This release note provides information on ATI's beta 2 driver for the Microsoft Windows XP 64 bit operating system, running on AMD64 systems. This beta driver is supported on the following ATI RADEON™ products.
- RADEON™ X800 series
- RADEON™ X700 series
- RADEON™ X600 series
- RADEON™ X300 series
- RADEON™ 9800 series
- RADEON™ 9700 PRO
- RADEON™ 9600 TX
- RADEON™ 9550
- RADEON™ 9500 series
Installing CATALYST Beta 2 for Windows XP 64 bit for AMD64
This section provides information on installing the CATALYST™ Beta 2 for Windows XP 64bit for AMD64 systems for supported ATI RADEON™ products.
Caution: The BETA display drivers provided are offered AS IS, without warranty of any kind, and have NOT been completely qualified by ATI. ATI does NOT recommend installing these drivers in systems used for mission critical operations or where productivity of any kind is a concern. These BETA drivers are NOT SUPPORTED by ATI Technical Support or any other ATI department. If you decide to install these drivers and encounter issues that you cannot work with, we suggest these drivers be uninstalled and that you install the "Recommended" drivers for your specific product found on the ATI website at http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html.
Should the ATI Setup Auto Launch fail, follow these steps:
- Navigate to the DRV64A directory created on your system and double-click Setup.exe. This directory is found where the downloaded files have been saved to. Accept all the default prompts.
- Navigate to the CP directory created on your system and double-click Setup.exe. This directory is found where the downloaded files have been saved to. Accept all the default prompts.
- Re-start your system as required.
Note: ATI Technologies Inc. recommends that the software driver for your video card is installed prior to the installation of the ATI Control Panel.
Known Issues
This section provides information on known issues associated with the CATALYST™ Beta 2 for Windows XP 64bit for AMD64 video driver.
Note: Users may encounter D3D and OGL performance issues which may be due to lack of 64 bit AGP drivers within the beta version of the operating system. Users should verify whether their system has 64 bit AGP drivers installed. If you require AGP drivers, you should contact the AGP chipset vendors or motherboard manufacturers.
- Having the option Link Time Code Generation enabled results in an error message indicating that there is Insufficient Destination Size for Storage
- Entering the display properties and unchecking the option to Use DDC Information results in a dialog box being displayed indication Run a DLL as an App has encountered a problem and needs to close
- Setting the system BIOS to either S1 or S3 power saving state results in a Windows system error message when attempting to restart from hibernation mode
- Installing the ATI software driver under Windows XP64 AMD results in the TV option tab not being displayed
- Neither the Reduce DVI Frequency on High Resolution Displays option or the DVI Alternate Operating Mode option is currently available when connecting a flat panel capable of 1600x1200 display resolution
- Clicking on the Change/Remove button found in the Add/Remove programs currently displays the bus type information as N/A
- Currently, once the display driver has competed its' installation, a reboot message appears even though the ATI control panel is still being installed
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