ATI Catalyst 10.4's are out

There's a new release of ATI drivers for their graphic cards.
http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
It corresponds to the April release. Better late than never.
A few fixes related to HD playback and, of course, game fixes.
Carlos

 

Thanks as always Carlos.. now lets see if I can get that 7.4 just a little
higher..

 

Sorry about the last empty post.

Thanks Carlos. I am starting to depend on you for the update
notices. <g>

BTW, I've never thanked you appropriately for recommending SlySoft's
AnyDVD HD. It really works well! I have a new monitor, which does
have HDCP, but you have to toggle it on and off. With SlySoft, I just
forget about it. SlySoft takes care of everything. I have *never*
failed for it to work perfectly.

Jim

 

Jim,
You are quite welcome.
Something I have noticed about this new driver release is that a reboot is
needed after installing it. Somehow the screen resolution goes nuts and only
a reboot gets it back to normal. Tried it on 3 different PC's. That didn't
happen with prior versions. Other than that, no issues so far.

Carlos

 

Carlos,

What is probably happening is a lower level driver needed replacing.
Most of the times they can get the higher level drivers for the video to
install and start-up easily and they are usually compatible with the
older lower level drivers.... What was happening was a small
incompatibility with the older lower level drivers that can't be
replaced until the system reboots and the higher level drivers.

;-)

James.

 

James,
Your explanations sounds logical.
It didn't disturb me much in two of the three installations.
The "two" ones were in PC's with LCD monitors attached via DVI and VGA.
The "third" (annoying) one was in my custom made home theater PC connected
via HDMI.
The driver installation caused a blue (not BSOD, just "no signal") screen on
the TV so I had to figure out when the driver had finished installing and
then press the reset button.
Driver installed fine.
Carlos

 

Jim,
There's a new kid in the block, competing with AnyDVD HD.
It is DVDFab Passkey:
http://www.dvdfab.com/en/passkey.htm
Freeware while it is in beta stage.
I wonder what the final price will be.
I have not tested it, though.
Carlos

 

Interesting, though I'm not sure why I'd want to move to it over the SlySoft
product, given I already paid for that and they seem quite concientious
about updating it. But it's always good to see other folks doing this.