AMD Releases Catalyst 9.7 Drivers for Win 7

[Marcus Yam]

Drivers released for the freshly minted OS.

AMD Releases Catalyst 9.7 Drivers for Win 7 : Read more

 

[curnel_D]

Fixed some random stuttering and crashes I had in both Far Cry 2, and Crysis. As usual, the performance isnt close to noticable, but the stability is, this round.

 

[Shnur]

ATI Stream technology implemented in Windows 7?
Awesome 😀

 

[Honis]

Hope this fixes the random crashing of my Win 7 RC. Had no problems with Beta.

 

[apmyhr]

I think AMD deserves some props for how proactive they have been with driver support for Win 7. It's good to see companies exert that kind of quality with driver support.

 

[salem80]

their is big performance up in this release everyone have ATI Card can notice that .
ATI FTW .

 

[tipmen]

Its nice to update and notice improvements!

Crysis
Far Cry
less crashes in other games like CS:S or Left4dead.

+1 for ATI

 

[itsme]

I'm having a problem with the new drivers. I can't get it to fill full screen on my flat screen at 1360x 768. Also CCC won't open so I can try to set it there. So I had to revert to old drivers.

 

[anamaniac]

I used the 8.x drivers over 9.x for a while because of issues... so I guess it's time to try again. =D

...
Granted, the only gam I have played in a month on my PC is WC3...

 

[belardo]

How about crahes with UT3? I'm on XP and UT3 is the ONLY game that crashes. Totally locking up the computer 2~30 minutes into playing.

For newer games, using 8x drivers can cause problems. I'm not looking forward to the new ATI driver's new interface. Looks like a pin in the butt!

PS: I guess they're making a big deal because its 9.7! YEah 7!

 

[dman3k]

This is more of a testimony to M$ than it is to AMD. M$ is actually getting third-party drivers to work for the 7 prior to release. Vista's problem is that third-party drivers sucked for a long time.

 

[belardo]

Yep... All parties have learned their lesson. But MS did make driver validation more difficult with Vista.

Now, actually Win7 drivers are coming out months in advanced.

 

[benfea]

Aaaaand, I still can't preserve aspect ratio in the LCD panel options. Why is this so hard to do?