Windows XP x64 Edition : Catalyst Beta 4 download

***Veridian3*** · Feb 11, 2005, 02:25 PM

WARNING: PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE YOU PROCEED:
The BETA display drivers found here are offered AS IS, without warranty of any kind, and have NOT been completely qualified by ATI. Usage of these drivers are without support of any kind, and you use them at your own risk.

ATI does NOT recommend installing these drivers in systems used for mission critical operations or where productivity of any kind is a concern.

Unless you are very comfortable with installing and un-installing drivers, we DO NOT recommend that you use the drivers provided here. These BETA drivers are NOT SUPPORTED by ATI Technical Support or any other ATI department.

If you decide to install these drivers and encounter issues that you cannot work with, we suggest these drivers be uninstalled and that you install the "Recommended" drivers for your specific product found on the ATI website at http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html .

Download beta 4

***Veridian3*** · Feb 11, 2005, 02:36 PM

This release note provides information on ATI's beta 4 driver for the Microsoft Windows XP 64 bit operating system, running on AMD64 systems. This beta driver is supported on the following ATI RADEON™ products.

RADEON™ X800 series
RADEON™ X700 series
RADEON™ X600 series
RADEON™ X300 series
RADEON™ 9800 series
RADEON™ 9700 PRO
RADEON™ 9600 TX
RADEON™ 9550
RADEON™ 9500 series
Installing CATALYST Beta 3 for Windows XP 64 bit for AMD64
This section provides information on installing the CATALYST™ Beta 4 for Windows XP 64bit for AMD64 systems for supported ATI RADEON™ products.

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Caution: The BETA display drivers provided are offered AS IS, without warranty of any kind, and have NOT been completely qualified by ATI. ATI does NOT recommend installing these drivers in systems used for mission critical operations or where productivity of any kind is a concern. These BETA drivers are NOT SUPPORTED by ATI Technical Support or any other ATI department. If you decide to install these drivers and encounter issues that you cannot work with, we suggest these drivers be uninstalled and that you install the "Recommended" drivers for your specific product found on the ATI website at http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html.

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Should the ATI Setup Auto Launch fail, follow these steps:

Navigate to the DRV64A directory created on your system and double-click Setup.exe. This directory is found where the downloaded files have been saved to. Accept all the default prompts.
Navigate to the CP directory created on your system and double-click Setup.exe. This directory is found where the downloaded files have been saved to. Accept all the default prompts.
Re-start your system as required.
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Note: ATI Technologies Inc. recommends that the software driver for your video card is installed prior to the installation of the ATI Control Panel.

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Known Issues
This section provides information on known issues associated with the CATALYST™ Beta 4 for Windows XP 64bit for AMD64 video driver.

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Note: Users may encounter D3D and OGL performance issues which may be due to lack of 64 bit AGP drivers within the beta version of the operating system. Users should verify whether their system has 64 bit AGP drivers installed. If you require AGP drivers, you should contact the AGP chipset vendors or motherboard manufacturers.

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Installing the ATI Control Panel separately from the display driver results in the option to create a desktop shortcut not being presented
Wars and Warriors Joan of Arc: Setting the display device to 1024x768 and launching the game results in the game failing to respond shortly after starting a new campaign
Setting the display device to 1280x1024 and rotating the display by 90 degrees results in an error message being displayed when running 3DMark05
The Details button found in the ATI Options tab is currently unavailable
Clicking on the Change/Remove button found in the Add/Remove programs currently displays the bus type information as N/A
Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Texts flicker is noticed at both the top right and bottom right of the display device
Currently it is not possible to enable a TV as a secondary display device under Windows XP64 AMD

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Dazog · Feb 12, 2005, 07:27 PM

Drivers work great, but control panel is 5 months old.

Not cool

I hope the next release has the CCC since .net 2.0 will run on x64.

mkk · Feb 12, 2005, 09:07 PM

Has anyone tried some tweaker tools like RadLinker on WinXP x64? Just curious if some of them work there already.

Chaos · Feb 12, 2005, 10:28 PM

ATI Tool 0.0.23 works

CrapolaJola · Feb 14, 2005, 06:55 AM

mkk xp64 is backwards compatible so radlinker should work just fine.

IvanV · Feb 14, 2005, 03:00 PM

I get an error message as soon as I run the package. I avoided this by unpacking it under Windows2000. When I returned to XP x64 and ran the setup it stopped after displaying the message that it's installing (or preparing to install) the driver. There is no DRV64A directory on my system (maybe because the release notes that mention it are for beta3?). I tried running the setup from the ATI\wxp64-8-10-050119a-019475e\Driver folder, but it ended the same way like the first attempt. I only managed to install CP, and it works fine.

Chaos · Feb 14, 2005, 03:42 PM

try installing the drivers manually through device manager

IvanV · Feb 14, 2005, 08:12 PM

The account name must be Administrator. (Before, I was using an administrator account I created for myself, only, of course it had a different name.) I also had to run the installation package from another partition, which is an issue I had with some other applications.

majik-br · Feb 16, 2005, 01:13 AM

Hi ...

I know this is probably a very lame question, but here it goes: how can I add "new" resolutions to this driver? It installed flawlessly on my notebook but it has this 1280x800 widescreen lcd and I cannot change it on windows settings. I have already tried messing on register entries, inf files, well ... many things (guess I´m not that good at it anyway).

Any help on adding this odd resolution to this driver?

Thanks!!

ChoGGi · Feb 16, 2005, 04:29 AM

you can try using refreshfix or reforce

GeneralClaymore · Feb 21, 2005, 02:46 PM

these run great the only problemi having when i change some settings or come out of the game, the text and the screen be a diffent color. i would have to start a game and come back a couple times for it to be normal.

skykat · Feb 24, 2005, 09:49 PM

So far these seem to be running pretty good for me performance wise. I've tried out a few games without any major issues. So far the only problem I've had is in World of Warcraft where the game won't quit on it's own and has to be closed through the task manager.

LCA · Feb 27, 2005, 09:19 AM

I found the beta 4's ok, my 9600 PRO was recognised during setup and have no issues so far.

Shuflie · Feb 28, 2005, 12:46 PM

Anyone know why the version number listed on the download page is 8-10-050119a-020581c-ATI but what you download is actually wxp64-8-10-050119a-019475e? Did someone forget to update the packaging information for beta4, the 019475e part seems to be the same as the beta3 download. Not that it really makes much difference, just slightly confusing.

tenchi71 · Mar 3, 2005, 01:59 AM

I have a question.....
Anyone have a hacked ATI XP64 driver that will install on a machine with a Mobility 9700. I have one of these fancy AMD64 laptops that runs the OS really nicely, but I would love to get some ATI drivers installed. A guide to a hack would be sweet....

redsolar · Mar 3, 2005, 04:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tenchi71

I have a question.....
Anyone have a hacked ATI XP64 driver that will install on a machine with a Mobility 9700. I have one of these fancy AMD64 laptops that runs the OS really nicely, but I would love to get some ATI drivers installed. A guide to a hack would be sweet....

Have you tried mobility modder yet? I am not 100% sure it will work, but worth a try. Otherwise, it should be easily doable if you know how to edit .inf files.

tenchi71 · Mar 3, 2005, 04:25 AM

Yeah, I tried it, and it didn't work.

I looked everywhere on what exactly needs to be changed in the ini, but google was not my friend... if anyone knows the variables, please post. Thanks!!

Shuflie · Mar 3, 2005, 07:36 PM

I'm not 100% sure but you could try this.
First open up up your device manger and select properties for your video card, click on details and look at the information for device instance, should start with something like PCI\VEN_1002&DEVXXXX (Where XXXX will depend on your MR9700), There will be other information after this but just ignore it. If the MR9700 has a secondary adapter do the same for it.

Assuming you have already tried to install the latest 64 beta open up

C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp64-8-10-050119a-019475e\Driver\XP64A_INF\CA_19475.INI

and scroll down to the [ATI.Mfg.NTamd64] section, then add the following lines

"RADEON M11 SERIES " = ati2mtag_RV360, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_XXXX
"RADEON M11 SERIES - Secondary" = ati2mtag_RV360, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_XXXX

Substituting PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_XXXX for the value appropiate to your chip. You should now be able to update the driver for your display adapter through device manager, not sure if this will install the control panel for you if you just run the setup but you could try doing that too.

mavereakish · Mar 4, 2005, 01:23 AM

Running x64 build 3790 v1433

got the drivers installed by forcing inf file through device manager.

not really a problem, but there seems to be no resolution setting for 15.4" screens... which by default should be 1200x800 more or less. Is this fixable? I got around the problem slightly by scaling the desktop, but it looks like its stretched like hell

so is there any way to get 1200x800?

tenchi71 · Mar 4, 2005, 11:40 AM

Just wanted to update....

With Shulfie's addition to the ini I was able to install last night, but like mavereakish, I had to force the install through the device manager. The installer would throw up a thunk.exe error. So thank you Shulfie!!

The native resolution for my laptop is 1400x1050 (not a wide aspect ratio), and it looks great, so I can't help there...

Shuflie · Mar 4, 2005, 07:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tenchi71

Just wanted to update....

With Shulfie's addition to the ini I was able to install last night, but like mavereakish, I had to force the install through the device manager. The installer would throw up a thunk.exe error. So thank you Shulfie!!

The native resolution for my laptop is 1400x1050 (not a wide aspect ratio), and it looks great, so I can't help there...

Glad that it installed for you, have you tried running setup from the MCP64A folder to see if the control panel will install for you too? I'm not sure if the CP does a device check or not but its worth a try at least.

tenchi71 · Mar 4, 2005, 08:21 PM

Yes, the CP installed fine even without the changes. The driver setup is the only part does a device check it seems.

Shuflie · Mar 10, 2005, 10:11 AM

This is a quick question for the 64 bit driver developers, I run the drivers in XP 64 bit edition RC2 and monitor my card's temperature with ATITool and also use that to set the fan speed to 100% from bootup. I've noticed that there is a big difference in temps between XP64 and XP32, even when just sitting at the desktop that it can be as much as 10°C higher in XP64 than XP32. Is this likely to be because of the beta nature of the drivers or is XP64 just doing more graphical work on the desktop, I hate to think what the desktop temps are going to be like when Longhorn finally appears and starts to make use of the 3D engine on the desktop.

Feb 11, 2005, 02:25 PM	#1
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,029 Rep Power: 182	Windows XP x64 Edition : Catalyst Beta 4 download WARNING: PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE YOU PROCEED: The BETA display drivers found here are offered AS IS, without warranty of any kind, and have NOT been completely qualified by ATI. Usage of these drivers are without support of any kind, and you use them at your own risk. ATI does NOT recommend installing these drivers in systems used for mission critical operations or where productivity of any kind is a concern. Unless you are very comfortable with installing and un-installing drivers, we DO NOT recommend that you use the drivers provided here. These BETA drivers are NOT SUPPORTED by ATI Technical Support or any other ATI department. If you decide to install these drivers and encounter issues that you cannot work with, we suggest these drivers be uninstalled and that you install the "Recommended" drivers for your specific product found on the ATI website at http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html . Download beta 4

Feb 11, 2005, 02:36 PM	Thread Starter #2
*Veridian3* Administrator Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Cloaked Posts: 5,029 Rep Power: 182	Release Notes... This release note provides information on ATI's beta 4 driver for the Microsoft Windows XP 64 bit operating system, running on AMD64 systems. This beta driver is supported on the following ATI RADEON™ products. RADEON™ X800 series RADEON™ X700 series RADEON™ X600 series RADEON™ X300 series RADEON™ 9800 series RADEON™ 9700 PRO RADEON™ 9600 TX RADEON™ 9550 RADEON™ 9500 series Installing CATALYST Beta 3 for Windows XP 64 bit for AMD64 This section provides information on installing the CATALYST™ Beta 4 for Windows XP 64bit for AMD64 systems for supported ATI RADEON™ products. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Caution: The BETA display drivers provided are offered AS IS, without warranty of any kind, and have NOT been completely qualified by ATI. ATI does NOT recommend installing these drivers in systems used for mission critical operations or where productivity of any kind is a concern. These BETA drivers are NOT SUPPORTED by ATI Technical Support or any other ATI department. If you decide to install these drivers and encounter issues that you cannot work with, we suggest these drivers be uninstalled and that you install the "Recommended" drivers for your specific product found on the ATI website at http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Should the ATI Setup Auto Launch fail, follow these steps: Navigate to the DRV64A directory created on your system and double-click Setup.exe. This directory is found where the downloaded files have been saved to. Accept all the default prompts. Navigate to the CP directory created on your system and double-click Setup.exe. This directory is found where the downloaded files have been saved to. Accept all the default prompts. Re-start your system as required. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: ATI Technologies Inc. recommends that the software driver for your video card is installed prior to the installation of the ATI Control Panel. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Known Issues This section provides information on known issues associated with the CATALYST™ Beta 4 for Windows XP 64bit for AMD64 video driver. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: Users may encounter D3D and OGL performance issues which may be due to lack of 64 bit AGP drivers within the beta version of the operating system. Users should verify whether their system has 64 bit AGP drivers installed. If you require AGP drivers, you should contact the AGP chipset vendors or motherboard manufacturers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Installing the ATI Control Panel separately from the display driver results in the option to create a desktop shortcut not being presented Wars and Warriors Joan of Arc: Setting the display device to 1024x768 and launching the game results in the game failing to respond shortly after starting a new campaign Setting the display device to 1280x1024 and rotating the display by 90 degrees results in an error message being displayed when running 3DMark05 The Details button found in the ATI Options tab is currently unavailable Clicking on the Change/Remove button found in the Add/Remove programs currently displays the bus type information as N/A Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Texts flicker is noticed at both the top right and bottom right of the display device Currently it is not possible to enable a TV as a secondary display device under Windows XP64 AMD --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Feb 12, 2005, 10:28 PM	#5
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	ATI Tool 0.0.23 works __________________

Feb 14, 2005, 06:55 AM	#6
CrapolaJola The Great DaK Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 317 Rep Power: 0	mkk xp64 is backwards compatible so radlinker should work just fine. __________________ P2 X4 @ 3.6ghz, 4gb ddr3, SSD, 5870 @ 950/1250 + a 3ghz i5 lappy

Feb 14, 2005, 03:00 PM	#7
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,921 Rep Power: 336 System Specs	Can't install the driver I get an error message as soon as I run the package. I avoided this by unpacking it under Windows2000. When I returned to XP x64 and ran the setup it stopped after displaying the message that it's installing (or preparing to install) the driver. There is no DRV64A directory on my system (maybe because the release notes that mention it are for beta3?). I tried running the setup from the ATI\wxp64-8-10-050119a-019475e\Driver folder, but it ended the same way like the first attempt. I only managed to install CP, and it works fine.

Feb 12, 2005, 07:27 PM	#3
Dazog DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Apr 2003 Posts: 128 Rep Power: 0	Drivers work great, but control panel is 5 months old. Not cool I hope the next release has the CCC since .net 2.0 will run on x64.

Feb 12, 2005, 09:07 PM	#4
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,495 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	Has anyone tried some tweaker tools like RadLinker on WinXP x64? Just curious if some of them work there already.

Feb 14, 2005, 03:42 PM	#8
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	try installing the drivers manually through device manager __________________

Feb 14, 2005, 08:12 PM	#9
IvanV HH Assassin Guild Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 5,921 Rep Power: 336 System Specs	Problem solved in a funny way The account name must be Administrator. (Before, I was using an administrator account I created for myself, only, of course it had a different name.) I also had to run the installation package from another partition, which is an issue I had with some other applications.

Feb 16, 2005, 01:13 AM	#10
majik-br DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Hi ... I know this is probably a very lame question, but here it goes: how can I add "new" resolutions to this driver? It installed flawlessly on my notebook but it has this 1280x800 widescreen lcd and I cannot change it on windows settings. I have already tried messing on register entries, inf files, well ... many things (guess I´m not that good at it anyway). Any help on adding this odd resolution to this driver? Thanks!!

Feb 16, 2005, 04:29 AM	#11
ChoGGi DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Toronto Posts: 1,209 Rep Power: 0	you can try using refreshfix or reforce __________________ specs Common Problems and Fixes for your Radeon

Feb 21, 2005, 02:46 PM	#12
GeneralClaymore HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: MI Posts: 434 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	these run great the only problemi having when i change some settings or come out of the game, the text and the screen be a diffent color. i would have to start a game and come back a couple times for it to be normal. __________________ Source: x-fi titanium hd 2x LT1124ACN+ 2x LT1115 > Matrix M-Stage V2 /w 2x LME49710NA> DT880 pro 250ohm

Feb 24, 2005, 09:49 PM	#13
skykat DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 32 Rep Power: 0	So far these seem to be running pretty good for me performance wise. I've tried out a few games without any major issues. So far the only problem I've had is in World of Warcraft where the game won't quit on it's own and has to be closed through the task manager. __________________ I caught you a delicious Bass.

Feb 27, 2005, 09:19 AM	#14
LCA DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	I found the beta 4's ok, my 9600 PRO was recognised during setup and have no issues so far.

Feb 28, 2005, 12:46 PM	#15
Shuflie DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belfast Posts: 269 Rep Power: 0	Anyone know why the version number listed on the download page is 8-10-050119a-020581c-ATI but what you download is actually wxp64-8-10-050119a-019475e? Did someone forget to update the packaging information for beta4, the 019475e part seems to be the same as the beta3 download. Not that it really makes much difference, just slightly confusing.

Mar 3, 2005, 01:59 AM	#16
tenchi71 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	I have a question..... Anyone have a hacked ATI XP64 driver that will install on a machine with a Mobility 9700. I have one of these fancy AMD64 laptops that runs the OS really nicely, but I would love to get some ATI drivers installed. A guide to a hack would be sweet....

Mar 3, 2005, 04:25 AM	#18
tenchi71 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Yeah, I tried it, and it didn't work. I looked everywhere on what exactly needs to be changed in the ini, but google was not my friend... if anyone knows the variables, please post. Thanks!! Last edited by tenchi71; Mar 3, 2005 at 05:12 AM.

Mar 3, 2005, 07:36 PM	#19
Shuflie DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belfast Posts: 269 Rep Power: 0	I'm not 100% sure but you could try this. First open up up your device manger and select properties for your video card, click on details and look at the information for device instance, should start with something like PCI\VEN_1002&DEVXXXX (Where XXXX will depend on your MR9700), There will be other information after this but just ignore it. If the MR9700 has a secondary adapter do the same for it. Assuming you have already tried to install the latest 64 beta open up C:\ATI\SUPPORT\wxp64-8-10-050119a-019475e\Driver\XP64A_INF\CA_19475.INI and scroll down to the [ATI.Mfg.NTamd64] section, then add the following lines "RADEON M11 SERIES " = ati2mtag_RV360, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_XXXX "RADEON M11 SERIES - Secondary" = ati2mtag_RV360, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_XXXX Substituting PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_XXXX for the value appropiate to your chip. You should now be able to update the driver for your display adapter through device manager, not sure if this will install the control panel for you if you just run the setup but you could try doing that too.

Mar 4, 2005, 01:23 AM	#20
mavereakish DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	not really a problem Running x64 build 3790 v1433 got the drivers installed by forcing inf file through device manager. not really a problem, but there seems to be no resolution setting for 15.4" screens... which by default should be 1200x800 more or less. Is this fixable? I got around the problem slightly by scaling the desktop, but it looks like its stretched like hell so is there any way to get 1200x800?

Mar 4, 2005, 11:40 AM	#21
tenchi71 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Just wanted to update.... With Shulfie's addition to the ini I was able to install last night, but like mavereakish, I had to force the install through the device manager. The installer would throw up a thunk.exe error. So thank you Shulfie!! The native resolution for my laptop is 1400x1050 (not a wide aspect ratio), and it looks great, so I can't help there...

Mar 4, 2005, 08:21 PM	#23
tenchi71 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Yes, the CP installed fine even without the changes. The driver setup is the only part does a device check it seems.

Mar 10, 2005, 10:11 AM	#24
Shuflie DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Belfast Posts: 269 Rep Power: 0	This is a quick question for the 64 bit driver developers, I run the drivers in XP 64 bit edition RC2 and monitor my card's temperature with ATITool and also use that to set the fan speed to 100% from bootup. I've noticed that there is a big difference in temps between XP64 and XP32, even when just sitting at the desktop that it can be as much as 10°C higher in XP64 than XP32. Is this likely to be because of the beta nature of the drivers or is XP64 just doing more graphical work on the desktop, I hate to think what the desktop temps are going to be like when Longhorn finally appears and starts to make use of the 3D engine on the desktop.