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Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

Steve Smit

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by Steve Smit » Sun, 20 Jul 2003 09:43:05

Unless I'm a hopeless fuddy-duddy (don't go there...please), you don't want
ATI's Catalyst ver. 3.5 drivers if yer driving N2003.  N2003's graphics
detection pgm (config.exe) can't find the right DirectX info (altho it works
ok w. OpenGL - not my preferred renderer in N2003).  Almost as soon as ATI
released the 3.5 Cats, they released the 3.6 Cats, which fixed a lot of
probs w. popular games AND fixed the prob w. N2003.  So if you have a set of
earlier Cats, skip the 3.5s and go straight to the 3.6s (the 16.9-Mb d/l
includes a new ATI control panel).
ae

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by ae » Sun, 20 Jul 2003 15:12:30

On Sat, 19 Jul 2003 00:43:05 GMT, "Steve Smith"


>Unless I'm a hopeless fuddy-duddy (don't go there...please), you don't want
>ATI's Catalyst ver. 3.5 drivers if yer driving N2003.  N2003's graphics
>detection pgm (config.exe) can't find the right DirectX info (altho it works
>ok w. OpenGL - not my preferred renderer in N2003).  Almost as soon as ATI
>released the 3.5 Cats, they released the 3.6 Cats, which fixed a lot of
>probs w. popular games AND fixed the prob w. N2003.  So if you have a set of
>earlier Cats, skip the 3.5s and go straight to the 3.6s (the 16.9-Mb d/l
>includes a new ATI control panel).

3.5's are working without any problem at all for me on my 9700Pro.
From reading the ati newsgroup, 3.6 broke a hell of a lot more than it
fixed, so I wouldn't go near it personally.

Andrew.

Schoone

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by Schoone » Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:41:10

Running 3.5 on 8500 here no problems.
Sounds like a bad install to me as the 3.6 had no fixes specific to NR2003.


Steve Smit

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by Steve Smit » Sun, 20 Jul 2003 19:55:08

Hmmmn.  You may be right.  The 3.5s worked perfectly w. GPL but not N2003.
The 3.6s work perfectly w. both.  Haven't tried anything else...yet.


> Running 3.5 on 8500 here no problems.
> Sounds like a bad install to me as the 3.6 had no fixes specific to
NR2003.



> > Unless I'm a hopeless fuddy-duddy (don't go there...please), you don't
> want
> > ATI's Catalyst ver. 3.5 drivers if yer driving N2003.  N2003's graphics
> > detection pgm (config.exe) can't find the right DirectX info (altho it
> works
> > ok w. OpenGL - not my preferred renderer in N2003).  Almost as soon as
ATI
> > released the 3.5 Cats, they released the 3.6 Cats, which fixed a lot of
> > probs w. popular games AND fixed the prob w. N2003.  So if you have a
set
> of
> > earlier Cats, skip the 3.5s and go straight to the 3.6s (the 16.9-Mb d/l
> > includes a new ATI control panel).

Iain Mackenzi

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by Iain Mackenzi » Mon, 21 Jul 2003 01:14:45

No problem with 3.5s and N2003 on my 9700 Pro.
Iain


> Hmmmn.  You may be right.  The 3.5s worked perfectly w. GPL but not N2003.
> The 3.6s work perfectly w. both.  Haven't tried anything else...yet.



> > Running 3.5 on 8500 here no problems.
> > Sounds like a bad install to me as the 3.6 had no fixes specific to
> NR2003.



> > > Unless I'm a hopeless fuddy-duddy (don't go there...please), you don't
> > want
> > > ATI's Catalyst ver. 3.5 drivers if yer driving N2003.  N2003's
graphics
> > > detection pgm (config.exe) can't find the right DirectX info (altho it
> > works
> > > ok w. OpenGL - not my preferred renderer in N2003).  Almost as soon as
> ATI
> > > released the 3.5 Cats, they released the 3.6 Cats, which fixed a lot
of
> > > probs w. popular games AND fixed the prob w. N2003.  So if you have a
> set
> > of
> > > earlier Cats, skip the 3.5s and go straight to the 3.6s (the 16.9-Mb
d/l
> > > includes a new ATI control panel).

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Stuart Becktel

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by Stuart Becktel » Tue, 22 Jul 2003 23:08:39

Also just so you know, ATI is releasing new drivers every month, so having a
new version right after another version isn't as surprising as it might
sound.

Michael Horto

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by Michael Horto » Wed, 23 Jul 2003 11:19:39

Yer a hopless fuddy-duddy Steve (had to go there <g>).

No probs with the 3.5 or 3.6 drivers.


SkykingU

Warn: Avoid Cat 3.5s (or is it me?)

by SkykingU » Sat, 26 Jul 2003 07:32:58

I have had no problem with Nascar 2003 and the Catalyst 3.5 drivers
when using my Radeon 9700.  I did have problems with F1 2002 though.
I will upgrade to the 3.6 drivers to see if it helps F1 2002 visual
quality.

SkykingUSA


> Running 3.5 on 8500 here no problems.
> Sounds like a bad install to me as the 3.6 had no fixes specific to NR2003.



> > Unless I'm a hopeless fuddy-duddy (don't go there...please), you don't
>  want
> > ATI's Catalyst ver. 3.5 drivers if yer driving N2003.  N2003's graphics
> > detection pgm (config.exe) can't find the right DirectX info (altho it
>  works
> > ok w. OpenGL - not my preferred renderer in N2003).  Almost as soon as ATI
> > released the 3.5 Cats, they released the 3.6 Cats, which fixed a lot of
> > probs w. popular games AND fixed the prob w. N2003.  So if you have a set
>  of
> > earlier Cats, skip the 3.5s and go straight to the 3.6s (the 16.9-Mb d/l
> > includes a new ATI control panel).


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