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    ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    It's that time of the month again and ATI has issued the latest set of its Catalyst drivers, jumping from version 7 to version 8.
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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    Will install these tonight! Not expecting any massive performance gains but I guess every little helps.

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    These had better fix the confliction with Windows' 'standard' type smoothing... I'm fed up of cleartype.

    EDIT: Nope, it didn't.
    Last edited by NightshadowUK; 17-01-2008 at 12:28 PM.

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    Quote Originally Posted by HEXUS View Post
    jumping from version 7 to version 8.
    from 7.12 to 8.1 !! what can it mean?
    Quote Originally Posted by Ephesians
    Do not be drunk with wine, which will ruin you, but be filled with the Spirit
    Vodka

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    they better had sorted out that administrative rights problem, so annoying.

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    Why does Hexus cover the ATI drivers released every month but never mentions Nvidia driver updates? Seems a little odd. I'm not that fussed as I own an ATI card, I'm just a little curious what the reason is.

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    I'm hoping that with this release they will have fixed the issue with Vista 64bit where it jumps out to the desktop saying display driver has stopped responding but has recovered. Will try them out in the next few days.

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    ATI's drivers are numbered as follows...
    Main version number (ie 8) is for the year from 2000, so version 8 is a 2008 driver, and the secondary number is the month...so 8.1 is Jan 2008!
    Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    I have an old ATI graphics card (9600 pro) and I have found that subsequent driver releases actually meant that I could no longer play the games that I could before I upgraded. I guess they just have too many cards out to support the old ones properly.

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    Re: ATI Catalyst 8.1 drivers released

    Did this driver fix the problem with HD 2XXX AGP cards???

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