ATI Catalyst 5.10a Beta Drivers

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ATI today released a beta version of this month's Catalyst 5.10 release. This hotfix includes the reported "tool" which allows for 35% performance increases in Doom 3 benchmark tests. The hotfix reportedly also includes fixes for Quake 4 and X1K series users running Serious Sam 2 Note that this beta driver is only for Windows XP and includes ATI's Catalyst Control Center.

This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system

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Download: Catalyst 5.10a w/Catalyst Control Center (Windows XP - 47.4MB)

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#1 iomega on 19 Oct 2005 - 23:38

safe..thnx for the update

(2 replies) #2 scratch42069 on 19 Oct 2005 - 23:54

Will this driver work with 9600 Pro? Are the performance gains only for the X1K series?

#2.1 Ice Brewed Beer on 20 Oct 2005 - 00:23

Just the X1K series, sorry guy.

#2.2 Lexcyn on 20 Oct 2005 - 01:46

I believe this affects all open gl games, as this is an open gl fix. Correct me if I am wrong.

(3 replies) #3 santiagof4 on 20 Oct 2005 - 00:33

The Doom 3 hotfix is for X800/X850 series too

..... really is a OpenGL hotfix

#3.1 whytehouse on 20 Oct 2005 - 01:12

Does it have an impact on 9800XT also?

#3.2 santiagof4 on 20 Oct 2005 - 02:22

Im not sure... I dont think so

#3.3 carpediem on 20 Oct 2005 - 05:26

Since the X1000 series uses a new memory controller that is highly programmable, the fix is only for the new cards, not older R4xx/R3xx cards.

(2 replies) #4 Innuendo on 20 Oct 2005 - 02:44

I'd be more interested in these drivers if they came with the regular control panel. The Catalyst Control Center doesn't really float my boat.

#4.1 f0rbez on 20 Oct 2005 - 04:10

If you extract the install, you could manually load the drivers from there. I did that, and kept the control panel from "5.11" beta.

#4.2 Innuendo on 20 Oct 2005 - 18:23

Thanks for the suggestion. It didn't even occur to me to do it that way.

(3 replies) #5 BloodAngel on 20 Oct 2005 - 09:48

why release a beta of the 5.10 drivers now.. when the 5.10 drivers was officially released almost a week ago ?

#5.1 Zoiks on 20 Oct 2005 - 10:08

these ones have the addition of the opengl fix

#5.2 theyarecomingforyou on 20 Oct 2005 - 16:52

QUOTE

why release a beta of the 5.10 drivers now

So that it is clear when they came from. Beta drivers are named by the month they are release in (here 5.10) but are pre-releases of the upcoming month (11). I can see where they may be confusion but beta drivers are always released for the upcoming month, not it advance of the month.

#5.3 Innuendo on 20 Oct 2005 - 18:26

You may have read the news post too quickly & not fully comprehended what you read. I'm guilty of that sometimes, too.

This not a beta of the 5.10 drivers. This is a beta for the 5.10a drivers. Note the "a".

Easy to miss...ATI doesn't usually do stuff like this.

#6 Gavin001 on 20 Oct 2005 - 11:08

Shud i install! Usin a RADEON X100 series?

(1 reply) #7 Hitman2000 on 20 Oct 2005 - 12:01

Just wait for the 5.11 drivers, they shouldnt be that far away

#7.1 2xSilverKnight on 20 Oct 2005 - 14:00

in November ... 11th month ... 5.11
December 5.12 ....

I installed these on a Radeon 9000 Series GFX Card.
However after installing them, when you move a window around on screen, its very jerky, couldnt get round this problem so i reluctantly downgraded to an earlier version.

#8.1 GiB WaKeR on 21 Oct 2005 - 00:01

You need to do a full uninstall from the cotrol panel >> add / remove programs first, then install the drivers

Last edited by 18013 on 21 Oct 2005 - 02:51

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