ATI Catalyst 9.4 driver Download and Discussion

There will be future driver support for older cards. Only difference is that it wont be released every month (more like every 3rd month). Remember that Win 7 is still in beta and that AMD states:

Note: The Windows 7 driver is not final and is provided "as is." It is not supported by AMD, and may contain software bugs. It has not completed full AMD testing. Use of this software is at your own risk.

So by the time Win 7 hits the market I'm sure we'll have working S-video out and full support for older cards.

 

If you are referring to the fix being the usage of a profile:
That doesn't fix this bug anymore in the 9.3 nor the 9.4 driver.
Every time when the PC is started up or rebooted, the profile is loaded ok, but still the 2nd (idle) GPU is in 3D clock mode, even when this is a custom clock setting ... (both CCC and RivaTuner readings confirm this)
It only returns to 2D mode after a 3D application has run.
And since I do not always want to start immediately with a game or so, this is still a very annoying bug.
This 2D/3D clock bug is present since the 8.9 series of drivers. Incredible that ATI can't fix this stupid bug in more time than you need to grow a baby ...

 

I tried alsorts to get the fix sorted on my x2 and nearly give up and returned to the 9.1 drivers however I did mange to get it working.

Create a profile
In the user appdata local ati ace folder open the profiles folder and open the profile with notepad.
Now you need to edit coreclocktarget_0 and memoryclocktarget_0 want_0 values. I changed mine from 50700 to 50600 for the core clock and 50000 to 49999 on the memory clock. Save the text file then goto CCC and enable the profile, you can tell if it works by checking core 2 in the overdrive section, it jumps from the 3d clocks down to the ones you have just edited.

The other thing I did when this profile was enabled was to edit the default profile as the same and reboot, then when windows restarts it uses the default profile with no heat up and 2d 3d bug. You can then delete the user profile you created and it should be sorted. May be a bit long way round but I found this was the only way i could get rid of the 2d3d bug.

Regards
Scoop

 

As far as I remember ETQW did work properly. Try renaming the OpenGL game's executable to ETQW.exe and see if it works.

 

I'll have a look at it tonight. Maybe I can reproduce the problem.

 

The second card shouldn't be running in 2D mode. I have a thermaltake power express and it turns on an LED light for each of the graphics cards when they are on. Only one is lit when i'm on my desktop and the 2nd will light up in game. Although both fans spin at all times.

 

Anyone?

 

Can you not read his system info? I can.

Nitrius, are you downloading the specific 4890 drivers for Windows 7 and not the 4800 series drivers?

32bit https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/gamesite/9-4_vista32_win7_32_dd_ccc_wdm_enu.exe

64bit https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/gamesite/9-4_vista64_win7_64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu.exe

 

Have to say the installer was crap. I ended up using the update driver from properties path and directing it to the ATI install folder setup via the installer program. Over clocking is fine on Windows 7 with my 4870.

 

You're right, that came off a little harsh. I'm sure it's safe to assume that he uninstalled his previous drivers before he installed the 4890. That's an SOP for anyone upgrading their graphics card. If he didn't, that's pretty dumb. For all we know, he may have had an Nvidia card previously.

 

Well, lets see. He can overclock his CPU and system in general so that means he has to have advanced computer knowledge so we can safely assume he's not dumb nor did I say that. I said that not uninstalling your graphics drivers and reinstalling the new ones on a graphics card upgrade is dumb, that's not implying the person is. Now the 4890 series has a specific driver package and are not compatible with the 4800 series drivers.

My recommendation is to uninstall his drivers and run a sweeper program like Driver Sweeper and install them clean.

 

@WhiteLightning: Had a moment to spare. I've just tested ETQW with 9.3 using two instances of GPU-Z for each GPU and it seems to work properly. The game switches both GPUs to 3D mode and is using both GPUs properly. It also switches back to 2D-mode properly when exiting the game.

Gonna try 9.4 now. Hang on.

 

No problem, sir

BTW: 9.4 seems to be working fine too. No issues found with OpenGL. Using Vista x64.