New ATI Cats (3.1)

[Embattle]

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

 

[Will]

What happened to your driver thread?

 

[Jonty]

Expect another update around early March when (hopefully) DirectX 9.1 will be released, containing Pixel and Vertex 3.0 Shaders. Ironicly, it's unlikely any current hardware will support the new specification, although there is speculation the Radeon 9900Pro might just be able to squeeze in hardware support for such features, although this depends a lot on when it's released and if Microsoft choose to delay and perfect the technology.

Kind Regards

Jonty (. . . currently wondering if his hardware will ever stay up-to-date for long than a few months )

 

[Testin da Cable]

the thought of microsoft perfecting anything is counterintuitive.
unless it's licensing heheh

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
the thought of microsoft perfecting anything is counterintuitive.
unless it's licensing heheh

LOL You will hire our software, you will, you will, you will There is one thing they managed to get right: Minesweeper o baby!

 

[Testin da Cable]

I find that gamlet to be utterly addictive. it's like crack, only better.

 

[Jonty]

Originally posted by Testin da Cable
I find that gamlet to be utterly addictive. it's like crack, only better.

*Jonty writes his thesis "Combatting Drug Abuse and Associated Crime in the Twenty First Century: Minesweeper"*

You can even play online too

Edit ... What was this post about again? Ah yes . . . *cough*

 

[Testin da Cable]

online??

no. must resist....ngggggh

 

[Jonty]

*Jonty laughs his evil laugh after forever ruining TdC's productivity

Just because I feel obliged to do so, there may well be yet further driver updates soon with the imminent release of ATi's next round of cards (namely the R350 (9900/9900Pro) and the RV350). Quite whether these will bring further enhancements or merely additional support for the next products, only time will tell.

Kind Regards

Jonty

P.S. For reference . . .

RADEON 9700
*Anisotropic Filtering and OpenGL performance on the RADEON™ 9700 series of cards is up substantially across several applications. These performance improvements include:
- A performance improvement of up to 35% at high resolutions is noticed in ChameleonMark
- A performance improvement between 2 and 7% is noticed in 3Dmark
- A performance improvement between 6 and 24% is noticed in Comanche4
- A performance improvement of 10% is noticed in Max Payne
- A performance improvement between 20 and 40% is noticed in UT2003 Flyby
- A performance improvement between 30 and 40% is noticed in IL-2 Sturmovik when Aniso or Aniso and Anti-Aliasign is enabled at the display resolution of 1600x1200
- A performance improvement between 17 and 24% is noticed in Jedi Knight II when Aniso or Aniso and Anti-Aliasign is enabled at the display resolution of 1600x1200

RADEON 8500
- Anti-Aliasing scores rise 15-35% across various benchmarks
- A performance improvement between 10 and 50% is noticed in NHL2002

RADEON 7500
- A performance improvement of 5% is noticed in the 3DMark2001 SE Vertex Shader test