New Catalyst Release

June 9, 2005 9:11 AM

Owners of Radeon videocards should head over to the ATI site, as a new Catalyst driver is now available for WinXP/2000. According to the 5.6 release notes offers improved WMV9 acceleration, performance improvements for DOOM 3, Halo, Chronicles of Riddick and 3DMark05 and fixes for MVP Baseball 2004, Shadow Vault and Virtual Skipper 3 among many changes. Thanks timm.

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sharkII

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June 9, 2005 9:12 AM

Bummer that neither Anandtech nor HardOCP can find ANY performance improvements in the games they quickly tested.
- Sylvanus
  
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  June 9, 2005 9:53 AM
  
  [-"ANY"]- Negligeable.
  
  Darn that ATI for fixing issues and lowering CPU usage on video playback! /sarcasm
  - Sylvanus
    
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    June 9, 2005 9:54 AM
    
    "ANY" Darn. :) Almost had it right.
  - sharkII
    
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    June 9, 2005 10:44 AM
    
    I was just saying "bummer" because the release seem to make it out to be bigger then they are.
    
    I love it when stuff gets fixed and improved.
    - Sylvanus
      
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      June 9, 2005 12:34 PM
      
      It looks like that might happen in the next couple of releases. I hear that 5.5 gave significant improvements. During that time, I had a 6800GT. I'm back with an x800XT. Frankly, the AA is better. :)
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  June 9, 2005 6:24 PM
  
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  - sharkII
    
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    June 9, 2005 7:20 PM
    
    Are they "for" low resolutions, or do they only show up under low resolution scenarios?