AMD (ATI) Catalyst 7.2

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AMD/ATI have released their latest set of video card drivers for both Windows XP and Windows Vista. Catalyst™ 7.2 introduces a brand new version of the Catalyst™ Control Center for Windows XP. The new Catalyst™ Control Center delivers a number of significant enhancements:

Significant performance gains; Catalyst™ Control Center start-up time has been substantially reduced, and overall responsiveness has improved.
Reduced system resource usage
New 3D preview which significantly improves the ability for users to understand the benefits of enabling the many Catalyst™ features of their ATI Radeon™ graphics accelerator
Increased stability
Native 32 and 64-bit support

Performance Improvements:
Open GL performance improves for all ATI Radeon™ X1000 series products. Gains of up to 25% in Doom 3, 48% in Quake 4 and 21% in Prey can be seen on a variety of ATI Radeon™ X1000 cards. These performance gains are noticed under the Windows Vista operating system.

Download for: Vista 32bit | Vista 64bit | Radeon XP 32bit | Radeon XP 64bit | Radeon MCE

Link: Driver Page | Forum Discussion (Thanks Tantawi)

(1 reply) #1 tiagosilva29 on 21 Feb 2007 - 21:59

If you're a 64-bit XP user, post the result of your installation.

To me, it doesn't install the drivers:

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Thunk.exe:
INF error
Video driver not found.

My card is an X550.

#1.1 Skizelli on 23 Feb 2007 - 02:04

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I'm a XP x64 user and getting the same error.

#2 Lurchybaby on 21 Feb 2007 - 22:27

Worked on my system...then again, it's not 64-bit, it's 32-bit.

#3 Lexcyn on 21 Feb 2007 - 23:53

I rate these drives 9/10. I'm getting way better FPS with these than the 7.1's. (ATI X1950XTX - 7.1: WoW - 54FPS; 7.2: WoW - 69FPS)

(2 replies) #4 Narc2500 on 22 Feb 2007 - 01:38

No All-In-Wonder/VIVO driver support yet for Vista?
Me want TV capture

#4.1 Slimy on 22 Feb 2007 - 02:02

Radeon and All-in-wonder link to the same page for Vista.

#4.2 Narc2500 on 22 Feb 2007 - 02:22

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TV Capture / VIVO

#5 BlackShadow on 22 Feb 2007 - 02:10

Finally a version that works on my Vista!

(1 reply) #6 Sotto_Zero on 22 Feb 2007 - 05:27

Hmmmm.... My Windows Experience Index (Desktop Performance for Aero) dropped from 3.4 to 2.2.

I am using an notebook HP/Compaq nc8430. It has a ATI Mobility Radeon X1600.

This happened with the previous version as well. If I roll the driver back, I get the 3.4 index.

Any clues?

#6.1 Daedalus on 22 Feb 2007 - 10:29

How the driver affect your 'real-world' performance?

(1 reply) #7 Id Hit it33 on 22 Feb 2007 - 14:47

Does anybody else find the progress bars in the installation useless, mine are jumping all over the place

#7.1 BeerBro on 22 Feb 2007 - 16:02

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Maybe thats the progress bar for the installation of each individual file? The overall progress bar shouldn't be jumping around though.

#8 nub on 25 Feb 2007 - 07:25

Released the new ccc that use to be vista only. Much faster. I <3 ati

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