ATI Catalyst 3.4 Drivers Released

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Thanks to Kombatant for the heads up

So today is the day, ATI have released their latest set of drivers for those with ATI Radeon cards. This latest update promises the following new features:

DIV FULLSTREAM™ Player
The ATI enhanced DIVX player uses the DirectX 9 technology of the RADEON 9500, 9600, 9700 and 9800 Series to deliver amazing quality video

SMARTGART™ enhancements
This feature provides further improvements to system stability

Unified Consumer and Workstation driver
This feature provides improved stability and quicker release of features/drivers

Windows XP Media Center Edition support
ATI is helping to bring the world of entertainment and digital media to the PC

New Color Control Panel
This feature provides new Color Controls, User Profiles, and Hot keys

Go grab them whilst they're hot :)

View: View Release Notes

Download: Download ATI Catalyst 3.4 (Windows 9x/ME)

Download: Download Catalyst 3.4 (Windows 2000/XP)

Download: Download Catalyst 3.4 Control Panel

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#1 Dark Vageta on 15 May 2003 - 21:39

WOOOOOOOOOT !!!!

#2 GwaRGuITaR on 15 May 2003 - 22:14

YAY! YAY! yaY! YAY!

(2 replies) #3 rx-- on 15 May 2003 - 22:22

Why do nVidia driver releases get front page while ATI does not (well, they did in the past..)?

#3.1 Kombatant on 15 May 2003 - 23:24

It's a conspiracy I tell you!!

#3.2 tntomek on 16 May 2003 - 14:50

[neoquote=#3.0 by rx--]Why do nVidia driver releases get front page while ATI does not (well, they did in the past..)?

[/neoquote] Because nVidia releases leaked drivers every second day

And I do see nVidia stuff once in a while here too.

(2 replies) #4 Dominik on 15 May 2003 - 22:24

Does this work on Win2003 ?

#4.1 rx-- on 15 May 2003 - 22:29

Catalyst 3.2 does, why wouldn't 3.4?

Last edited by 20688 on 15 May 2003 - 23:13

#4.2 kainashi on 16 May 2003 - 00:52

[neoquote=#4.0 by Dominik]Does this work on Win2003 ?[/neoquote] i don't see why not.

(2 replies) #5 ir0nw0lf on 15 May 2003 - 22:31

ATI has a different version posted to the official website, they end in "008947c" vs the "008946c" listed above. Ideas what the difference is?

#5.1 daveS on 15 May 2003 - 22:36

i just looked at ati.com and there drivers are 46c

#5.2 ir0nw0lf on 15 May 2003 - 22:41

Sorry bout that, I grabbed the ones listed over at hardocp, they have linked I guess the multi-language version, which does end in "008947c" so I went back and got the non-ml version.

#6 [EvilBeAr] on 15 May 2003 - 23:01

woooho go ati!

#7 darkmatter on 15 May 2003 - 23:26

cool

#8 Nija on 15 May 2003 - 23:50

9500 -> 9700 software has been updated, also, to support 3.4. http://www.maxdownloads.com/~ian/wizzard/

#9 Dwarden on 15 May 2003 - 23:53

#5 english and International (multilanguage) version

(3 replies) #10 syscrash2k on 15 May 2003 - 23:55

is this one any faster?

#10.1 Skyfrog on 16 May 2003 - 01:51

They seem to be on my 8500. I've been trying them out with Mafia and it runs really well now, and everything definately looks better. No glitches like disappearing textures like I had before.

#10.2 Octol on 16 May 2003 - 02:29

So far so good on my 8500.

#10.3 ryuh3d on 16 May 2003 - 04:13

I gained 300 points in 3Dmark 03

(2 replies) #11 JLP on 16 May 2003 - 01:21

Did they fix the bug when drivers corrupt NTFS partition if you have Large System Cache enabled?

#11.1 mavis on 16 May 2003 - 01:29

[neoquote=#11.0 by JLP]Did they fix the bug when drivers corrupt NTFS partition if you have Large System Cache enabled?[/neoquote] I've never heard of this bug, and I'm running NTFS with Large SYstem Cache enabled, have been since WindowsXP came out (October 25, 2001) ... Never had any problems with that ... ???

#11.2 mAcOdIn on 16 May 2003 - 04:17

[neoquote=#11.1 by mavis]I've never heard of this bug, and I'm running NTFS with Large SYstem Cache enabled, have been since WindowsXP came out (October 25, 2001) ... Never had any problems with that ... ???[/neoquote] There's a registry tweak you have to do to fix that. The thread is one rage3d(which is down so I can't link to it). Here's another reference to a possible fix here: http://www.tweakhound.com/xp/xptweaks/atiproblem.htm

#12 Dwarden on 16 May 2003 - 01:24

I forgot TO SAY [b] THIS ARE BEST DRIVERS ATI RELASED TO DATE !!! [/b] so fast so stable so smooth ...

delighted

#13 Skyfrog on 16 May 2003 - 01:27

I had a problem installing the drivers; they kept giving me an installshield error. Only the driver installer did this, the control panel installed with no trouble. When I clicked more information on the error screen it said the problem had to do with a grxp4dll.dll file. I found that this was a driver file for my Gravis Xterminator game pad. When I temporarily renamed the file, and tried installing the drivers again. This time they installed fine with no complaints. Seems to be some sort of conflict with the installer for that particular file and the Gravis drivers. I'm running XP by the way. Anyway as far as the drivers go everything is working great so far.

(2 replies) #14 linsook on 16 May 2003 - 01:58

still seems to have the problem of freezing a bit when switching from CS to desktop and back.

#14.1 GiB WaKeR on 16 May 2003 - 02:21

lol, I don't believe that is a driver issue...

#14.2 linsook on 16 May 2003 - 04:35

3.2's were fine? but what were you thining of anyways?

#15 Sickmyduck on 16 May 2003 - 03:31

What's this XP Media Center Edition Support?

#16 iomayho on 16 May 2003 - 03:55

OMG...!!!!!!! this is the best video card driver update i've ever done ...!!!! i got almost 5000 (4986 to be accurate) on my ati 9700 pro without any overclocking...!!!!!

#17 kainashi on 16 May 2003 - 03:58

my 3dmark03 score went up a whole 72 points.

#18 iczman on 16 May 2003 - 05:06

the hotkeys i set aren't working........ anybody experiencing the same problem?

#19 Jasco on 16 May 2003 - 06:14

cool!

#20 Schmoove on 16 May 2003 - 06:45

Great drivers, made Vice City run a little smoother on my 9000 Pro. Though ATi MultiMedia Center is still one big piece of crap software. Stay away from it, there are way better programs around there to handle stuff (WMP to start with).

#21 decarteret on 16 May 2003 - 07:16

Does anybody know which player can utilize DIV FULLSTREAM®? I searched through ATI's site and couldn't find anything useful.

#22 Sickmyduck on 16 May 2003 - 07:20

The Divx player which comes with the Divx codec. There is a setting to "Use accelerated post-processing for support ATI RADEON® hardware".

(1 reply) #23 scoult01 on 16 May 2003 - 07:20

doesnt fix the Infinite Loop error some of you may be getting (i know I am). Time to take this card back to the pc shop

#23.1 timbo3 on 16 May 2003 - 07:31

I solved my infinite loop problem by disabling fastwrites under SMARTGART. fasr writes is for NVidia cards and is weak. my 3d mark03 went up by 40 when i shut it off (not to mention no crashes) by the way, I have an E7205 based mb (GA-8INXP) and they have a known AGP bug

#24 wired57 on 16 May 2003 - 08:03

i want for my m6

(3 replies) #25 TC17 on 16 May 2003 - 08:39

I didn't realize so many ATI employees posted on these boards.

#25.1 Skyfrog on 16 May 2003 - 11:14

I didn't realize there were so many jealous nVidia owners on this board eith...oh wait. There's only you.

#25.2 Kombatant on 16 May 2003 - 12:27

PWNED!

#25.3 antareus on 16 May 2003 - 15:16

Fanboys, employees...same thing.

#26 aleni on 16 May 2003 - 12:22

does it work with ati mobility m6?

#27 Jstphish on 16 May 2003 - 15:40

I had to run the ATi Refresh Rate fix after installing. Just a warning to all who haven't installed it and have the 60Hz refresh rate lock problem.

#28 Sawyer12 on 16 May 2003 - 17:15

Do these drivers work with ATI cards such as the ATI Radeon IGP 320M that come on some laptops ? Its the first ATI card ive ever had. im usually a NVIDIA man myself

(1 reply) #29 aleni on 16 May 2003 - 17:30

holy crap! this driver r0x!!11 i love it. im using it on my notebook, i had to modify 3 files using a cool app i found to make it to support mobility cards. app: http://www.driverheaven.net/patje/

#29.1 btallack on 16 May 2003 - 21:17

Nice find. I just installed these drivers on my laptop. Thx.

#30 ZombieFly on 16 May 2003 - 21:59

anyone having probs with vice city? it was working fine before, now i just get flashing screens, a giant mouse pointer and the alphabet all over me screen!?! :disappoin

(1 reply) #31 Dwarden on 16 May 2003 - 22:38

GTA ViceCity patch 1.1 http://www.gamershell.com/news_BGTAViceCityBv1.1Patch.shtml fixing graphics corruptions ... so not ATI fault

#31.1 ZombieFly on 17 May 2003 - 07:47

applied the 1.1 patch. still the same with the new catalysts. rewound catalysts to 3.2 and everything fine!? .. oh well, i'll just wait until i'm bored of vc before i put the 3.4's on

#32 Admiral50 on 17 May 2003 - 00:57

ATI employees posting here? Sounds like a jealous Nvidia fan there... I found these new drivers to be slightly smoother and stable on my 8500 All in Wonder and I'm sure they only really were concerned with their newer cards. And the MMC may not be great overall, but I've had Pinnacle and Hauppauge and they don't compare to ATI's TV.

#33 David3k on 17 May 2003 - 09:49

I'm getting probs with all my ogl games and some dx games. ati radeon 9700 pro Dx games are: C&C Generals - Crashes after loading a mission Freelancer - when I exit the display of the desktop is currupted unless I restart UT2k3 - works fine after loading one map, but throws be right back at my desktop when it tries to load the next one. what's up? Back with 3.2 none of this happened. so I tried to uninstall and install the older ones, no change.

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