8.71.3 Catalyst 10.3 Preview

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 15:58

rflair has provided the goods again.

Win7/Vista x86/x64

http://www.sendspace.com/file/2k07wf

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PWCP4AZN

More links should be coming soon.

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Added megaupload link.

JeffyB · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:35

New drivers coming fast, not even had a chance to try the 10.2 yet.

paradigm · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:37

Has anyone tried these against the 10.2's?

I've not updated since the 10.1's and will happily skip the 10.2's if these are stable and offer decent performance (with crossfire).

kingy666 · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:39

But are these 10.3's or 10.2 hotfix (which is what usually appears a couple of days after drivers are launched from Ati)

LavaMonkey · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:42

Cheers. Will give these a go tonight. Hope it stops the crashing in my games.

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 16:51

kingy666 said:
But are these 10.3's or 10.2 hotfix (which is what usually appears a couple of days after drivers are launched from Ati)

They are the 10.3 betas that were used in the previews, so should have bezel management etc.

TaKeN · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:00

Can someone with 10.2s please test and report back?

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:05

Some testing happening in this thread, seems positive so far.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=315901

TaKeN · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:12

Downloading now

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:16

These also support mobility cards btw for those of you with laptops.

JeffyB · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:22

Broken Hope said:
These also support mobility cards btw for those of you with laptops.

That's good to hear, my gf is waiting on a mobility 5870 so at least there will be a driver for it once the cards instock

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:24

JeffyB said:
That's good to hear, my gf is waiting on a mobility 5870 so at least there will be a driver for it once the cards instock

Looks like it has support.

Code:

"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series" = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68C0
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series " = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68C1
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series  " = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68E0
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series   " = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68E1
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series" = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68A0
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series " = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68A1
"ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800 Series  " = ati2mtag_Manhattan, PCI\VEN_1002&DEV_68B0

EnderXi · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:25

might try these tonight but i just got it stable and grey screen free with 9.12 drivers none of the others work so here is hoping!

hudson86 · 19 Feb 2010 at 17:45

just installed, cant see any Eyefinity options for Bezel Management though

twist3d0n3 · 19 Feb 2010 at 18:08

neil473 said:
just installed, cant see any Eyefinity options for Bezel Management though

that's the only reason i'd install them tbh

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 18:14

neil473 said:
just installed, cant see any Eyefinity options for Bezel Management though

If you have used the 8.703 beta drivers before these you'll have to uninstall the CCC and then install the ones from these drivers, since the one from these newer drivers have an older date so won't get replaced.

hudson86 · 19 Feb 2010 at 18:20

Broken Hope said:
If you have used the 8.703 beta drivers before these you'll have to uninstall the CCC and then install the ones from these drivers, since the one from these newer drivers have an older date so won't get replaced.

nope, was on the 9.12 / 9.12 hotfix

are you saying they definately should have eyefinity options ?

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 18:22

neil473 said:
nope, was on the 9.12 / 9.12 hotfix

are you saying they definately should have eyefinity options ?

I'm not 100% sure, perhaps the press had another app for the bezel stuff, these are the press drivers though.

These drivers also seem to have the 2D fixes that Tomshardware were testing.

10.2

8.71.3

Broken Hope · 19 Feb 2010 at 18:26

From the slides here is how you access the bezel management, you don't have this option?

hudson86 · 19 Feb 2010 at 18:28

Cheers, thats weird then

i've just uninstalled CCC etc and reinstalled

my CCC version still isnt the same as your piccy .. dunno whats going on there, maybe i did try an earlier beta, but i'm still coming back to a different version to yours after reinstall ( win7 x64)

Driver Packaging Version 8.71.3-100205a-095620E
Catalyst™ Version 09.12
Provider ATI Technologies Inc.
2D Driver Version 8.01.01.1010
2D Driver File Path /REGISTRY/MACHINE/SYSTEM/ControlSet001/Control/CLASS/{4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}/0000
Direct3D Version 8.14.10.0735
OpenGL Version 6.14.10.9606
Catalyst™ Control Center Version 2010.0205.1306.23449