ok, the cat 4.6s are out!

[ayoub_ibrahim]

http://www.ati.com/support/driver.html

[Paddy]

Do you sit on ATI's hompage hitting F5?

*edit* The 4.6 softmod drivers are out too

[Wombat]

I think I have the 4.3's installed at home. Am I missing something by not upgrading?

[Jon P. Inghram]

New bugs, fixes for old bugs that don't actually fix the bugs, more bugs, some more bugs, performance increases that raise the performance to levels still noticibly lower than previous drivers... yeah, you're missing stuff.

[leech]

For awhile there, ATI was actually fixing their reputation on their drivers... at least around the time of the first Radeon and even up until the first few Catalyst drivers... but it seems to me that they are going back to their old habits with having crappy drivers again....

Leech

[DukeP]

Ah, I have no problems with these drivers!


I think the driver teams of any and all grafix hardware are fighting an uphill struggle.

As games get more and more complicated, more and more bugs appear.

Like Farcry having issues with both Nvidia and ATI drivers - but both teams are getting flamed that THEIR drivers are lousy - -until someone with BOTH card types noticed that its actually a gamebug.

Heh. Tough working conditions.

On a personal note: I have no problems with the latest couple of ATI drivers. Actually I have had NO problems with any of the ATI drivers I have had - I think my first set was 3.6.


~~DukeP~~

[Paddy]

I always wait a few weeks for you guys to test them for me

[Fat Tone]

me too

[dbdg]

ayoub_ibrahim, are you one of the beta testers?

Would explain how he always knows, I installed them last night and haven't had any issues yet, bit early to tell though.

[Admiral]

Just installed them, played Aquanox 2 a bit, PC didn't explode... yet

[The PIT]

A good comparrison here

http://www.amd-insight.de/main.php?cat=grafik&test=catalyst_comparison&page=1

Doesn't seem any real performance gains for the 9700 Pro overall. Interesting to see what benifcts X800 users get.