Thursday, March 25th 2010
ATI Catalyst 10.3 Driver Suite Released
AMD released the ATI Catalyst 10.3 WHQL driver suite. Catalyst provides drivers and related system software for ATI Radeon, ATI FirePro, graphics processors, AMD 7-series and 8-series integrated graphics, AMD chipset system software, and drivers for ATI multimedia products. Version 10.3, like 10.2 promises to bring a series of significant additions to the feature-set, along with a long list of application-specific performance improvements.
Catalyst 10.3 introduces a set of additions to the ATI Eyefinity technology, such as display bezel compensation, per-display colour adjustments, multiple Eyefinity groups (which allows multiple Eyefinity display heads over available graphics cards and displays), and improvements to the display configuration switching. ATI hardware now supports stereoscopic 3D display over third-party middleware from the likes of iZ3D, DDD, etc., for output of stereoscopic L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye). A number of bugs were also fixed. For more details refer to the Release Notes document.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.3 for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
Game-specific performance increment figures follow.
Aliens vs. Predator
Catalyst 10.3 introduces a set of additions to the ATI Eyefinity technology, such as display bezel compensation, per-display colour adjustments, multiple Eyefinity groups (which allows multiple Eyefinity display heads over available graphics cards and displays), and improvements to the display configuration switching. ATI hardware now supports stereoscopic 3D display over third-party middleware from the likes of iZ3D, DDD, etc., for output of stereoscopic L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye). A number of bugs were also fixed. For more details refer to the Release Notes document.
DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.3 for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit
Game-specific performance increment figures follow.
Aliens vs. Predator
- Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- 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
- 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
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
- 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
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- 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
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
26 Comments on ATI Catalyst 10.3 Driver Suite Released
And this is a review on 10.3 vs. the launch drivers ---> www.tweaktown.com/articles/3196/high_end_radeons_then_and_now/index.html
Some good gains noticeable :rockout::laugh:
Specs on the left.
Heaven 2.0
10.3a
36.7 fps
924 score
10.3 official
36.7 fps
925 score
3D Mark Vantage GPU score only
10.3a
17396
10.3 offcial
18055
i changed to 10.3 over 103a just because im having stability issues but it seems there might be a little more 'juice in the can' with them.
:D
Having issues tho at the moment with metro 2033 cant keep it stable with my card. Thankfully the card is being replaced soon anyways.
I'm looking forward to playing Metro 2033 but I really want a patch to be released so that it sorts out the performance issues and I was wondering what effects the 10.3 and 10.3a sets will have on the game.
Thanks.
More info about this over here: www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3743&p=5
If I go back to the 10.3preview cat problem solved... and one have any ideas why this is happening?
UPDATE * I think it's the new Antivir ver 10 I also d/l'd last-night that my be the problem.
I haven't had the lock up's sense disabling the real time protection
Wowwww, I'm not sure if I should thank Nvidia for this or ATI.
Haven't upgraded drivers since Decembers, looks like I now have a reason! :D
Ran Unigine at 1050/1333