{"id":575,"date":"2008-05-22T19:15:15","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T19:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2008\/ati-catalyst-85-drivers-out\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:18:22","slug":"ati-catalyst-85-drivers-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/ati-catalyst-85-drivers-out\/","title":{"rendered":"ATi Catalyst 8.5 Drivers Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATi has just released the Catalyst 8.5 drivers for Windows XP and Vista, you can download a copy <a href=\"http:\/\/support.amd.com\/us\/gpudownload\/Pages\/index.aspx\" rel=\"follow\">here<\/a> (hotlinking to the actual driver page is disabled).<\/p>\n<p>The entire 8.x line has been of sub-par quality to date (8.3 and 8.4 in particular, which seem to crash randomly on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&amp;hs=XFv&amp;q=atikmdag+8.4+OR+8.3&amp;btnG=Search\" rel=\"follow\">a large percentage<\/a> of Vista machines), hopefully the 8.5 release can provide a much-needed boost in terms of quality and stability.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s obviously too early to tell if the 8.5 releases addresses these issues, which are <em>not<\/em> listed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/3054117\/ATi-Catalyst-8-5-Release-Notes\" rel=\"follow\">the release notes<\/a>, but it&#8217;s possible that some of the causes of the problem have been resolved as a result of one or more of the bugfixes in this version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATi has just released the Catalyst 8.5 drivers for Windows XP and Vista, you can download a copy here (hotlinking to the actual driver page is disabled). The entire 8.x line has been of sub-par quality to date (8.3 and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/ati-catalyst-85-drivers-out\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,50,53,4],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-ati","tag-drivers","tag-vista","tag-windows"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-9h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}