new ATI video driver released — gamma fixed?

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DS_Nelson
Jun 11, 2004
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Ian_Lyons
Jun 11, 2004
Edit: Sheesh. Got trigger-happy on the keyboard and double-posted a blank. Sorry!

Not to worry the duplicate post has been deleted.
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Jake_Hannam
Jun 11, 2004
Thanks for the notification, DS … downloading now.

Jake
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Jake_Hannam
Jun 14, 2004
For anyone interested, 4.6 seems to work fine so far. Adobe Gamma is enabled and there are no slowdowns as there were with the ‘hot fix’.

Jake
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dave_milbut
Jun 15, 2004
GRRRAAAAAAA!!! Allright dammit! Downloading now! I’ve been trying to avoid it, but I can’t resist!

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povimage
Jun 15, 2004
FYI:

For some time, since acquiring one of the other board suppliers, ATI has been converging their Radeon and GeForce support..

This, in some cases, leads to problems for those of us with dual video boards in our machines (in my case an ATI Radeon 8500DV AGP and a Visiontek MX420 PCI). The way ATI writes their drivers does not support installations of dual instances of boards using their drivers. That means that now that they are converging GeForce and Radeon support, if I install newer drivers than version 4.2, things like the control panel and the multimedia center end up no longer working after the install..

Of course, ATI’s answer is always, "we don’t write support for dual video card installations… you should just rollback to 4.2 or earlier"

Keith
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dave_milbut
Jun 15, 2004
all seems well so far… 🙂
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Wade_Halva
Jun 15, 2004
Sorry, but this is just plain wrong. ATI has never provided support for Geforce based cards – that’s another chip maker – so I’m not sure where you are coming up with this. It may be true that they do not support two or more video cards in an install anymore, as many cards now have multiple monitor support, but ATI has never been the avenue of support for Geforce based cards, regardless of how many or how few were in the system.

HTH,
Wade
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povimage
Jun 15, 2004
Sorry, but this is just plain wrong. ATI has never provided support for Geforce based cards – that’s another chip maker

I’m well aware of that..

so I’m not sure where you are coming up with this.

Actually, I confused ATI’s purchases with VisionTek switching the chipsets it uses from nVidia to ATI.. As soon as Visiontek started using ATI grown drivers to go along with their new cards, the problems began. (the older PCI nVidia GeForce MX420 in my machine is a Visiontek – for whatever reason, the newer ATI software gets confused by that Visiontek card – it may think it’s supportable).

It may be true that they do not support two or more video cards in an install anymore, as many cards now have multiple monitor support,

They never officially supported it (in fact you could never use two of their cards or two nVidia cards under Windows, try that and it won’t even boot up), but now they’ve actually broken the drivers.. They don’t support it because they’d prefer to have buyers purchase the twinhead cards instead (just for the record… both my ATI AGP card and my PCI Visiontek card are twinhead capable cards).

Small problem though, twin head output cannot be calibrated and profiled under Windows.. Individual cards to different monitors can be on Windows XP (assuming the right software)..

Keith

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