Catalyst 9.7 Released

[Sylvanas]

Originally posted by: totalcommand

Originally posted by: Sylvanas
Downloaded and installed. I like how it fixed my refresh rate on Windows 7 with rig in sig (could not change it before), but I don't like the new CCC. It takes me two clicks now to get to the same thing, not a big deal really but I didn't see a need to change the old CCC, IMO it was fine.

Could you tell me how you did this?

My monitor is a 2209WA running at 1680 x 1050 @ 59hz.

I'd like to get it running at 1680 x 1050 @ 75hz (it supports this).

When I click "force refresh rate" to 75hz, the max resolution it lets me go to is 1280 x 1024.

Thanks.

Well, for me, when setting a new refresh rate, all I needed to do was click to drop down number and hit apply and it forced it to run at that through dxdiag- however it seems I have to set it on startup each time. If I were you I'd try forcing the desktop area to 1680x1050 and then try forcing the refresh rate. Have a muck around and see if anything works, if not, you may need to use another program to force refresh rates- Google should provide some answer on this, I think I remember Powerstrip used to do it, but I think that got discontinued years ago.

 

[Bateluer]

Installed them last night. CCC definitely boots up faster now.

 

[SlowSpyder]

Originally posted by: Bateluer
Installed them last night. CCC definitely boots up faster now.

Agreed. I used these for a few hours last night, so far so good. 9.6 would give me errors in F@H from time to time if I adjusted my GPU clock speed while F@H was running. So far I havne't gotten that with these drivers (or previous to 9.6 versions either).

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Hauk
I like the new CCC. Main thing I disliked about old CCC was the 3D tree being expanding in a window that wasn't adjustable. Couldn't see everything cleanly. Good riddens!

I like selecting the options of choice and them showcasing in the main window. :thumbsup:

Yep that is/was so annoying. I will try these out tonight.

 

[child of wonder]

Anyone had issues using an HDTV with these drivers? With 9.6 on my Vista x64 laptop I could select 1360x768 for the HDTV plugged in via HDMI, then adjust the under/overscan to get rid of the black bars on each side so it filled the whole screen.

Now with these new 9.7's if I select 1360x768 then under/overscan slider is greyed out. Best I can do is select 1280x720 and use under/overscan to make it almost fill the whole TV but the images look grainy/pixelated since I'm not at the TV's true resolution.

Any suggestions?

 

[Modular]

I'm looking forward to using the AVIVO video converter in Vista 64-bit.

 

[Fattysharp]

Installed last night. I noticed an overall preformance increase in the win7 64x version on the games I tried.

LOTRO showed a dramatic increase for me at ultra high settings 1920x1200 and 4xaa. Rarely dropped below 45fps, averaging low 50s on my 4870 512mg. Vsync and tropple buffering on.

 

[Goi]

Do these work on the Sapphire 4850X2, or does the 4850X2 still require a special Catalyst driver?

 

[PurdueRy]

This is a rarity for me. I had to go back to 9.6. 9.7 broke blu-ray black levels for me. Instead of outputting 0-255 its outputting 16-235 which completely ruins any movie.

Hopefully this will be fixed in 9.8.

 

[Elias824]

fixed my monitor issue, can finally use DVI on my main screen.