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Catalyst 9.5

I have a 4850 which has always artifacted in a few games. In the Win 7 RC, it seems to artifact in even more games than it does under Vista. I am hoping that these drivers help. I will install them (as well as reinstall the card) after work.
 
Linked to the front page. Found the info elsewhere and saw this thread so I'll just use it for any Cat9.5 discussion. Thanks!

Some sites obtained copies of the 9.5 release of ATi Catalyst software and made it available for downloading. According to the AMD forums, they aren’t officially released until Monday so YMMV with the ones that are out there right now.
 
Not grabbing till its on the official site. Less risk of getting something other than updated drivers. Not that there is any risk of that with this, I just like playing it safe.
 
Actually they were put on the server which some people fished the links out to, they were never official put onto the support/driver pages and as far as I'm concerned there must of been a reason to delay them.
 
Staples said:
I have a 4850 which has always artifacted in a few games. In the Win 7 RC, it seems to artifact in even more games than it does under Vista. I am hoping that these drivers help. I will install them (as well as reinstall the card) after work.
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If you are referring to what "artifacting" usually means, snow (white pixels) and/or other pixellation on the screen, then no amount of drivers will fix that. If this is the artifacting you have, then only certain games might show this behavior because certain games/shader code might stress the card differently.

You have either:
1. Faulty card from either a bad GPU, VRAM, corrupt or poorly written video bios
2. Overheating card due to poor fan profile in video card bios (see #1), or a dirty/faulty fan
3. Overclocking too far with or without sufficient cooling (see #2)

I myself purchased a Diamond HD4850 a month after launch. The fan barely moved. When I first did the fan speed hack via driver profiles, the code listed in the file showed the fan at 5% (odd?) and temps under load got to 95C.:eek: The card seemed to take it though, but I didn't want to risk it. Plus the ambient heat coming off the card raised my NB and CPU temps significantly.
Since then I have always raised the fan speed to 35% via the hack and then via control panel when it became available. 35% is a good starting point and keeps the noise down and temps well in check even under load (higher for OC).

Do yourself a favor and up the fan speed to 35% manually in the CCC if you haven't already. Go further if you can tolerate the noise.

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If you are talking about where you see sections of terrain or other textures flickering on screen (like a triangular section of hillside for example), this problem is either driver or game related. Make sure you patch your game as well as update drivers.
 
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I'll wait for the Release notes before grabbing these. I'm hoping for a little bit better performance in The Last Remnant.
 
Anyone know if these are considered the "legacy" driver inclusive release? 9.4 skipped them, but the legacy drivers are supposed to be released quarterly...
 
9.5s seem to work quite well with a 4870x2. Fallout 3 and Far Cry 2 seem to be a little bit smoother.
 
Hulahoops said:
Actually they were put on the server which some people fished the links out to, they were never official put onto the support/driver pages and as far as I'm concerned there must of been a reason to delay them.
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This is exactly what I'm wondering. Word has been heard that they're being released tomorrow; on Monday. There must be some reason for AMD/ATI delaying their driver release, and I don't feel like poking around with it until it's entirely and officially released on their driver support page.

Anyone know why they delayed them? Waiting a day or few isn't that bad IMHO.
 
This is an official reason (I'm an ati beta tester): the server still has issues with downloads and corrupted uploads and they didn't want to leave it over the weekend with no one around to fix problems should they arise. Ati has never released drivers on friday and they weren't meant to be upped and shown the proper download link till monday.
 
So they should be available today, then? :)

With monthly official releases I really see no reason to use leaked or beta drivers. Unless you *know* they'll fix an issue with a certain game or similar, it just doesn't seem to be worth the trouble.
 
I tried them. First, I got the MS install warning about not being able to verify the source, so these may not be WHQL certified.

Also, after install, I had serious display flickering issues.

I had to pull them and go back to 9.4.

The set I downloaded was shown as for Vista/Win7 64-bit. I run Win7 64-bit. It is possible this installer was not actually meant to be labeled as for both Vista and Win7. Maybe there is a separate Win7 package.

We should find out today.
 
TechLarry said:
I tried them. First, I got the MS install warning about not being able to verify the source, so these may not be WHQL certified.

Also, after install, I had serious display flickering issues.

I had to pull them and go back to 9.4.

The set I downloaded was shown as for Vista/Win7 64-bit. I run Win7 64-bit. It is possible this installer was not actually meant to be labeled as for both Vista and Win7. Maybe there is a separate Win7 package.

We should find out today.
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I believe all catalyst starting @ 9.4 were packaged for both vista and windows 7.
 
Thanks for posting comparison. It will be good for me to change after seeing the improvement with COD:W@W (noAA/AF) I only very little AF and no AA.
 
hey guys, amd does not have 9.5 drivers for windows 7 64bit on their web page yet. Still just 9.4.
 
Anyone install it with a HD4850? TweakTown's benchmarks seem to suggest it decreases performance.
 
Should I install this if I already installed the 8.612 drivers? I am running Windows 7 RC 64-bit.
 
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Anyone install it with a HD4850? TweakTown's benchmarks seem to suggest it decreases performance.
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I installed it on Sunday. I've got an Asus EAH4850 TOP, I haven't done too much gaming on it yet since the install. Just played Deadspace for about 45 mins. and didn't notice a decrease in performance. Also played TF2 for a little bit and didn't notice anything either. I'll try giving it some thorough gaming and see what happens.
 
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Should I install this if I already installed the 8.612 drivers? I am running Windows 7 RC 64-bit.
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The Win 7 drivers have been out since the beginning of the month on ATI's site. Its the Vista/XP ones that have taken forever.
 
No GPU scaling :(

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These drivers are borked on my system. I started with the Win7 only driver (that was posted on the 5th) and everything was fine. Then I upgraded to this one (same driver version according to device manager) and now I get all kinds of artifacts in 3DMark06 and even at stock speed the custom clock test in Overdrive fails. I could swear it's a heat problem because I was playing CS:S and after about 15 minutes it started artifacting as well.

So I went back to the 9.3's and 9.4's and the problem stuck. I went back to the 9.2's (Vista driver) and everything was fine again.

So, I decided to install the 9.5 without CCC and they work perfectly. I don't use CCC much anyway (I only change AA to edge detect for the most part) so I guess it's fine for now.

I'm using a 4850 on a Gigabyte P45 motherboard with Win7 build 7100.
 
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