Thursday, April 17th 2008
Catalyst Beta 8.49 Leaked
A new beta version of ATI's Catalyst display driver has been leaked onto the internet, although there's very little information about it. The build number is 8.49 (although that doesn't mean too much - this is most likely a beta version of the 8.5 Catalyst which will be released next month) and the driver supports all Radeon 9500 and above cards. The Windows XP version (which apparently works with both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the OS) can be downloaded here, and the Vista 64-bit version can be downloaded from here. There's no Vista 32-bit download available at the moment.
Source:
Station Drivers
24 Comments on Catalyst Beta 8.49 Leaked
using vista x64 and x32
Anyone know when/where I can get the Vista x64 media with sp1 integrated from microsoft officially? Cus I can use my 32 bit key.
Thanks for the info!
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Something like that anyways. There was an article about it a couple months ago that I couldn't be bothered to pull up. 8.5's are probably in some form of testing, and getting ready for polish at this point I'd imagine.
This is using old drivers, just driver versions were change. that's about it.
Of coarse i lost about 5fps in crysis benchmark.
The strange thing is that according to the Driver Packaging Version this should be a more recent release than 8.1 - I'm running the 8.3 driver and my version is 8.47, possibly something that's been overlooked by ATI's developers or simply a hack to make it seem newer.
If it is a fake I'll take it down, but I'll wait a while to see what happens for other users.
But yet it installs as 8.1 ccc. It's just a version number change. :(
This driver ver is 8.490.0.0
8.4 driver ver is 8.476.0.0
That's a big jump just for some beta drivers. I would have to say this is fake or a mod gone wrong :laugh:
It took a while because the installation was always botched due to an inf file missing but, when repairing it via the control panel / programs and features , it was fixed ... weird ...
Unigine 0.4 Sanctuary benchmark result:
Sanctuary Direct3D9 Fullscreen ATI 6.14.10.6783 (ATI Catalyst 8.4)
Sanctuary demo (Default Settings)
FPS: 128.1
Scores: 2715
Sanctuary Direct3d9 Fullscreen ATI 6.14.10.6806 (ATI Catalyst 8.490)
FPS: 138.5
Scores: 2936
Download Unigine 0.4 Sanctuary Benchmark/Demo (Windows/Linux)
OpenGL Test include @ Attach Files (html).
Let's be realistic. Someone at ATI got approval to push the beta driver out to the internet so all the tech junkies would test them and post in forums. Their QA people can just monitor the forums for problems and look into fixes.
Almost every driver release gets "leaked". If they did not want that to happen, you would not be seeing this kind of stuff.
This is not bad, it just would be more up-front if they would just release them as beta and say, "test 'em people".