ATI Cat 3.5 Released

[Embattle]

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

 

[Jonty]

I believe ATi's site may be a little slow with the volume of traffic that's probably hitting it. That said, I'm sure mirrors will be up soon. For those interested, here's the accompanying blurb . . .

ATi CATALYST 3.5

Driver Contents

The CATALYST™ software suite 3.5 contains the following:

• RADEON™ display driver 7.90
• MultimediaCenter™ 8.5
• HydraVision™ 3.21
• Remote Wonder1.5

Operating systems supported

The latest version of the CATALYST™ software suite is designed to support the following Microsoft Windows platforms:

• Windows XP
• Windows 2000
• Windows Millennium Edition (ME)
• Windows 98/98SE through the ME driver

Performance Improvements

As with most CATALYST™ releases, the performance has increased in numerous situations. Here are some examples observed in CATALYST™ version 3.5.
Improvements in the ATI OpenGL drivers have experienced performance gains such as:

• GL Excess performance improves 12-14% on the RADEON™ 9700 PRO and 9800 PRO. Modest benefits are noticed on our other graphic products as well
• Unigraphics performance (ViewPerf Ugs-03) improves 27% on the RADEON™ 9800 PRO, 52% on the RADEON™ 9700 PRO, and 79% on the RADEON™ 9500 PRO
• Data Explorer performance (ViewPerf DV-08) improves 9% on RADEON™ 9800 PRO, and the RADEON™9700 PRO. The RADEON™ 9500 PRO improves by 14.5%

Some compatibility/stability fixes include

• Playing the game Nascar Racing 2003 in OpenGL mode no longer results in the display going black.
• Playing the game Serious Sam 2 with the display resolution set to 1024x768 32bpp no longer results in the wrong OpenGL renderer being listed when setting the graphics to OpenGL.
• Enabling Pixel Shaders in the game Asheron's Call 2 no longer results in display corruption appearing as the game is played.
• Playing the game Project IGI2: Covert Strike with a RADEON(tm) 9700 series card installed in the system results in the ground terrain disappearing and re-appearing as the character is moved.

Kind Regards

Jonty

P.S. I'll update the Drivers and Utilities thread accordingly. Thanks Embattle

 

[Jonty]

Just on a side note, what do people think of the Drivers and Utilities thread? Is it of any use to you? Is it convenient? Or don't you use it? Or aren't you really bothered?

I ask only because the idea of such a thread was to prevent little threads like this (no disrespect to Embattle, of course ). So is it useful having all the links in one place? Or would you rather have lots of individual threads every time a driver is released, where you could discuss issues relating to that specific item?

Let me know your thoughts

Kind Regards

 

[Testin da Cable]

I like it. Saves lots of time imo

 

[Jonty]

Thanks for your thoughts, TdC, most appreciated

Kind Regards

 

[Happy Go Lucky]

The last updated date is a good idea, it also provides a useful shortcut for newbies, thanks for maintaining it Jonty

 

[Embattle]

These threads can provide some feeback where as the Drivers & Utilities one can't, but your thread keeps the info around for people to see/use once this thread drops

 

[Jonty]

Thanks for your thoughts, guys. I'll keep the thread stuck for now, and then just leave threads like this for discussion.

Kind Regards

Jonty

P.S. I wasn't after credit, the thread is compiled from community suggestions