Wierd thing about ATI drivers

[sswingle]

Well, all this talk about possible problems with the Cat 3.8s made me take a look at my drivers. I am under the impression that 3.8 is installed on my system, since I installed them and it appeared that everything went smoothly. However, after looking at my device properties, I notice something very strange.

The driver date is 9/12/2003. Catalyst 3.7 came out on 9/04/03. This made me think that I had 3.7 drivers. Maybe the 8 days difference is the time it took for Microsoft to certify the drivers.

Then, I took a look at my driver version number. It is 6.14.10.6387, which matches ATI's website as the version for the 3.8 driver.

3.8 was released on 10/08/2003. Why in the heck would Windows report the driver as being dated 9/12??

I am at a loss to explain this. Anyone have any ideas?

 

[rbV5]

3.8 was released on 10/08/2003. Why in the heck would Windows report the driver as being dated 9/12??

Because the driver itself is made up of components, the individual driver (ati2dvag.dll) is version 6.14.10.6387 dated 9/12/2003 and released as a package with the other drivers that compose the entire Catalyst Package on a later date (10/08/2003)

 

[sswingle]

Wow, ok. So what you are saying is that they completed the 3.8 driver 8 days after they released 3.7
I am surprised that the release of drivers is so late after they are finished.

 

[GullyFoyle]

He is saying they didn't change that particular component of the driver set after that date.
Other components may have been finalized at a later date.

Oh, and it's nice to leave some time to test the entire component set before releasing it.
Do you really want a driver that is released a day after they make changes?

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: pwddesign
Wow, ok. So what you are saying is that they completed the 3.8 driver 8 days after they released 3.7
I am surprised that the release of drivers is so late after they are finished.

That was one component. Also, they changed a lot so they had to test them for awhile to iron out any bugs they found.

 

[jiffylube1024]

Originally posted by: pwddesign
Wow, ok. So what you are saying is that they completed the 3.8 driver 8 days after they released 3.7
I am surprised that the release of drivers is so late after they are finished.

That was one component. Also, they changed a lot so they had to test them for awhile to iron out any bugs they found.