ATI Drivers not compatible

Oberg · **19th January 2008, 06:39 PM**

I have just installed an ATI 9550 card to replace an Nvidia 6200. I uninstalled the Nvidia driver in add and remove programs and then installed the latest Catalyst MCE drivers but when I tried to start MCE 2005 it tells me the driver is not compatible with MCE. I then uninstalled those drivers and tried the 7.1 driver from January 2007 and that worked. What I would like to know is what is the latest ATI driver that is compatible with MCE what have you tried and found successful. Also is there a chance I have overlooked somthing that is causing this?

Oberg.

MJW · **19th January 2008, 07:16 PM**

Oberg

Did you go to the ATI/AMD site and use the search facility to find the right driver for the card and OS?

MJW · **19th January 2008, 07:27 PM**

I see there's some fine print there (link) on that site about compatible drivers for MCE, might pay to snoop about in there?

Oberg · **19th January 2008, 07:33 PM**

I went to the ATI/AMD site and got the recommended driver, that's why I am surprised they weren't compatible. I'll have another look at the fine print you mentioned.

Oberg.

MJW · **19th January 2008, 07:37 PM**

It just seems to be blurb about supported cards (which includes yours)

you may have found something with their latest release driver (16/1/08)

Oberg · **19th January 2008, 10:44 PM**

I'm going to try some of their archived drivers to see which ones are compatible and which are not, I'll report my findings.

Oberg.

Oberg · **20th January 2008, 09:50 PM**

OK here's what I've found after trying the archived ATI drivers, only 7.8 and earlier drivers worked under MCE 2005, 7.9 and later (including the latest 8.1) were incompatible. This is a bit disappointing to say the least, especially when they are supposed to be the latest drivers for MCE.

Oberg.