New Catalyst drivers released

[replicant]

ati have released their new cat 3.7 drivers for the Radeon family. Here are some details -

? Pixel Shader processing has been enhanced across all of our DX9 products. As a result, certain PS 2.0 ShaderMark tests are now running as much as 12% faster.
? Unreal Tournament 2003 performance is up considerably for DX9 products running with Anti-Aliasing enabled. This is due to improvements in the driver code for rendering character shadows. For example, the Anubis botmatch test gains as much as 23%

https://www.ati.com

[Vaipon]

24MB for a driver? LOL. And I thought the detonators were getting a bit bloaty.

Still, as long as they increase performance I suppose...

[Super Stu]

Detonators (the latest, WHQL'd) are only 8meg (english only). The full international one is 16 odd.

Presumably, it's the language files that are bloating it.

[*PrYzM*]

Nope!! not the language files. The 3.7 drivers come with built in control panel this time around. Previous ati drivers came seperate and you had to download the control panel as a file in itself.
Seems they've gone the nvidia route and decided to package the whole thing into one easy install.

On a side note, anyone using reforce lock, or any such programs that force a refresh rate, be sure to disable and re'enable after installing the drivers. I myself forgot, and uninstalled the 3.7 because a certain game was glitching like mad. All fine now though.

[replicant]

on a side note ati people have been saying that 3.8 is the big one. Apparently their most innovative drivers yet. Sounds interesting.

[g-funk]

Here's a small app to completely remove any trace of old drivers.

http://www.driverheaven.net/cleaner/