ATi Catalyst 3.9 drivers released

[Buliwyf]

http://www.ati.com

Compatibility/stability fixes include:

Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by playing Blade of Darkness with the game set to 1027x768 16bpp, and texture resolution set to max, no longer results in a flickering horizontal line of display corruption

Playing Morrowind under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON All-In-Wonder 9200 installed no longer results in parts of the boat image flashing and portions of the person's body being missing

The game Jedi Knight-Jedi Academy no longer fails to respond when enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x or 6x

Choppy game play is no longer noticed with attempting to play the game Home World 2

The demo game Panzers no longer fails to respond when Anti-Aliasing is enabled under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON 8500 series card installed

Setting the ATI 3D tab slider to Performance under Windows XP with a RADEON 9800 series card installed no longer results in display corruption when playing the game Grand Prix 4

Setting the game Flight Simulator 2004 to display at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 followed by starting a new flight no longer results in the menu being flipped just before the new flight is about to begin

Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by setting the Indy Car demo display option to 1600x1200 32bpp and setting the detail to high no longer results in the fence and car's shadows flashing

Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp and enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x followed by configuring the game Race Driver to 1600x1200 32bpp no longer results in some of the race cars not being drawn properly

Attempting to start a new game of Links 2003 no longer results in the system rebooting

Serious Sam 2 is now able to detect OpenGL TRUFORM when set to Application Preference

ChameleonMark no longer displays corruption on DX8-class products

Connecting a TV as the secondary display and enabling extended desktop no longer results in display corruption on the primary display when attempting to change the colour mode and resolution when playing Serious Sam

Having two monitor connected with only one monitor being active no longer results in two monitors being seen as active in the Monitor tab of the Advanced Display Properties

Connecting both a CRT and a TV to an ATI RADEON 7200 series running in a Windows 9x environment no longer results in corrupted colours being displayed on the CRT

Setting the secondary CRT display to 1024x768 32bpp with extended desktop enabled no longer results in not being able to swap between the primary and secondary displays

DVD Region 2 playback no longer stutters during the beginning of the DVD under Windows 2000

Connecting both a CRT and a TV to an ATI RADEON 7200 series running in a Windows 9x environment no longer results in corrupted colours being displayed on the CRT

You new this was coming with all the trouble people were having.

[JimmyTango]

I see no info on the COD problems.

Has anyone noticed that this is the eighth Catalyst driver update this year!

[Buliwyf]

yes they are on a 3-5 week schedule as promised a few months ago.

ATI put itself on a 3-5 week schedule? That is the craziest thing I have ever heard. I'm not sure how the can wrap the drivers into an All in One driver download. You would think they would say that only a certain driver update will work for some of the older cards. Lets take the 7000 series. You would think they are tweaked enough already. Why would they need to download 3.9? I can see if minor issues show up. And I know the page says not to update if you are having no troubles. But the first thing they ask when you have and issue is.........................
Did you DL the most recent drivers?

[Tommy Boy]

I don't think that it is worth installing this on my Radeon 8500 LE...what do you think?

I would figure no. But who knows. I still think its the damnest thing that they have one set of drivers for almost every card in the Radeon family.

[Camel toe joe]

i read something about problems running cod with this driver only from one person on a diffrent forum and not many specs were posted anyone know anything about this?

[Jeffro]

thank you...but i am sticking with the 3.7 omegas...thx anyway

[shockwave203]

very very very few people have trouble running CoD using 3.8's. If 3.8 caused a problem, you can be damn sure half of all gamers would be yelling at ATI. The fact that they're not shows it's not really a problem...

[Buliwyf]

I run COD with 3.8 just fine

Well I had problems with the demo and not the game itself so far. I think, well I'm sure demos are a cut out of the actual game so they may respond differently.

Any feedback for these drivers?

[Buliwyf]

works fine here with cod, bf etc