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ATI Catalyst 9.3 driver supports Win 7
AS THE WORLD prepares itself to say 'Hasta la Vista', AMD has announced it already has Windows 7 driver support in its latest ATI Catalyst 9.3 unified graphics driver.
Bombastically claiming to be the industry's first such unified driver installation package to bundle Windows 7 support with Windows Display Driver Model (WDDM) 1.1 compliance, ATI also reckons Catalyst 9.3 is sending out a clear message that any and all upcoming releases will be Windows 7 ready.
The move will purportedly let developers play with DirectX 10.1 API, used by the Vole to design Windows 7 Aero desktop in the first place.
AMD reckons graphics with hardware support for the DirectX 10.1 API will now offer a full Windows 7 Aero desktop PC experience, including support for features like Aero Peek and Aero Shake.
Matching ATI Radeon graphics with Windows 7 also purportedly means support for the Direct2D API, giving third-party applications the ability to up the ante on things like ClearType text rendering and hardware-accelerated vector graphics. Playback of multimedia, including high-def films, is also apparently smoother.
"We led the Windows Vista transition with a WHQL-certified unified driver that delivered industry-leading stability," said Ben Bar-Haim, AMD's corporate VP of Software Engineering and the Graphics Products Group.
Bar-Haim added, "The advanced state of our Windows 7 drivers this far ahead of the final Windows 7 release is yet another proof point of our graphics industry leadership." µ
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There was probably more paper work involved than programming to make it work on Vista SE.
Vista drivers should be compatible with windows 7 in most cases. I got an agp card in my win7 machine, and the driver i had on the disk worked out okay. It probably only needed a bit of tweaking i reckon.
Crossfire finally working on windows seven?
I installed Windows 7 Beta on an AMD HD3200 chip AGES ago, using the catalyst 9.2 driver... and it worked fine.
So, really difficult to add support in 9.3...
Isn't everybody...?
With R/C 7 Coming soon, Full retail May Be Out Before xp Finally Ends in Late aug'9. This gives retailer Chance to Clear Channel Bulding with Choice that both work, in fact Ultimate works very well now,too. Definetely aero works now on 7. Has AnyOne Learned of Windows drashek? Most Advanced System Possible. STeWie?
it supports hd 2400 onwards, older cards are droped (my girlfriends pc has a 9550 and even if she plays nothing, she wont get support on official drivers...
Vista64 Catalyst 9.1 installed and worked great on Windows 7 beta
Vista64/Win7 Catalyst9.3 completely failed to install on Windows 7 beta
Equipment: Athlon64 3200+, ECS RS480, X800
For the X800 ATI lists Vista Support but not Win7 Support. Since this is a "Vista/Win7 Unified" driver it looks like ATI REMOVED Win7 support.
This driver works great for my 4870...
for all those complaining about dropped support it is OLD news that ati will only support 2k and on in its Monthly updates.
It will continue to support those previous cards in its Quarterly releases.
""We led the Windows Vista transition with a WHQL-certified unified driver that delivered industry-leading stability," said Ben Bar-Haim, AMD's corporate VP of Software Engineering and the Graphics Products Group."
Erm, if you read their forums you'll notice that they cannot make working drivers for 64bit OS's (anymore), and that MS gives out WHQL to drivers that bluescreen your system at boot shows what WHQL stands for: nothing but having paid MS some cash.
As for accelerated 2D, if I read the featurelist of even the latest ATI hardware you see that a lot of 2D things are not accelerated at all, not that that's needed nowadays, but why make a silly statement suggesting it does? Vector graphics are not accelerated by the GPU (not by their competitors either though).
This 'article' was an ad blurted out by a corporate guy who has no idea about what his company is actually making.