If you own a R200 based board, these are definately the cat's ass. Good clarity, funky tabs, good compatability, and they make the 7.7 DVD look excellent. If, however, you are like me and still cling to your old Radeon (R100)64mb vivo this driver set licks some serious ass.
This is just a small list of problems that I encountered with Catalyst and the latest MMC package:
1. No anistropic filtering support(it can be forced, but makes games run like crap).
2. Catalyst drivers are not compatable with the older 4.1 DVD. This would not be much of a problem if it were not for the fact that....
3. The 7.6/7.7 DVD is gawd awful on the R100. The picture quality is that of a low price walmart dvd player. Grainy picture coupled with massively pixelated red hues make it hard on my old eyes. I wonder if it even supports hardware acceleration for my card. Not that important, but my PC is the center of my home theater.
4. Ati was too lazy to include drivers for the capture software in catalyst. I spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out what the hell the "unknown device" was on my comp (the rage theater chip....doh
).
After messing around with the drivers, I have reverted back to the last set that provided me with the options i luv (128x anistropic filtering and crystal clear 4.1 DVD software anyone?), the 9013's for Win98. I realize that technology waits for no man, and I will be upgrading to the R300 when it's released (I decided to skip a generation if I could), I'm just angry that Ati left us R100 users pi$$ing in the wind so abruptly...
This is just a small list of problems that I encountered with Catalyst and the latest MMC package:
1. No anistropic filtering support(it can be forced, but makes games run like crap).
2. Catalyst drivers are not compatable with the older 4.1 DVD. This would not be much of a problem if it were not for the fact that....
3. The 7.6/7.7 DVD is gawd awful on the R100. The picture quality is that of a low price walmart dvd player. Grainy picture coupled with massively pixelated red hues make it hard on my old eyes. I wonder if it even supports hardware acceleration for my card. Not that important, but my PC is the center of my home theater.
4. Ati was too lazy to include drivers for the capture software in catalyst. I spent a good chunk of time trying to figure out what the hell the "unknown device" was on my comp (the rage theater chip....doh
).After messing around with the drivers, I have reverted back to the last set that provided me with the options i luv (128x anistropic filtering and crystal clear 4.1 DVD software anyone?), the 9013's for Win98. I realize that technology waits for no man, and I will be upgrading to the R300 when it's released (I decided to skip a generation if I could), I'm just angry that Ati left us R100 users pi$$ing in the wind so abruptly...
