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ATi Catalyst Mobility Drivers Released!!!!!!

post #1 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:24pm
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These are based on the Catalyst 5.6, which are showing large improvements. I think this is the first time any mobility drivers are better than the Omegas!!

Review at Driver Heaven

CCC Download

CP Download

Catalyst Mobility Release Notes

****UPDATE:****

The Drivers will only install into certain ODM's notebooks.
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Originally Posted by ATi
Notebook Manufacturers Supported:
Clevo
Mitac
Uniwill
Arima
Graphics technologies supported
Mobility™ Radeon® X800
Mobility™ Radeon® X700
To find out if your notebook is supported, please run this program:

Installation Check
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post #2 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:30pm
Sorry for the noob question but could somebody please explain me what is the point of ATI Catalyst drivers.

I tried to read ATI's website but it didn't really make sense.
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post #3 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:33pm
they're drivers plus various software bundled with it for your ati video card

karma: i think you linked to the desktop catalyst drivers, not the mobility ones
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post #4 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:36pm
bah!

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Originally Posted by ATI
Catalyst™ Mobility™ Software Driver

End users are now able to download the latest Catalyst™ release for Windows XP every month for their notebook PC. This unified driver will include all of the regular Desktop Catalyst™ features, plus all of the laptop specific features our notebook users are familiar with - Initially the Catalyst™ Mobility™ driver will be only supported on the Mobility™ Radeon® X700 and Mobility™ Radeon® X800 graphics accelerators, from select system builders.
@bveld - Catalyst drivers are just updated drivers for your ATI graphics card...each new version usually (supposedly) offers better performance and bug fixes. This is a big deal because typically the official drivers (either from NVIDIA or ATI) have not supported the cards in notebooks, leading many users to install modified drivers, now they have the option of using official versions.
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post #5 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:38pm
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They are the software drivers for notebooks with ATi video chips.

This part I find very interesting:

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In June 2005, ATI commissioned AppLabs, a leading provider of quality assurance and testing, to conduct the test, pitting ATI's Radeon® display adaptors against comparable NVIDIA GeForce products. The objective of the test was to perform advanced software stress testing of the Radeon product line against the GeForce product line. AppLabs used publicly available test applications extracted from Microsoft's latest Windows Hardware Quality Lab test suite 5.3 to conduct the study in its Lindon, Utah facility. Testing was conducted on a variety of graphics adaptors from each of the two manufacturers, and included the repeated execution of a multitude of test cases (for more than 500 times on each card) to mimic a typical, long term, real-world PC usability scenario.

In this series of independent trials, ATI consistently earned higher stability rankings, scoring as high as 8.6 percent above NVIDIA. The AppLabs report concluded: "Based on the results of these software stress tests, the stability of the ATI Catalyst software exceeded that of their NVIDIA counterpart."
I never thought ATi would commission a different company for stability testing, but....*shrug*
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post #6 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:42pm
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Apparently the Mobility Drivers are only good for those with an X700 or X800 in their notebook. 9700 out of luck?

Knowledge Base

They also released a small program that lets users find out whether their notebook is compatible with the offical drivers, too.

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/mobile/atimcatw.exe
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post #7 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:47pm
Thanks for the info. The notebook I will be getting (LG LM70) has only X600. Does this mean I have to stick to Omega drivers?
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post #8 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:50pm
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Originally Posted by unfalliblekrutc
karma: i think you linked to the desktop catalyst drivers, not the mobility ones
They are unified drivers. So, all anyone has to do is download the Catalyst 5.6 and install:

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Originally Posted by ATi
End users are now able to download the latest Catalyst™ release for Windows XP every month for their notebook PC. This unified driver will include all of the regular Desktop Catalyst™ features, plus all of the laptop specific features our notebook users are familiar with - Initially the Catalyst™ Mobility™ driver will be only supported on the Mobility™ Radeon® X700 and Mobility™ Radeon® X800 graphics accelerators, from select system builders.
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post #9 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:51pm
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Originally Posted by bveld
Thanks for the info. The notebook I will be getting (LG LM70) has only X600. Does this mean I have to stick to Omega drivers?
From what ATi has said, they will be including the other notebook chips in later revisions. So for now, yeah, stick with the Omegas.
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post #10 of 29
6/9/05 at 1:57pm
Sweet! I'm getting an X700
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post #11 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:02pm
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Reading the review it shows some nice improvements over the 5.5's, expecially in Doom3, Chronicles of Riddick, Halo PC, and 3DMark'05.
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post #12 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:09pm
Well, SWEET! Do you know if it has the Control Center? I'm at work but will jump on my 7620 when I get home...
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post #13 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:14pm
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Anandtech and Hard OCP reviews:

ATI's Next Three Months Of Catalyst

ATI Catalyst 5.6 and Beyond

Mathew, do you mean Control Panel or Control Center?
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post #14 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:20pm
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OMG!!!!

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Originally Posted by HardOCP
With Catalyst 5.6, ATI is bringing the Catalyst suite to mobile users. With OEMs that opt into this program, users with Mobility Radeon X700 and X800-based systems will be able to go to ATI’s website and download drivers monthly just like desktop users. If you download this suite of drivers but your laptop maker is not in on this program, then the drivers will let you know that you cannot install them on your laptop. Instead, you’ll be advised to use the drivers provided by your laptop manufacturer.
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Originally Posted by Anandtech
OEMs that focus mainly on the business computing side of the market would rather have all their clients running exactly the same software configuration and down want to allow end users to download and install their own drivers. In these cases, working with stability is the only important concern. The result is that, even though ATI's driver will work with any of their current generation mobility parts, they will only allow the driver to be installed on a select few systems that have opted in to the process.
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post #15 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:30pm
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What we need is a Guinea Pig....
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post #16 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:42pm
So because I have a 9700m chip I shouldnt use these, correct?
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post #17 of 29
6/9/05 at 2:43pm
Sweet the new driver pack has installers for LINUX. Excellent!
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post #18 of 29
6/9/05 at 3:03pm
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Updated First Post to mention the ODM's supported.
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post #19 of 29
6/9/05 at 3:30pm
it said the video driver not found when i install it. I am using v3200.
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post #20 of 29
6/9/05 at 3:31pm
works fine on my 7700 with the x800
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