Which ATI driver works best with an old Radeon card?

kick · Post by **kick** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:46 pm

What's the most stable and feature-rich ATI driver for older (R200-based) cards?
Is the newer 'ATI Catalyst for Older ATI cards 6.5' driver better than the old Cat 5.xx series?
What was the last (WinXP) version of Catalyst that supported TruForm for R200-based cards?

(ATI dropped support for the older cards a long time ago,starting from 6.3)

ReRuss · Post by **ReRuss** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:50 pm

I think cat 4.5's worked best on my old 9200se

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:12 pm

I forget when Truform was rid of, but it was limited at best since it required game support to be of any relevence.

Just pick one and be happy.

kick · Post by **kick** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:17 pm

GLView reports the last version supporting TF was 6.14.10.4579 before they totally removed it.

EDIT: Looks like GLView's database is outdated.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 6:19 pm

Just go google last version of truform then. I'm pretty sure it was like the early 5.x like 5.4 or so.

Edit: http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?t=33830145 - this claims before 5.9

kick · Post by **kick** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:23 pm

Nevermind,I got it working.
Any driver older than 5.9 (Catalyst 5.8 or older) works.
The tricky part was finding those older drivers,but fortunately driverheaven.net has everything you need

EDIT: From my testing,5.8 seems to be the most stable so far (even supports Truform).I've been using 5.9 all the time,so I wondered why Truform wasn't working despite being able to activate it through the registry.
Heh,not only that,but 5.8 has even less bugs

kick · Post by **kick** » Sun Apr 22, 2007 10:48 pm

Off to play those old classics again

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:19 am

for newer cards, are the new Catalyst drivers better than the older Omegas?