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| | (Post a comment) » ATI releases Catalyst 10.3a preview driverToday AMD has released Catalyst 10.3 preview drivers for desktop and mobile GPUs dating all the way back to the Mobility Radeon 2000 series. The new preview driver promises performance improvements for Radeon 5000 series and 4800 seres GPUs in a wide range of games, as well as adding a slew of new features:
Key new features in ATI Catalyst™ 10.3:
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
Performance Improvements:
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
Note: This list is not exhaustive and more improvements are possible
Windows XP users will have to wait for the official Catalyst 10.3 WHQL-certified driver, which is expected to hit amd.com on March 24th. AMD says that today's 10.3a preview driver contains Eyefinty 6 updates and an Alien vs. Predator optimization which the Catalyst 10.3 WHQL driver will not have.
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  p4l1ndr0m3 (469)    Mar 17, 2010 - 02:04 pm
| | I wonder if starcraft 2 will see any benefit. Right now with everything maxed, including SSAO, I'm getting about 40-55fps at 1920x1080. I've tried turning AA and AF on through the Catalyst Control Center. I see a large performance dip, but see no noticeable visual improvements. I still get jagged edges with no sign of smoothing. Maybe ATI/AMD needs to make a AA/AF profile for it to work? » Login to reply to this  gnice3d (5) Mar 17, 2010 - 02:13 pm
| » hmm
AA/FA was not really designed for use at that high a resolution. Your pixel density is already so high at 1080p that you probably won't see any difference.» Login to reply to this Kamus (138) Mar 18, 2010 - 06:21 am | Edited on Mar 18, 2010 - 06:29 am
| WOW, you are... so wrong.
You are confusing pixel density with aliasing, an artifact tied to 3d graphics. This is not video or photos, where aliasing due to rendering doesn't exist for obvious reasons.
And besides, you are wrong about pixel density anyway (given a large enough screen, you'll see the pixel structure on almost any display, let alone pixel detail, meaning the pixels themselves will look less detailed)» Login to reply to this |
 Soldier36 (777) Mar 17, 2010 - 06:19 pm
| | You think 1920 x 1080 is high, lol. Everyone and their brother has that size monitor and res now. They downgraded when they made that res, I had 1920 x 1200 for years before it was popular and now i have 2560 x 1600 so if you want real res move on up if you can afford it, your missing out if not. Fermi isnt going to be all that either i wouldnt worry. » Login to reply to this Kamus (138) Mar 18, 2010 - 06:25 am
| | How nice of you to chime in, with an argument that doesn't point out why he's wrong, you're as clueless as he is. » Login to reply to this |
 B.A.Frayd (401) Mar 18, 2010 - 02:23 am
| According to the latest steam survey only around 15% of PC gamers run at 1920x1080 or higher resolution.
Congratulations, you represent .1% of the PC gaming market, if that. Your mom must be proud that you can afford it.» Login to reply to this |
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