Posted on Friday, May 30 2008 @ 22:15 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
ATI has released a
Catalyst 8.5 hotfix for AGP Radeon users, this update fixes DirectX support.
After installing Catalyst 7.9 or higher an error is received launching DirectX based games. The error indicates that Direct3D Failed to Initialize or similar.
In Vista your Experience score will drop to 1.0.
The DirectX Diagnostic tests will fail in both XP and Vista.
This applies to the following configurations:
Catalyst Display Driver 7.9 and higher
Radeon™ HD3850 AGP series
Radeon™ HD2600 AGP series
Radeon™ HD2400 AGP series
Radeon™ X1950 AGP series
Radeon™ X1900 AGP series
Radeon™ X1800 AGP series
Radeon™ X1650 AGP series
Radeon™ X1600 AGP series
Radeon™ X1550 AGP series
Radeon™ X1300 AGP series
Radeon™ X1050 AGP series
Radeon™ X850 AGP series
Radeon™ X800 AGP series
Radeon™ X700 AGP series
Radeon™ X600 AGP series
Radeon™ X550 AGP series
Radeon™ X300 AGP series
Radeon™ 9800 AGP series
Radeon™ 9700 AGP series
Radeon™ 9600 AGP series
Radeon™ 9550 AGP series
Radeon™ 9500 AGP series
Windows Vista 32-bit Edition
Windows Vista 64-bit Edition
Windows XP Professional
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows XP Media Center Edition
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
