{"id":16184,"date":"2010-03-18T04:08:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T04:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2010-03-18T04:10:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T04:10:38","slug":"early-look-at-the-ati-catalyst-10-3-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/early-look-at-the-ati-catalyst-10-3-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Early look at the ATI Catalyst 10.3 Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-7021221536180758\";\n\/* 468x60, created 11\/11\/09 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"1949837292\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This ATI Catalyst\u2122 driver update will unlock new performance improvements on top of the already previewed features in the initial Catalyst\u2122 10.3 Preview driver <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?p=15571\" target=\"_blank\">we sampled you in February<\/a>.&#160; This driver will be available to download on March 17<sup>th<\/sup>from <a href=\"underground.amd.com\" target=\"_blank\">underground.amd.com<\/a> and it will be called &quot;Catalyst 10.3a Preview&quot;. On March 24th we will post the official Catalyst\u2122 10.3 WHQL certified on <a href=\"amd.com\" target=\"_blank\">amd.com<\/a>. The difference between the two is that Catalyst\u2122 10.3a Preview will contain future Eyefinty 6 updates and an Alien vs. Predator optimization which the Catalyst\u2122 10.3 WHQL posting does not have.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the key new features in ATI Catalyst\u2122 10.3 listed below the ATI Catalyst\u2122 10.3 Preview Update can&#160; provide the following performance improvements.<\/p>\n<p><b>3DMark Vantage<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products <\/li>\n<li>Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Aliens vs. Predator<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Battleforge<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Call of Duty: World at War<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Company of Heroes<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Crysis and Crysis Warhead<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Devil May Cry 4<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>DiRT 2<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Enemy Territory: Quake Wars<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Far Cry 2<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. \u2013 Call of Pripyat Benchmark<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>S.T.A.L.K.E.R. \u2013 Clear Sky<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Resident Evil 5<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Tom Clancy\u2019s H.A.W.X.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Unigine Tropics<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>World in Conflict<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>Wolfenstein<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products <\/li>\n<li>Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Note: This list is not exhaustive and more improvements are possible.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Key new features in ATI Catalyst\u2122 10.3:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <b>ATI Catalyst\u2122 Mobility<\/b> &#8211; monthly updates for the mobile crowd<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <b>ATI Eyefinity Technology Bezel Correction<\/b> &#8211; compensate for your bezels so objects in your game move from one display to the other smoothly<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <b>ATI Eyefinity Technology Per Display Control<\/b> &#8211; adjust for differences in each individual displays brightness, color and contrast<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <b>ATI Eyefinity Technology Multiple Display Groups<\/b> &#8211; more display groups to give further control of your desktop with three displays or more connected<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <b>ATI Eyefinity Technology Display Configuration Switching<\/b> &#8211; easily switch from one display mode to another<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <b>3D Stereoscopic 3D driver hooks<\/b> &#8211; enables 3rd party middleware vendors to bring more 3D stereoscopic&#160; gaming options<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leon Hyman<\/strong>     <br \/><strong><em>Senior Editor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Please join us in our <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/abt\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Forums<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Become a Fan on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/AlienBabelTech\/123268467142', 'Facebook']);\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech\" onclick=\"_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/twitter.com\/alienbabeltech', 'Twitter']);\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest updates from ABT, please <a href=\"http:\/\/alienbabeltech.com\/main\/?feed=rss2\" target=\"_blank\">join our RSS News Feed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Join our Distributed Computing teams<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Folding@Home &#8211; 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