ATi Catalyst 3.8 drivers are out

Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:26 pm

http://www.ati.com/support/drivers/winxp/radeonwdm-xp.html?type=xp&prodType=graphic&prod=productsXPdriver&su%20bmit.x=6&submit.y=6

Wed Oct 08, 2003 2:55 pm

omega?

Wed Oct 08, 2003 3:03 pm

Give them a week, they will be out then.

Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:08 pm

ya usually a week or so,.

Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:17 pm

Originally posted by buliwyf
ya usually a week or so,.

woot...they run so much better than the original catalysts...(at least that is what i've heard)

Wed Oct 08, 2003 4:24 pm

Originally posted by Jeffro
woot...they run so much better than the original catalysts...(at least that is what i've heard)

I'll be trying tonight

Thu Oct 09, 2003 2:19 pm

Originally posted by buliwyf
I'll be trying tonight

....and the verdict is???? :help:

Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:03 pm

*bump* - Buli, how are you liking the Catalyst 3.8 drivers?

I've downloaded but not installed yet.

Mon Oct 13, 2003 12:56 pm

have not had one single issue, nadda. So far so good.

I have all options cranked up both inside BF as well as HIGH performance in the 3D tab, AA / ASF etc

Mon Oct 13, 2003 1:06 pm

Originally posted by buliwyf
have not had one single issue, nadda. So far so good.

I have all options cranked up both inside BF as well as HIGH performance in the 3D tab, AA / ASF etc

Thank you for the update. I'll proceed with mine now.

Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:38 pm

Buli, you're using the Omega's right? Are you using the newest ones (which have some unofficial Dell driver in 'em)?

Last time I ran Omega's it was a royal pain, lots of issues, but may have been caused by some other conflict. I think I'm gonna drop a new install of XP in soon.....

Mon Oct 13, 2003 3:40 pm

I can't speak for Buli, but I'm now running the plain-jane ATI drivers. At first, both 1942 and SW were crashing to desktop immediately. After a couple of reboots it seemed to clear up. Working well now.

Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:07 am

I tried those leaked Dell editions and they worked well in all but one game. I'm finally getting around to playing Baldur's Gate 2, and the dell version didn't play well with it. BF was fine, but I switched back to Omega's version of the official 3.8's.

Also if you hjaving any issues, ATI nows includes and uninstall utility with their drivers. Run it to clean out all the ATI grabage and then reinstall. That'll usually clear up any issues witj seemingly fine drivers.

Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:25 am

I've read in alot of other forums about the cat 3.8's causing a slight delay on boot-up of xp due to it loading two exe's/services. Do you guys notice this (both the vanilla-ATI and Omega users)? Just curious.....

Tue Oct 14, 2003 10:28 am

I hav enot. Then again, my comp loads very fast to begin with.