ATI Catalyst seems to be dead

[phantom]

Well, that subject sums it up pretty well. ATI's Catalyst driver suite
look dead to me. It's been over a year (http://ati.amd.com/support/
drivers/2k/radeonx-2k.html) since they have released a new driver. I
heard it was supposed to be approximately monthly.. It seems that AMD
bought them and cancelled the whole thing. should my next video card
be an NVIDIA card? Before AMD bought them I would never have even
considered such a thing, but I hate AMD more than I hate NVIDIA, and
ATI's stopped making drivers, so.. Did AMD make them ignore the old
Radeon technology and just work on the new stuff? I see that sort of
thing happen alot.

(It would have made so much more sense for AMD to buy NVIDIA, since,
as alot of people say, NVIDIA cards perform better with AMD and that
ATI cards perform better with Intel)

 

[Frank McCoy]

Well, that subject sums it up pretty well. ATI's Catalyst driver suite
look dead to me. It's been over a year (http://ati.amd.com/support/
drivers/2k/radeonx-2k.html) since they have released a new driver. I
heard it was supposed to be approximately monthly.. It seems that AMD
bought them and cancelled the whole thing. should my next video card
be an NVIDIA card? Before AMD bought them I would never have even
considered such a thing, but I hate AMD more than I hate NVIDIA, and
ATI's stopped making drivers, so.. Did AMD make them ignore the old
Radeon technology and just work on the new stuff? I see that sort of
thing happen alot.

(It would have made so much more sense for AMD to buy NVIDIA, since,
as alot of people say, NVIDIA cards perform better with AMD and that
ATI cards perform better with Intel)

I think you're just on the wrong page.
Try going through support.ati.com:
http://support.ati.com/ics/

 

[John Weiss]

Well, that subject sums it up pretty well. ATI's Catalyst driver suite
look dead to me. It's been over a year (http://ati.amd.com/support/
drivers/2k/radeonx-2k.html) since they have released a new driver.

V7.3 was just released. What version do you have?

 

[phantom]

The hell? I just posted a reply and it didn't get added. I'll sum it
up:
http://support.ati.com/ics/
=
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894
Drivers & Software goes to:
http://ati.amd.com/online/customercareportal/drivers.html
Windows 2000 Professional => Radeon => Radeon 9550 series
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/2k/radeonx-2k.html
Version 6.2. Which is what I have. There was once a 6.3 on that page,
which I had updated to, but then they rolled it back to 6.2, so,
figuring it must be more stable, I reinstalled 6.2 on my system.

 

[Frank McCoy]

The hell? I just posted a reply and it didn't get added. I'll sum it
up:
http://support.ati.com/ics/
=
http://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894
Drivers & Software goes to:
http://ati.amd.com/online/customercareportal/drivers.html
Windows 2000 Professional => Radeon => Radeon 9550 series
http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/2k/radeonx-2k.html
Version 6.2. Which is what I have. There was once a 6.3 on that page,
which I had updated to, but then they rolled it back to 6.2, so,
figuring it must be more stable, I reinstalled 6.2 on my system.

Ah ... I think I see the problem:
Windows 2000
Lots of people are dropping updated support for 3.1, 2000, 98, 98SE, and
Me. They figure the last update for that OS worked; so why add new
fixes? They base this assumption on the fact that Micro$hit isn't
supporting the older crap any more; so why should they?

 

[phantom]

Ah.. Well then.. I wonder if I can complain to them about it..