[Sc4freak]

It's the end of the month, and Catalyst 7.5 still hasn't been released.

Will this be the first time ATI misses a Catalyst release?

[gl33k]

and the most important ....

Is handle leak in armed assault resolved ?

[AlexV]

They have nothing to miss as they haven`t comitted themselves to a monthly release schedule, they`ve simply said that they`ll have 12 releases per year. Which sucks, in a way, by the way

[Geeforcer]

Originally Posted by Morgoth the Dark Enemy

They have nothing to miss as they haven`t comitted themselves to a monthly release schedule, they`ve simply said that they`ll have 12 releases per year. Which sucks, in a way, by the way

Are you sure about that?

[AlexV]

I see no statement in the lines of:we`ll be doing monthly Catalyst releases from now on, they`re just saying that which each monthly release bla bla. And you know that in the anal corporate environment of today, unless you`ve stated something in no relative terms, whilst signing something prooving you signed it, with the fingers of your right hand spread accross the bible, the coran, the one ring etc., you didn`t actually say it or you actually meant something else, if it comes around biting your ass.

[Geeforcer]

There are three things we strive for in Catalyst, and these have become the so-called “pillars� of ATI’s software strategy. They are stability, performance, and innovation. What this means is every month we will release a driver to the community that will improve at least one (and often, all three) of the pillars. Every month we have bug fixes that improve the stability of end user PCs, we have performance improvements to protect the end user’s investment, and we have new features to lead the industry in innovation.

What about this?

[AlexV]

That shows I`m stupid and don`t read stuff carefully. Still, it can be twisted and turned...and there are still no signs of a release, so...

[CJ]

It will be out today if the Xtreme Systems forums are to be believed: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...0&postcount=23

[AlexV]

That post is from the 25th, my support feedback was from last night so...dunno, I`d love to have them today, but I`m not holding my breath.

[vertex_shader]

Originally Posted by Morgoth the Dark Enemy

That shows I`m stupid and don`t read stuff carefully. Still, it can be twisted and turned...and there are still no signs of a release, so...

I not remember when i see a sign before catalyst released, its just coming out without any sign.
Same thing happend with catalyst 6.10, almost missed the monthly release schedule, its come out in the last day in october.
When the driver not so great still the better option for AMD miss the monthly schedule, than users start crying about driver bug's.

When 7.5 WHQL (8.37x) not coming today than i think AMD will skip it, and the next one 7.6 (8.38x) coming out in june.

[Geeforcer]

Originally Posted by Morgoth the Dark Enemy

That shows I`m stupid and don`t read stuff carefully. Still, it can be twisted and turned...and there are still no signs of a release, so...

Actually, it's my fault - that quote came from a different interview I forgot to link. Sorry for the confusion.

[NocturnDragon]

Originally Posted by Geeforcer

What about this? SNIP "What this means is every month we will release a driver to the community that will improve at least one (and often, all three) of the pillars." SNIP

Well I think it's nothing too unpredictable, didn't the first catalyst (talking about years ago) came out the first days of the month? 7.4 came out the 18 so in average every release took more than 30 days.

It seems like it's not the end of the world if, now that they have to support a new graphic card, (added to different versions of XP, Vista, new OGL driver) they take a couple of weeks more to release it.

After all if you count release 6.13, in a more statistic way you might seen that there has been one release per month. (Remember that if I eat a chicken and you don't statistically we would have eaten half chicken each :P )

[digitalwanderer]

Pfft, y'all are whining a bit early don't ya think? There's still a few hours of May left, they'll make it.

[Arnold Beckenbauer]

Originally Posted by Geeforcer

What about this?

Originally Posted by CATALYST maker

Hi DH'ers.
Just to give you an update on Catalyst 7.5.

It has been ready since last week on our end. They were submitted to Microsoft for WHQL certification. Since that time I have found out that Microsoft had a bit of a problem in their WHQL labs which has now been addressed. The drivers are back to us a few hours ago, and we have guys working hard to finalize the web posting. I expect it should be in the next few hours and you can all get Cat 7.5

TB, INSTG8R, your comments are suprising to me. Would you kindly start a new thread and let me know what specific problems you are facing. I am not aware of any problem that has persisted for 6 months as TB indicates, or any AA issue that INSTG8R mentions.

I will be monitoring new threads later today from you two.

PS. Just to be clear the Catalyst team commitment is 12 public WHQL certified driver updates a year (not 1 a month)... semantics but we have to do it that way because sometimes things are out of our control.

ROFL.

[vertex_shader]

Catalyst 7.5 released

[Geeforcer]

Got to give props to ATI for getting it done.

[neliz]

Dave was right, all date's on the files are of the 17th.. bad MS, bad MS...

[Richard]

Hmm... any particular reason why Cat7.5 is 10mb larger than Cat7.4?

[vertex_shader]

Originally Posted by Richard

Hmm... any particular reason why Cat7.5 is 10mb larger than Cat7.4?

Maybe because of Earthsim and Steam.
Its only 4.425.608 byte bigger than 7.4

[Richard]

Originally Posted by vertex_shader

Maybe because of Earthsim and Steam.

That's what I was afraid of.

Its only 4.425.608 byte bigger than 7.4

Hmm?

7-5_xp_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_46743.exe
41,942,600 bytes

-

7-4_xp_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_44981.exe
29,579,152 bytes

=

12,363,448 bytes

[AlexV]

And, of course, 1440x900 remains borked...sigh

[vertex_shader]

Originally Posted by Richard

That's what I was afraid of.



Hmm?

7-5_xp_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_46743.exe
41,942,600 bytes

-

7-4_xp_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_44981.exe
29,579,152 bytes

=

12,363,448 bytes

I count display driver only.
Looks like Earthsim its not in the whole package, 7.5 display driver only ~4mb bigger than 7.4, 7.5 CCC ~1 mb bigger than 7.4 CCC, still 7 mb left

[Karma]

Any 7.4 vs 7.5 comparisons available yet?

[wishiknew]

Did multisample aa make a showing?

[neliz]

Originally Posted by Morgoth the Dark Enemy

And, of course, 1440x900 remains borked...sigh

That's because the 8387's we've got is almost the same age as the release drivers, right? I thought they were dated May 11th. that's three workdays before they were submitted for whql.