Driver for Ati Radeon X1900 series

[michaelmichael]

just got the x1900 series vid card . came with a catalyst control centre version 1.2.2475.36837. driver is 8.31.0.0

Are there better drivers out there and if so please provide name and version and where to download.

thanks

michaelmichael

[eno]

Just goto the ATI site and download the latest drivers .... the version number will tell you if you have the latest or not.

My X1900 installation did just that and connected to the ATI site for the latest issue.

[NicksFXHouse]

just got the x1900 series vid card . came with a catalyst control centre version 1.2.2475.36837. driver is 8.31.0.0

Are there better drivers out there and if so please provide name and version and where to download.

thanks

michaelmichael

As eno mentioned.. only use the factory ATI drivers and you can get them at the ATI website. You are running the most current driver because the CAT 6.11 package (the most current release) runs the 8.31 driver

With the merge of ATI and AMD the ATI website has changed. There is now a driver selector based on the card instead of a blanket driver package for all cards.

http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html

They made that change at the website because people with older cards and with cards that require a different driver such as the x1650 cards were downloading the latest drivers without looking at what they were doing. The driver selector will now point you to the exact release of driver you should be using. You may review the release notes which will provide the driver release version and known/corrected issues.

[ctjoyce]

Shows how long I haven't been on the ATi site. Thank god they finally changed this.

Cheers
Cameron

[NicksFXHouse]

Shows how long I haven't been on the ATi site. Thank god they finally changed this.

Cheers
Cameron

There is a-lot of things that are changing with respect to ATI, their hardware and the support that will come with it. AMD was well aware of the issues most ATI users were dealing with and since their reputation is now included with ATI's, you going to be seeing allot of changes.

Nvidia can flood the market all it wants... which is exactly what ATI/AMD wants Nvidia and Intel to do.

When ATI releases its round of hardware which has been designed with AMD engineering, users who are on Nvidia products may start thinking twice about what it is that is being pushed on them and the cost.

If ATI and AMD thought allowing Nvidia (and/or Intel) the opportunity to flood the market ahead of them was going to create a financial loss in the end, they would not have gone that route. After people have spent an absorbent amount of money on Nv products, ATI and AMD will launch products that have gone through more design and testing than anything Nv has to offer and will also support things the Nv platforms current do not.

Conroe is not everything the hype makes it out to be especially when you consider the performance to watt use, AMD products still outperforms Conroe in many respects.



What Intel did was foresee what AMD was going to do over the next year and decided to release to the general public a version of a core that has been in use by other, less public, establishments since around 1999.

Conroe is nothing new to me... it is just a renamed technology that has been adapted for currently available GP (general public) chipset hardware. It does boast advantages over AMD however those advantages have been cleverly designed to mask its disadvantages so they would not be analyzed and will be mostly ignored. Intel went for a platform that will take the most advantage of 3Dmark numbers and other tests. Most people do not understand those tests are very FLAWED and can be manipulated by hardware vendors who know what to change to make the score higher and give the ILLUSION of better overall performance.

3DMark has been a joke and a hardware selling device since the day it was released. It should only be used for a personal benchmark for finding and correcting issues and any comparison to someone elses system should always be looked at with a grain of salt.

If your game is running smooth and without issues, ignore the 3Dmark scores you see because they are ONLY designed to make you want better hardware.

Intels quad core approach differes from AMD's and also has significant disadvantages to it that AMD is going to exploit.

Still, I don

[congo]

Very interesting Nick.

It's good to get a different perspective on things, thankyou  :)

[michaelmichael]

thanks guys   for the info. but with all due respect none of the last two or three replies had anything to do with my original question.  Interesting but so what!

michaelmichael

[NicksFXHouse]

[quote]thanks guys

[ctjoyce]

I figured since your question was answered beyond any other resolution I would answer Cam since we tend to throw information back and forth around here as the opportunity comes up.


sorry about that..

Exactly. Since Nick and I are busy with work and school respectively we thend to just hijack a thread insted of creating our own.

The other thing I have found useful about this method is that someone who may post about one question could have many others answered by a simple hijack.

Cheers
Cameron

[michaelmichael]

understood!  it is a reasonable and acceptable response.  Keep up the good advice.!!!!!!!!!!!  :)

michaelmichael

[-sam-]

@Nick

I

[NicksFXHouse]

First, I have not made any 'claim' other than I know pure marketing bullchit when I see it and second, I have no interest in proving anything simply because a great deal of my knowledge comes from sources that you will not find reference to on the 2nd most popular entertainment network called the

[-sam-]

Do you really think the ATi and AMD marketing is much different compared to Intel/Nvidia ? As I allrady said I can directly compare the recent AMD and Intel

[NicksFXHouse]

Intel did not have to mount an aggressive public campaign any more than a football team would have to run up the field in a blocking frenzy to score a touchdown during half time when the other team is in the locker room.

Intel