ATI Radeon Driver for Windows 7

New operating system Windows 7 has been released by Microsoft and ATI Radeon has released drivers for both 32 and 64 bit Windows 7 Media Center. ATI Radeon Driver is the first Catalyst driver release that supports Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system for all of those who are using the beta release. Go to ATI's official site, if you are looking for Windows 7 Radeon drivers.

In case your mobile chipset is not quite "officially" supported, you can also modify them with Driver Heaven's Mobility Modder. ATI Radeon Driver allows you to swap back and forth between OSs with the same driver set.

Without the hassle of multiple drivers, versions, it makes for an easy, clean Windows 7 experience. It is nice to be able to take advantage of the newer display drivers in view of the in-box driver in the recent builds of W7 dates back to 2006.

The following drivers are available:

• ATI Radeon HD 4800,4600,4550,4350,3870 Series
• HD 3850
• HD 3600,3400,2900 Series
• HD 2600 and 2400 Series(PCIe)
• For Integrated/Motherboard:
• Radeon HD 3200, 3100.

Use the following steps to disable Driver Signature Enforcement and install the display driver, if the display driver fails to load, and reports a Code 39 error after installation.

• For Dual Boot Systems
• Boot system
• Press F8 at the Boot Options Menu
• Choose Disable Driver Signature Enforcement in the Advanced Boot
• Options menu
• Press Enter
• For Single Boot Systems
• After the system BIOS screen, press F8
• Choose Disable Driver Signature Enforcement in the Advanced Boot
• Options menu
• Press Enter

Known Issues:

You can get information about known issues from this section which may be experienced under the Windows 7 operating system with the newest release of the Catalyst Windows 7 Preview Driver Package. These include the following:

• Open GL is not supported under Windows 7 - 64 bit editions.
• AMD devices based on the RV730 GPU are not supported in this release of the Windows 7 Driver Package.
• This display driver should not be installed under Windows Vista 32/64 operating systems. WARNING: The INF install method has not been disabled for Windows Vista and the operating system will attempt to install the driver.
• Playback of some protected content over component video will be blocked by Macrovision copy protection.
• Playing some full screen OpenGL and Direct 3D games may cause the wrong display resolution.
• Desktop Windows Manager will become disabled in high resolution and multi display extended modes.
• On some systems, a restarts can intermittently occur when hot plugging the display.
• With some digital monitors hot plugging the monitor may not enable the display.
• When booting into Windows 7, some systems may become unstable with certain display configurations.
• Catalyst Control Center Displays Manager Page has been disabled for this release of the Windows 7 driver.
• Catalyst Control Center Basic - Easy Setup Wizard has been disabled for this release of the Windows 7 driver.
• Catalyst Control Center Image Scaling under the Digital Panel Page has been disabled for this release of the Windows 7 driver.
• Catalyst Control Center: Modifying the TV Format Selection under the TV
• Properties page will disable the TV output until the next reboot.
• Booting Windows 7 or changing resolutions with an Analog TV connected may cause the system to stop responding.
• Open GL may stop working on systems with three or more active displays.
• Running some benchmarks may cause the system display to blank.
• The AVIVO Video Transcoder functionality has been disabled for this release.

You can download and learn ATI Radeon Driver for Windows 7 from official website http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx.

Source: drivers.softpedia.com