Catalyst Windows Xp 4.3 - Driver Download
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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)
Posted by: abu_has_the_power
sweet!! thanks man.
Posted by: bigdawgfoxx
I love it how you keep us informed of updates! thanks! but why do they update SO much? lol
Posted by: adamp2p
An update a month is what they do. That probably means that sometimes they fix issues and other times they improve performance.
Posted by: bigdawgfoxx
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
Posted by: Dray_04
thanks adam B)
Posted by: tesco
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.
Posted by: bigdawgfoxx
beta haha
my scores went down with the new drivers...just a little bit
Posted by: adamp2p
What did you do; did you only run the benchmark once?
Posted by: bigdawgfoxx
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
Posted by: Mïcrösöül°V³
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: