BleepingComputer.com: ATI Catalyst Control Centre driver question.

Hi,
When I run Filehippo Update checker it tells me that there are update drivers available for download. It tells me that the ATI Catalyst Drivers 8.11 XP are available and that the ones installed are version 6.5 although the version mentioned as the latest at the AMD site and which is installed is version 6.11.

My PC is am AMD Athlon XP 2400+ with 1GB of RAM and the Graphics Card is a ATI Radeon 7500 series. Will the 8.11XP drivers work with my Catalyst Control Centre or is the 6.11 as far as mine goes. One of the reasons I ask is that I am an avid player of the Football Manager game and in the new one out now they have introduced a 3D match engine. I have been playing the Demo since it came out but the 3D feature doesn't seem to work on my PC just the 2D. The info given at the SI site states a minimum spec and although my processor and RAM is above spec the ATI graphics cards on their list start from the 9000 series and up. Although SI are coming with a patch for the demo which will cure some of the graphics card problems users have been having I will not be buying it unless I can use the 3D feature. My PC is 5yrs old but is much more than adequate for all my other PC needs and I don't intend to buy a new upgraded graphics card when there is a perfectly good one installed just to play a game a few hours weekly.

I just wondered if the 8.11XP drivers would help with this problem.

I don't think they will help, if not make things worse. As you stated, your graphics card doesn't meet the requirements for the game.

Ok thanks for that.

Is it possible for me to install the 8.11 drivers to my Radeon 7500 card or won't they work at all. If I went ahead and tried them and found I had problems would it be ok to just uninstall them again and reinstall the 6.11 ones or would there be a possibility that the 8.11 version would perhaps destroy the graphics card completely?.

You should be fine installing the newer ones, and if need be, uninstalling them an installing the old ones again. It's probably a good idea to have the installer for the older ones ready just in case though.

This won't hurt your graphics card either. The drivers install onto your hard drive like any other type of program.

Go here and see what driver is available:
http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.HTML