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ATI Catalyst 8.7 Display Driver released

Posted by Marcel Klum on 21 July 2008 - 19:08 · 17 comments & 8599 views

This particular software suite updates both the AMD Display Driver, and the Catalyst Control Center. This unified driver has been further enhanced to provide the highest level of power, performance, and reliability. The AMD Catalyst software suite is the ultimate in performance and stability.

View: ATI website

Download: ATI Catalyst 8.7 Display Driver

View: Release Notes

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#1 Posted by venejo on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:02: Why on ATI drivers even on this one, i cannot see the arrow or the cross sign when copying or moving files with drag & drop?.

Last edited by venejo on 22 Jul 2008 - 12:34

(1 reply) #2 Posted by thealexweb on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:05: I have a rather old ATI Radeon 7000 graphics card, does this new Driver support it.

#3 Posted by Mystic on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:06: check their website and go through the configuration...

(1 reply) #4 Posted by Pandya on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:17: Release notes say desktop support back to the Radeon 9500. Don't think these support your Radeon 7000.

Nothing majorly new or juicy as far as I could see in the release notes, just a general bugfix and minor performance increase driver.

#5 Posted by venejo on 21 Jul 2008 - 20:27: These drivers supports from ATI Radeon™ X800 series and Up.

#6 Posted by ataris_kid on 22 Jul 2008 - 00:10: This fixed the issues I was having with Steam games and my X1950XT --

"Running various games on a system containing an ATI Radeonâ„¢ X18x0 series of product no longer results in Time-out Detection and Recovery (TDR) when having Catalyst AI set to Advanced. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35828"

Apparently that was an issue with the X19x0 cards as well. Oh well, fixed! =)

(2 replies) #7 Posted by Ender2070 on 22 Jul 2008 - 03:23: Hopefully it fixes my 4850

(1 reply) #8 Posted by LipSmacker on 22 Jul 2008 - 12:33: Two things that really annoy me about the Radeon driver/software updates:

1) They always try to throw a bunch of garbage down your throat . It used to be that they wanted you to install Earthism or Steam. Now they want to install a free trial of WOW. Just give us the drivers and CCC, nothing else.

2) It seems more often than not the version of CCC packaged with the latest driver is usually an older version than the version of CCC that you already have.

(1 reply) #9 Posted by foonacha on 22 Jul 2008 - 15:04: No "Hotfix" 8.7 for AGP on Vista as of yet
Why can't they release at the same time as the Std drivers?

#10 Posted by Daokoras on 22 Jul 2008 - 19:17: I hope this wont crash my Display Drivers in Vista like 8.6 did

#11 Posted by Alex_is_Axel on 24 Jul 2008 - 19:24: Just thought id let anyone know whos interested, i have an ATI Radeon 9600pro and i dont seem to get any atim2tag errors on my event viewer anymore and it hasnt crashed during any games. Ill keep you posted if it does still continue but they may have resolved that old graphiccard error bug

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