ATI Catalyst Beta Driver Package for Windows 7
At the same day of ATI Catalyst Driver 8.12 Hotfix updated, ATI Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows 7 was also made available. If you’re using Windows 7, I guess you don’t want to miss it.
Please click here to download Catalyst Beta Driver for Windows 7, and here for Catalyst Windows 7 Beta Driver Release Notes.
Supported products:
* ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series GPUs
* ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series GPUs
* ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series GPUs
* ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series GPUs
* ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 Series GPUs
* ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000 Series GPUs
* AMD 780G Chipset
* AMD 780V Chipset
* AMD 790GX Chipset
* Windows 7 Operating System
January 15th, 2009 at 7:43 am
nice going DAAMIT! stay ahead of the curve and plan for the future.
January 19th, 2009 at 7:09 am
Hello guys,
I had a funny experience to share. It might help some of you with old, yet unsupported ATi cards.
My card is an old Radeon 9600 which is not on the list of supported cards for the Windors 7 ATi beta drivers.
I tried a few drivers which didn’t work: v8.12 for XP 32 bits, v8.12 for Vista 32 bits, beta drivers for Windows 7.
Maybe in despair i tried to install an old driver i had kept because it was the last one to support the Radeon 9000, the Catalyst Display Driver v6.5 for XP/2k. The installation through the setup does not work but i could install it via the Device Manager. And it does work for me on Windows 7 !!! I can now chose between a wide bunch of resolutions, reach refresh rates like 85 Hz, and so on.
This driver (v6.5) is not absolutely stable, especially on Windows 7 shutdown/reboot/sleep where i systematically get a blue screen. I also experience problems with some games (Starcraft, Portal, …) and there is no video acceleration for video rendering, but it is clearly better to have this driver than nothing, especially if you still have a CRT and you cannot stand 60 Hz.
As Catalyst Display Drivers v6.5 support old cards up to Radeon 7000, there might be a chance you could make there old cards work with this driver.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Why no support for older cards.
I have an x1950gt and have no plans to upgrade the card.
Not everyone needs the latest and greatest and plays lots games etc.
A little un fair ATI/AMD
January 20th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
If you don’t need the latest and greatest, why are you complaining? Windows 7 is the latest, and hopefully the greatest.
Regardless, I agree with you that they should support such hardware. Which I’m sure they will. This is a beta afterall.
January 20th, 2009 at 9:57 pm
i have a radeon 3650 512mb but an AGP,, then u people should be preparing a hotfix AGP driver like on other OS…. for windows 7.. and i hope u ll do it…
January 21st, 2009 at 12:37 am
Hi, i also am using an old radion 9600 card with windows 7 on a pc i just built, i was given a pre-release wddm 1.0 driver via windows update, and it works fine! Great job!