New ATI 7.95 Drivers Now Available For Download - Page 2

Well mine seems fine. The 7.95 drivers also let you get into 8X AGP.

Got the new vid card today. OMG I really didn't know how bad my last one was. First off it could barely do CoD in 1600x1200 this one smooth as glass. Old one 1 hr of play and it was out. This one just fine. So far and now that we can do agp 8x. I am begining to believe the advrerts. finally. I still have to do some prolonged gaming to make sure that my new 9600 really works properly. But so far so good. I didn't realize how good CoD was supp ose to look.


Finally beginning to be a happy customer

So you used to have the nVidia and AW sent you an ATI? Did they actually send you the ATI? How much did you pay for the new gfx card?

it got pulled off because they found a bug in it

No I had a bad ATI... It had an over heating problem, and the performance was absolutly crap I could not understand what you guys were talking about I had problems with most game running at 1024x768. Now I have played both the Deus Ex 2 demo and CoD on 1600x1200 and the ran fine. Also my lap top is much quieter now. I pay nothing so long as I send the defrective one back with in a buisness week. Now I know why I bought the warrenty. I am begining to fall in with my new lappy. Actually my girlfriend hates it say it is taking over my life. Whatever I'm only on it when Im awake

Regarding the 7.95 Drivers...

Well I looked at the Alienware forums, and Alienware support people are saying they pulled the 7.95 drivers off the site because of a bug that was found.

I find this interesting considering that the 7.93 drivers couldn't be installed by some people (I'm one).

Anyway, I discovered that I had issues with running my Laptop on battery power with the new 7.95 drivers. I would get that dreaded black screen at or before boot up.

So, back to 7.91 I went, all is well now. LOL

I also did the Bios flash with a tech support person (middle of last week). That was another part of my black screen at boot up problem, or so Alienware has told me.

It seems fine now...only time will tell.

--Remington

Warren at alienware techsupport told me the drivers were taken down because there was a bug they needed to fix. He did not eplain the bug in detail but he did say there was one, i am waiting for his reply on the list of bugs.

I found that if you have the powerplay set to conserve battey power then all kinds of weird stuff happens to your screen. No BSOD though not yet at least.

They are back up by the way.

The 7.95's are linked back up again, and they are the SAME drivers that were on there days ago....WTF?

Like I said the only thing I noticed it that if you use the vid card powerplay prog. weird stuff happens to your display but thats all I've noticed. What kind of Wireless Router do you have. I have heared people are having good success with the netgear g and linksys g.

Black Screen at Boot-

Gotta love the new vid drivers - I'd give them a 9 out of 10. -9 that is.

Why what has happended while you were using them.

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I'm getting the black screen at BOOT - stick at AW logo... thought it was just my AW -- looks like its part of the update. Also the new drivers did not fix the wash - still have to play the gamma game.

I'm using a D-Link enhanced 802.11b. The enhanced part lets it operate at 22Mbps insted of 11Mbps. It works good. It's in a second floor room and I can go outside with it and it still gets good reception.

As far as the blank screen haven't had that happen yet. But I did go get the netgear g router. And it's working quite well I cant really test it out right now my girlfriend keeps bugging me to do other stuff will let yall know as soon as I can.

7.95 drivers for ATI

Yup Rfaster, I too had the same problem with the "new" 7.95 drivers. The trusty black screen at reboot or shortly thereafter. I went back to the 7.91, and it works better for me.

I called tech support and they walked me through the whole flashing of the Bios, back when I first recieved my laptop because of that black screen at boot up problem.

All was fine untill I installed the 7.95 drivers, and it was back to the random black screen at boot up.

I did get rid of the start up washout problem. Mine had to do with a part of the external Audigy Soundblaster driver installation. I still think it's due to crappy drivers for the ATI card, but the solution wasn't that extreme, so I went with it.

If you have the ATI card, and you recieved the external USB Audigy Soundblaster, and installed the software that came with it, you may notice that after the remote control icon slides in and out of the upper right hand corner that's when your screen goes bright. I disabled that remote at start up, and it doesn't wash out anymore.

But there are some games that after I exit them, like COD, i get that bright display.
This is a known issue with that game, and the ATI mobility 9600 card.

Hopefully, Alienware and ATI will finally develop drivers that actually work properly, and no longer have such glitches.

Anyway, sorry to ramble on. Hope I've offered some insight.

-Remington

No problems here.