Catalyst 7.77 for all Radeon Cards!

Candyman · Sep 26, 2002, 05:19 AM

Well...after a little while evaluating the files, I have finally put together a working driver set for the entire Radeon line using the 7.77 core driver files. I have installed this set on my XP rig and it works great!

Read More for links and driver installation instructions.

This set is also mirrored at fileconnect http://www.fileconnect.net/modules.p...rder=0&thold=0

Candyman · Sep 26, 2002, 05:21 AM

The core driver set can be downloaded right HERE

As far as the Control Panel goes...you can use the 3027 set that was officially released by ATI or you can download the 9700 PRO 6178 set and use the new 3030 control panel set there too.

Remember to install the driver set before you install the Control Panel files if you are doing a complete uninstall/reinstall.

Just run the SETUP.exe file to install the drivers!

fleon · Sep 26, 2002, 06:08 AM

Sigh. No one remembers us 7500 Mobility users... no support for us

Candyman · Sep 26, 2002, 06:24 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by fleon
Sigh. No one remembers us 7500 Mobility users... no support for us

It doesn't install on your mobility 7500?

boby · Sep 26, 2002, 07:18 AM

i hope it's gonna work on my radeon 7000

WyreTheWolf · Sep 26, 2002, 07:59 AM

/me cries... My XP install died ... something bad happened to the RAID ARRAY when I installed the new VIA 4in1s. Hopefully I will get XP running on my system soon ... then I will try out the new rivers :P

Predator · Sep 26, 2002, 09:05 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by fleon
Sigh. No one remembers us 7500 Mobility users... no support for us

Yepp that´s correct, it doesn´t install on my 7500 Mobility either.

Error Message: "Error. Driver File not found." (translated from german)

Hey fleon, can u tell me what driver u r using?
No freakin Catalyst version is working on that card, except the 7.72 I think... I was using a leaked version of catalyst 7.74 (I think it was 6113??) that must have been released somewhere in July.
Sorry can´t provide u with version-numbers cuz I killed the driver with my attempt to install catalyst 7.76, and I don´t have the driver-files available right now. Anyway, any help/suggestions for latest mobility 7500 drivers would be appreciated (+ download-location if possible)

thanks in advance!

Pred.

ps. just found the plutonium 8.1, but the freakin thing won´t install properly

shuki · Sep 26, 2002, 11:50 AM

heya CM. Our setups are nearly identical with the exception of my xp1700 vs. your 1900. I was just wondering which games you test your drivers on or what test criteria you use? I'm currently with the 6118's playing Mafia and NWN. I tried the latest official release catalyst from ATI but they don't do so good with mafia.

edit - all I can say is WOW Both NWN and Mafia are simply beautiful! 16x aniso and 4x performance AA on both games. Very smooth driver set you've put together candyman. Thank you so much for sharing your work and talent!

megatron · Sep 26, 2002, 07:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Candyman

...or you can download the 9700 PRO 6178 set and use the new 3030 control panel set there too.

Just run the SETUP.exe file to install the drivers!

Where is this found, please?

IgNite · Sep 26, 2002, 07:58 PM

Thnkx for working your magic, new drivers are always great to play with.

digitalwanderer · Sep 26, 2002, 08:23 PM

"Anything for me?", plaintively says the relic that is the 98se user.er

Mystik · Sep 26, 2002, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by digitalwanderer
"Anything for me?", plaintively says the relic that is the 98se user.er

/steps into the same box that dw is in

oy.

Arikel · Sep 26, 2002, 09:33 PM

Nice, image quality is noticably better in UT2k3 and speed is at least as good as the official drivers, maybe better. I like.

megatron · Sep 26, 2002, 09:52 PM

Just to ask again - where is the latest control panel 3030 - I got the 6178 drv but I cant browse anywhere there only link to the file direct. Does the latest control panel sort out refresh rate like ati said it would (somewhere I read it)?

Candyman · Sep 26, 2002, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by megatron
Just to ask again - where is the latest control panel 3030 - I got the 6178 drv but I cant browse anywhere there only link to the file direct. Does the latest control panel sort out refresh rate like ati said it would (somewhere I read it)?

You will have to download the entire 6178 drivers (21MB) and then, upon extraction, there will be a folder called "CPanel". Run the setup in that folder to install the 3030 Control Panel.

I will try to host the 3030 Control Panel. The size is approx. 12.5MB. But until then, the only way to get it is through the original 21MB file

boby · Sep 26, 2002, 11:28 PM

well i tried these drivers and must say that 6166 drivers still rocks for me.They are aproximatly 40 3Dmarks better as these one.My instalition wenk ok with 7.77 drivers

XSwiftX · Sep 27, 2002, 12:32 AM

Nice work Candyman

MadAsHell · Sep 27, 2002, 03:38 AM

Well, install seemed to go fine, but this set broke Counterstike for me. OGL quit working and I got an error.

Everything else was great though... back to the 6143 set for now.

ONTHEFLY · Sep 27, 2002, 06:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Candyman
You will have to download the entire 6178 drivers (21MB) and then, upon extraction, there will be a folder called "CPanel". Run the setup in that folder to install the 3030 Control Panel.

I will try to host the 3030 Control Panel. The size is approx. 12.5MB. But until then, the only way to get it is through the original 21MB file

is there any difference at all between the two CP's??

Falstaff · Sep 27, 2002, 07:08 AM

[COLOR=teal]MAGNIFICENT IMPROVEMENT IN MY IL2 STURMOVIK GAME![/COLOR] INSTALLED THE NEW DRIVERS ON TOP OF THE RECENT OMEGA VERSION, I SAW A DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN EVERY ASPECT OF MY GAMING. WHAT EVER YOU DID YOU ROCK MAN!
I have an overclocked 1.2 p3
wimpy dfi motherboard
1 gig of sdram
8500 128 with rage3d overclocker ver 3.6
and still......it rocks...thankyou man..
like dropping a 351 cleveland into a ford pinto......

Rikki · Sep 27, 2002, 07:54 AM

Keep getting:
*****************
Unfortunatly, the site that linked to this files is a bandwidth-stealer... SHAME ON HIM!

You will now be redirected to the site that hosts this file.
*****************

at file connect. Even if I approach the download from their own site. What am I doing wrong?

thanks,

Rikki

shuki · Sep 27, 2002, 08:00 AM

rikki, had something to do with your anti-virus software. If I remember right, disable Nortons Internet security (or something like that) as it's a false report given off by AV software....

Arioch · Sep 27, 2002, 10:57 AM

1) Dont blame Catalyst on absence of control panel tunnings.
They do not need to. Dirvers are updated to frequently to bloat them with UI>
Control panel set is easily downloaded from http://www.ati.com (BTW it is 12MB whil the drivers themselves are 6MB. If UI was with drivers You had to download 18MB instead of 6 with every new release of drivers!)

2) Plz, make Russian locale pack for 7.77 !

3) where can i get control panel 3.30 w|o Catalyst/9700 set?

Rikki · Sep 27, 2002, 07:53 PM

Thanks Shuki, disabling my Norton Firewall did the trick,

downloading right now,

Rikki

Smylz · Sep 27, 2002, 08:28 PM

Great work! I have no idea what you did with these drivers but they boosted my score on 3dMark by an incredible 1900 points!! I use a crappy rad7500le [yes I got stiffed with a budget card] and these drivers made such a difference in the performance that Im actually happy to own this card now [till I replace it with something better]. You should work for ATI and tell them how to make drivers. Again, great work!

Processor: AMD XP 1700+ @ 1467mHz
Graphics: Radeon 7500Le 64ddr - [the budget card of 7500 series]
Mb: Soltek SL-75DRV5 - VIA KT333-VT8367
Ram: 256Mbs DDR266
OS: XP Pro SP1

timjordan · Sep 28, 2002, 08:25 AM

[COLOR=orangered]My drivers kept saying that I had on 64 mb ddr after winxp sp 1. I wrote ATI and they sent back the standard win xp faq. Finally they told me to uninstall everything, re-install. I tried several drivers, 6166, 6128 omega platinum, all to no avail. Finally I tried these drivers and now it says I have 128 mb ddr ram. The next issue I had was that every time I try to run the TV tuner I get rebooted. These drivers did not help that so I am still trying to track down something that will. It’s probably in the multi media part. Anyone know where the newest drivers for that can be found? I tried all of them on the ati site 7-7-0-1 to no avail. Anyway thanks for these driver they solved part of my problem. . Tim[/COLOR]

AvA · Sep 28, 2002, 09:53 AM

As other people on the forum here, I'm a pretty happy owner of a M7 card.
Since this set doesn't support the Mobility 7500 as it is, I'd like to know, if there's a way to modify them, to get it to work with my laptop.

Maybe it's just a metter of modifying the .inf file

Any help will be really appreciated!

Smylz · Sep 28, 2002, 09:55 AM

Everything is working 100% in the graphics and stability area with these drivers but I did run into one problem in relation to the one above. It is a multimedia problem for tvout that only displays 1/4th of the movie up on the screen. In other words when I play any type of video format all I see is the top left corner of the movie. I tried adjusting the screen and size through the display settings but didnt do much at all. Is there any registry setting or patch to fix this? It does work with any original ATI driver but I really dont wanna go back to using those. These drivers fixed all my problems but added one Im sure can be fixed with someones help.

Thanks

Processor: AMD XP 1700+ @ 1467mHz
Graphics: Radeon 7500Le 64ddr - [the budget card of 7500 series]
Mb: Soltek SL-75DRV5 - VIA KT333-VT8367
Ram: 256Mbs DDR266
OS: XP Pro SP1

AndreyPopov · Sep 28, 2002, 03:03 PM

I have problem with my Radeon AIW 8500DV with 6178 - I install it and when reboot the WindowsXP startup screen (with runnig blue line) freeze on monitor with more violet colors shift - but computer load WinXP - I hear starup sound and all programms loaded, I find and access to my computer by network - but on display frozen WindowsXP startup screen picture.
May be problem in Radeon AIW 8500DV DVI out and I connect regulary CRT monitor by DVI-DB15 connector?

manwithcleaver · Sep 29, 2002, 09:23 PM

Do these work on win 2k or is it XP only???

Sep 26, 2002, 05:19 AM	#1
Candyman [DH] Lover! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	Catalyst 7.77 for all Radeon Cards! Well...after a little while evaluating the files, I have finally put together a working driver set for the entire Radeon line using the 7.77 core driver files. I have installed this set on my XP rig and it works great! Read More for links and driver installation instructions. This set is also mirrored at fileconnect http://www.fileconnect.net/modules.p...rder=0&thold=0 __________________ 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 26, 2002, 05:21 AM	Thread Starter #2
Candyman [DH] Lover! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 284 Rep Power: 0	The core driver set can be downloaded right HERE As far as the Control Panel goes...you can use the 3027 set that was officially released by ATI or you can download the 9700 PRO 6178 set and use the new 3030 control panel set there too. Remember to install the driver set before you install the Control Panel files if you are doing a complete uninstall/reinstall. Just run the SETUP.exe file to install the drivers! __________________ 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 26, 2002, 07:18 AM	#5
boby DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: slovenia-maribor Posts: 326 Rep Power: 0	i hope it's gonna work on my radeon 7000 __________________ 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 26, 2002, 07:58 PM	#10
IgNite DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CANADA Posts: 21 Rep Power: 0	Thnkx for working your magic, new drivers are always great to play with. __________________ AMD 2100+ @ 2.44 GHz \| Soltek SL-75FRN2 \| Crucial 1x512mb DDR \| ATI Radeon 9500 Pro (360/308) \| Game Theatre 7.1

Sep 26, 2002, 08:23 PM	#11
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,619 Rep Power: 0	*cough* "Anything for me?", plaintively says the relic that is the 98se user.er __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

Sep 26, 2002, 06:08 AM	#3
fleon DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Sigh. No one remembers us 7500 Mobility users... no support for us

Sep 26, 2002, 07:59 AM	#6
WyreTheWolf Wolfish Bastard Join Date: May 2002 Location: Cave; Ozark Mountains Posts: 2,110 Rep Power: 0	/me cries... My XP install died ... something bad happened to the RAID ARRAY when I installed the new VIA 4in1s. Hopefully I will get XP running on my system soon ... then I will try out the new rivers :P

Sep 26, 2002, 11:50 AM	#8
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	heya CM. Our setups are nearly identical with the exception of my xp1700 vs. your 1900. I was just wondering which games you test your drivers on or what test criteria you use? I'm currently with the 6118's playing Mafia and NWN. I tried the latest official release catalyst from ATI but they don't do so good with mafia. edit - all I can say is WOW Both NWN and Mafia are simply beautiful! 16x aniso and 4x performance AA on both games. Very smooth driver set you've put together candyman. Thank you so much for sharing your work and talent!

Sep 26, 2002, 09:33 PM	#13
Arikel DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 225 Rep Power: 0	Nice, image quality is noticably better in UT2k3 and speed is at least as good as the official drivers, maybe better. I like.

Sep 26, 2002, 09:52 PM	#14
megatron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 93 Rep Power: 0	Just to ask again - where is the latest control panel 3030 - I got the 6178 drv but I cant browse anywhere there only link to the file direct. Does the latest control panel sort out refresh rate like ati said it would (somewhere I read it)? __________________ My system specs and 3dmark2001se score Rad8500 bioses, UT2k3, GTA3 pages & more. Also watercooling endeavours.

Sep 26, 2002, 11:28 PM	#16
boby DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: slovenia-maribor Posts: 326 Rep Power: 0	well i tried these drivers and must say that 6166 drivers still rocks for me.They are aproximatly 40 3Dmarks better as these one.My instalition wenk ok with 7.77 drivers __________________ 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 27, 2002, 12:32 AM	#17
XSwiftX DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 64 Rep Power: 0	Nice work Candyman

Sep 27, 2002, 03:38 AM	#18
MadAsHell DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Location: Freeport, IL Posts: 12 Rep Power: 0	Well, install seemed to go fine, but this set broke Counterstike for me. OGL quit working and I got an error. Everything else was great though... back to the 6143 set for now. __________________ AMD Athlon XP 1600+ Epox 8KHA+ (KT266A Chipset) 256MB Mushkin "Cool" PC-2100 DDR ATI Radeon 8500 (Built By ATI) Hercules Gamesurround Fortissimo 3 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GB HDD Lite-On 12/10/32 CD-RW Lite-On 16x DVD-ROM Antec PP-403-X 400w PSU Running Windows XP Pro SP1 and Mandrake Linux 9.0

Sep 27, 2002, 07:08 AM	#20
Falstaff Old Codger Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: USAFA Posts: 19,048 Rep Power: 207	NEW RADEON DRIVERS [COLOR=teal]MAGNIFICENT IMPROVEMENT IN MY IL2 STURMOVIK GAME![/COLOR] INSTALLED THE NEW DRIVERS ON TOP OF THE RECENT OMEGA VERSION, I SAW A DRAMATIC IMPROVEMENT IN EVERY ASPECT OF MY GAMING. WHAT EVER YOU DID YOU ROCK MAN! I have an overclocked 1.2 p3 wimpy dfi motherboard 1 gig of sdram 8500 128 with rage3d overclocker ver 3.6 and still......it rocks...thankyou man.. like dropping a 351 cleveland into a ford pinto...... __________________ "Inspiration is always a surprising visitor."

Sep 27, 2002, 07:54 AM	#21
Rikki DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Keep getting: *************** Unfortunatly, the site that linked to this files is a bandwidth-stealer... SHAME ON HIM! You will now be redirected to the site that hosts this file. *************** at file connect. Even if I approach the download from their own site. What am I doing wrong? thanks, Rikki

Sep 27, 2002, 08:00 AM	#22
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	rikki, had something to do with your anti-virus software. If I remember right, disable Nortons Internet security (or something like that) as it's a false report given off by AV software....

Sep 27, 2002, 10:57 AM	#23
Arioch HardwareHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	1) Dont blame Catalyst on absence of control panel tunnings. They do not need to. Dirvers are updated to frequently to bloat them with UI> Control panel set is easily downloaded from http://www.ati.com (BTW it is 12MB whil the drivers themselves are 6MB. If UI was with drivers You had to download 18MB instead of 6 with every new release of drivers!) 2) Plz, make Russian locale pack for 7.77 ! 3) where can i get control panel 3.30 w\|o Catalyst/9700 set?

Sep 27, 2002, 07:53 PM	#24
Rikki DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3 Rep Power: 0	Thanks Shuki, disabling my Norton Firewall did the trick, downloading right now, Rikki

Sep 27, 2002, 08:28 PM	#25
Smylz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Great work! I have no idea what you did with these drivers but they boosted my score on 3dMark by an incredible 1900 points!! I use a crappy rad7500le [yes I got stiffed with a budget card] and these drivers made such a difference in the performance that Im actually happy to own this card now [till I replace it with something better]. You should work for ATI and tell them how to make drivers. Again, great work! Processor: AMD XP 1700+ @ 1467mHz Graphics: Radeon 7500Le 64ddr - [the budget card of 7500 series] Mb: Soltek SL-75DRV5 - VIA KT333-VT8367 Ram: 256Mbs DDR266 OS: XP Pro SP1

Sep 28, 2002, 08:25 AM	#26
timjordan DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Kountze Texas Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Tried these drivers fixed my problem. nopw says 128 mb instead of 64 [COLOR=orangered]My drivers kept saying that I had on 64 mb ddr after winxp sp 1. I wrote ATI and they sent back the standard win xp faq. Finally they told me to uninstall everything, re-install. I tried several drivers, 6166, 6128 omega platinum, all to no avail. Finally I tried these drivers and now it says I have 128 mb ddr ram. The next issue I had was that every time I try to run the TV tuner I get rebooted. These drivers did not help that so I am still trying to track down something that will. It’s probably in the multi media part. Anyone know where the newest drivers for that can be found? I tried all of them on the ati site 7-7-0-1 to no avail. Anyway thanks for these driver they solved part of my problem. . Tim[/COLOR]

Sep 28, 2002, 09:53 AM	#27
AvA DH Aficionado Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Italy Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	Mobility 7500 (M7) As other people on the forum here, I'm a pretty happy owner of a M7 card. Since this set doesn't support the Mobility 7500 as it is, I'd like to know, if there's a way to modify them, to get it to work with my laptop. Maybe it's just a metter of modifying the .inf file Any help will be really appreciated! __________________ [color=navy]AvA was here... [/color]

Sep 28, 2002, 09:55 AM	#28
Smylz DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Everything is working 100% in the graphics and stability area with these drivers but I did run into one problem in relation to the one above. It is a multimedia problem for tvout that only displays 1/4th of the movie up on the screen. In other words when I play any type of video format all I see is the top left corner of the movie. I tried adjusting the screen and size through the display settings but didnt do much at all. Is there any registry setting or patch to fix this? It does work with any original ATI driver but I really dont wanna go back to using those. These drivers fixed all my problems but added one Im sure can be fixed with someones help. Thanks Processor: AMD XP 1700+ @ 1467mHz Graphics: Radeon 7500Le 64ddr - [the budget card of 7500 series] Mb: Soltek SL-75DRV5 - VIA KT333-VT8367 Ram: 256Mbs DDR266 OS: XP Pro SP1

Sep 28, 2002, 03:03 PM	#29
AndreyPopov HardwareHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Dniepropetrovsk Ukraine Posts: 72 Rep Power: 0	I have problem with my Radeon AIW 8500DV with 6178 - I install it and when reboot the WindowsXP startup screen (with runnig blue line) freeze on monitor with more violet colors shift - but computer load WinXP - I hear starup sound and all programms loaded, I find and access to my computer by network - but on display frozen WindowsXP startup screen picture. May be problem in Radeon AIW 8500DV DVI out and I connect regulary CRT monitor by DVI-DB15 connector?

Sep 29, 2002, 09:23 PM	#30
manwithcleaver DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Fremont/Santa Clara California Posts: 33 Rep Power: 0	win2k Do these work on win 2k or is it XP only???