ATI has released several RADEON updates

#1 OLEerror

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Posted 13 June 2002 - 07:58 PM

ATI has released new drivers and software for RADEONs. These include:

Catalyst 02.1 display drivers
Hydravision 3.10.1010
Capture Driver 6.13.10.6125
ATI Multimedia Center 7.7 upgrade

I won't have a chance to test them until this evening. I'm curious as to what the new Catalyst drivers will do.

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Posted 13 June 2002 - 09:00 PM

Yeah, I wonder that too - they have them for my 64MB DDR ViVo as well. Is a pity they don't do a version of Hydravision for my Radeon.

& I think it's rather annoying that they only do an upgrade of the MMC & not do it as a full version. I hate it when manufacturers release upgrade-only drivers so that if you have to reinstall the OS you have to install the older driver 1st, then the upgrade.

I've got that to look forward to on my Audigy when I get it too - apparently you have to install the 2K drivers on the CD 1st then install the upgrade patch from their site.

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Posted 14 June 2002 - 10:47 PM

Well, I'm certainly happy with the new drivers and the new version of HydraVision. They are much more responsive. And the built-in transparency features are pretty nifty, too. I haven't gotten a chance to play with the new Multimedia Center (which, thankfully, includes the new DVD player this time.)

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Posted 14 June 2002 - 11:37 PM

Which is probably why it's only available as an upgrade. I wish they did a version that didn't include the DVD player so that during a reinstall I'd only have to install 1 version of it.