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AMD releases Catalyst 7.1 for Vista

Published on 30th January 2007 by Tim Smalley

Grab Catalyst 7.1 for Windows Vista over at ati.amd.com.

AMD has released its first official WHQL certified display drivers for Windows Vista.

Catalyst 7.1 includes a whole host of new features and a massively improved Catalyst Control Center.

The new features include:

Blu-ray and HD DVD support;
CrossFire support;
Native OpenGL support;
Catalyst Install Manager;
New Catalyst Control Center.

The speed of Catalyst Control Center is massively improved with both start up time and overall responsiveness enhancements. It's also not so much of a system resource hog, either.

If you're an ATI graphics card owner that is in the process of upgrading to Vista, you definitely don't want to miss them. You can download the drivers from ATI's support page.

We're expecting NVIDIA's first official Forceware 100-series Vista drivers to tip up sometime today - we'll let you know when they do.

Meanwhile, you can discuss ATI's driver developments in the forums.

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PHILIP1193 30th January 2007, 13:42

any 1 got any news on them? i.e performance within vista?

Phil

teamtd11 30th January 2007, 13:54

there is a good review on them here

r4tch3t 30th January 2007, 14:24

So is there any point updating the drivers for my x800, I havn't updated the drivers for over a year.

teamtd11 30th January 2007, 14:28

not realy any point upgrading for better performance, as there will be little. but there will of been a lot of bug fixes, so if you playing new games, then you might want to update.

r4tch3t 30th January 2007, 14:30

Might get them next time I do a reformat, instead of using the disk it came with

kenco_uk 30th January 2007, 15:20

Slightly related, Guru3d have leaks of the 100.x beta version for vista, including support for 8800's.

Fiber4now 31st January 2007, 02:25

Is there any reason to have a Vista driver when ATI does not have a directX 10 card as of yet?