We assume that a driver update is never easy or painless one thing and then my heartfelt advice is that if you’re not sure what you are doing, willingly donated money to your technical adviser, or used Driver Robot that will work for you saving a lot of time!
If you really can not do without risk, find below a step by step guide to update the drivers, unfortunately I can not be clearer than this because every driver, every computer and each operating system has its peculiarities and how it is to download to update it.
We go to Start -> Control Panel if you have the control panel as shown below click Switch to Classic view, at this point many more icons will appear and select System (if not found, it is usually in alphabetical order. We will open a window like the one in the picture below and you click the Hardware tab and then the Device Manager button.
The Device Manager window is quite complex but you have begin to fraternize if you update your drivers. There are a number of icons with more or less close. Those are the different types of devices that are installed on your computer. so in my case I’ll go look for the video card that I interested in upgrading to know which model I have. Seeking the icon that says: Video card and I click the + to open a submenu which contains the various drivers installed. In my case I am unlucky because I have two so far to understand what it takes a bit of common sense, in my case an ATI 4670.
Here I found the model I will note on a sheet but I also need to know the date of the driver.
Click the right button on the name of tab and choose Properties. Now I have the necessary data but to know where to download drivers must be careful because if your computer has a disk, you can go directly to the site of the device manufacturer, in this case, if it were my I went to was a fixed site of ATI.
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AMD today made available the ATI Catalyst drivers 10.04 WHQL video card the Radeon HD 2000 series HD 5000 and the latest Windows operating systems. Among the new AMD there are some improvements on the video front, as H.264 Level 5.1 support, which allows the ATI drivers to play streaming player 5.1 on all supported and at high resolutions (4Kx2K). AMD has incorporated in this version for updates regarding transcoding, with improved support for video conversion via Drag and Drop in Windows 7. The drivers support new formats (H.264 – MTS and WMV9 Complex profile interlaced content). The Catalyst Control Center, however, was equipped with an option to enable or disable GPU acceleration, while support to Video Converter available in a new guise.
The drivers will definitely succeed at full speed these days for Ati. Indeed, after the drivers WHQL 10.1, 10.1 for the hotfix Anti-Aliasing and Mass Effect 2 or the hotfix 10.1 for the Radeon HD 5500/5670, know that two new drivers, both based on Catalyst 10.1 have emerged recently.
The first hotfix is intended to recent Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 to correct a problem that caused the corruption of the display without reason. Screens and gray vertical lines could indeed occur randomly with both graphics cards. This hotfix contains the graphics driver 8.690.3.1 that is compatible with all Radeon HD but the installation only of interest to resolve this problem seems specific to models of the 5800 series.
The second hotfix coming out is him also based on Catalyst 10.1, but neither does the new features or bug fix in particular. It is simply the first driver compatible with graphics cards, entry-level Radeon HD 5450 which have just been announced by Ati.
If you buy soon a Radeon HD 5450, it is theoretically these drivers that will come with it. Vivement out the next Catalyst drivers 10.2, a hand to enjoy the enhancements promised by Ati, but also to see clearer because must admit it became very difficult to understand something from all the new cards out and all the drivers published.
New Catalyst drivers will be available in mid February (around 17 th); these drivers version 10.2 as well as version 10.3 of March are also distributed by ATI the online press last week and many previews have even been released this morning as the agreement of non-disclosure (NDA) has now ended.
So now we know with certainty what are the major innovations that will be present in version 10.2 to appear today and in the version 10.3 of March 2010. Catalyst 10.2, many new for CrossFireX configurations Catalyst 10.2 If the show actually a lot of news, however, requires that perspective as they relate almost exclusively CrossFireX configurations, namely a limited number of computers.
Do we complain about it not say! To begin, the Catalyst 10.2 will finally support a feature that was sorely lacking until now: the possibility to update the application profiles CrossFireX regardless of drivers.
The profiles will come in the form of an XML file included in a small program to update only a few hundred K. This will be rapidly updated by Ati as soon as a new video game requiring a profile CrossFireX be marketed.
It will be finished prior to the majority of hotfixes which came into being specifically for a single game. Still on the multi-GPU CrossFireX, know that it will now be fully compatible with the multi-screens Eyefinity recent Radeon HD 5000. The couple CrossFireX / Eyefinity was already supported hotfix from 9.12 last December but only experimentally. Same for the audio channel of the DisplayPort connector, which was also supported since the hotfix 9.12. It is now officially supported. Another of these innovations Catalyst 10.2 concerns only the Radeon HD 5000 series and especially the models 5700, 5800 and 5900. This is the PowerPlay technology which saves energy consumed by the multi-GPU CrossFireX. Now, with the PowerPlay feature enabled by default in Windows Vista and Windows 7, when the user is on the desktop or running it as 2D applications only the first GPU is used.
The second GPU is then placed in a state that can be described waking with chipset and memory frequencies greatly diminished after allowing Ati save up to 30% of energy. Of course, in 3D applications, both GPUs (or more) are fully operational for the best possible 3D performance. Finally, the code that manages the CrossFireX mode has been removed from the 3D driver and re-architecting a new Multi-GPU driver which will enable ATI to change its code and make optimizations easier. This new driver enables CrossFireX such as ensuring support for future graphics solutions combined PGI + additional graphic card.
The drivers will definitely succeed at full speed these days for Ati. Indeed, after the drivers WHQL Catalyst 10.1, 10.1 for the hotfix Anti-Aliasing and Mass Effect 2 or the hotfix 10.1 for the Radeon HD 5500/5670, know that two new drivers, both based on Catalyst 10.1 have emerged recently. The first hotfix is intended to recent Radeon HD 5850 and Radeon HD 5870 to correct a problem that caused the corruption of the display without reason. Screens and gray vertical lines could indeed occur randomly with both graphics cards. This hotfix contains the graphics driver 8.690.3.1 that is compatible with all Radeon HD but the installation only of interest to resolve this problem seems specific to models of the 5800 series. The second hotfix coming out is him also based on Catalyst 10.1 (8690), but neither does the new features or bug fix in particular. It is simply the first driver compatible with graphics cards, entry-level Radeon HD 5450 which have just been announced by Ati. If you buy soon a Radeon HD 5450, it is theoretically these drivers that will come with it.