NEW ATI Catalyst 5.6 Released

Spinner (Spinner) ATI has released a new set of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards.

June 9, 2005 3:25 PM ET in News

ATI has released a new set of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards. Go grab ‘em while they’re hot!

Download: [link=http://www2.ati.com/drivers/5-6_xp-2k_dd_cp_wdm_23864.exe][b]ATI Catalyst 5.6 (2000/XP)[/b][/link] (24.9MB) – [b]ATI Catalyst 5.6 (XP64)[/b] (25.3MB)
View: [link=http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_56_release_notes.html]Release notes (2000/XP)[/link] – Release notes (XP64) – [link=http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=33630746]Cataylst removal guide[/link] – [link=http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=178]ATI Catalyst Uninstaller[/link]

Source: ATI

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3 Comments:

  1. TheBaron
    9 Jun '05, 6:59 pm

    supposedly the catalyst control center is much more low impact now
    im installing this right away

    EDIT: you only have the control panel install linked, which isn't where the major benefits of this new version lie

  2. Spinner
    9 Jun '05, 9:23 pm
    Quoting TheBaron

    supposedly the catalyst control center is much more low impact now
    im installing this right away

    EDIT: you only have the control panel install linked, which isn't where the major benefits of this new version lie

    The reason why I never link to the Control Center version in news items, or in the downloads section, is because users are required to have .NET Framework installed. The standard Control Panel version does not. The majority of users won't have .NET installed, and I want to make it as convenient as possible for the average user to get driver updates. The average users also won't have any desire to use the extra features the Control Center offers over that of the Control Panel. I also imagine the average user won't want to download a 30MB file just to update their drivers.

    I could just post an extra link to the Control Center version in the news posts obviously, but I'm trying to keep the news download links as straight forward as possible. I will however consider it for next month.

    Regardless, the exact same time I post news items such as this, I update the Newest Video Drivers thread (linked to below), which coincidently I've just revamped to better accommodate users like yourself with regard to the different driver install versions for the ATI Catalyst suites.

    Newest Video Drivers Thread

    Cheers

  3. Nosferatu
    11 Jun '05, 4:39 am

    BF2 demo crashes my system (Win2k SP4) with the latest Omega ATI drivers (Cat. 5.4) when it was going through it's shader optimization. Now it gets past that with these drivers (Cat. 5.6) but it still crashes during single player... seemingly random. I haven't tried multiplayer yet.

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