FiringSquad: CATALYST 3.1 Driver Report

BD231

Lifer
Feb 26, 2001
10,568
138
106
Wow, big jumps for a driver release, ATI is going N-Vidia style :cool:.
 

Duvie

Elite Member
Feb 5, 2001
16,215
0
71
I like ati as I have the 8500 card but the fact is the rest of the non unreal tournament games saw a decrease in scores....yep nice driver update!!! sounds just like nvidia and their latest drivers that optimized for 3dmark scores but suffered in 2d quality...

optimizing drivers by both seems a little disheartening...
 

rommelrommel

Diamond Member
Dec 7, 2002
4,429
3,213
146
Blah, look through it and the onlysignificant difference is really UT2K3 with AA and AS filtering... big deal.
 

grim122

Junior Member
Sep 15, 2002
14
0
0
just tried to install them for my 8500 and got a fatal exception error, trashed registry, windows would not boot, and i could not install any new drivers until i went in thru the command prompt and manually deleted all ati files. tried reinstalling the 3.1 's again same fatal error. i hate shoddy drivers.
 

Goosemaster

Lifer
Apr 10, 2001
48,775
3
81
I have an 8500dv and they worked fine...for WinXP

I switched back to win 2000 a few days ago because of the crappy SCSI performance and the C 3.1's have once again been flawless for me


3dmark was cool...:cool:
 

rbV5

Lifer
Dec 10, 2000
12,632
0
0
Theater Mode now works properly for DVD's via component output to my HD display...I'm likin' that:)