Catalyst 3.5

*CATALYST maker* · Jun 23, 2003, 05:15 PM

Go and grab em.

Once again a new fully certified fully supported CATALYST is here.

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

This driver has a greater focus on bug fixes, and less on performance and new features.
Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Also in this CATALYST posting, Hydravision is updated to version 3.3 with some bug fixes as well.

Harboe · Jun 23, 2003, 05:17 PM

Coooooooooooooool first reply

Edit: Cant wait to try AC2. THANKS Catalyst Maker and a big thanks to the rest of the Catalyst Team. Keep up the GREAT work.

tragic · Jun 23, 2003, 05:17 PM

Heck thats quick, just getting used to the 3.4's Great work again ATi.

Kgentatszu] · Jun 23, 2003, 05:27 PM

still downloading, wait till i get my hands on them.......by the way, have you fixed the CS game problem (cause it wasnt fixed on cat's 3.4, many gamers encountered tons of problem with those drivers......)

shuki · Jun 23, 2003, 05:28 PM

any mirrors?

No_Style · Jun 23, 2003, 05:29 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by CATALYST maker
Go and grab em.

Once again a new fully certified fully supported CATALYST is here.

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

This driver has a greater focus on bug fixes, and less on performance and new features.
Please refer to the release notes for more details.

Also in this CATALYST posting, Hydravision is updated to version 3.3 with some bug fixes as well.

GASP! Hydravision has been updated~!

I found a typo:

"Setting the display resolution to 1027x768 and running the Unreal Tournament 2003 benchmark with Anti-Aliasing enabled, no longer results in the system rebooting "

1027 x 768?

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jun 23, 2003, 05:31 PM

aight gona try em out kickass

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jun 23, 2003, 05:33 PM

lol catalyst maker did u implement the fix for the screensaver? since ur here at DH

Gardinen · Jun 23, 2003, 05:33 PM

Ohh like what I see!!!

Zardon · Jun 23, 2003, 05:33 PM

Mr Terry Makedons words, change list

Keeping the tradition of frequent CATALYST updates, I would like to announce the availability of CATALYST 3.5.
This posting updates the driver to version 7.90 and Hydravision to version 3.3. The focus of this posting is compatibility and stability improvements. Please get them from here http://ati.com/support/driver.html
In this driver release the 3DMark2003 shader optimizations found in previous CATALYST(tm) releases have been removed.

Some performance highlights include:

Improvements in the ATI OpenGL drivers have experienced performance gains such as:
Â° GL Excess performance improves 12-14% on the RADEON(tm) 9700 PRO and 9800 PRO. Modest benefits are noticed on our other graphic products as well
Â° Unigraphics performance (ViewPerf Ugs-03) improves 27% on the RADEON(tm) 9800 PRO, 52% on the RADEON(tm) 9700 PRO, and 79% on the RADEON(tm) 9500 PRO
Â° Data Explorer performance (ViewPerf DV-08) improves 9% on RADEON(tm) 9800 PRO, and the RADEON(tm)9700 PRO. The RADEON(tm) 9500 PRO improves by 14.5%

Some compatibility/stability fixes include:
Â° Playing the game Nascar Racing 2003 in OpenGL mode no longer results in the display going black
Â° Playing the game Serious Sam 2 with the display resolution set to 1024x768 32bpp no longer results in the wrong OpenGL renderer being listed when setting the graphics to OpenGL
Â° Enabling Pixel Shaders in the game Asheron's Call 2 no longer results in display corruption appearing as the game is played
Â° Playing the game Project IGI2: Covert Strike with a RADEON(tm) 9700 series card installed in the system results in the ground terrain disappearing and re-appearing as the character is moved.
Â° Running the ATI Tranquility screen saver found at http://www.hardwareheaven.com, on an ATI RADEON(tm) 9000 series card, no longer results in the system not responding under Windows XP

yousearch · Jun 23, 2003, 05:37 PM

How come they wrote the filesize to be 16MB and its only a 6.6MB download? Is there more to the driver, or just a misprint?

Peace

*CATALYST maker* · Jun 23, 2003, 05:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by yousearch
How come they wrote the filesize to be 16MB and its only a 6.6MB download? Is there more to the driver, or just a misprint?

Peace

just a typo

Zulan · Jun 23, 2003, 05:43 PM

hmm the ATI site is getting hit HARD!!!! can't get my 3.5's

So hurry up downloading everybody, so i can download and then

-EDIT- WOOPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, downloading @ 73 KB/sec stable, time to install and

Harboe · Jun 23, 2003, 05:44 PM

Typical. There updating the european AC2 server. Hehe.

Zardon · Jun 23, 2003, 05:45 PM

ok guys please stop pming me, once I get the Cat 3.5 drivers ill mirror them on our driver download server to help.. I know ATIs server is slow atm, but I dont have the offically released set myself yet

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jun 23, 2003, 05:47 PM

i think im gonna wait for omega, catalyst drivers were screwing up all my games the other week for no reason after i got this new mobo

Zardon · Jun 23, 2003, 05:50 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by BiGBrOWnPimpsta
i think im gonna wait for omega, catalyst drivers were screwing up all my games the other week for no reason after i got this new mobo

give them a try, they work very well for me. been testing them for weeks at various stages.

just do a rollback if they dont work as you want, not much to lose man.

BiGBrOwNPimpsta · Jun 23, 2003, 05:54 PM

hmm ok, i jus feel really lazy now to install anything lol. thx zardon

sinjin · Jun 23, 2003, 06:01 PM

after reading the list of performance gains i can't wait to install these.

Zulan · Jun 23, 2003, 06:03 PM

very nice, i like them

Zardon · Jun 23, 2003, 06:09 PM

ok I have them mirrored on our driver download server, unfortunately its also slow atm, but its better than nothing.

Spankmaster C · Jun 23, 2003, 06:09 PM

too bad they don't fix the Enter the matrix texture problem I have (radeon 64 mb VIVO)

but I guess they work at all my other games, so I too like 'em! (although for me, nothing's changed since 3.4, but I could care less

)

Dom · Jun 23, 2003, 06:15 PM

Kudos to everyone at ATi for getting this out on time.

Lock · Jun 23, 2003, 06:16 PM

nice one Terry and the rest of the ATI peeps

BWX · Jun 23, 2003, 06:16 PM

try guru3d guys, I just got them 857 kb/sec About a 6 second download. Good Luck.

Erroneus · Jun 23, 2003, 06:23 PM

mirror located in Denmark:

http://www.innews.dk/wxp-w2k-radeon-...09437c-efg.exe <-- Driver Set

http://www.innews.dk/control-panel-7...09437c-efg.exe <-- Control Panel

http://www.innews.dk <-- File list

enjoy

wertret · Jun 23, 2003, 06:33 PM

i've updated from the latest omega's and my smartgart panel has gone. However the perfromance/stability of the drivers seems good. But where's my smartgart, any ideas?Â¿

Zardon · Jun 23, 2003, 06:35 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by wertret
i've updated from the latest omega's and my smartgart panel has gone. However the perfromance/stability of the drivers seems good. But where's my smartgart, any ideas?Â¿

I think this has something to do with moving from omegas set back to ATIs offical set, but im not 100% sure.

drop omegadrive an email at omegadrive@driverheaven.net im sure he is a position to give you an answer to that one.

in the meantime id try another clean install of the offical ATI set.

Harboe · Jun 23, 2003, 06:37 PM

Coooooooooooooooooooooooooool ATI. AC2 bugs fixed. THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS

wertret · Jun 23, 2003, 06:39 PM

Well i think im going to wait for my new rig to do a refreshing format of my HD. BTW should i choose the conventional xp 2700 or the barton 2500? Thank for the support...

Jun 23, 2003, 05:15 PM	#1
CATALYST maker ATI driver guru Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: ATI, Canada Posts: 678 Rep Power: 63	Catalyst 3.5 Go and grab em. Once again a new fully certified fully supported CATALYST is here. http://ati.com/support/driver.html This driver has a greater focus on bug fixes, and less on performance and new features. Please refer to the release notes for more details. Also in this CATALYST posting, Hydravision is updated to version 3.3 with some bug fixes as well.

Jun 23, 2003, 05:31 PM	#7
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	aight gona try em out kickass __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Jun 23, 2003, 05:33 PM	#8
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	lol catalyst maker did u implement the fix for the screensaver? since ur here at DH __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Jun 23, 2003, 05:33 PM	#10
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	Full list of information on the drivers Mr Terry Makedons words, change list Keeping the tradition of frequent CATALYST updates, I would like to announce the availability of CATALYST 3.5. This posting updates the driver to version 7.90 and Hydravision to version 3.3. The focus of this posting is compatibility and stability improvements. Please get them from here http://ati.com/support/driver.html In this driver release the 3DMark2003 shader optimizations found in previous CATALYST(tm) releases have been removed. Some performance highlights include: Improvements in the ATI OpenGL drivers have experienced performance gains such as: Â° GL Excess performance improves 12-14% on the RADEON(tm) 9700 PRO and 9800 PRO. Modest benefits are noticed on our other graphic products as well Â° Unigraphics performance (ViewPerf Ugs-03) improves 27% on the RADEON(tm) 9800 PRO, 52% on the RADEON(tm) 9700 PRO, and 79% on the RADEON(tm) 9500 PRO Â° Data Explorer performance (ViewPerf DV-08) improves 9% on RADEON(tm) 9800 PRO, and the RADEON(tm)9700 PRO. The RADEON(tm) 9500 PRO improves by 14.5% Some compatibility/stability fixes include: Â° Playing the game Nascar Racing 2003 in OpenGL mode no longer results in the display going black Â° Playing the game Serious Sam 2 with the display resolution set to 1024x768 32bpp no longer results in the wrong OpenGL renderer being listed when setting the graphics to OpenGL Â° Enabling Pixel Shaders in the game Asheron's Call 2 no longer results in display corruption appearing as the game is played Â° Playing the game Project IGI2: Covert Strike with a RADEON(tm) 9700 series card installed in the system results in the ground terrain disappearing and re-appearing as the character is moved. Â° Running the ATI Tranquility screen saver found at http://www.hardwareheaven.com, on an ATI RADEON(tm) 9000 series card, no longer results in the system not responding under Windows XP

Jun 23, 2003, 05:43 PM	#13
Zulan DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In your backyard Posts: 236 Rep Power: 0	hmm the ATI site is getting hit HARD!!!! can't get my 3.5's So hurry up downloading everybody, so i can download and then -EDIT- WOOPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, downloading @ 73 KB/sec stable, time to install and __________________ System 1: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (socket 939) \| DVD-RW: Sony DVD RW DW-U18A \| Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2-54G \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6600 GT \| Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Soundblaster X-Fi \| Main HDD: 2 * Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB Serial ATA 10000RPM @ RAID 0 \| Storage HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 120 GB 8 MB Cache \| DVD: Lite-On 16* DVD \| OS: Windows XP SP2 \| PSU: Sweex 650W PSU *System 2:* CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ \| Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta2-FSR \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6200 256 MB \| Monitor: Hercules Prophetview 920 PRO \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Nvidia Soundstorm \| Main HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 80 GB 8 MB Cache \| CD-ROM: NEC 52* CD \| OS: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE \| PSU: A-Open 300W PSU *Laptop:* CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron 3100+ \| GFX: SiS M760GX 128 MB \| Monitor: 15" XGA TFT LCD \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Realtek AC '97 audio \| HDD: 40 GB \| DVD-RW: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S \| OS: Windows XP PRO SP2

Jun 23, 2003, 05:17 PM	#2
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	Coooooooooooooool first reply Edit: Cant wait to try AC2. THANKS Catalyst Maker and a big thanks to the rest of the Catalyst Team. Keep up the GREAT work.

Jun 23, 2003, 05:17 PM	#3
tragic Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Northern Hemi Posts: 0 Rep Power: 0	Heck thats quick, just getting used to the 3.4's Great work again ATi.

Jun 23, 2003, 05:27 PM	#4
Kgentatszu] DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 1,802 Rep Power: 0	still downloading, wait till i get my hands on them.......by the way, have you fixed the CS game problem (cause it wasnt fixed on cat's 3.4, many gamers encountered tons of problem with those drivers......)

Jun 23, 2003, 05:28 PM	#5
shuki DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: in the hidden place Posts: 1,975 Rep Power: 0	any mirrors?

Jun 23, 2003, 05:33 PM	#9
Gardinen DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Trollhättan, Sweden Posts: 512 Rep Power: 0	Ohh like what I see!!!

Jun 23, 2003, 05:37 PM	#11
yousearch DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Pomona, CA Posts: 61 Rep Power: 0	How come they wrote the filesize to be 16MB and its only a 6.6MB download? Is there more to the driver, or just a misprint? Peace

Jun 23, 2003, 05:44 PM	#14
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	Typical. There updating the european AC2 server. Hehe.

Jun 23, 2003, 05:45 PM	#15
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	ok guys please stop pming me, once I get the Cat 3.5 drivers ill mirror them on our driver download server to help.. I know ATIs server is slow atm, but I dont have the offically released set myself yet

Jun 23, 2003, 05:47 PM	#16
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	i think im gonna wait for omega, catalyst drivers were screwing up all my games the other week for no reason after i got this new mobo __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Jun 23, 2003, 05:54 PM	#18
BiGBrOwNPimpsta HH's #1 Hustla and Pimp Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: The Dirty Dot Posts: 7,717 Rep Power: 107 System Specs	hmm ok, i jus feel really lazy now to install anything lol. thx zardon __________________ Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Music \| Logitech Z-5500 THX 5.1 Surround Sound Speakers \| 2 Lite-On 20x S-ATA Burners \| Logitech G700 Mouse \| Logitech MX5500 Bluetooth Keyboard

Jun 23, 2003, 06:01 PM	#19
sinjin the last samurai Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 1,086 Rep Power: 0	after reading the list of performance gains i can't wait to install these. __________________

Jun 23, 2003, 06:03 PM	#20
Zulan DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: In your backyard Posts: 236 Rep Power: 0	Installed them very nice, i like them __________________ System 1: CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3200+ (socket 939) \| DVD-RW: Sony DVD RW DW-U18A \| Motherboard: MSI K8N Neo2-54G \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6600 GT \| Monitor: Samsung SyncMaster 1100DF \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Soundblaster X-Fi \| Main HDD: 2 * Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB Serial ATA 10000RPM @ RAID 0 \| Storage HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 120 GB 8 MB Cache \| DVD: Lite-On 16* DVD \| OS: Windows XP SP2 \| PSU: Sweex 650W PSU *System 2:* CPU: AMD Sempron 3000+ \| Motherboard: MSI K7N2 Delta2-FSR \| GFX: nVidia Geforce 6200 256 MB \| Monitor: Hercules Prophetview 920 PRO \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Nvidia Soundstorm \| Main HDD: Maxtor DiamondMAX Plus 9 80 GB 8 MB Cache \| CD-ROM: NEC 52* CD \| OS: FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE \| PSU: A-Open 300W PSU *Laptop:* CPU: AMD Mobile Sempron 3100+ \| GFX: SiS M760GX 128 MB \| Monitor: 15" XGA TFT LCD \| RAM: 1 GB Kingston PC 3200 \| Sound: Realtek AC '97 audio \| HDD: 40 GB \| DVD-RW: Slimtype DVDRW SOSW-833S \| OS: Windows XP PRO SP2

Jun 23, 2003, 06:09 PM	#21
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	ok I have them mirrored on our driver download server, unfortunately its also slow atm, but its better than nothing.

Jun 23, 2003, 06:09 PM	#22
Spankmaster C DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 10 Rep Power: 0	too bad they don't fix the Enter the matrix texture problem I have (radeon 64 mb VIVO) but I guess they work at all my other games, so I too like 'em! (although for me, nothing's changed since 3.4, but I could care less )

Jun 23, 2003, 06:15 PM	#23
Dom DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 12,940 Rep Power: 0	Kudos to everyone at ATi for getting this out on time.

Jun 23, 2003, 06:16 PM	#24
Lock DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 33 Rep Power: 0	nice one Terry and the rest of the ATI peeps

Jun 23, 2003, 06:16 PM	#25
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,669 Rep Power: 110 System Specs	try guru3d guys, I just got them 857 kb/sec About a 6 second download. Good Luck. __________________

Jun 23, 2003, 06:23 PM	#26
Erroneus Get off my lawn! Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 13,417 Rep Power: 119 System Specs	mirror mirror located in Denmark: http://www.innews.dk/wxp-w2k-radeon-...09437c-efg.exe <-- Driver Set http://www.innews.dk/control-panel-7...09437c-efg.exe <-- Control Panel http://www.innews.dk <-- File list enjoy __________________ Last edited by Erroneus; Jun 23, 2003 at 06:32 PM.

Jun 23, 2003, 06:33 PM	#27
wertret Still watching... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Orihuela (Spain) Posts: 1,560 Rep Power: 0	i've updated from the latest omega's and my smartgart panel has gone. However the perfromance/stability of the drivers seems good. But where's my smartgart, any ideas?Â¿ __________________ "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."

Jun 23, 2003, 06:37 PM	#29
Harboe Join Date: May 2002 Location: Denmark Posts: 116 Rep Power: 0	Coooooooooooooooooooooooooool ATI. AC2 bugs fixed. THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS THANKS

Jun 23, 2003, 06:39 PM	#30
wertret Still watching... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Orihuela (Spain) Posts: 1,560 Rep Power: 0	Well i think im going to wait for my new rig to do a refreshing format of my HD. BTW should i choose the conventional xp 2700 or the barton 2500? Thank for the support... __________________ "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."