Catalyst 4.1 Driver Safe?

Steveman0810Steveman0810 Near Philadelphia
edited February 2004 in Hardware
Hey this may be a dumb question but a cannot really find anywhere where it has been proven to be fact. I use a radeon 9700 all-in-wonderand would like to know if the new Catalyst 4.1 drivers are prone to overheating the GPU like 3.8? I know the monitor thing has been fixed, luckily my monitor has one of those refresh rate limiter things (don't know the technical term.) Basically my question is should I keep 4.1 or go back to 3.7? Oh and I have uninstalled the foolproof unistall way before installing the 4.1 drivers. I don't want to have to RMA this thing twice. Well, thanks in advance. And I assume this will be the first of many posts as i have just registered. Hopefully my next couple will be answers and not questions.

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  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited February 2004
    Welcome in to Short-Media :)

    Im one of the three <s>lunatics</s> founders/owners of this place, so if you get stuck or have any questions... don't hesitate to ask me :cool: .. in the meantime...

    In answer to your question, I have heard no reports of any problems with the Cat 4.1's overheating cards and we haven't had any reports from members saying so either :)

    Im using them with my 9800xt and they are workin great, as they did with the 9700pro before it :D
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited February 2004
    Steveman0810 wrote:
    Hey this may be a dumb question but a cannot really find anywhere where it has been proven to be fact. I use a radeon 9700 all-in-wonderand would like to know if the new Catalyst 4.1 drivers are prone to overheating the GPU like 3.8? I know the monitor thing has been fixed, luckily my monitor has one of those refresh rate limiter things (don't know the technical term.) Basically my question is should I keep 4.1 or go back to 3.7? Oh and I have uninstalled the foolproof unistall way before installing the 4.1 drivers. I don't want to have to RMA this thing twice. Well, thanks in advance. And I assume this will be the first of many posts as i have just registered. Hopefully my next couple will be answers and not questions.

    I thought the overheating was only with the 9800 XT ?

    Anyways, they are safe. I have an overclocked 9800 pro (460/360) and I have been using the 4.1's since they came out. I believe the fixed that problem in the 3.9 drivers.
  • Steveman0810Steveman0810 Near Philadelphia
    edited February 2004
    Hey thanks shorty. I didnt want to burn out another card, though I know I and many other people have sent a driverissue complaint to ati they still haven't taken the faulty drivers off the site. The least they could do is give a "Use at your own risk" warning with those drivers. I dont understand, since the new drivers are fine and they're having to pay to replace/repair many cards due to the bad ones. Guess it's some business thing because no respectable coder would want to have harmful drivers out there with his name on them.
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