Description ATI has just relesed version 4.3 of its Catalyst driver suite. According to the company the new drivers will greatly improve RADEON performance, especially for the DX9 cards.
-ATI claims that Pixel Shader performance of its DX9-class products has improved considerably with Catalyst 4.3. Halo and Tomb Raider framerates should be up by 3-7 per cent. -Shader-specific technology tests such as ShaderMark should also show gains in the region of 10-20 per cent or more. -3DMark03's Mother Nature scene will now run 2-5 per cent faster across the entire DX9 product line. -The ATI 3DMark03 Pixel Shader 2.0 framerate should also see an improvement in the range of 7-15 per cent. -Aquamark 3 performance has also improved slightly, at higher resolutions.
The important changes however, have to do with the games themselves and ATI states that there are quite a few. -Setting the video resolution to 1280x1024 in Medal of Honor: Spearhead, along with Anti-Aliasing set to 2x no longer results in the main menu of the game not displaying properly. -Display corruption is no longer noticed when playing Aquanox under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 9100 IGP series installed. This issue is was known to occur when specific video options have been customized. -Running Hegemonia under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 8500 series installed no longer results in all of the main menu options and the 3D textures in the background not being available. -The operating system no longer fails to respond when launching TrackMania with a RADEON 7000 series installed. -Background colour corruption is no longer seen when playing Armed and Dangerous. -Poor performance is no longer noticed when playing Homeworld 2 with extended desktop enabled or when Anti-Aliasing is set to 4x. -Visual corruption is no longer seen when playing Spy Hunter. -Setting the resolution in Enclave to 1024x768 or higher no longer results in display corruption. -The Windows operating system no longer intermittently fails to respond when playing Jedi Knight 2 with the display set to 1024x768 32bpp and the game option set to High Quality. -Windows problems are no longer noticed when playing Homeworld 2 in single player mode. -Texture corruption is no longer seen when playing Battlefield 1942
