AMD heeft drivers beschikbaar gesteld die gebruikt kunnen worden op de bètarelease van Windows 7. De drivers zijn alleen geschikt voor de Radeon HD 2000-, 3000- en 4000-series in zowel de desktop- als mobile-variant en moederborden uitgerust met een 780G-, 780V- of 790GX-chipset. Op deze pagina zijn downloads te vinden voor de 32bits- en 64bits-uitvoeringen van Windows 7 en de download ligt rond de 70MB. De drivers worden geleverd inclusief Catalyst Control Center, maar AMD laat weten dat nog niet alle mogelijkheden geïmplementeerd zijn. Hieronder is een stuk uit de release notes voor deze eerste bètadrivers te vinden:
The Catalyst Windows 7 Driver supports the following products:Operating Systems Support
- ATI Radeon HD 4000 Series
- ATI Radeon HD 3000 Series
- ATI Radeon HD 2000 Series
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 Series
- ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000 Series
- AMD 780 G
- AMD 780 V
- AMD 790 GX
If the display driver fails to load, and reports a Code 39 error after installation, use the following steps to disable Driver Signature Enforcement and install the display driverKnown Issues
- Press F8 at the Boot Options Menu
- Choose Disable Driver Signature Enforcement in the Advanced Boot Options menu
- Press Enter
Known Non AMD Issues
- Black video may occur when switching to full screen during DVD playback under windows Media Center
- System may become unstable when running Graphics test suite test 'Punish' or 'SewWhat'
- Moving a video clip file across an extended desktop may causes Windows Media player to stop responding on ATI Radeon 31xx, 24xx devices
- Some systems may become unstable when returning from hibernation (s4 sleep) or Media Center may stop responding during playback of AVCHD files when PowerDVD8 is installed on the system
- Playing back some H.264 videos with Picture-In-Picture enabled may cause the system to stop responding
- Frame Buffer Compression (FBC) is disabled on ATI Radeon HD 3200 Graphics
- On a mobile platform which has LVDS and external digital display connected, when users choose to show desktop on the external digital display, both LVDS and the external digital display will turn off.
- Doom 3 stops responding when Super-Anti Alias has been enabled
- When switching between PAL and NTSC modes the TV out display may blank out
- After running 3DMark 2005 the primary display may remain at a blank screen
- Catalyst Control Center, “Link Failure” message may appears when triggering a mode change on the DFPdisplay
- While in the Windows Logon screen, hot plugging a digital display intermittently may not be recognized by the system
- Catalyst Control Center, the basic quality preview does not properly reflect the actual deinterlacing setting
- Catalyst Control Center, Advance Color page, when enabling the advanced color settings the preview window may blank out
- Under Windows 7 64-bit, the display drivers can not be uninstalled using the ATI express uninstall option
- Catalyst Control Center, the display manager page has been disabled for this release of the Windows 7 display driver
- Catalyst Control Center basic view the “Go” button has been disabled for this release of the Windows 7 driver
- Catalyst Control Center, image scaling will only function for single display configurations using a DFP or LCD display
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- Windows Media Player minimized mode, the controls do not function properly with preview thumbnail
- Playing a Full Screen OpenGL and Direct3D games may show black borders in some display resolutions
- 3GPP and AAC formatted clips cannot be played using built in Windows 7 CODECS
- Some OpenGL titles may show horizontal flickering during menus and gameplay
- OpenGL does note work in 16bit color modes
- Swapping a HDMI display with a DVI display while the system in sleeps may cause the system to stop responding on start up
- Display profile is not retained between hot plugging and hot unplugging.
- Unable to change display mode after a some displays ares hotplugged and detected
- Hot Plugging some display while another is already connected may cause the OS to incorrectly enumerates it
- Some delay may be experienced when 'Applying' display configuration on a multi display system
- After hot-unplugging a digital display from a multi-display configuration, the current display setting does note refresh
Catalyst 32-bit Windows 7 Beta Driver
Catalyst 64-bit Windows 7 Beta Driver[break]