Catalyst 3.4 released

19th May 2003, 02:55

Hello everyone, I'm a new "shrimp", came over from Xtremesys. Thought I'd find a "Home away from home", or Timeshare.

Anyway, I thought I was up on thing's, as I'd just installed Cat.3.3 from Guru3D (where I usually look first) last week, but then came across these. Poeple are experiencing some significant increases 200 to 600 3DMark2003 points. I picked up 200 points in 2003, and fianlly broke 17K at 17224 from 16962 in 3DMark2001SE. Here's a direct link to the drivers for WinXP users. And below is the url to ATI-Driver page;
http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

jmke · 19th May 2003, 07:52

Liquid3D , we are testing the new Catalyst drivers with a wide range of games and benchmarks to see where the differences are

19th May 2003, 10:45

Liquid3D

I had a significant increase in 3Dmark01 too, broke my record with 250 points without even trying

19th May 2003, 18:30

Anyone remember the day's when you couldn't even run 3DMark2001 with early ATI drivers? I purchased the Radeon 8500 64MB Retail Box for $300 when it was released and couldn't play 1/2 my games on a good day. I have to say though, you could clearly see the visual differences betwen the R200, and NV25. ATI was adept at designing VPU, and it's architectual platform (PCB). In so far as their drivers, perhaps they were distracted? Feeling guilty they "inside traded" (dumped) 494,900 shares of their own stock. Worth $7.6 million, the owners Kwok Yuen Ho, and Betty Ho, along with five other executive officers (also married literally and financially) illegally traded these shares just prior to the Q3 earnings report in 2000;
http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/Enforcem...030116_ati.htm

Doesn't mean they can't build great VPU's though! Their just not the smartest financiers. They had the hearing on Feburary 14th, 2003 (I don't know the outcome); http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/Enforcem...030116_ati.htm

RichBa5tard · 19th May 2003, 18:44

I agree nvidia has a far better driverteam, but you can't deny ATI has been delivering fast & reliable drivers since the catalyst series came out.

Were's the time PBA vidcards needed seperate drivers?

The Senile Doctor · 19th May 2003, 19:37

well... the one thing you should do going to 3.4 catalysts is reinstall yer friggin OS, coz uninstalling the catalysts and putting the 3.4 in gets ya some real problems every now and then, they sure as hell hosed my OS...

19th May 2003, 20:03

they sure crashed when i played a dvd
fixed it by reinstalling powerdvd

21st May 2003, 11:33

Quote:

Originally posted by calantak
well... the one thing you should do going to 3.4 catalysts is reinstall yer friggin OS, coz uninstalling the catalysts and putting the 3.4 in gets ya some real problems every now and then, they sure as hell hosed my OS...

I installed them on my friends pc (P4 2.8@3.0, Asus P4PE, 512 corsair, Win xp pro, Ati 9800 Pro) and no problems. So just must have done somethin wrong I guess. We ran 3dmark 03 and his score was about 5700, which is good I guess.

21st May 2003, 14:09

I had no problems either, not to say your worng, I just don't think everyone has to re-install Windows.

Bosw8er · 21st May 2003, 15:03

http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/show...9615#post29615

Proper procedure changing drivers

19th May 2003, 02:55	#1
Liquid3D Posts: n/a	Catalyst 3.4 released Hello everyone, I'm a new "shrimp", came over from Xtremesys. Thought I'd find a "Home away from home", or Timeshare. Anyway, I thought I was up on thing's, as I'd just installed Cat.3.3 from Guru3D (where I usually look first) last week, but then came across these. Poeple are experiencing some significant increases 200 to 600 3DMark2003 points. I picked up 200 points in 2003, and fianlly broke 17K at 17224 from 16962 in 3DMark2001SE. Here's a direct link to the drivers for WinXP users. And below is the url to ATI-Driver page; http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

19th May 2003, 07:52	#2
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	Liquid3D , we are testing the new Catalyst drivers with a wide range of games and benchmarks to see where the differences are __________________

19th May 2003, 18:44	#5
RichBa5tard [M] Reviewer/HWBot ***** Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,344	I agree nvidia has a far better driverteam, but you can't deny ATI has been delivering fast & reliable drivers since the catalyst series came out. Were's the time PBA vidcards needed seperate drivers? __________________ HTPC (mac osx): Mac Mini \| Core Duo 1.6Ghz \| 2GB DDR2 \| 26\" TFT Development (mac osx): Macbook \| Core 2 2.0Ghz \| 4GB DDR2 \| 250GB HD Games (win xp): E2160 @ 2.4Ghz \| HD3850 OC \| Asrock 4coredual-vsta \| 2GB DDR2

19th May 2003, 19:37	#6
The Senile Doctor Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: wherever the doom is Posts: 3,171	well... the one thing you should do going to 3.4 catalysts is reinstall yer friggin OS, coz uninstalling the catalysts and putting the 3.4 in gets ya some real problems every now and then, they sure as hell hosed my OS... __________________ OC-2-the-death Where the Reverend is doing his Magick, all mortals be silent Doom over the world

21st May 2003, 15:03	#10
Bosw8er Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 3,711	http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/show...9615#post29615 Proper procedure changing drivers __________________ "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

19th May 2003, 10:45	#3
Magnum_ Posts: n/a	Liquid3D I had a significant increase in 3Dmark01 too, broke my record with 250 points without even trying

19th May 2003, 18:30	#4
Liquid3D Posts: n/a	Anyone remember the day's when you couldn't even run 3DMark2001 with early ATI drivers? I purchased the Radeon 8500 64MB Retail Box for $300 when it was released and couldn't play 1/2 my games on a good day. I have to say though, you could clearly see the visual differences betwen the R200, and NV25. ATI was adept at designing VPU, and it's architectual platform (PCB). In so far as their drivers, perhaps they were distracted? Feeling guilty they "inside traded" (dumped) 494,900 shares of their own stock. Worth $7.6 million, the owners Kwok Yuen Ho, and Betty Ho, along with five other executive officers (also married literally and financially) illegally traded these shares just prior to the Q3 earnings report in 2000; http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/Enforcem...030116_ati.htm Doesn't mean they can't build great VPU's though! Their just not the smartest financiers. They had the hearing on Feburary 14th, 2003 (I don't know the outcome); http://www.osc.gov.on.ca/en/Enforcem...030116_ati.htm

19th May 2003, 20:03	#7
CmdrGod Posts: n/a	they sure crashed when i played a dvd fixed it by reinstalling powerdvd

21st May 2003, 14:09	#9
Liquid3D Posts: n/a	I had no problems either, not to say your worng, I just don't think everyone has to re-install Windows.

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