Yah the ATI 7.3s are here !

[Dale White]

http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista32/common-vista32.html


http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/vista64/common-vista64.html

Now, I get to run all my benchmarks again !! Weeeeee ! ! !

 

[Guest]

I hope it work better than last one

 

[Dale White]

You had problems with the 7.2s ?

Not much differnce so far. The 7.3s still have me about 20 fps behind XP in
Doom3. It increased my XP 3dmark06 score by 26 and dropped my Vista64 score
by 1 point.

But unless I have a setting off somewhere, Vista64 finally beats XP in
something. It can run FEAR at 142, while XP runs at 139. Which is about a 15
point gain from before and about a 3 point loss on XP's side.

The Half-Life 2: Lost Coast demo is still sucking though.It scores a 93,
versus a 141. But this seems to be limited to Vista64. Has Vista32 scores at
127.

Still have more testing to do with Vista32. Weeee !

 

[Chris]

Hi, on certain setups the 7.3's produce a re-occurring bsod, which the 7.2's
didn't. There is a thread here
http://www.driverheaven.net/windows...-has-probs-bsods-vista-7-3-a.html#post1038361
dedicated to it...
ChrisC

 

[Dale M. White]

I am one of those certain people. Under Vista 64, I'm getting BSOD's after
the 2nd or 3rd reboot after applying the drivers. They seem to work, until I
run the CCC for the first time, then it BSODs on the next reboot.

 

[Chris]

Hi, ATI are working on a hotfix for it...
ChrisC

I am one of those certain people. Under Vista 64, I'm getting BSOD's after
the 2nd or 3rd reboot after applying the drivers. They seem to work, until
I run the CCC for the first time, then it BSODs on the next reboot.

 

[Dale M. White]

Yeah, I'm having the same issue under Vista32 !

Funny enough, these are two different installs. I got the BSOD under
Vista64, thought it was something I did, so I opted to format re-install. I
actually wound up formatting re-installing twice, before it dawned on me
that it was the Cat 7.3 drivers causing the crash. Really odd that I could
do a couple of boots before I'd get the BSOD. In this case, the 7.3 drivers
were the first drivers ever loaded

Under Vista32, I tried doing the upgrade option from 7.2 to 7.3 and it BSOD
on the first boot. So for me, it's 100% reproducible

Funny enough, I tried the installs a couple different ways, one with No UAC,
one with the true Admin account and under Vista32 with the usual user\admin
account with the UAC on. No matter which way I sliced it, BSOD.

Since I get a BSOD no matter what, under 2 different OSes, one being a brand
new install, I wonder how ATI didn't catch this sooner. Unless it has to do
with certain video cards with certain bioses or something.

Not that I'm going to complain too much, ATI has been pretty solid so far in
Vista, It does make me wonder, what the whole point of moving the Video
driver to user mode was ? So far, Vista seems more crash happy then XP was,
and this move was suppose to help prevent this

 

[Chris]

HI, hotfix from here
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=26900
It works fine on my system...
ChrisC

 

[Razzle Fratz]

I was also getting the BSOD on my 32 bit Vista Ultimate machine! It was
only after dropping back to the earlier version that things ran again. 7.3
is bad news!

 

[Dale M. White]

Those seem to have done the trick. Weeee !

HI, hotfix from here
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&questionID=26900
It works fine on my system...
ChrisC

 

[Dale White]

Well, take that back. After working for a bit, I'm back to crashes with the
win32.sys. I was getting a BSOD on boot about every 3 reboots. And then
after installing office 2003, it went back to every boot. Back on the 7.2s
and life is good again.

I'm going to blame the black pearl, since that where it crashes every time.