ATI CAT drivers

I am using release 7.5 with a Radeon 9600XT card (XP Home, SP2). Is there
any benefit to going to a later release (current is 8.6)? I don't play
games and the only video is Windows media and You Tube.

supposedly there were some attempted fixes for the "driver has stopper working" problem.




mikeyhsd@sprintpcs.com



"Lee M." <lmacmil@forget_it.com> wrote in message news:17CdnYxze51K6_LVnZ2dnUVZ_v_inZ2d@comcast.com. ..
I am using release 7.5 with a Radeon 9600XT card (XP Home, SP2). Is there
any benefit to going to a later release (current is 8.6)? I don't play
games and the only video is Windows media and You Tube.

Its working?
If so why update
And then if you must, use ATI site or your PC maker if OEM or Laptop - NOT
winupdate

"Lee M." <lmacmil@forget_it.com> wrote in message
news:17CdnYxze51K6_LVnZ2dnUVZ_v_inZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>I am using release 7.5 with a Radeon 9600XT card (XP Home, SP2). Is there
>any benefit to going to a later release (current is 8.6)? I don't play
>games and the only video is Windows media and You Tube.
>

Lee M. wrote:

> I am using release 7.5 with a Radeon 9600XT card (XP Home, SP2). Is there
> any benefit to going to a later release (current is 8.6)? I don't play
> games and the only video is Windows media and You Tube.

Going to a later release may have no effect for you. However, it could
introduce new bugs. I cannot go to the latest release because that
means a couple of games won't play correctly. I have to test which
release of their video driver will work best with all my applications.
I went to the latest version but had problems. I backed off to a prior
major release and the problems went away. I then tried each incremental
(minor) version until I ran into the problems and then backed off one
minor version to the latest prior version that worked well for me.

"Lee M." <lmacmil@forget_it.com> wrote in message
news:17CdnYxze51K6_LVnZ2dnUVZ_v_inZ2d@comcast.com. ..
>I am using release 7.5 with a Radeon 9600XT card (XP Home, SP2). Is there
>any benefit to going to a later release (current is 8.6)? I don't play
>games and the only video is Windows media and You Tube.
>

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