ATI website moan

**darkhorse** · October 13th, 2005, 02:12 PM

ATI have made some changes to their website.

I find it more difficult to navigate the drivers page to find what I want.

Bookmarking certain pages or linking to URLs is a pain as ATI chuck up an 'Unauthorized download' if it doesn't like the page referrer details... OK, perhaps this makes some sense so they can control who is accessing what resources, but still annoying!

For instance, try getting the current version of multimedia centre (MMC) software v9.02 for older All-in-Wonder cards from their site...

**NooNoo** · October 13th, 2005, 02:16 PM

yup... but then, you only need read the directions

**darkhorse** · October 13th, 2005, 03:34 PM

Hmmm.... after finding and navigating to the right page - not helped by 'your session has expired' pages along the way

- I got version 9.03 which I think works OK despite the dire warnings to use 9.02

The working links at the top of that page utilise akami.net, whereas those further down still use say www2.ati.com/drivers/mmc-9-02-0-0.exe which get rejected

Nice work ATI!

**TechZ** · October 14th, 2005, 04:35 AM

'your session has expired'

This has been a complaint of mine for some time, its rather annoying to say the least, and I have mentioned it to ATi as wel...

**confus-ed** · October 14th, 2005, 06:18 AM

This ain't just confined to ATI, the whole damn net is like this now, with freaking annoying asp, or somehow server generated pages 'expiring' left right & centre, it pisses me off muchly

**leezer3** · October 15th, 2005, 02:16 PM

To add my own little rant- Try downloading the Linux drivers with something equating to a decent browser (Firefox/ Konquerer). ATI haven't bothered to set the filetype values correctly, so they try to open it as a text file. Then, try using wget, and you have to tinker with referer values before it will even download

Not amused.

-Leezer-