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ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:15 pm
by Apoptosis
ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

ATI has just released ATI Catalyst 10.3 for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux platforms on http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/Pages/index.aspx or http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
Highlights of the ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 Windows release include:

Performance improvements

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 5000 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

New Features

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

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
o Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes

ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic
* AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as DDD and iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)

Highlights of the Linux ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 release include:

New Features

Support for new Linux operating systems
* This release of ATI Catalyst™ Linux introduces support for the following new operating systems:
o RHEL 5.5 early look support

For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 (for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 10.3 release notes.

Re: ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 2:01 pm
by Dizz01
These drivers seem amazing. I had an issue uninstalling and then installing these new ones but I believe it was my noobness that created it and not the drivers. Driver Sweeper is a life saver. :partyman:

Re: ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 4:16 pm
by MCQC
great drivers, they give me a little boost with a lot of my games ,nice

Re: ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 2:27 am
by Ruszek83
Anyone mind testing the new Catalyst 10.3 and compare it to the 10.3a version ?
Is there any difference ?
I'm running 10.3a now and don't know if there is any reason to upgrade to Catalyst 10.3 :-k

:partyman:

Re: ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:38 pm
by kgoncher
Everyone says 10.3 is great, but is it stable?
I have 5750 and a pivoting monitor using 9.12 CCC and get artifacts every time I rotate.
What does 10.3 fix (besides speed)?
Thanks

Re: ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 3:48 pm
by Apoptosis
The laundry list of fixes from 9.12 to 10.4 pre-WHQL is lengthy and worth the upgrade if you ask me... None of the Radeon 5000 series drivers have been buggy to me. Some idle power state adjusments have been made since 9.12 also, so that should reduce power consumption and heat. I'd upgrade to 10.4 pre-WHQL and if they aren't stable roll back to 9.12 after running driver cleaner. I don't think you'll roll back though.

Re: ATI Releases Catalyst 10.3 Video Card Drivers for Download

Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2010 7:09 pm
by Athlonite
I found that going from 10.3 to 10.3a Ogl 4.0 unigen heaven no longer showed any graphics on-screen except for the on-screen menu stuff and the fps counter weird it is