ATI/AMD Issues Hotfix for Catalyst 7.9 All OS Versions!

Dyre Straits · Sep 29, 2007, 11:34 AM

"ATI has released a hotfix for Catalyst 7.9 [that] improves performance and compatibility in the following titles: Enemy Territory Quake Wars, Bioshock, Call of Juarez, World in Conflict, Time Shift and Team Fortress 2. This driver is available for all Microsoft Windows operation systems and supports all GPUs above Radeon X300."

You can download these from this fast server:

[COLOR=#810081]TechConnect Community Forums -> Download Manager -> ATI[/COLOR]

Use at your own risk!

The package includes everything: Drivers, CCC, WDM, Avivo, and Parental Controls, among others.

Report any results here.

starfury6 · Oct 2, 2007, 03:07 PM

I have had my first problems with the Radeon Drivers since taking ATI cards over Nvidia several years ago. Maybe I've been lucky.

The 7.9 official drivers would not even install for me on Vista Ultimate, I have submitted feedback to the Catalyst team, the result was 'INF not found'. These hotfix ones, do work okay in Enemy Territory Quake Wars and my performance is better than I expected, however they have hosed the HDTV output. I have problem where the 1080P60Hz which was added on the CCC keeps dropping off, or the refresh rate goes for 60 down to 25 spontaneously. Also the aspect ratio for 1080 playback on my HDTV cuts off the bottom hundred or so pixels, non HD stuff seems to expand to the correct aspect. Very weird indeed. Other game i play is WoW and performance and quality appears unchanged.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Oct 4, 2007, 09:34 AM

ati/amd link for those who want it...
AMD Customer Care

Oct 2, 2007, 03:07 PM	#2
starfury6 Dark Jedi Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Essex, England Posts: 334 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I have had my first problems with the Radeon Drivers since taking ATI cards over Nvidia several years ago. Maybe I've been lucky. The 7.9 official drivers would not even install for me on Vista Ultimate, I have submitted feedback to the Catalyst team, the result was 'INF not found'. These hotfix ones, do work okay in Enemy Territory Quake Wars and my performance is better than I expected, however they have hosed the HDTV output. I have problem where the 1080P60Hz which was added on the CCC keeps dropping off, or the refresh rate goes for 60 down to 25 spontaneously. Also the aspect ratio for 1080 playback on my HDTV cuts off the bottom hundred or so pixels, non HD stuff seems to expand to the correct aspect. Very weird indeed. Other game i play is WoW and performance and quality appears unchanged. __________________ [color=DeepSkyBlue][/color] [color=DeepSkyBlue] Intel Q6600 / Dual 8800 GTS 512/ Asus Striker II Formula OCZ 4GB DDR2 1066 / Scythe Ninja / Hyper 880w 3 x Maxtor 750GB total SATAII / LG Multi Blu[/color]

Oct 4, 2007, 09:34 AM	#3
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 92 System Specs	ati/amd link for those who want it... AMD Customer Care __________________