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devdeep
I am about to get this card. Does it use the normal drivers available
on the ATI.com site please (including MMC etc)?
on the ATI.com site please (including MMC etc)?
B
Brian Dickens
devdeep said:
Yes. I have yet to see the first ATi-based videocard which doesn't work with
the ATi reference drivers. In fact, almost all videocard manufacturers
supply the ATi Catalyst drivers themselves - only with a different logo...
=- Brian Dickens, the Netherlands
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patrickp
Yes. I have yet to see the first ATi-based videocard which doesn't work with
the ATi reference drivers. In fact, almost all videocard manufacturers
supply the ATi Catalyst drivers themselves - only with a different logo...
=- Brian Dickens, the Netherlands
OEM cards should work perfectly well with the ATI display drivers, but
will not always work with MMC - in particular, the some versions of
the TV/Video In app will not work with OEM AIW or VIVO cards. You'll
notice that while, as Brian says, most OEM manufacturers offer a
version of the Catalyst display drivers a version or two older than
the current ATI ones, they don't offer MMC versions.
OEM cards can sometimes be modified to run TV/Video in apps by hacking
the card BIOS so it identifies itself as a "Built by ATI" card - but
not always.
In addition, of course, if you want to install any of the licensed ATI
DVD player apps, you'll need an appropriate ATI CD.
Patrick
<[email protected]> - take five to email me...
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Ian
patrickp said:
In the case of Powercolor, their driver download page contains hyper
links to ATI's site! So they don't even bother with OEM. Fair enough.
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