• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

Catalyst 7.3 Released

J

Joga

Limp Gawd
Joined
May 5, 2006
Messages
392
Changelog
Drivers

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

* 3DMark2006: Enabling AA to 4x no longer result in an error message being displayed when running the benchmark under the 64 bit version of Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26633
* Call of Duty: Setting AA to either 2 or 4x no longer results in display corruption or the Vista operating system failing to respond when using an ATI Radeon™ X800/850 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25523
* Call of Duty->United Offensive: Setting the in game video mode to 2048x1536 no longer results in display corruption being noticed when playing the game under Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25519
* City of Heroes: Changing the display resolution to 2560x1600 or higher no longer results in the game failing to run. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25518
* Doom 3: Attempting to play the game on a system running the Windows Vista operating system and containing an ATI Radeon™ X550/700 series of product no longer results in the operating system failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25513
* NBA Live 07: The full animation is no longer displayed when launching the game with AA set to 2x or higher. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25803
* Never Winter Nights: Display flicker is no longer noticed when launching the game in a rotated mode of 90 degrees clockwise or counter-clockwise. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26651
* Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Undrentide: Attempting to play the game under the Windows Vista operating system (64bit version) no longer results in the opening cinematic failing to play when using an LCD display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25521
* The Force TV option is no longer active after deselecting the option and then re-launching the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23547
* The Microsoft Vista gamma settings set by the operating system is no longer overwritten when launching the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25505
* Launching the Catalyst™ Control Center after hot-plugging a secondary CRT display device no longer results in the desktop image reverting to a black and white image requiring a re-installation of the display driver. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25517
* Display corruption is no longer noticed when clone mode is enabled and the displays are set to either 1280x1024 75/85/100 Hz. or 1400x1050 60Hz. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25800
* Installing an ATI Radeon™ X800 GT in a system running the Windows Vista 64bit version operating system no longer results in the WDM driver being unloaded when opening a window or application. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25804
* Running through the express un-install of the Catalyst™ driver no longer results in a white display image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26642
* Connecting a display device using an HDMI cable no longer results in the display device failing to display the Vista desktop image if the display device is powered off and then powered back on. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26329
* A brief green display is no longer noticed prior to the welcome screen when boot Vista or when changing the display resolution or color depth. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26627
* Connecting a TV and setting it as the primary display device no longer results in the TV screen going blank when adjusting the Flicker Removal option found in the Catalyst™ Control Center->TV Properties->Image Quality. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26628
* Attempting to toggle between the LCD display device and a TV using the hotkey function no longer results in extended desktop mode becoming enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26629
* Hot-unplugging a secondary CRT display device while the Vista screen saver is active no longer results in corruption being noticed on the LCD display when ending the screen saver activity. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25795
* The display driver no longer fails when installing under the Korean version of Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26630
* The back button in the ATI Uninstaller is now functioning properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26631
* Attempting to resume from an S3 state under Vista no longer results in the CRT display device failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26632
* The date is no longer reported incorrectly within the Catalyst™ Control Center->Information Center->Graphics Hardware->BIOS Date. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26634
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Display Manager: Connecting only a CRT display device to a system running Windows Vista no longer results in TV display modes being available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-24467
* Connecting both a CRT and a TV no longer results in the displays swapping to the CRT mode only when changing the TV format from either NTSC to PAL or PAL to NTSC. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26635
* Using WinDVD 8 Platinum or PowerDVD 7 deluxe under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in slow performance being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26636
* Using WinDVD8 to play a DVD title no longer results in the DVD menu screen appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26637
* Using the Windows Media Player to playback a DVD title under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in the playback of the DVD appearing choppy when using full screen mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26639
* Catalyst™ Control Center no longer fails to launch when changing the status of CrossFire™ for the first time. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26641
* Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in mouse cursor being seen on a third display device as if clone mode were enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26643
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->Attributes: Applying the Reduce DVI Frequency on high-resolution displays no longer results in the display device displaying a blank screen with the mouse pointer being displayed and active. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26644
* The enable CrossFire™ option is no longer greyed out after configuring a system with the CrossFire™ ribbon cable. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26645
* The slave display device no longer fails to render when hot-plugging the display device using the interlink dongle. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26648
* Enabling CrossFire™ followed by unplugging the dongle no longer results in a message indicating that CrossFire™ is disabled and CrossFire™ failing to become disabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26649
* Running through the un-install of the AMD display driver no longer results in an ATI folder remaining on the user's system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26649
* The Catalyst™ Install Manger now displays all of the correct menu items under the Chinese version of Windows Vista. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26650

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows Vista. These include:
Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst™ Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:

* Uninstalling the graphics drivers no longer results in some of the files and folders failing to be removed in the Program File folder. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23715
* Hot-plugging an HDMI TV to the DVI port of graphics adapter via HDMI to DVI cable no longer results in the DVI-to-HDMI detection message appearing but then disappearing within 30 seconds or when making a slight mouse movement. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25809
* Extend desktop mode no longer fails to work after rotating the extended secondary desktop to 90 degrees. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-25810
* The Microsoft Vista gamma settings set by the operating system is no longer overwritten when launching the Catalyst™ Control Center 737-25505
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Basic View: Setting the regional and language settings to German no longer results in corruption being noticed in the Quick Setting->Video Playback->Adjust Video for Room Brightness option found in the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26653
* Catalyst™ Control Center: Swapping the primary and secondary display devices no longer results in the inability to change the display resolution. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26655
* Catalyst™ Control Center: The language is no longer switched for Chinese traditional and Chinese simplified. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26657
* Catalyst™ Control Center: Setting the language option to Simplified Chinese no longer results in Chinese characters being inconsistent. Further details can be found in topic number. Further details can be found in topic number 737-23708
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Component Video Properties->Adjustments: The Apply button is no longer greyed out when making adjustments to the Brightness, Contrast, or Saturation sliders. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26658
* Catalyst™ Control Center: Creating a profile no longer results in the profile shortcut not being deleted from desktop after uninstalling the Catalyst™ Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26659
* The Catalyst™ Control Center now launches under localized version of the operating system when using MS .NET 2.0 IPC. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26660
* The Catalyst™ Control Center no longer intermittently disappears when running in the background of the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26661
* Enabling clone mode and attempting to launch the Catalyst™ Control Center by right clicking on the desktop no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center failing to launch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26664
* Disabling a secondary display device when horizontally stretched desktop is enabled no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center becoming corrupt and unusable. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26665
* Installing a newer version of the Catalyst™ Control Center over an older version no longer results in the newer version failing to install. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26666
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Advanced Mode: The Video aspect Help now loads when pressing F1. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26667
* The Help files for video aspects found in the Catalyst™ Control Center are now up to date. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26668
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Overdrive: User setting are now retained when making changes to the Graphics Processor and Graphics Memory Statuses. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26669
* Hot-plugging a CRT display device and switching the screen position and size to the right in the Catalyst™ Control Center, no longer results in the desktop image switching back to the center position when switching to dual mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26670
* Flashing is no longer noticed when hot-plugging a CRT display device and enabling extended desktop mode under the Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26671
* Using the hotkey function Fn+F4 to cycle through display options no longer results in the operating system hanging intermittently. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26672
* Using WinDVD to play a DVD title no longer results in the right portion of the display being cut-off and the player image shifting to the left. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26673
* Display corruption is no longer noticed after the Windows XP logo is displayed and prior to the display driver loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26674
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Avivo Video->Theater Mode: Enabling Theater Mode and Clone mode no longer result in the operating system failing to respond when using the hotkey function to switch between display devices. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26675
* Catalyst™ Control Center->Video->Avivo Quality aspect page: The Pulldown detection option is no longer missing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26679
* Catalyst™ Control Center: The HDTV display mode of 1080i30 is now added to the pre-defined and custom modes found in the Catalyst™ Control Center->Digital Panel Properties->HDTV Support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26680
* Connecting a display device to the DVI connector no longer results in the display device failing to display a full screen image when setting the display resolution to 1280x720 60Hz. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26681
 
nice, are the drivers for the AVIVO device included with these yet?
 
Yay I got a nice performance boost in stalker but the shadows glitch now.
 
I hope these 7.3 can Fold and not crash UFO:Afterlight game.

edit:

Well it seems to be folding ok and my favorite game UFO:AL does not crash anymore. Happy customer here :)
 
Yes, but does it fix the Overdrive flickering problem?:confused:

Update: Nope, still that same annoying green flickering whenever I try to use Overdrive.
 
Release Notes said:
Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

IL2 Sturmovik->Forgotten Battles: Setting the in-game hardware options to custom and landscape detail to perfect may result in the water textures appearing corrupt when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-26687
Click to expand...

I tried looking it up and topic 737-26687 doesnt exist in the database!
 
Running Vista Ultimate 32-bit. The 7.2 Cats were problem-free on this system and STALKER ran fine. Uninstalled 7.2, restart, installed 7.3, restart, BSOD!, system reboots itself, drivers seem to load OK on second boot and I am at the desktop. I tried rebooting the system again and sure enough another BSOD, reboot, then back to the desktop. I tried running STALKER with the 7.3 drivers and it seemed to run fine. I ended up uninstalling the 7.3 Cats and reinstalling 7.2 and all seems stable again. There are a couple of posts over on the Rage3D board about BSODs with these drivers here. Here is a quote from one of the posts:

I did have one problem with installation though.

I'm on Vista Ultimate and system is in my Sig.

Uninstalled -> Rebooted -> installed 7.3 -> rebooted -> Logged In and got a BSOD when logging in.

Went into Safe mode and disabled the ATI service and disabled the CCC startup. No more BSOD. I can start both the service and the CCC after login has been completed with no issues and everything works fine. To me this is minor though because I rarely reboot.

Downloaders beware!
BTW, I am running X1950XTX 512MB card.
 
Had the same issue with the BSOD, going back to the 7.2's
 
BSOD here too. win32k.sys always causes this.

I went back to 7.2 and no problems.
 
Hmm, guess 7.3's not so good for Vista users. It's installed on my XP 32-bit just fine. No noticeable performance increase (although I haven't had a chance to play around with them too much), but they haven't caused any problems. They actually fixed a weird HDR glitch I was having in the Call of Juarez demo, but other than that, not much difference.
 
I use Vista and have no problems with 7.3. However I did not unistall 7.2, I just installed on top of them......
 
nunyabiz said:
I use Vista and have no problems with 7.3. However I did not unistall 7.2, I just installed on top of them......
Click to expand...

So did i....still bsod....

i guess it has to do with the chipset of the mobo. Are you running a 965/975 chipset?
 
only thing different, was got some weird artifacting in WoW last night. Had some weird yellow/red streaks following every person in the game. Alt-tabbed and came back to the game and it was fixed.
 
I was getting a weird mom.eve error with the 7.2's, these seem to have fixed that.
 
Now, whenever I change AA settings in WoW, the CCC host dies and I lose ADAA and HQ AF. I have to reboot the computer to get it back.

Lame.

I realize this probably doesn't affect most people more than maybe once, and only if they are setting up their game after updating drivers, but it affects me a lot, so I'm going to gripe about it. During the course of running evaluations on video cards, I change those settings quite frequently. It is a huge pain in the butt to have to reboot every time.
 
Mark_Warner said:
Now, whenever I change AA settings in WoW, the CCC host dies and I lose ADAA and HQ AF. I have to reboot the computer to get it back.

Lame.

I realize this probably doesn't affect most people more than maybe once, and only if they are setting up their game after updating drivers, but it affects me a lot, so I'm going to gripe about it. During the course of running evaluations on video cards, I change those settings quite frequently. It is a huge pain in the butt to have to reboot every time.
Click to expand...


yup, lame driver set. I'm sure they'll actually pull it sooner or later from their site and give us a fixed version.
 
At least I am not alone in having cold boot crashes since installing 7.3. though I don't always get a BSOD, most times the computer freezes when it hits the Windows screen then reboots. Will revert to 7.2 since I had less issues with it. Also having issues when playing Oblivion with the new Catalyst version. First the game is exteremly sluggish, and then after a short while it freezes then crashes into windows Vista. Granted ATI officaly does not support Oblivion, and I always had slow perfromance in game with my x1950xtx I never had so many
crashes.


Specs:

Intel 6400,
ATI X1950XTX
2GB ram
ASUS P5B-D board.
Creative X-FI.
 
ScYcS said:
So did i....still bsod....

i guess it has to do with the chipset of the mobo. Are you running a 965/975 chipset?
Click to expand...


975. However I only rebooted after the driver install then spent about 30 mins on the computer before turning it off, so maybe I just need to give it more time for a BSOD. I will see what happens tonight.
 
Installed them last night, ran 3dmark and everything was perfectly fine. I didn't even uninstall the old ones, just installed over-top, rebooted and they worked.
 
None of the common BSOD on boot here 'though I did get a couple during gaming which I didn't get with 7.2's. Also getting a "Display driver atikmdag stopped responding and has successfully recovered" message with these, where as with the 7.2's I got "R300 has stopped responding". This is in Vista, XP runs with no problems.
 
i had the same issues with 7.3 as with 7.1, System will not boot (BSOD's) if there is 2gigs of ram. If i remove one, it's ok. I'm sticking with 7.2 for now as I have had 0 issues with that driver set.
Note this is in Vista 64x
 
The ASUS 7.3's work perfectly with me, no errors on stalker or nothing, just me dying alot :p
 
Works just fine for me.
Running win-xp sp2. Slight performance increase over 7.1 and 7.2 in 3dMark-06.
 
CCC was crap on xp, but in vista it's a total fuckin mess,

this thing can't even remove or reinstall itself properly, and of course ati is too lame to write a vista driver cleaner

fuckin garbage
 
737-26900: Radeon™ products - Catalyst 7.3 for Vista Causes BSOD Error Referencing Win32k.sys in Some Systems

The information in this article applies to the following configuration(s):
Catalyst Display Driver 7.3
Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
Symptoms:
After installing Catalyst 7.3 drivers and rebooting the computer, in rare cases, some users may experience a blue screen (BSOD) error referencing Win32k.sys.

Cause:
The cause of this issue is not yet known.

Workaround:
To work around this issue, you can disable the ATI External Event Utility service or revert back to using Catalyst 7.2.

To revert back to Catalyst 7.2:

Start the system in safe mode by pressing F8 before the Windows loading screens.
Once at the desktop, click on the Windows logo button (start)>Accessories>System Tools>System Restore.
Use the "Recommended Restore" option, which should restore the system to before you installed the updated drivers.
OR

To disable the ATI External Event Utility, please use the following steps:

Boot to Safe Mode by pressing F8 before the Windows loading screen
When loaded to the desktop, click on the Windows logo button (start)>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Services
Right click on the ATI External Event Utility and select properties
Use the drop down menu to set the startup type to disabled, click OK
Restart the system

ATI Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates will be published when they become available.

______________________________________________________

:mad: WHY ARE THE DRIVERS STILL POSTED.

Im just mad because anyone who owns a 1950GT is totally screwed.
 
Yep, I had about 4 or 5 BSODs within a day or so after installing this crappy driver set. It would also crash my games (CNC3) back to the desktop and would also make my dreamscene background fail. I reverted back to 7.2 and everything is fine.

Now seriously, did they even freakin test these drivers? UNREAL!

This is on Vista x64 Premium btw.
 
cefoskey said:
737-26900: Radeon™ products - Catalyst 7.3 for Vista Causes BSOD Error Referencing Win32k.sys in Some Systems

Symptoms:
After installing Catalyst 7.3 drivers and rebooting the computer, in rare cases, some users may experience a blue screen (BSOD) error referencing Win32k.sys.

Cause:
The cause of this issue is not yet known.

ATI Engineering has been advised of this issue and is investigating. Any updates will be published when they become available.

______________________________________________________

:mad: WHY ARE THE DRIVERS STILL POSTED.

Im just mad because anyone who owns a 1950GT is totally screwed.
Click to expand...

Better solution to take advantage of 3D clock speeds ;):

After waiting a long time for the Catalyst 7.3 drivers to be released i was really disappointed because it still didn't fix the hangups for me. It just made things worse.. I found out it's still related by the Ati External Event service. After searching a long time (today 6 hours) for a solution i have found one that will make it work if you are having lockups everytime vista boots.
The strangest thing is that it doesn't occur while ingame lol.
The Service itself will boot just fine when you are in vista but when vista is booting it just locks the whole system up in a strange way with the famous win32k.sys error..

I fixed it like this:

Start vista in safemode.

open services.msc.

Set the Ati External Event Utility in manual mode.

Open your startup folder in your start menu with "explore with all users".

In this folder make a file named AtiExternalServiceStart.bat or a name you prefer.

edit this file and add the following line:

net start Ati External Event Utility


This will start the Ati service later in time so it will not conflict with vista

Reboot

enjoy x1950xt's or other ati card suffering from the bug at full potential (@3D clock speeds)under vista;)

I already sent an e-mail to Ati to let them know what i have discovered
grtz,

Chac.
 
Works great here :) got a 1900XTX.

Made Stalker run 100% bettetr from 7.2 cats.
 
Nice quality testing ATi has... NOT~!!

How in the world does something like this happen?

Are there any internal testing being done for these drivers?

And whats up with these latest drivers causing the infinite loop error....
Seems like since Cat 7.0+ the infinite loop error is back with a vengence!
Along with other bugs.
 
My 3dmark06 scores dropped 600 points!

Do new drivers reset registry tweaks?

Gaming performance doesn't really look affected so I don't know if I really care or not at this point.

Edit: I forgot about that 2D/3D clock switcher, I had to disable it, as it was setting 620/720 instead of my regular 3D clocks. Fixed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top