ATI and WDM-drivers

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Does ATI cards such as Radeon 7500 use WDM-drivers? And has these drivers (if WDM) anything to do with sound WDM-drivers?

And to the last question: Is it possible to disable the ATI WDM-drivers if they're present on my system?

My Inca88 didn't like the Creative WDM-drivers, and some times the computer just restarts (as it did when the Creative drivers where present on my system). I use two monitors.

Thanks!
 
People, this is getting waaay out of hand to the point of absurdity...

WDM drivers have been around since before Windows 98 and 2000 and are not exclusive to audio cards.

Their original intent was to provide a uniform/unversal software driver model that was platform independant, i.e. the same driver for a device regardless of the OS (95,98,SE,ME,2000 or XP). It never lived up to that purpose, but is a better implementation than older MME (Multimedia Extension) drivers that came about in the days of Windows 3.0.

WDM stands for Windows Driver Model and was created as a new means of device drivers skipping interaction with various Windows API's and provide enhanced performance by communicating directly with the Windows Kernel.

http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/driver/wdm/default.asp

I suggest you people get the facts before coming to these ridiculous conclusions.
 
Brzilian, your missing the point.

No one (at least not me) is suggesting that the idea, concept, technology, or execution of WDM drivers has anything wrong with it.

However the idea that ATI could screw up a device driver is not so difficult to believe.

I like ATI, and I like the fact that they DO keep revising & updating their drivers, especially for their older cards. A lot of manufacturers are just... "well that card's a year old! You need to upgrade!"

However I went through several weeks of some real bizzare troubleshooting try to get an ATI Radeon card (just straight video) to co-exist with a ATI TV Wonder VE (basicly an add-on buget Alll-In-Wonder). Turned out they were driver incompatible, and the tech document that acknowaged this was buried DEEP in ATI's web site.

So I upgraded the pair with the "single card solution", the All-In-Wonder. And then a week later ATI released a driver fix that cured the origianl problem. DOAH!
 
WDM drivers have been around since before Windows 98 and 2000 and are not exclusive to audio cards.
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Yeah, I know that, but since it's Microsoft "invention", any problem could occur... ;)
 
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