ATI.com and Internet Explorer prob

[neoglow]

For the past few days Ive been deciding on upgrading my graphics card, twice in the past Ive had Nvidia Geforce cards, but for no real reason I decided to have a change and get an ATI graphics card, probably mainly cos Ive heard good reviews about them and their a direct (if not the only) contender against Nvidia. I settled for a 256MB 9600 XT, cost a fair bit but seemed a much more managable price than the 'top of the range' 9800 Pro cards. I thought I'd get the most uptodate drivers from...hhmmm... ATI.com, but all I can find is a bunch of company crap and investor links, I thought that was quite bad for a main website. Its the most obvious portal to access, the same as Nvidia.com (which is much easier).

Anyone know of a partner ATI website that holds all the products/support/drivers/downloads etc....?

M.

[bowser123]

Type ATI Drivers in google.
Gives this as the top link, probably what you want:

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

[Super Stu]

yeah, their site has always been pish.

[DjSatansfury]

LOL

Go to ati.com

Hit the "Drivers and Software" Button/Link (You know the ****ing big one across the top)

Select Your Operating System

Select Graphics Drivers

Select Radeon Series

lol it's not hard now is it

Regards

ATi Zealot

[replicant]

Ive always found the ATI site easy to navigate, then again I usually have my eyes open when browsing

Good choice of midrange card. Although you would be better going for the #140 quid high range 9800 pro 128meg card. 256meg isnt needed on a midrange card like the 9600xt/it even makes no difference on the 9800 series of cards. Remember that the price of it will definately fall with ATI releasing the new generation Radeon cards *radeon x800 pro and radeon x800 xt* next week.

Nvidia cards have just dropped in price with the release of the new generation 6800 ultra card.

[neoglow]

Honestly, Im telling you guys, I go to ati.com and I cant see no drivers link or anything targeted towards gamers, its a load of company info links...

Maybe ATI made me a seperate website

I managed to find what I was looking for though, good old yahoo.

Thanks
M.

[Super Stu]

https://www.ati.com

drivers etc button top left

Wasn't always the case, and finding old drivers was an arse pain.

[eghamninja]

I have a feeling a visual aid may be needed.

[neoglow]

LOL, ok you guys, it must seem like your trying to instruct a chimp, but this leads onto another problem, I get the same website as above (the one with the BIG RED arrow ) but not the Products/Support/Drivers Bar, am I missing some Internet Explorer plugins or something? Ive got Flash and Shockwave installed....

What gives?

M.

[Ish]

Its working fine for me (IE6 on XP) and I don't have any 'fancy' plug-ins installed. Try going directly to the driver page:

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

[demon9k]

Why didn't you just click:

"Download latest CATALYST ? for Windows XP (27MB) - Version 4.4"

at the bottom left hand corner of the screen

Or are you not running XP?

[neoglow]

All sorted now thanks people, I just backed-up and reformatted the HDD, the smallest, unknown file hidden deep in the Windows Directory must have gone missing or something. About time I had a sort out and started a fresh anyway.

M.