ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

[Deez]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

These new 5.9 drivers play BF2 awesome. So smooth. Omegas were always junk for me though. 5.8 were really good too, but 5.7 didnt play so well.

[Deez]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Omegadrivers works better for me.
So its no junk imo ............ maybe you can handle unofficial drivers

Are hope your not saying i dont know what im doing, anyways depends on cards i guess, DNA were good for me but Omegas crashed for me all the time.

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

These new 5.9 drivers play BF2 awesome. So smooth. Omegas were always junk for me though. 5.8 were really good too, but 5.7 didnt play so well.

So are they better then 5.8? what card do you have?

[MiniMizer]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Installed the new drivers, no difference whatsoever...

[Deez]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

So are they better then 5.8? what card do you have?

I have x800pro and plays so smooth, 5.8 were good too but this seems smoother.

[]UK-C[ Mindzai]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Working fine for me, havent seen the irritating black glitch I often get since updating.

[Gulf_War_Syndrome]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

OK, we've all seen the millions of "Catalyst 5.8 don't work properly on the 9800 series" threads that appeared after the last ATI driver release...

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried these on their 9800XT or 9800Pro yet. At the moment I'm running the 5.6's on my 9800XT - everything later has given me the same graphics corruption problems everyone else seems to report.

What I'm interested in is any smoothness or frame rate boosts - otherwise I'm happy sticking with my 5.6's!

[DU_is_good_4U]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Downloaded it, installed it, discovered BF2 did not work anymore.
Driver clean and back to 5.8

[BirdKiller]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

OK, we've all seen the millions of "Catalyst 5.8 don't work properly on the 9800 series" threads that appeared after the last ATI driver release...

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried these on their 9800XT or 9800Pro yet. At the moment I'm running the 5.6's on my 9800XT - everything later has given me the same graphics corruption problems everyone else seems to report.

What I'm interested in is any smoothness or frame rate boosts - otherwise I'm happy sticking with my 5.6's!

I have the 9800XT that ran 5.8 drivers. It worked fine with no problems. I didn't test out 5.9 though.

[JoeJJohnsonII]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

I d/l'ed them. Everything seems to be fine. I haven't been in BF2 yet. Of course I haven't ever had problems with any vid driver updates. I had Nvidia till a month ago. I switched to ATI (X850XT), updated the 5.7, 5.8 & now the 5.9. No problems. I used the ATI uninstaller, then ran Driver Cleaner Pro, then installed the 5.9, cleaned out BF2 cache folder, ran MS adware cleaner, Disk Clean-up & then Disk Defragged.
I have a P4 2.6mhz (Gateway), 1 gig 3200 (400) RAM, ATI X850XT vid. That vid card sure does run things nicely. Gonna get another 2x512 of RAM.

And here I just double click the executable I dont bother with the driver cleaner stuff. The Drivers install just fine for me.

OK, we've all seen the millions of "Catalyst 5.8 don't work properly on the 9800 series" threads that appeared after the last ATI driver release...

I'm just wondering if anyone has tried these on their 9800XT or 9800Pro yet. At the moment I'm running the 5.6's on my 9800XT - everything later has given me the same graphics corruption problems everyone else seems to report.

What I'm interested in is any smoothness or frame rate boosts - otherwise I'm happy sticking with my 5.6's!

I actually never had a problem with the 5.8's. I run a 9800pro and it ran fine. The ones that I had troubles with were the 5.7's. Those things made the game unplayable. I'm going to wait for sopme unofficial 5.9's to come out before I switch to it. I like Omega myself, but then again I have never tried NGO, I'll look them up and see if I like them.

[Frogatron]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Guys you are gonna have give me some latitude here, i've got a x800pro if I update drivers dont I just click the button saying update drivers and it auto pilots the install?

[Felix]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Guys you are gonna have give me some latitude here, i've got a x800pro if I update drivers dont I just click the button saying update drivers and it auto pilots the install?

To get the BEST results, you should always unsintall the old drivers.
Before my reformat, I had the original drivers, 5.6, 5.7 and 5.8 installed with my x850pro. I got about 8000 points on 3dmark03. When I reformatted and installed JUST the 5.8's, I scored 10,700. It make a HUGE difference.

As for the 5.8's.. they work fine. I figure if its not broke, dont try to fix it. Plus last I checked, duct tape doesnt help fix anything to do with your graphicscard and that is as far as I go as a "handiman".

[Bongwater]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

Instaled and Running visibly better than the old catalyst drivers.. i would highly suggest this upgrade.

Mutrino.. it was broken.. the ATI drivers have had problems since they were released. this new driver is to try and catch up GeForce drivers.

[[STO] Killer Dragon]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

U got a link for that driver pro uninstaller program thingy?

[Deez]

Re: ATI Catalyst 5.9 has been released

U got a link for that driver pro uninstaller program thingy?

http://www.drivercleaner.net