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adamp2p
03-10-2004, 10:22 PM
New Features
This section provides information on new features found in this release of the CATALYST™ Display Drivers. New features include:

SURROUNDVIEW™
Enhanced rotation mode
SURROUNDVIEW™
This release introduces multi-adapter, multi-monitor support for the integrated ATI RADEON™ 9100 IGP graphics processor. Using SURROUNDVIEW™ with an ATI AGP graphics card can provide support for up to three independent monitors. This feature is supported on the RADEON™ 9100 IGP with the following ATI products:

ATI RADEON™ 9800 series
ATI RADEON™ 9600 series
ATI RADEON™ 9500 series
ATI RADEON™ 9200 series
ATI RADEON™ 9000 series

Enhanced rotation mode
The latest CATALYST™ driver provides Rotation support. The ATI Rotation tab found in the display properties offers four options. Standard Landscape (0°), Rotate 90° Left or Right, or Rotate 180°. When a rotation button is selected, the driver prompts the user to apply the setting or it will time out. A Hotkey can also be assigned to the different rotating options available.

Performance Improvements

As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed:

The Pixel Shader performance of our DX9-class products has improved considerably with Catalyst 4.3.
Halo and Tomb Raider framerates are up 3-7%.
Shader-specific technology tests such as ShaderMark show gains in the region of 10-20% or more.
3DMark03's Mother Nature scene runs 2-5% faster across the entire DX9 product line. Our 3DMark03 Pixel Shader 2.0 framerate improves 7-15%.
Aquamark 3 performance has also improved slightly, at higher resolutions.

Read more Here (http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_43_Release_Notes.html)

Download for XP: Here (http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&submit.x=14&submit.y=5)

abu_has_the_power
03-10-2004, 10:33 PM
sweet!! thanks man.

bigdawgfoxx
03-10-2004, 10:39 PM
I love it how you keep us informed of updates! thanks! but why do they update SO much? lol

adamp2p
03-10-2004, 10:46 PM
An update a month is what they do. That probably means that sometimes they fix issues and other times they improve performance.

bigdawgfoxx
03-10-2004, 10:52 PM
Yah..the improvment in this new set looks like it will boost benchmarks a bit. 1 a month...god you gotta love ati...how often does nvidia come out with one <_< ? lol

Dray_04
03-10-2004, 10:54 PM
thanks adam B)

tesco
03-10-2004, 10:54 PM
Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@10 March 2004 - 17:52
Yah..the improvment in this new set looks like it will boost benchmarks a bit. 1 a month...god you gotta love ati...how often does nvidia come out with one <_< ? lol
they dont need too, theres are perfect :lol:

they havent released one since december :( but im happy with my beta drivers, new beta ones like every month too.

bigdawgfoxx
03-10-2004, 11:22 PM
beta haha

my scores went down with the new drivers...just a little bit

adamp2p
03-10-2004, 11:36 PM
What did you do; did you only run the benchmark once?

bigdawgfoxx
03-10-2004, 11:51 PM
I disabled everything and my scores went down..only ran it once yes...but i always just run it once lolbut they went down by like 200 points on 3dmark 03 and on aquamark

Mïcrösöül°V³
03-12-2004, 02:30 AM
i think my I.Q. goes down with each new release, right now i am at 4.3........oh, wait, thats the driver version :frusty: