FiringSquad: CATALYST 3.1 Driver Report

[GTaudiophile]

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Most impressive benches here.

 

[BD231]

Wow, big jumps for a driver release, ATI is going N-Vidia style .

 

[Duvie]

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]

Blah, look through it and the onlysignificant difference is really UT2K3 with AA and AS filtering... big deal.

 

[grim122]

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]

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...

 

[rbV5]

Theater Mode now works properly for DVD's via component output to my HD display...I'm likin' that