ATI Catalyst 7.9 drivers
ATI/AMD has released a new version of its drivers for Windows XP and Windows Vista. Version 7.9 of the ATI Catalyst drivers bring many bug fixes, speed improvements and new features.
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10.9.2007 Here Are the Drivers That Don't Play Well with Vista SP1 RTM
Windows Vista Service Pack 1 was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008. But end users had to exercise their patience another month and a half before they could get their hands on Vista SP1 RTM.
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18.3.2008 Dell releases first set of Windows 7 Drivers
Windows 7 drivers for Dell products are often sought after and finally, there’s an answer.
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22.8.2009 Windows 7 RTM Drivers from Microsoft Hardware Available
Microsoft’s “Better Together” slogan apparently applies not only to Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 but also to the latest iteration of the Windows client and the Redmond company’s peripherals.
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30.10.2009 Vista x64 to require digital signatures for many drivers
With little fanfare, Microsoft just announced that the xX64 version of Windows Vista will require all kernel-mode code to be digitally signed. This is very different than the current WHQL program, where the user ultimately decides how they want to handle unsigned drivers.
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23.1.2006 NVIDIA Releases WHQL Vista RTM Drivers
On January Nvidia finally released the long-awaited final graphics drivers for Windows Vista.
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8.1.2007 Driver Magic - Automatically updates your computers drivers
Automatically updates your computers drivers quickly and easily.
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4.7.2007 New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista
A new software tool has been released by Linchpin Labs that allows the loading of unsigned and legacy drivers on Windows XP, 2003, and most importantly Vista.
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31.7.2007 Microsoft releases (crap) LiveCam drivers for Windows Vista
Activewin reported that Microsoft finaly released Vista drivers for their LiveCams. The download site first asks for Language, OS and LiveCam type, then you can download a 117 MBSurprise file!
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25.1.2007 Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD – more on Windows Update
Ever needed to find a driver for a product and wished Windows would either just have the driver in it, or that their Windows Update service could provide it? With Vista, it can – and new features and updates will be forthcoming too. It’s about time!
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20.11.2006Windows 7 Driver Compatibility Evidence Seen
A day after someone noticed a "Windows 7 Client" category popping up on Windows Server Update Services, another curious enthusiast on the Neowin
forums has also noticed a sudden prevalence of "Windows 7 Client" drivers on Microsoft's Update Catalog - the online library of drivers which
Windows uses to automatically install.
A
simple search for "Windows 7 Client" reveals more than 1000 drivers already available. These drivers range from the big brands
from Nvidia, ATI, Intel and Broadcom to even miscellaneous display drivers. Whilst it is true all drivers approved after June 1 should have been
tested on Windows 7, most of these drivers date back to early 2007 suggesting most drivers have just been carried over from the latest WHQL release.
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23.08.2008Backup and Restore Hardware Drivers the Easy Way with Double Driver
One of the more tedious aspects of reinstalling an operating system is finding all of the drivers for your hardware again. Many times you may not have
the CD for a new hardware device, and even if you did the drivers on the disk are likely out of date.
Instead of going through
all that hassle, you can simply use a great utility called Double Driver to help restoring drivers the easy way.
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08.10.2008NVIDIA releases graphics drivers for Windows 7 Beta
In a press article today, NVIDIA announced that it has released new graphics drivers for Windows 7 Beta, which it says will be "the start of regular
NVIDIA driver updates for the forthcoming operating system". The new drivers, released today, have support for the new Windows Display Driver Model
(WDDM) v1.1 which is used in Windows 7 Beta. The new WDDM offers improved performance in both 2D and 3D applications. The new GeForce drivers,
version 181.71, are currently available from the NVIDIA website.
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02.03.2009NVIDIA Makes Laptop Graphics Drivers Available Online ... Finally
NVIDIA decided to give notebook users an early Christmas present today. It's a present notebook owners have kept on their wish lists since NVIDIA
first started making graphics processing units (GPUs) for notebooks ... downloadable drivers on the
NVIDIA website.
For years now the only way laptop owners could
find notebook graphics drivers for NVIDIA GPUs was if the notebook manufacturer was kind enough to make the drivers available or to download
unofficial "hacked" drivers from various websites (drivers that were often hacked together based on desktop GPU drivers). Consumers need these
drivers in order to be able to take full advantage of the latest visual computing applications and games as well as to be able to restore GPU
functions after a fresh install of Windows.
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18.12.2008Driver Signing changes between Windows XP and Vista...
Chris Taylor: In XP the driver rankings were determined in the following way as discussed in the "Windows Vista Resource Kit":
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In-box drivers are given first preference.
- Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) signed drivers next.
- Unsigned drivers are
given lowest preference.
In Vista this algorithm was extended to include eight levels of digital signing:
- Microsoft
signed WHQL Certified Drivers.
- Microsoft signed in-box drivers (NT Build Lab Certified).
- Microsoft signed Windows Sustained
Engineering Certified drivers.
- Drivers that have been signed using Authenticode (Enterprise CA).
- Drivers that have been signed
using Authenticode (Class 3 CA Certified).
- Drivers that have been signed using Authenticode (MAKECERT.EXE Certified).
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Microsoft signed WHQL Certified drivers for a down level Windows Operating system.
- Unsigned Drivers.
This behavior is
illustrated in setupapi.dev.log when determining which driver to install for a device.
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13.03.2008Windows 7 Beta 1 has problems with XP Display Drivers (XDDM)
I've been enjoying Windows 7 so much over the past week, that I've been evangelizing it to all of my friends. One friend with a Dell Inspiron
710m decided to take the plunge. Windows 7 installation went well, but we can't find any compatible display drivers for the Intel 855gm graphics
card. The graphics card in question doesn't support Windows Vista or Window 7's new WDDM driver model, but Windows Vista shipped with XDDM
drivers for this card out of the box. I feel that Windows 7 should have all of the same in-box drivers as Vista, and it's a bummer that this one
is not included.
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12.01.2009Dell Now Offering Windows 7 Drivers for Commercial Desktops and Laptops
Dell is jumping in to help business (commercial) customers get ready for Windows 7 by offering Windows 7 drivers for their commercial desktop and
laptop PCs. They are posting their Windows 7 drivers
here (see Drivers and Downloads on left-hand
navigation).
By offering drivers for their commercial desktop and laptop PCs, Dell is helping business customers with Dell PCs in
their environments prepare for Windows 7 deployments.
For more information, see
this blog post
on Dells Inside Enterprise IT Blog.
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21.08.2009Nvidia launches Ion netbook chips, new notebook drivers
Beyond rolling out a new graphics chipset for netbooks this week, Nvidia launched the beta edition of updated drivers for Windows XP and Vista
notebook PCs outfitted with its graphics processors...
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19.12.2008Get your Windows 7 GPU drivers
If you are going to be playing with the RC of Windows 7 youll need the appropriate GPU driver to get the best from your system.
If you use your PC as an office PC then youll be fine with the built-in GPU drivers, but if youre planning on gaming, these drivers are a
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01.05.2009NVIDIA Drivers Crash Vista
Were you one of the many early Vista adopters who experienced crashing? Well don't go out and point your finger at Microsoft just yet. A recent study
has shown that nearly 30% of Vista crashes(28.8% to be exact) in 2007 were due to NVIDIA drivers. That is an estimated 479,326 systems crashed due to
the drivers.
Microsoft crashes came in second place with 17.9%. While NVIDIA's competitor; ATI, came in fourth in the single
digits with only 9.3%. This is really going go pressure Intel because they have to support the incompatible chipsets. Hopefully in the near future we
can see some improvement on the drivers compatibility.
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29.03.2008AMD releases Catalyst 7.5 graphics drivers
A new set of Catalyst 7.5
drivers is now available for
users of AMD's ATI Radeon
graphics cards. The drivers
are available for The drivers
are available for
Windows Vista
x86,
Windows Vista
x64,
Windows XP, and
Windows XP Pro x64.
According to AMD, these
drivers significantly improve
OpenGL performance in Windows
Vista:
OpenGL
performance in Windows Vista
improves on the Radeon X1950
XTX at high resolutions
(1920x1200 or greater) with
anti-aliasing and anisotropic
filtering enabled. Doom 3 and
Quake 4 improves as much as
13-18% .and Prey improves at
least 15.6%. The Radeon X1950
Pro and Radeon X1650 XT also
see improvements in Doom 3 and
Quake 4 up to 14.1% at higher
resolutions with anti-aliasing
and anisotropic filtering
enabled.
The
Catalyst 7.5 release also
brings DirectX 10 support to
users of Radeon HD 2900 XT
graphics cards (in either
single-GPU or CrossFire
configurations) running
Windows Vista x86...
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01.06.2007Why installing Vista SP1 might fail via Windows Update
When you try to install Windows Vista SP1 via Windows Update you can get error: Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is not available for installation from
Windows Update and is not offered by Automatic Updates.
To help ensure a positive update experience, Windows Update will temporarily not
offer Windows Vista SP1 to systems that have the following device drivers. In some cases, these device drivers are problematic on Windows Vista-based
computers when you update to Windows Vista SP1. By installing updated device drivers, you will resolve the issue and enable Windows Update to offer
Windows Vista SP1.
Click read more to view a list of drivers that don't work well with Vista SP1:
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20.03.2008Microsoft Partners: We Want Vista SP1 Now
Many partners in the Microsoft galaxy are none too pleased about Redmond's decision earlier this week to withhold downloads of Vista service pack 1
until mid-March. But after a firestorm of online protest from disaffected partners, it appears that Microsoft may consider revising its decision.
During beta testing, Microsoft says it discovered device driver glitches in systems with Vista SP1 installed,
which reportedly have to do with audio
drivers, graphics drivers, and network drivers being disabled after installing Vista SP1. Although the issues can be fixed by uninstalling and
reinstalling the drivers -- a relatively simple task for most IT professionals -- Microsoft
decided
not to release Vista SP1 while it spends the next six weeks ironing out the problems in conjunction with its hardware partners.
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07.02.2008AMD's First Catalyst Drivers for Vista Will Support HD DVD, Blu-ray
Today, one day ahead of
Microsoft's consumer edition
Windows Vista rollout, the
first ATI Catalyst drivers for
Vista are being released.
They're officially numbered
7.1 (version 8.31 for XP is
already in the field). But for
the first time, they're being
released by AMD, and this
afternoon, AMD is accepting a
great deal of the credit...
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30.01.2007AMD opens door to ATI Linux drivers
AMD's ATI division is reversing its open source strategy by offering better open source drivers. The graphics chips maker has traditionally
demonstrated a poor performance in allowing open source drivers. Dell, for instance, made a conscious decision to use Nvidia graphics cards in its
Linux PCs because of ATI's lacking open source support and the poor performance of the drivers that were available.
ATI will now develop
fully functional 2D and 3D drivers for Linux. Although the drivers are still closed source, the firm will release documentation that allows
third-party developers to build and support their own drivers. The drivers and documentation will be released for ATI's Radeon HT2000 chipset and
Radeon X1000 graphics processors and newer lines. AMD revealed its plans to create the open source drivers on Wednesday. The release of the
documentation was discussed at the Kernel Summit that took place in Cambridge this week.
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07.09.2007Windows Vista comes with 19,500 drivers on DVD
...and more on Windows Update.
Oh thats why its more than
2 Gig - Ed
Ever
needed to find a driver for a
product and wished Windows
would either just have the
driver in it, or that their
Windows Update service could
provide it? With Vista, it can
- and new features and updates
will be forthcoming too. It's
about time! At the Windows
Vista Team Blog, Jim Allchin,
the Chief of Microsoft's
Vista development effort and
long-time Microsoft employee,
soon to retire after having
completed Vista at last, has
advised readers that Windows
Vista has more drivers
built-in at launch than any
previous version Windows.
While computer users
will always want to see if the
manufacturer has newer,
specific drivers that eke out
the best performance from
peripherals and hardware
add-ons, having as many
drivers native in Windows as
possible, and thousands of
additional new drivers
available on Windows Update
just has to be a good thing to
make life easier for computer
users long used to having
driver issues with XP and
earlier Windows versions.
Allchin tells us that
since Vista went RTM, an
addition 11,700 drivers are
now ready and waiting for you
if you add a new peripheral to
your computer, although you
should naturally always try
loading the drivers that came
with your new hardware from CD
first.
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20.11.2006ATI Catalyst 6.12 for Windows
AMD/ATI have released their
latest set of video card
drivers for the ATI Radeon
line of video cards. New 32
and 64-bit drivers are
available for both Windows XP
and Windows Vista. Note that
the .NET framework (1.x or
2.0) is required if you want
to run these drivers with the
Catalyst Control Center.
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14.12.2006New Intel IGP Driver to deliver boost? Mobo makers say no!
Although Intel will try to
deliver better graphics
performance by introducing new
drivers for its integrated
graphics processors (IGPs),
motherboard makers in Taiwan
generally doubt the
advancements that Intel is
claiming. Intel plans to
introduce new drivers for its
G965, GM965 and G35 chipsets
to support Vertex Shader 3.0
in August. Two new drivers,
15.6 and 14.31, will be
introduced to support Windows
Vista and XP respectively.
These new drivers are
claimed to enhance stability
significantly and support
Shader Model 4.0. The drivers
are also said to add better
support for games including
Stalker, UT2004 and Guild
Wars, allowing the IGPs to
deliver a noticeable
performance leap. Although the
upcoming drivers mark an
improvement, motherboard
makers from Taiwan note that
the revealed information from
Intel shows that these drivers
still do not support a certain
number of well-known games.
This prompts them to believe
that the drivers will not
actually deliver much of a
difference.
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26.07.2007Catalyst 7.9 Drivers Available
AMD/ATi has posted brand new
Catalyst 7.9 drivers for all of you Radeon
owners. Windows Vista 32-bit, Windows Vista 64-bit and Windows XP versions are available now. Linux drivers are ścoming soon.ť Grab them if you need
them.
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11.09.2007New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista
A new software tool has been
released by
Linchpin
Labs that allows the
loading of unsigned and legacy
drivers on Windows XP, 2003,
and most importantly Vista.
One of the system
management and control methods
that Microsoft implemented
with Windows Vista is
requiring system drivers to be
digitally signed before they
will load properly within the
system. If a user or
administrator wishes to load
an unsigned or legacy driver,
they will either need to
reboot into a limited
functionality mode or just do
without the functions that the
driver would have provided.
As others have
pointed out, this step will do
nothing to prevent malware
authors from being able to
load their drivers into the
system. Either they will
exploit the lax jurisdiction
and corporate oversight of
various countries to establish
a corporate shell and gain
legitimate digitally signed
driver certification, or they
will just exploit weaknesses
in already-signed drivers.
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