arrrgh Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 New features include:ATI Catalyst™ support for ATI Mobility Radeon™ Premium Graphics solutions * This release of ATI Catalyst™ introduces support for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility™ Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon™ HD 5000 Series of products. * Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers For Desktop Graphics * 64-bit Windows 7/Vista * 32-bit Windows 7/Vista For Notebook Graphics * 64-bit Windows 7/Vista * 32-bit Windows 7/Vista ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements * Display Bezel Compensation o Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels * Per-Display Color Adjust o Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls * Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups o Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays * Improved Display Configuration switching o Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager * Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses * AMD has updated it's Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye) Download: http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/tips/Pages/catalyst-10-3-preview.aspx Performance gains: 3DMark Vantage * Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products * Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products Aliens vs. Predator * Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products Battleforge * Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Call of Duty: World at War * Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products * Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Company of Heroes * Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Crysis and Crysis Warhead * Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Devil May Cry 4 * Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products DiRT 2 * Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products * Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products * Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Enemy Territory: Quake Wars * Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products * Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Far Cry 2 * Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Call of Pripyat Benchmark * Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky * Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products * Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products Resident Evil 5 * Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X. * Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products * Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Unigine Tropics * Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products World in Conflict * Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products * Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products * Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Wolfenstein * Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products * Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products Note: This list is not exhaustive and more improvements are possible I have been playing around with the drivers for a while, seems like a solid set so far. These drivers are also newer than the the yet to be released 10.3 drivers so looks like I'll be sticking with these for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 These drivers are also newer than the the yet to be released 10.3 drivers so looks like I'll be sticking with these for a while. Fixed :P And yes, they seem great so far, been using them since they released them and they seem great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x-byte Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Nice to see some improvements on the 48xx-series as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThisSiteHasLostItsCharm Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 no BC2 fixes in these though, spawn screen, death screen texture flickering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted March 18, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2010 Basically, it's the same as 10.3 plus improvements for Alien vs. Predator and some eyefinity stuff. I was hoping they would fix the loading issues in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Basically, it's the same as 10.3 plus improvements for Alien vs. Predator and some eyefinity stuff. I was hoping they would fix the loading issues in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Yup....what loading issues are you having with BF:BC2? I didn't have any problems with it when I had it installed but I only ever play singleplayer (only multiplayer game I like even with all these new games out is TF2).... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yusuf M. Veteran Posted March 18, 2010 Veteran Share Posted March 18, 2010 Yup....what loading issues are you having with BF:BC2? I didn't have any problems with it when I had it installed but I only ever play singleplayer (only multiplayer game I like even with all these new games out is TF2).... Maps take longer to load for people with ATI video cards. It's a known issue. I believe it's MP-only though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nagisan Posted March 18, 2010 Share Posted March 18, 2010 Maps take longer to load for people with ATI video cards. It's a known issue. I believe it's MP-only though. Couldn't that also be an issue with the game and not the drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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