ATI's revamped driver/software - Catalyst

[yellowperil]

Catalyst

I read on Rage3D it was supposed to be released today, but no sign on ATI's site. The new drivers are supposed to be better than the 6071's (which are now the current official driver).

 

[NFS4]

http://tech-report.com/reviews/2002q2/ati-catalyst/index.x?pg=1

 

[Mutilator]

They're out now.

 

[gregor7777]

This all makes sense now. This is why the 6091 set had missing tabs and whatnot. Because they were being implemented differently with catalyst. Great, I heard very good things about the 91 set, now we have 6094!

Living very happily with my 8500 ATM.

We'll see how they work with a Radeon 7000 I'm putting into a new system tonight.

 

[Adul]

got to give ati props for finally coming up to the plate.

 

[ElFenix]

heheh naming your drivers and marketing them heheheh

 

[ElFenix]

That's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. And believe me, versus some of ATI's older drivers, I'd prefer the stick.

buahahahahah!

 

[ProviaFan]

From that review, they're looking pretty good. I'll have to download them shortly and see what all the fuss is about.

 

[bjc112]

Originally posted by: Adul
got to give ati props for finally coming up to the plate.

Agreed, and they have been swinging well..

 

[gregor7777]

And, what's more: ATi's leaked drivers have had entries for the R250 and R300 in them. I'm unsure if this has been the case for their official sets or not.

Anyhow, I'm hoping this means the CATALYST set will work for the R300. That way ATi's public beta testing (or otherwise referred to as the first six months their cards are on the market) has already been done and we'll get great drivers right out of the box.

 

[Paul]

Anyone have mirrors? ATI is getting hit pretty hard.

 

[SteelCityFan]

We have been seeing drivers from ATI at least every month... 6043-6071-6094 since I bought the card...

Will be trying these as soon as I get home...

 

[tcrosson]

At-a-glance:

Industry's most stable 3D acceleration software
Exceptional visual quality
New features and functions
Frequent updates and reliable customer service
CATALYST Crew Program

This is promising a lot - especially for ATI. I wonder if they can produce on these claims?

I sure hope they can!

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: gregor7777
And, what's more: ATi's leaked drivers have had entries for the R250 and R300 in them. I'm unsure if this has been the case for their official sets or not.

Anyhow, I'm hoping this means the CATALYST set will work for the R300. That way ATi's public beta testing (or otherwise referred to as the first six months their cards are on the market) has already been done and we'll get great drivers right out of the box.

ATi has said that they've already moved to a unified driver model. so i would expect that. the unified driver model is nvidia's biggest edge over their competitors (though matrox has had one for years)

 

[aka1nas]

Did the 8500s trueform feature ever get better? I remember when the card was first released it tended to distort graphics in some games, and I haven't heard anything about it for a while. That was one of the reasons why I ended up with a Geforce 3 instead of a radeon 8500 was cuz it seemed like none of the cool feetures they were advertising worked right when the card came out. Hopfully this new driver model helps with that.

 

[Soccerman]

I remember when the card was first released it tended to distort graphics in some games

well depending on what setting you force, it will make games look good, or fat (heh remember that shotgun pic?). what you want is for it to be programmed around by the developer so that it applies to the objects that it is supposed to apply to (potentially reducing AGP bandwidth).

one game that I know of that DOESN'T use this feature is Doom 3, though it's possible to impliment AFAIK in the engine. the reason why Doom 3 doesn't have it, is because the shadows are based on the original low polygon model, so they wouldn't actually be correct for the nice looking model (though they would be close). instead, Doom 3 uses somewhat low polygon models along with bump mapping to produce those nicely detailed models.

 

[NeoMadHatter]

anyone else get that "INF ERROR" CAN"T FIND VIDEO DRIVER ? my all in wonder radeon isn't being able to update to these drivers.

 

[SteelCityFan]

Boosted my 3dmark2001se score to 9198 (1.8A@2.0)

 

[flexy]

very nice driver tabs ! Way to go, ATI !


too bad i all of a sudden have flashing/flickering textures in Morrowind. (Yes..i did a complete de-install of the 6071s first). Kinda sucks...

running xp pro

 

[Goi]

I wonder if these new drivers can milk any more performance from my lowly Radeon VE

 

[alm99]

How do I uninstall the old drivers?

EDIT: Do I just remove them in device manager? I am running WinXP Pro

 

[spanky]

ati's site has been being milked all day.

 

[ProviaFan]

I've not been able to get the drivers at all. For a while, when I was trying to download them, it was going at 0.9kbytes/sec.

 

[Goi]

Not sure about WinXP Pro but if its anything like Win95/98/2K, then go to Add/Remove Programs and remove the ATI installation drivers. Then reboot, and install the new drivers. As for ATI's site, its being hit quite hard even right now, so try a download manager. i had to resume thrice to download the drivers and the ATI DVD 7.7 update.

 

[corkyg]

It took six tries over about an 8 hour period, but I finally for a good D/L of Catalyst. No need to remove old drivers - ATI does that better than Matrox - it is all automatic. It did change a few of my icons, but I was able to get the right ones back. It is stable, and works great with my 8500 and 19-in LCD monitor. I can now apply it to my other system by transferring the file. It is 10.5 MB. A tip of the hat to ATI - nice job!