New Official ATI Radeon Drivers

Candyman · Sep 12, 2002, 08:43 PM

ATI has released new Catalyst drivers today! They are the Version 2.3. The driver details are as follows:

Windows XP: 6.13.10.6166
Windows 2K: 5.13.10.6166
Windows ME/98: 4.13.01.9062

Control Panel Version 6.13.10.3027

Read More for list of features and improvements!

Candyman · Sep 12, 2002, 08:44 PM

Performance Improvements:

NHL 2002 scores are up 10-20% for RADEON 7000/7500/8500/9000 products
Serious Sam performance is improved once again (8-12%) across all RADEON’s
NASCAR 2002 performance is up 8% on the RADEON 9700 PRO
Vertex Shader performance has been improved by approximately 20% for the RADEON 9000 PRO, resulting in a 3-5% gain in 3DMARK score.

Added Features:

Control Panel support for TRUFORM
DVI alternate operation mode
AA and AF - OpenGL and Direct 3D Control Panels for RADEON 7000 and RADEON 7200
Color Controls for Component Output
Enhance gamma control for overlay

Bug Fixes:

Subsystem ID showed incorrect information under details tab
Hanging issues with Spider Solitaire under Windows XP
Hanging issues with Mozilla browser
Setting the desktop to 1024 X 768 and 32 bpp results in the Flat panel property page not appearing in the ATI displays tab
RADEON 9700 Control Panel issues: Settings are applied properly, and Quality/Performance options of Anisotropic Filtering behaves properly.

Get the XP drivers HERE
Get the 2K Drivers HERE
Get the ME/9x HERE

Get the new Control Panel HERE

Zardon · Sep 12, 2002, 08:57 PM

this is great, now all I have to do is wait on my 9700 arriving to test them out !

kinetic · Sep 12, 2002, 09:45 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
this is great, now all I have to do is wait on my 9700 arriving to test them out !

Me too! If I can twist my 'accountants' arm far enough up her back, I'm getting one at Xmas!

Alan Allen · Sep 12, 2002, 11:04 PM

The new drivers work great on my Laptop with Radeon m-6.

The control panel displays doubles of the tabs at the top. Anyone else seeing this?

How to fix?

DarkFoss · Sep 12, 2002, 11:34 PM

Well that's fast after all they just released a patch for the 6143's & 9700 2 days ago.
Guess I'll have to give'em a try.. Installed SP1 on monday and ever since the device manager shows 2 radeon 9700's installed. Not even a clean driver install helped

boby · Sep 13, 2002, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Candyman
Performance Improvements:

NHL 2002 scores are up 10-20% for RADEON 7000/7500/8500/9000 products
Serious Sam performance is improved once again (8-12%) across all RADEON’s
NASCAR 2002 performance is up 8% on the RADEON 9700 PRO
Vertex Shader performance has been improved by approximately 20% for the RADEON 9000 PRO, resulting in a 3-5% gain in 3DMARK score.

Added Features:

Control Panel support for TRUFORM
DVI alternate operation mode
AA and AF - OpenGL and Direct 3D Control Panels for RADEON 7000 and RADEON 7200
Color Controls for Component Output
Enhance gamma control for overlay

Bug Fixes:

Subsystem ID showed incorrect information under details tab
Hanging issues with Spider Solitaire under Windows XP
Hanging issues with Mozilla browser
Setting the desktop to 1024 X 768 and 32 bpp results in the Flat panel property page not appearing in the ATI displays tab
RADEON 9700 Control Panel issues: Settings are applied properly, and Quality/Performance options of Anisotropic Filtering behaves properly.

Get the XP drivers HERE
Get the 2K Drivers HERE
Get the ME/9x HERE

Get the new Control Panel HERE

i hope u're right

Alan Allen · Sep 13, 2002, 01:02 AM

anyone notice the double tabs in the control panel?????

anyone figure out how to fix it????

boby · Sep 13, 2002, 03:07 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Alan Allen
anyone notice the double tabs in the control panel?????

anyone figure out how to fix it????

what double tabs

.There are only 6 tabs(displays,color,open gl,dirct3D,options&overlay) and that's it.

Jeff · Sep 13, 2002, 03:17 AM

Darn, and i was just finishing my 6159 driver.

Dyre Straits · Sep 13, 2002, 03:36 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Alan Allen
anyone notice the double tabs in the control panel?????

anyone figure out how to fix it????

What double tabs? I don't have any?

It's possible that if you have a tweaker installed it 'might' be keeping your old registry settings active for Custom Displays or something like that.

Dyre Straits

Alistair · Sep 13, 2002, 04:00 AM

FSAA is broke again for me...

skinlab · Sep 13, 2002, 04:06 AM

question:

do i need to uninstall both the old drivers and the old control panels and reinstall the new ones?

im using win2k.

thanks.

peterosesbookie · Sep 13, 2002, 08:14 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by skinlab
question:

do i need to uninstall both the old drivers and the old control panels and reinstall the new ones?

im using win2k.

thanks.

yes I RECOMMEND that you do

later

pete

Alan Allen · Sep 13, 2002, 08:49 AM

I did a Clean Install of the New ATI drivers and it got rid of the Double Tabs I had in the Control Panel.

boby · Sep 13, 2002, 08:58 AM

i tested those new drivers and if i let settings of ogen gl and d3d at default i get 1300 3dmarks,but if i change those settings on high quality or high performance i get missarable 600 3dmarks.

boby · Sep 13, 2002, 08:59 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cyborg
Darn, and i was just finishing my 6159 driver.

nevermind,just give us a link for your drivers,because they rock

Alistair · Sep 13, 2002, 12:36 PM

Yes Cyborg I for one will gladly use your 6159 drivers even if just to get FSAA back

GOG · Sep 13, 2002, 01:41 PM

Don't want to be a nag, but... Is the Opera/Mozilla bug still present??

Rayder · Sep 13, 2002, 01:47 PM

Everything seems to work great for me. I even regained about 450 points back in 3DMark over the 9056 leaks. I gained a new option in the control panel! TRUFORM!! Never had that option before.

They installed fine right over top of the 9056 leaks. No uninstalling anything, no tweaks needed.

I did have to enable W-buffer for LeMans 24 Hours though, otherwise the cars would have flickering body textures, but it didn't appear to affect any other games, they ALL still work. Anti-Aliasing appears to work for me too. Other than the above mentioned setting, I appear to have 100% compatibility with everything.

Finally, an official "Catalyst" class driver from ATI that works correctly for me.

BTW, I installed the 4.43 4in1's just before installing these 2.3 Catalyst's, don't know if that really made any difference though.

fleon · Sep 13, 2002, 04:05 PM

Hey, is there a quick way to mod these drivers for use w/ a Radeon Mobility 7500? I don't need any of the "Tweaks" that Cyborg is so famous for (although I use his drivers, of course). Anyone know a quick way to edit the inf for the offical releases to do this?

Thanks~

Fleon

DarkFoss · Sep 13, 2002, 07:06 PM

According to an ati official that posted on Rage 3-D your still supposed to apply the patch over these drivers to fix the Opera/Mozilla as well as game bugs.. He recommends applying the patch in safe mode as well.

Alan Allen · Sep 13, 2002, 08:45 PM

where do you get "the patch"

radTube · Sep 13, 2002, 10:01 PM

What patch? Installing the leaked 6159 fixed Mozilla/Opera and Spider for me... no patches needed

DarkFoss · Sep 14, 2002, 12:00 AM

It's a 3-D patch for the 9700 pro card and can be downloaded at the ati site,here
http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4081.html
Patches availuable for XP 2000 98/ME and Sireric also recommends installing the patch in safe mode.. Couldn't find the exact post
3DCube
Radeon 9700 Pro

Registered: Aug 2002
Location: Silicon Valley
Posts: 107

For Radeon 9700Pro users, please install the new CATAYLST 2.3 and overlay the patch on top of it. The patch is actually based on CATAYLST 2.3 + the fix for bf1942, The thing and Mafia.

sireric
Rage 128 Pro MAXX

Registered: May 2002
Location:
Posts: 130

quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Originally posted by Slim
So i still need to install the patch for BF1942 over these 6166 drivers?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yes.

Lifted these from the Rage 3-D thread. Hope this is of some use to you all

Sorry on the late reply but I had to go back to work.

Alistair · Sep 14, 2002, 12:45 AM

ATI recommended I use that patch to fix FSAA... which it did

DallasStar · Sep 14, 2002, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by GOG
Don't want to be a nag, but... Is the Opera/Mozilla bug still present??

that bug has been fixed since 6159

Jeff · Sep 14, 2002, 01:18 AM

Unless you have a Radeon 9700, that patch will do nothing...so if it fixed something, i dont really know why...

GOG · Sep 14, 2002, 11:38 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dallasstar
that bug has been fixed since 6159

Ok, thx mate.

Alistair · Sep 14, 2002, 04:47 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Cyborg
Unless you have a Radeon 9700, that patch will do nothing...so if it fixed something, i dont really know why...

Well the truth of the matter is I was havign the same problems they were describing in that patch with Direct3D corruptions and the such in Morrowind. The patch corrected it for my R8500 reguardless of it claiming to work only for R9700

Sep 12, 2002, 08:43 PM	#1
Candyman [DH] Lover! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	New Official ATI Radeon Drivers ATI has released new Catalyst drivers today! They are the Version 2.3. The driver details are as follows: Windows XP: 6.13.10.6166 Windows 2K: 5.13.10.6166 Windows ME/98: 4.13.01.9062 Control Panel Version 6.13.10.3027 Read More for list of features and improvements! __________________ AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 2.53GHz Abit NF7-S v.2 Thermalright SP-97 w/ TT Smart Fan 2 2 x 512MB GeIL PC3500 Platinum DDR 2 x 120GB WD HDD - RAID-0 2 x 80GB Barracuda V HDD - RAID-0 ATI Radeon AIW 9800PRO SB Audigy 2 HP L2335 23" LCD (DVI-D) WinXP Pro SP2

Sep 12, 2002, 08:44 PM	Thread Starter #2
Candyman [DH] Lover! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	Performance Improvements: NHL 2002 scores are up 10-20% for RADEON 7000/7500/8500/9000 products Serious Sam performance is improved once again (8-12%) across all RADEON’s NASCAR 2002 performance is up 8% on the RADEON 9700 PRO Vertex Shader performance has been improved by approximately 20% for the RADEON 9000 PRO, resulting in a 3-5% gain in 3DMARK score. Added Features: Control Panel support for TRUFORM DVI alternate operation mode AA and AF - OpenGL and Direct 3D Control Panels for RADEON 7000 and RADEON 7200 Color Controls for Component Output Enhance gamma control for overlay Bug Fixes: Subsystem ID showed incorrect information under details tab Hanging issues with Spider Solitaire under Windows XP Hanging issues with Mozilla browser Setting the desktop to 1024 X 768 and 32 bpp results in the Flat panel property page not appearing in the ATI displays tab RADEON 9700 Control Panel issues: Settings are applied properly, and Quality/Performance options of Anisotropic Filtering behaves properly. Get the XP drivers HERE Get the 2K Drivers HERE Get the ME/9x HERE Get the new Control Panel HERE __________________ AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 2.53GHz Abit NF7-S v.2 Thermalright SP-97 w/ TT Smart Fan 2 2 x 512MB GeIL PC3500 Platinum DDR 2 x 120GB WD HDD - RAID-0 2 x 80GB Barracuda V HDD - RAID-0 ATI Radeon AIW 9800PRO SB Audigy 2 HP L2335 23" LCD (DVI-D) WinXP Pro SP2

Sep 12, 2002, 11:04 PM	#5
Alan Allen The "Eye" Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	Control Panel Double Tabs The new drivers work great on my Laptop with Radeon m-6. The control panel displays doubles of the tabs at the top. Anyone else seeing this? How to fix? __________________ [COLOR=lightblue] [SIZE=small]Alan Edward Allen[/COLOR] [/SIZE] [SIZE=xsmall] [COLOR=yellow]AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4Ghz 266fsb (AIR COOLED MC-462A), Gigabyte GA-7DXR - Microsoft Windows Me Micron 512Meg PC2100 DDR 16-8-8-2-6-2-2 @ 2.7v, IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40Gb (x2), Setup as RAID 0 ASUS V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 - nVidia 40.71's [/SIZE] [/COLOR]

Sep 12, 2002, 11:34 PM	#6
DarkFoss HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Downers Grove IL Posts: 688 Rep Power: 0	Well that's fast after all they just released a patch for the 6143's & 9700 2 days ago. Guess I'll have to give'em a try.. Installed SP1 on monday and ever since the device manager shows 2 radeon 9700's installed. Not even a clean driver install helped __________________ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin, 1755

Sep 13, 2002, 01:02 AM	#8
Alan Allen The "Eye" Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	anyone notice the double tabs in the control panel????? anyone figure out how to fix it???? __________________ [COLOR=lightblue] [SIZE=small]Alan Edward Allen[/COLOR] [/SIZE] [SIZE=xsmall] [COLOR=yellow]AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4Ghz 266fsb (AIR COOLED MC-462A), Gigabyte GA-7DXR - Microsoft Windows Me Micron 512Meg PC2100 DDR 16-8-8-2-6-2-2 @ 2.7v, IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40Gb (x2), Setup as RAID 0 ASUS V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 - nVidia 40.71's [/SIZE] [/COLOR]

Sep 12, 2002, 08:57 PM	#3
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	this is great, now all I have to do is wait on my 9700 arriving to test them out !

Sep 13, 2002, 03:17 AM	#10
Jeff Yarr... I be blind! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 3,190 Rep Power: 74	Darn, and i was just finishing my 6159 driver. __________________

Sep 13, 2002, 04:00 AM	#12
Alistair Spoos Join Date: May 2002 Location: State College, PA, USA Posts: 435 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	FSAA is broke again for me... __________________ - Alistair

Sep 13, 2002, 04:06 AM	#13
skinlab Got Satan? Join Date: May 2002 Location: was in Canada, now in UAE Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	question: do i need to uninstall both the old drivers and the old control panels and reinstall the new ones? im using win2k. thanks. __________________ Religion is the opiate of the masses - Marx God is dead - Nietzsche X-pider2 + Enermax 465 / P4P800-DX / 2.6C@3.25 / 1GIG XMS 4000PT/ R9800PRO / Audigy2 ZS / 80gig WD SE + 160gig Maxtor SE + 200gig Maxtor PS3100 External / Plextor Premium + BenQ DW1640 / other stuff

Sep 13, 2002, 08:49 AM	#15
Alan Allen The "Eye" Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	Clean Install Does the trick I did a Clean Install of the New ATI drivers and it got rid of the Double Tabs I had in the Control Panel. __________________ [COLOR=lightblue] [SIZE=small]Alan Edward Allen[/COLOR] [/SIZE] [SIZE=xsmall] [COLOR=yellow]AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4Ghz 266fsb (AIR COOLED MC-462A), Gigabyte GA-7DXR - Microsoft Windows Me Micron 512Meg PC2100 DDR 16-8-8-2-6-2-2 @ 2.7v, IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40Gb (x2), Setup as RAID 0 ASUS V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 - nVidia 40.71's [/SIZE] [/COLOR]

Sep 13, 2002, 08:58 AM	#16
boby DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: slovenia-maribor Posts: 326 Rep Power: 0	i tested those new drivers and if i let settings of ogen gl and d3d at default i get 1300 3dmarks,but if i change those settings on high quality or high performance i get missarable 600 3dmarks. __________________ NF7-S,AMD 2500+@2300MHz-&SP97+ 92mm vantec tornado on 2800rpm, MSi 5900SP 2X256MB Hyperx PC3200 DM+9 120GB SATA HDD Yamaha cd-rw 20/10/40 WIN XP PRO(SP1)

Sep 13, 2002, 12:36 PM	#18
Alistair Spoos Join Date: May 2002 Location: State College, PA, USA Posts: 435 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Yes Cyborg I for one will gladly use your 6159 drivers even if just to get FSAA back __________________ - Alistair

Sep 13, 2002, 01:41 PM	#19
GOG Please answer the voices in my head Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 308 Rep Power: 0	Opera/Mozilla Don't want to be a nag, but... Is the Opera/Mozilla bug still present??

Sep 13, 2002, 01:47 PM	#20
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,160 Rep Power: 71	Everything seems to work great for me. I even regained about 450 points back in 3DMark over the 9056 leaks. I gained a new option in the control panel! TRUFORM!! Never had that option before. They installed fine right over top of the 9056 leaks. No uninstalling anything, no tweaks needed. I did have to enable W-buffer for LeMans 24 Hours though, otherwise the cars would have flickering body textures, but it didn't appear to affect any other games, they ALL still work. Anti-Aliasing appears to work for me too. Other than the above mentioned setting, I appear to have 100% compatibility with everything. Finally, an official "Catalyst" class driver from ATI that works correctly for me. BTW, I installed the 4.43 4in1's just before installing these 2.3 Catalyst's, don't know if that really made any difference though.

Sep 13, 2002, 04:05 PM	#21
fleon DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Hey, is there a quick way to mod these drivers for use w/ a Radeon Mobility 7500? I don't need any of the "Tweaks" that Cyborg is so famous for (although I use his drivers, of course). Anyone know a quick way to edit the inf for the offical releases to do this? Thanks~ Fleon

Sep 13, 2002, 07:06 PM	#22
DarkFoss HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Downers Grove IL Posts: 688 Rep Power: 0	According to an ati official that posted on Rage 3-D your still supposed to apply the patch over these drivers to fix the Opera/Mozilla as well as game bugs.. He recommends applying the patch in safe mode as well. __________________ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin, 1755

Sep 13, 2002, 08:45 PM	#23
Alan Allen The "Eye" Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 286 Rep Power: 0	where do you get "the patch" __________________ [COLOR=lightblue] [SIZE=small]Alan Edward Allen[/COLOR] [/SIZE] [SIZE=xsmall] [COLOR=yellow]AMD Athlon T-Bird 1.4Ghz 266fsb (AIR COOLED MC-462A), Gigabyte GA-7DXR - Microsoft Windows Me Micron 512Meg PC2100 DDR 16-8-8-2-6-2-2 @ 2.7v, IBM Deskstar 60GXP 40Gb (x2), Setup as RAID 0 ASUS V8200 Deluxe GeForce3 - nVidia 40.71's [/SIZE] [/COLOR]

Sep 13, 2002, 10:01 PM	#24
radTube just keepin' it cool Join Date: May 2002 Location: Finland Posts: 228 Rep Power: 0	What patch? Installing the leaked 6159 fixed Mozilla/Opera and Spider for me... no patches needed __________________ [color=orange] [/color]

Sep 14, 2002, 12:00 AM	#25
DarkFoss HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Downers Grove IL Posts: 688 Rep Power: 0	It's a 3-D patch for the 9700 pro card and can be downloaded at the ati site,here http://www.ati.com/support/infobase/4081.html Patches availuable for XP 2000 98/ME and Sireric also recommends installing the patch in safe mode.. Couldn't find the exact post 3DCube Radeon 9700 Pro Registered: Aug 2002 Location: Silicon Valley Posts: 107 For Radeon 9700Pro users, please install the new CATAYLST 2.3 and overlay the patch on top of it. The patch is actually based on CATAYLST 2.3 + the fix for bf1942, The thing and Mafia. sireric Rage 128 Pro MAXX Registered: May 2002 Location: Posts: 130 quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by Slim So i still need to install the patch for BF1942 over these 6166 drivers? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yes. Lifted these from the Rage 3-D thread. Hope this is of some use to you all Sorry on the late reply but I had to go back to work. __________________ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin, 1755

Sep 14, 2002, 12:45 AM	#26
Alistair Spoos Join Date: May 2002 Location: State College, PA, USA Posts: 435 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	ATI recommended I use that patch to fix FSAA... which it did __________________ - Alistair

Sep 14, 2002, 01:18 AM	#28
Jeff Yarr... I be blind! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 3,190 Rep Power: 74	Unless you have a Radeon 9700, that patch will do nothing...so if it fixed something, i dont really know why... __________________