ATi Catalyst 3.4 Released

[BFG10K]

Link.

The display corruption noticed around the wheels in the game FI Racing Championship is now resolved
The health meter not being drawn in the game Bounty Hunter is now resolved
Texture corruption in the game Combat Flight Simulator 3 is now resolved
The binocular view not displaying properly in the game Project IGI2 is now resolved
Objects flickering in and out of view when playing Deadly Demo is now resolved
The display corruption noticed in Battlecruiser Millennium when placing the mouse cursor over the menu buttons is now resolved
The ground color not displaying correctly when playing the Jurassic Park demo is now resolved
The display corruption noticed when playing Heli Heroes is now resolved
The texture disappearing in the game AirStrike3D is now resolved
The General Protection Fault error appearing when playing Unreal 2; The Awakening is now resolved
The system not responding with playing the game SimCity 4 is now resolved
The system not responding when task switching between an OpenGL game and the desktop is now resolved
Full Screen Anti-Aliasing not being available when playing Anarchy Online is now resolved
The system failing to respond after pressing the ESC key when playing Half-life Counter Strike is now resolved
The display corruption noticed when running the CodeCreatures benchmark in a system contining a RADEON? 9200 is now resolved
The display corruption issue when using the send to DV camera feature found in MovieMaker2 is now resolved
Playing *.rm files using the RealPlayer with Overlay Theater Mode enabled no longer results in screen corruption being displayed on a secondary CRT
TV performance being slow and choppy when running an application in the background is now resolved
The display corruption noticed when playing a DVD in TV Theater mode on a secondary display is now resolved
The ATI D3D/OpenGL tab not retaining the correct format when a secondary CRT is connected is now resolved
The display panel's icons disappearing when using an FPD and TV is now resolved
The system not responding after previewing the 3D Liquid Desktop screensaver is now resolved
The overlay pixel duplication noticed when the display resolution is set above 1600x1200 is now resolved
The resolution changing to 640x480 32bpp when checking the optimized format for 480i in the YpbPR settings page is now resolved
The display corruption noticed when a system returns from hibernate mode is now resolved
The blue box border noticed around cached URL addresses is now resolved
The system not responding when hot plugging a DFP monitor is now resolved
A TV connection being falsely detected when booting the system is now resolved
Only half of the image being displayed on an HDTV when outputting from the VGA connector is now resolved
An error message being displayed when attempting to install the display driver from the ATI web site is now resolved

Give them a try and see what you think. In particular I want to hear about the performance gains.

 

[AthlonXP]

guinea pigs anyone?

 

[boyRacer]

<--- downloading it now Thanks.

I thought these things werent supposed to be out until tomorrow?

 

[Dulanic]

Ill be trying them on my g/fs 8500 in a bit, she was having a problem in a game where one area would always boot her to desktop. Hope this fixes it....

 

[Viper96720]

Will it work with non built by ati cards?

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Will it work with non built by ati cards?

Yup

 

[DeviousTrap]

Yikes, my first double post.

 

[AthlonXP]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Will it work with non built by ati cards?

Download the refferences drivers for "partner products", it will work.

 

[DeviousTrap]

Originally posted by: AthlonXP

Originally posted by: Viper96720
Will it work with non built by ati cards?

Download the refferences drivers for "partner products", it will work.

I've been using this on my Saphire card and never had a problem. I don't see why a different brand would need different drivers.

 

[Viper96720]

Cool found them when I used the ati front page link it had the 3.2's

 

[boyRacer]

Ok got it installed... i don't do any benchmarks like 3dmark or anything so i'm afraid i'm not much help to you die hard 3dmark freaks but i just play a lot of driving sims and some FPS games... on average it gave me a 3-6 more FPS... can't really tell if IQ improved since everything is just whizzing by ... i'm happy.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Agh, it makes it worse for me. I seem to get weird textures on Need For Speed Hot Pursuit 2. The road seems really weird when there are any shadows and the small hills have some other weird problems. This better be fixed by the time I get my Radeon 9700... unless I get an NV35 part, which depending on money I will

 

[RaiderJ]

My score in 3dMark2003 increased by more than 1000 points, but I can't say it's all due to the new drivers. I also increased my RAM speed by about 6-7 Mhz.

The drivers also fixed some frame "jerking" that I had noticed before.

 

[Blooz1]

Any install glitches, guys?

 

[Krk3561]

From what people are saying over at Rage3D, it seems like this drivers create more problems than they solve. GTA:VC is really screwed up, graphics corrumption in BF1942, and HL is running really crappy with these drivers

 

[50]

I've seem to have missed the Cat 3.3's for some reason...

 

[BFG10K]

The Cat 3.3s don't exist.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: Cartman2003
I've seem to have missed the Cat 3.3's for some reason...

Read this=

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Blooz1
Any install glitches, guys?

I'm going to switch back to the 3.2 drivers soon... *sigh*

 

[Markfw]

My new score went up 500 points in 3dmark03 to 4955 ! I will try some games, and edit my post with any anomolies. So far so good, less jerky !

 

[Brian48]

Yep. 3dmark2003 went up more than 300pts for me (5019).

Too bad everything else went down by 2-3 fps.

I'm going back to Cat 3.1. Never had a problem with it and it's still the fastest driver version for me thus far.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: Brian48
Yep. 3dmark2003 went up more than 300pts for me (5019).

Too bad everything else went down by 2-3 fps.

I'm going back to Cat 3.1. Never had a problem with it and it's still the fastest driver version for me thus far.

Do you think its possible that ATI did something to cheat? Or did they really get improvement in other places than 3DMark?

 

[DieHardware]

OK loaded these on my 9000PRO and 8500LE rigs and played some BF1942 and UT. These drivers work better in both of these games than any previous. No corruption or stutters in BF42 and no weird mouse and sound problems in UT. And both games look great with these Cat 3.4s(in my rigs anyway).

 

[Dug]

There's got to be some wierd software/ or configuration on some people's systems for so many problems to be reported.

I am having zero problems with XP SP1, 9700pro, 8rda+

Not to mention I like the new clone mode options.

 

[sharkeeper]

There's got to be some wierd software/ or configuration on some people's systems for so many problems to be reported.

I am having zero problems with XP SP1, 9700pro, 8rda+

Not to mention I like the new clone mode options.

Agreed.

Most likely this!

-DAK-