News: ATI Catalyst 5.8 drivers released

Got Haggis?
08-17-2005, 02:38 PM
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Battlefield 2: Geometry corruption or missing textures are no longer noticed when playing the game for an extended period of time under Windows XP with an ATI Radeon® X800 XT installed

3D Mark03: Enabling Powerplay mode and running the 3DMark03 or 05 in a loop no longer results in an error message being displayed

Area51_2.3dc: Playing the game under Windows XP no longer results in the NPC and guns appearing distorted, flashing or missing. Further the polygons no longer pop in and out of the display

GTA: Vice City: Setting the desktop and the game display option to 1024x768 32bpp and attempting to play the game under Windows XP MCE, no longer results in an Invalid Pixel Format message being displayed after approximately 5 minutes of game play

Warcraft III: Playing the game under Windows XP with the display rotated by 90 degrees CCW, no longer results in display corruption being noticed
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Yay, no more corrupted textures in bf2 for me (I hope anyway)

Read the rest of the release notes <a href="http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_58_release_notes .html">here</a>.

Grab the drivers <a href="https://support.ati.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=894&task=knowledge&folderID=293">here</a>

Hologram
08-17-2005, 02:41 PM
BF2 is a POS.

:lol:

Juke
08-17-2005, 03:32 PM
It's easy to slack off, and hard to find interesting or useful news daily. As someone who tried to keep a site updated with front page news, I can honestly say you're doing a fantastic job.

Got Haggis?
08-17-2005, 04:33 PM
beware, the driver installation program CRASHED when i was installing these drivers.

Hologram
08-18-2005, 05:40 PM
It's easy to slack off, and hard to find interesting or useful news daily. As someone who tried to keep a site updated with front page news, I can honestly say you're doing a fantastic job.
:signed: