AMD has just released the Catalyst 10.3a preview drivers. These drivers offer improved support for Eyefinity by including bezel correction. In addition, these drivers also offer improvement in games by about 5%, depending upon the game. Some games will see a larger improvement (DiRT 2 improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products), while others will see less.
The Catalyst 10.3a preview drivers are not WHQL drivers. The Catalyst 10.3 WHQL drivers will not contain Eyefinty6 updates and an optimization for Alien vs. Predator. The Catalyst 10.3a preview drivers will have this extra feature.
Now, NVidia is set to release the GeForce GTX 480 next week, which is rumored to be about 5% faster than AMD’s card. In other words, AMD has released this driver in order to improve the performance of their product which will (hopefully) spoil some of their rivals thunder. These next couple of weeks are going to be interesting.
Update from CatalystMaker: The download links are wrong – the page went up about one hour too early.
Update from CatalystMaker: The download links are fixed.
You can download the new drivers from the AMD Underground.
ATI Catalyst Control Center – ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
- Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
- Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
- Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
- Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
- AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)
via : ATI Catalyst 10.3 Preview Update Driver Coming Out Tomorrow
via : CatalystMaker
