New ATI Drivers Tested

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AnandTech has whipped up a new article looking at the performance of ATI's latest drivers for the Radeon 8500. AnandTech puts the Radeon 8500 against the GeForce 3 Ti500. Among other things, the new drivers now fix the Quake 3 image quality "bug", and support SMOOTHVISION (anti-aliasing). In a lot of games, the Radeon gets pretty damn close to the GeForce 3 now although in games like Unreal Tournament the GeForce 3 blows the Radeon away (though at a 1600x1200 resolution). When it comes to AA support, ATI can now compete with NVidia as well

The inclusion of SMOOTHVISION proves that the technology is superior to anything else we've seen out there on both a performance quality level. Unfortunately the drivers aren't flawless and there still are random bugs. While ATI has done their best to list any incompatible games or other scenarios in the driver release notes, they can't change the reality of not being able to test on every person's system. The drivers are still not up to par with NVIDIA's Detonator series from a stability standpoint but it's good to see ATI actively addressing their problems.
According to ATI we should begin to see a regular flow of beta drivers from ATI on a much more frequent basis (possibly every few weeks?).

AnandTech also mentions these new drivers should be released today.
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    November 14, 2001 6:21 AM

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      November 14, 2001 10:32 AM

      u have that typed out in notepad dont u :P
      copy paste h00rj

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