are build 6193, as opposed to the 6178 on the ATI web site. (I'm sure they'll put them up soon)

 

[clicknext]

I suppose these are only for dells?

 

[GTaudiophile]

Originally posted by: clicknext
I suppose these are only for dells?

They use the "Built by ATi" Radeon 9700.

 

[Spicedaddy]

.You'll get an error with the automatic install, just cancel it. Then go to Device Manager, and update the driver manually, pointing to the CX_05958.inf file in the "\Driver\XP_INF" folder. You'll get a warning about the driver not being for your card, blahblahblah, just click OK.

repeat for the Secondary display driver (using the one ending with sec.).


BTW, this fixes the NHL 2003 problem. 😀

 

[BFG10K]

I expect these drivers will appear as the Catalyst 2.4s on ATi's website soon and that's when I'll download them.

BTW, this fixes the NHL 2003 problem.

What other changes have you noticed?

 

[bacillus]

bump for more to see!

 

[Spicedaddy]

What other changes have you noticed?

-Game gamma is better. I used to have to set it to 120 or it would be very dark, but now I just leave it at the default 100 and it's perfect.

-In the Madden 2003 menu (not in the game), the player's helmet wouldn't show, now it's fixed.

-F1 2002 would run like crap when I had AA enabled. Performance is now much better as I'm playing it with 4X AA and 16X Aniso and it's smoooooth. 🙂

-When I would exit UT2003 (and sometimes other games), it would reset my desktop brightness to default and I would have to go in display properties and click on the color tab to get it back. This is fixed.

-Overall performance seems a little better.

 

[Bovinicus]

I'm willing to wait a few weeks for ATi to release the same, or newer drivers directly from their site. ATi said in an interview that their drivers are on a 6 week cycle, and it has been a few weeks since their last update, so they are due for another!

 

[sharkeeper]

2D Performance is way up from previous release.

Previously I could not run Giants for more than a minute before hard locks. Evolva Bumpmapped demo would run 1 second and hard lock, it looped for 10 hours with these drivers. All these nonsayers (regarding the drivers--it's your motherboard instead!) out there are majorly owned with this! 😀

Hey, I think I've found a good use for Dell after all! 🙂 [insert Lloyd Christmas remark about old people here!]

Cheers!

 

[ToBeMe]

Quite a few on other forums saying these drivers are very good in "Built By ATI" 9700 Pros and resolve several problems in several games............................Asusboards.com being one of many if you wanna check it out...............

 

[BFG10K]

Thanks for the info everyone. 🙂

 

[Brian48]

This driver fixed the lockup issues I had with NHL2003, but it also gave me a 8-9% decrease in performance with UT2003 in botmatch. I'm switching back to v6178 and stick with playing NHL2003 on my GeForce3 machine.