Ati 10.3a drivers posted

[Apocalypse23]

Saw very little if no difference in my 3d Vantage scores between the 10.3 beta and 10.3 a drivers:

10.3 beta @E8400@3.9 5850@925/1175

10.3 a @E8400@3.9 5850@925/1175

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Well 3dmark vantage is an old benchmark anyways. If you look at the hardocp preview you can see that they clearly focused on improving performance in recent games. Probably see the best performance gain in DX11 games. Truthfully I don't care if my card does 90 or 110 fps in dx9 or dx10 games anyways.

 

[v0id]

Any word on whether performance is likely to improve for older 4800 series cards? I have 2x 2850 512mb cards in crossfire.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

I just installed these, played BFBC2 at my usual setings and I got a BSOD after about 10 mins. My card was overclocked but I have never had a BSOD cause by too much video overclocking.

My PSU is at the limit though so it might have failed to give enough juice causing the cpu/ram to fail or something. I'll try playing at 970/1350 @ 1.225v instead of my usual 1GHz/1370 @ 1.3v and see if it does that again.

*edit*

Forgot to mention I have an MSI 5770 Hawk video card.

 

[Rebel44]

Any word on whether performance is likely to improve for older 4800 series cards? I have 2x 4850 512mb cards in crossfire.

Yes
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2010/03/16/amds_ati_103a_catalyst_driver_update

btw.: fixed

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Well I haven't benchmarked it or anything but it feels slower in BFBC2. I might go back to 10.2 and see if it feels faster or if it's just me.