AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 10.7 Drivers

[Marcus Yam]

Fresh new drivers to make your GPU happy.

AMD Releases ATI Catalyst 10.7 Drivers : Read more

 

[sargentchimera]

I hope these are better than the horrible 10.5 and 10.6, I've been useing 10.4 for awhile now and I really hope these do the trick!

 

[coconut]

Ubuntu 10.04 production support! Hooray! Not that 10.6 doesn't seem to work fine with Lucid Lynx already...

 

[Guest]

Eyefinity for Linux ... whooop !!!!!!! Now just to get someone to actually implement / test it before 'n buy ...

 

[ionut19]

When nvidia usually releases a new driver you also get increased performance. Here you get VLC player compatibility..why did i bought ATI?
I have driver 10.5 and still work fine. At this rate i will not upgrade only when they release driver 11.0.
Just bug fixes and small improvements in certain areas with this driver.

 

[7amood]

what is Pull-down detection algorithm??

 

[ohim]

[citation][nom]ionut19[/nom]When nvidia usually releases a new driver you also get increased performance. Here you get VLC player compatibility..why did i bought ATI?I have driver 10.5 and still work fine. At this rate i will not upgrade only when they release driver 11.0. Just bug fixes and small improvements in certain areas with this driver.[/citation]
Maybe because they got it right with performance from the first time and there`s nothing else to improve ? and for nvidia you get improvements for sli etc not for 1 card. And i find it pretty interesting that they take time to tweak the drivers for other aplications too other than video games.

 

[ionut19]

You are right in a way about the improvement of other applications but as for gaming i do not know what to say because from my experience with ATI and Nvidia drivers there is always an improvement over time. Only now that nvidia released drivers that increased the speed by a considerable margin, especially with the last 2 driver updates(sli and non sli).
That's the thing that impacted me when ati drivers did not improve by a lot with the last driver(10.7) release(crossfire and/or no crossfire).

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]7amood[/nom]what is Pull-down detection algorithm??[/citation]
Telecine is a method of changing the frame rate of a film (24 progressive fps) to that of TV (29.97 interlaced fps) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#2:3_pulldown Usually graphics cards are set to detect and reverse this process restoring the original progressive frames and fps http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecine#Reverse_telecine_.28a.k.a._inverse_telecine_.28IVTC.29.2C_reverse_pulldown.29

 

[jfem]

Downloading...

 

[jazn1337]

Of all things they decided to support GPU acceleration on VLC?

 

[JonathanDeane]

[citation][nom]jazn1337[/nom]Of all things they decided to support GPU acceleration on VLC?[/citation]

I almost wish they would just make some sort of generic video acceleration... like DirectX only for video playback.... (There might be something like this and I am just ignorant of it.)

 

[Guest]

It's better than Nvidia releasing drivers that kill your GPU. Yes we do testing but we didn't test that our new drivers turn off the fan.

ATI also doesn't relabel old products with new labels and sell them for $100 more.

 

[ravewulf]

[citation][nom]JonathanDeane[/nom]I almost wish they would just make some sort of generic video acceleration... like DirectX only for video playback.... (There might be something like this and I am just ignorant of it.)[/citation]
DirectX Video Acceleration (DXVA)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DirectX_Video_Acceleration

 

[Sabiancym]

10.6 made me bluescreen on boot....had to roll back.

Hopefully these work better with my 3 24" monitors in eyefinity.

 

[Guest]

why did i bought ATI?
Because you wanted a video board that's not going to die in six months?

 

[hari_41]

[citation][nom]ionut19[/nom]When nvidia usually releases a new driver you also get increased performance. Here you get VLC player compatibility..why did i bought ATI?I have driver 10.5 and still work fine. At this rate i will not upgrade only when they release driver 11.0. Just bug fixes and small improvements in certain areas with this driver.[/citation]

Its because nvidia's old drivers sucks. So they release new and get improvements. ATI driver performance is perfect except some bugs. So they can't bring anymore performance.

 

[Reynod]

It's better than Nvidia releasing drivers that kill your GPU. Yes we do testing but we didn't test that our new drivers turn off the fan.

ATI also doesn't relabel old products with new labels and sell them for $100 more.

I have to agree with you there.

 

[schwiing]

10.6 was awful for me, but 10.7 seems to be very stable. Good Job ATI!

 

[zinabas]

The reason Catalyst drivers don't usually increase performance is because ATI does it the simple way and makes generic functions and then tweaks them when there is a bug. Nvidia makes it complicated and makes many different sets of functions for certain engines and then tweaks them for better performance later down the line.

I can't verify that its true but I've had many problems with ATI specialties like Catalyst AI and Adaptive AA cause graphics bugs. Never owned a Nvidia but it would make sense from what I've seen of the drivers.

 

[Trueno07]

10.6 works great for me. If I start to see some instability maybe i'll upgrade to 10.7.

 

[cnox]

Does anyone know if ATI considers their XFire scalability an issue? Or do you think that it is 'good enough' and they'll settle for less scalability than nVidia? And is it an architecture problem that is just 'the nature of the beast' that would allow SLI to scale more efficiently.

Apologies in advanced if I'm propogating a myth about XFire scalability, but I'm about to get a second 5850 and am hoping I didn't pick the wrong dual-card solution.

 

[hardcore_gamer]

works fine..no problems so far =D

 

[se7envii]

I had problems with 10.6 but 10.7 seems to be good to go (so far).

 

[shaun_shaun]

ATI drivers sucks !!!! ha ha !!! thumb down If u r a stupid AMD/ATI fanboy !!!!