ATI Catalyst 7.11 drivers released
 

The Slurpee Edition:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
I haven't tried them yet . . . I'll wait and read the DriverHeaven forums for a while before I try them.

I did notice that the Release notes didn't mention anything about the problems that we AGP card owners were having with Crysis (especially the Radeon X1950 series). There was nothing in the fixes nor in the known issues section . . . yet they released a hotfix specifically for that problem one or two weeks ago (not that it would install for me). Oh well, some rain, some shine. Luckily my PC at work runs Crysis just fine.:yep:

I am still running 7.6 - for one reason - anything later makes my X1650 die after about 10 minutes of Company of Heroes. May try it - but will likely have to roll back.

From neowin
"Note that ATi recommends Crysis players to continue using the 7.10 Hotfix drivers."

Also a user there reported the same problems Captain Haplo mentioned with the 7.7 thru 7.10 drivers (he hadn't tried the 7.11 yet)

I have not had any issues with the 07.7(file 7-7) catalyst and X1950. Haven't tried 7.11 yet.
-Pv-

I'm still running 7.6. The 7.10 driver installed would not start the 3D engine. :down: I spent a good hour dumping and rolling back the driver.

Glad to see I am not the only one that has had some problems beyond 7.6 - one would think ATI would be a bit more careful in their driver releases. Ah well - at least the bugger is stable and more than fast enough for me.

I forgot to mentione, the person reporting the problems with the newer drivers was running an x1600.

Doesn't seem to be an issue with the x1950 though.

Running 7.11 with PCI-E X1950 Pro's in crossfire, and no problems. Crossfire even seems to work a bit better than before(anti-aliasing used to switch off after 1 min of SH4), although it gives you very little if any performance gains with SH4. Even renaming the game executable to for example fear.exe, which works in ArmA, does almost nothing in SH4.

I've got an X1600 AGP and am still using 7.7 drivers. All the newer versions have introduced one problem or another :damn: and resulted in a return to good ol' 7.7. What's going on, ATI? :hmm:

As for 7.11, I may have to give 'em a try just too see what else they break. :roll:

Update: Well, I gave them a go and it's back to 7.7! I got the infamous "Unable to start 3D engine" after installing and trying to run SHIV.

Try the Omega driver 7.10 for AGP 1950 pro
 

http://www.omegadrivers.net/

It realy works! and you are getting better image quality :up:

I have only tried it with Win XP though... But the crysis demo works with this driver allso!

Kriller, I tried Omega's driver, too. No luck there. But I'm glad it resolves the problem for some people. For now I'm happy to have SH4 running smooth on my home PC and Crysis on my work PC.

Put in 7.11 with no trouble on my X1950. I have not had trouble installing and running games on any catalyst I've used on any Radeon card (I've had several.) I'm one of those rare peeps who uses the Catalyst software remover from the add-remove programs before installing a new driver. It's important to click cancel when rebooting and the detect new hardware dialog appears.
-Pv-

Not so rare...

I learned years ago that with an ATI card you've got to clean out all the old ATI stuff before installing newer drivers.

There was a time when you even had to manually go in and delete all references to ATI from the registry.

Luckily since then ATI has made all of that easier. Just follow the directions for installing new drivers exactly as ATI states. I've never had any problems when doing that.

I've used DriverCleaner for near forever. My current XP install is going on 3 years without a reinstall (I know, I know), and I've been through 3 graphics cards (both ATI and Nvidia), and countless drivers. You use it in safe mode, it completely wipes all old drivers from the system so a new driver gets a fresh install.

HTH

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