Catalyst 7.8 now available

Downloaded it today.

Looked at the Release Notes: Don't see much mentioned about the x1950pro
I'm running, or any games I play. I think I will hold off on installing
this one and see what others say first.

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Their was a time, not so long ago, that downloading a 35meg file meant
starting the download and going to bead -- waking up in the morning and
hoping all went well. (Which often did not.) BOY AM I GLAD I have a
high-speed wireless connection. It took two maybe three minutes to
download.

God bless America and High-Bandwidth Internet connections.

Just installed it over 7.7 on an X700Pro on Vista 64. Seems fine.

If I don't install the Catalyst Control Centre, can I still access all the
ATI display settings?

150MB seems excessive for a control panel applet to change display settings.

TIA


"William" <nospam@pacifier.com> wrote in message
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> Downloaded it today.
>
> Looked at the Release Notes: Don't see much mentioned about the x1950pro
> I'm running, or any games I play. I think I will hold off on installing
> this one and see what others say first.
>
> ---------
>
> Their was a time, not so long ago, that downloading a 35meg file meant
> starting the download and going to bead -- waking up in the morning and
> hoping all went well. (Which often did not.) BOY AM I GLAD I have a
> high-speed wireless connection. It took two maybe three minutes to
> download.
>
> God bless America and High-Bandwidth Internet connections.
>
>
>

"Piers James" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
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> Just installed it over 7.7 on an X700Pro on Vista 64. Seems fine.
>
> If I don't install the Catalyst Control Centre, can I still access all the
> ATI display settings?

ATi Tray Tools is the popular alternative to Catalyst Control Center in XP.
However, according to the release notes it doesn't work in Vista 64.

> 150MB seems excessive for a control panel applet to change display
> settings.

The total size of the English Catalyst 7.8 package is 96.8 MB. Catalyst 7.7
was only 48.2 MB. Wonder what caused the size to double?

--
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It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> "Piers James" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:eYpwi.20826$h11.10321@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
>> Just installed it over 7.7 on an X700Pro on Vista 64. Seems fine.
>>
>> If I don't install the Catalyst Control Centre, can I still access all
>> the
>> ATI display settings?
>
> ATi Tray Tools is the popular alternative to Catalyst Control Center in
> XP.
> However, according to the release notes it doesn't work in Vista 64.
>
>> 150MB seems excessive for a control panel applet to change display
>> settings.
>
> The total size of the English Catalyst 7.8 package is 96.8 MB. Catalyst
> 7.7
> was only 48.2 MB. Wonder what caused the size to double?
>
> --

I wonder how much of the difference might be added
support for Vista? So even without making the switch,
I might have to put up with Vista induced bloat.

Luck;
Ken

"First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
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> "Piers James" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:eYpwi.20826$h11.10321@newsfe7-gui.ntli.net...
>> Just installed it over 7.7 on an X700Pro on Vista 64. Seems fine.
>>
>> If I don't install the Catalyst Control Centre, can I still access all
>> the
>> ATI display settings?
>
> ATi Tray Tools is the popular alternative to Catalyst Control Center in
> XP.
> However, according to the release notes it doesn't work in Vista 64.
>
>> 150MB seems excessive for a control panel applet to change display
>> settings.
>
> The total size of the English Catalyst 7.8 package is 96.8 MB. Catalyst
> 7.7
> was only 48.2 MB. Wonder what caused the size to double?
>

well quite I noticed that as well.

i used to use ati tray tools on xp, but was wondering if there was a vista
compatible tool.

thanks anyway.

Added support for Vista??? Just so there are no misunderstandings, the
Catalyst package isn't unified across operating systems. There are separate
downloads for Vista and XP. The XP driver doesn't include "Vista-induced
bloat".

--
"War is the continuation of politics by other means.
It can therefore be said that politics is war without
bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."

"Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > The total size of the English Catalyst 7.8 package is 96.8 MB. Catalyst
> > 7.7 was only 48.2 MB. Wonder what caused the size to double?
>
> I wonder how much of the difference might be added
> support for Vista? So even without making the switch,
> I might have to put up with Vista induced bloat.
>
> Luck;
> Ken
>

> "Ken Maltby" <kmaltby@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:k-idnQE-WNr5cV_bnZ2dnUVZ_g-dnZ2d@giganews.com...
>> > The total size of the English Catalyst 7.8 package is 96.8 MB. Catalyst
>> > 7.7 was only 48.2 MB. Wonder what caused the size to double?
>>
>> I wonder how much of the difference might be added
>> support for Vista? So even without making the switch,
>> I might have to put up with Vista induced bloat.
>>
>> Luck;
>> Ken
>>

"First of One" <root@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:Rb-dnYzZJPteQ17bnZ2dnUVZ_uGknZ2d@giganews.com...
> Added support for Vista??? Just so there are no misunderstandings, the
> Catalyst package isn't unified across operating systems. There are
> separate downloads for Vista and XP. The XP driver doesn't include
> "Vista-induced bloat".
>
> --

You are probably correct, and I hope that they are still
writing optimized functions for each OS, even where a
common approach will work, in both.

Luck;
Ken