Catalyst 9.3 in 2 days!

CaptainRAVE · 16 Mar 2009 at 13:07

"As confirmed by the CatalystMaker himself, Terry Makedon on his Twitter page Radeon owners will be treated to the Catalyst 9.3 next week. Apparently set for a March 18 release, the new driver will mark the end of regular support for all cards older than the Radeon HD 2000 series and it will also be available in Windows 7 form for those testing out Microsoft's upcoming OS. Set your clocks, more Catalysts are coming up."

http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=25188&catid=3

http://twitter.com/CatalystMaker

Completely forgot about this! Can't wait. Hopefully will fix the 3D clock problem with my second 4870X2 core

kylew · 16 Mar 2009 at 13:22

You're a day late

Loadsamoney posted the same yesterday

Though I am really looking forward to these drivers, big gains are promised in some way. :cool:

FrenchTart · 16 Mar 2009 at 13:28

kylew said:
You're a day late

Loadsamoney posted the same yesterday

Though I am really looking forward to these drivers, big gains are promised in some way.

I presume not exactly the same though - I'd have thought his post yesterday would've said 3 days, no 2

EDC · 16 Mar 2009 at 17:28

Catalyst v9.3 already, only updated to to v9.2 last week, not that I'm complaining.

philip j fry · 16 Mar 2009 at 17:31

They normaly release a new set of drivers every month , the 9.2's been out a few weeks now.

CaptainRAVE · 16 Mar 2009 at 19:10

9.2 were a low imo. 8.12 and 9.1s were great drivers.

sastusbulbas · 16 Mar 2009 at 19:56

9.2 agp hotfix drivers seemed fine on my old XP machine, then I built a new PC for Windows 7 and my old AGP HIS, and 9.2 AGP hotfix dissappears from the ATI/AMD website.

wonder IF there will be AGP Hotfix 9.3 drivers for Windows 7?

CaptainRAVE · 18 Mar 2009 at 09:04

Are they out yet?

Balb0wa · 18 Mar 2009 at 15:21

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2343283,00.asp

What's more, ATI claims that their new Catalyst 9.3 graphics drivers are finally realizing the promise of Windows 7 to be more efficient than Windows Vista. Game performance, ATI says, is actually faster in Windows 7 than in Vista, as of Catalyst 9.3. You can read more about that in our examination of Vista vs. Win7 graphics performance.

LoadsaMoney · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:13

May as well give them a miss, same as 9.2's.

Catalyst 9.3 display driver: Conclusion
The Catalyst 9.3 display driver isn't really faster than it fast predecessor, but didn't cause in trouble during our tests - so updating from 9.2 to 9.3 isn't really necessary. But if you just bought a Radeon card or reinstall your system you should use the Catalyst 9.3 of course.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,679228/Catalyst-93-display-driver-reviewed/Practice/

CaptainRAVE · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:23

Do they fix the 3D clock bug?

Clive37 · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:26

9.3 are up on the ati website

VaderDSL · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:29

Clive37 said:
9.3 are up on the ati website

Could you link me please

still only seeing 9.2 here

Balb0wa · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:29

VaderDSL said:
Could you link me please still only seeing 9.2 here

linky, still 9,2 here also

Balb0wa · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:31

fill ya bootys

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

VaderDSL · 18 Mar 2009 at 17:37

Cheers

I was looking through the main AMD/ATI site.

Supertaff · 18 Mar 2009 at 18:13

Downloading now, 1.5mb/sec

HEADRAT · 18 Mar 2009 at 18:32

GPU temps are down at 53 degrees but only because the fan is spinning at 3175RPM

titaniumx3 · 18 Mar 2009 at 18:52

So whats the deal? Any magical increases in performance?

LoadsaMoney · 18 Mar 2009 at 19:00

CaptainRAVE said:
Do they fix the 3D clock bug?

Afraid not.

titaniumx3 said:
So whats the deal? Any magical increases in performance?

Yep, huge list of performance improvements taken from the release notes :-

Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on 4600, 4500 and 4300 series products.

Yes that is it.