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Catalyst 10.3; The Holy Crap Driver!

dado8 sri 17.3.2010 10:00

The Catalyst 10.3 driver set I’m calling the Holy Crap! driver set because as far as I’m concerned when you look at what it offers they’re the only two words that come to mind.

I’m not going to say much because really the driver notes speak for themselves; on the key feature front we’ve got all those goodies that we saw in the 1-2 Punch article. If you’ve forgotten they include:

ATI Catalyst Mobility– monthly updates for the mobile crowd

ATI Eyefinity Technology Bezel Correction– compensate for your bezels so objects in your game move from one display to the other smoothly

ATI Eyefinity Technology Per Display Control– adjust for differences in each individual displays brightness, color and contrast

ATI Eyefinity Technology Multiple Display Groups– more display groups to give further control of your desktop with three displays or more connected

ATI Eyefinity Technology Display Configuration Switching– easily switch from one display mode to another

3D Stereoscopic 3D driver hooks– enables 3rd party middleware vendors to bring more 3D stereoscopic gaming options

If that wasn’t enough to excite you though the performance improvements are insane:

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

What makes the driver so great though outside of the massive performance improvements is the fact that ATI have not only concentrated on the HD 5000 series but also given much love to the HD 4800 series.

I’m not sure if this driver was designed to fight the new GTX 400 series from NVIDIA or if it’s just a matter of right place right time, all we can say though is that the quarter is going to come to an end in a very interesting way.

 

 

Jos da Nvidia ovako nesto izbaci za Geforce i svi sretni

 

 

Zuja sri 17.3.2010 10:03
dado8 kaže...

The Catalyst 10.3 driver set I’m calling the Holy Crap! driver set because as far as I’m concerned when you look at what it offers they’re the only two words that come to mind.
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Jos da Nvidia ovako nesto izbaci za Geforce i svi sretni

Ne da svi sretni nego preporodeni. Cini mi se da je ati jako ozbiljno krenuo s stabilnim driverima u zadnje vrijeme..

Psiho246 sri 17.3.2010 10:08

Pa takvi driveri su uvijek izlazili, ne razumijem zasto su ovi posebni...

Bilo je i boljih...

I da, provjeri je li ovaj porast performansi od verzije 10.0 pa do sad, ili stvarno od predhodne verzije.

Nekad te znaju prevarit s tim.

dado8 sri 17.3.2010 10:11
Psiho246 kaže...

Pa takvi driveri su uvijek izlazili, ne razumijem zasto su ovi posebni...

Bilo je i boljih...

I da, provjeri je li ovaj porast performansi od verzije 10.0 pa do sad, ili stvarno od predhodne verzije.

Nekad te znaju prevarit s tim.

na zadnju verziju, bar tako kazu

 

ljepo je vidjet da jos neko zna radit drivera koji nesto i popravljaju a ne nose samo probleme

Hyperion sri 17.3.2010 12:36

Ja problema nisam imao nikad sa ATI-evim driverima.

 

Crysis and Crysis Warhead:

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

 

 

~30fps-a + 6% = ~32 fps-a

 

Pošto svaki fps u crysisu zlata znači ovo je super,šteta što na sedmici samo warhead radi kak spada na x64 launcheru.

 

F1-IVO sri 24.3.2010 19:32
patch123 kaže...

koji od ova 2 da download ???

 

da li trebam brisati stare drivere ili jednostavno prelijepiti preko starih ??

Prvi. U kontrol panelu obriši stare, digni u safe modu pa očisti ostatke sa Driver sweeperom, reboot pa instaliraj nove. (Ja tako uvijek radim i nikad problema)

patch123 sri 24.3.2010 19:35
F1-IVO kaže...
patch123 kaže...

koji od ova 2 da download ???

 

da li trebam brisati stare drivere ili jednostavno prelijepiti preko starih ??

Prvi. U kontrol panelu obriši stare, digni u safe modu pa očisti ostatke sa Driver sweeperom, reboot pa instaliraj nove. (Ja tako uvijek radim i nikad problema)

čitao sam negdje (čak mislim na ovom forumu) da se nekima dogode s*anja kad brišu drivere pa onda nove instaliraju

 

neki samo skinu nove i sve im radi savršeno

sad ne znam šta mi je bolje napraviti,sigurno mi je ovo drugo lakše

hvala na savjetu.prvo ću pričekati 3-4 dana i vijdeti ima li kakvih bugova sa driverima i onda ih instalirati jer mi ovi stari rade savršeno

F1-IVO sri 24.3.2010 19:36
patch123 kaže...
čitao sam negdje (čak mislim na ovom forumu) da se nekima dogode s*anja kad brišu drivere pa onda nove instaliraju

 

neki samo skinu nove i sve im radi savršeno

sad ne znam šta mi je bolje napraviti,sigurno mi je ovo drugo lakše

hvala na savjetu.prvo ću pričekati 3-4 dana i vijdeti ima li kakvih bugova sa driverima i onda ih instalirati jer mi ovi stari rade savršeno

Ja tako radim oduvijek. Za par minuta ću instalirat pa čemo vidjet:)

Minoza sri 24.3.2010 19:37

Ja upravo instalirao. Samo sam "preljepio" preko starih, više manje uvijek tako radim i nemam problema.

 

Znao sam ponekad prvo počistiti stare, ni tada nije bilo problema ali ovo mi je brža metoda.

patch123 sri 24.3.2010 19:38
F1-IVO kaže...
patch123 kaže...
čitao sam negdje (čak mislim na ovom forumu) da se nekima dogode s*anja kad brišu drivere pa onda nove instaliraju

 

neki samo skinu nove i sve im radi savršeno

sad ne znam šta mi je bolje napraviti,sigurno mi je ovo drugo lakše

hvala na savjetu.prvo ću pričekati 3-4 dana i vijdeti ima li kakvih bugova sa driverima i onda ih instalirati jer mi ovi stari rade savršeno

Ja tako radim oduvijek. Za par minuta ću instalirat pa čemo vidjet:)

lijepo,posebno jer imamo istu grafičku pa mogu saznati koliko ti driveri stvarno vrijede bez da googlam pola sata za dobar odgovor