ATi Catalyst 5.3 Released

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:14 pm

Release Notes

5.3 Cats with Classic Control Panel

5.3 Cats with Catalyst Control Center

5.3 Cats Driver ONLY

5.3 Cats Classic Control Panel ONLY

5.3 Cats Catalyst Control Centre ONLY

OpenGL v2.0 is in this version of the Cats

Post by **SoM** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:15 am

since when have you taken over my job ?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 1:01 am

since you started slacking

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 2:30 am

Awaits Omega release

Post by **SoM** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 3:59 am

phantasmagoria wrote:since you started slacking

not my fault i was chockiong the chicken

Post by **Bdw3** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:06 am

dzjepp wrote:Awaits Omega release

So what's different in those?

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:55 am

the control center driver stop being a resourse hogging bitch yet?

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:38 pm

Post by **dzjepp** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:57 pm

Bdw3 wrote:
dzjepp wrote:Awaits Omega release
So what's different in those?

Mostly, it's not as 'bloated' as the ATI release, and it tweaks a few minor things here and there from the official drivers. Although myself wouldn't directly say it, most people report slightly better IQ than the ATI drivers, as well as a very slight performance increase (a few benchies done on some sites did show a 2-5 framerate increase).

Post by **Bdw3** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:06 pm

Oh I see.

Thanks.

Post by **AmIdYfReAk** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:08 pm

anyone report any diffrence??

Post by **Tormentius** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 8:26 pm

AmIdYfReAk wrote:No.

:icon21:

Post by **Psyche911** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:30 pm

With the Omegas, I went to their site and it only has a download link for their version of Catalyst 5.1. I've had trouble with the 5 series, do you know where I can find the last 4 series Omega to try?

With the 5 series I saw a 40% decrease in framerates on my 9800 Pro...wtf?

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:53 pm

sounds like you need to clean off the old driver, install the default vga drivre, and then apply the new one.

i know for sure that the older drivers have issues with HL2, Doom3 and Thief 3, as well as any games that use those engines, you'd be selling yourself short if you go back to them.
their's no reason you should have issues with the new drivers... unless you have some sort of non standard card, in which case you should still be able to get a updated driver from the manufacturer's site.

Post by **Psyche911** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 8:41 am

I always do
Uninstall > Reboot > Driver Cleaner > Reboot > Install new driver

Never install default drivers, never had a problem until 5.x.

edit: And it's a reference board. Sapphire 256bit/128MB

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:37 pm

thats the exact card i have... and i havn't had any problems.

Post by **Psyche911** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:51 pm

Well, I'm bored. Let's try it again.

Question though:
There was supposed to be some method of having different profiles for different games. Is that only part of the Catalyst Control Center? I don't use that, and I don't have that feature.

I like having AF/FSAA enabled for Q3, but not for all OGL games (Doom 3, etc).

Post by **OverRide** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:01 pm

Tried everything to reinstall the new drivers for a hour or 2, but I still got that default vga driver error. So i gave up and reinstalled WinXP

Everything is working fine now tho :icon32:

Post by **Psyche911** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:16 pm

Well, I tried 5.3 again yesterday.
Using the CS:S "Video Stress Test" my framerate dropped from 105 with 4.12 to 70 with 5.3.

Not only that, but it seemed very jerky. I tried playing this way and was getting my ass kicked.

There's a possibility I just have some conflict specific to the HL2/Source engine games, I didn't try Q3 or anything to test framerate changes there.

But then I tried Omega's 5.1 (their latest, they're not up to 5.3 ye) and am getting 105fps again with any benefits 5.1 may bring so I'll hang on to these.

Post by **Psyche911** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:17 pm

P.S.
I've been pondering a reformat lately, so once I get all my stuff backed up again I may do that. Might fix something...

Post by **Psyche911** » Sat Mar 19, 2005 4:12 pm

Well, fuck Omega drivers too.
Back to 4.12 for me.

The Catalyst worked fine for a few days. Then I one time when I booted up, I had no video. But I restarted it (via the power switch...) and it was fine.

Then today, I couldn't boot into Windows. Each time after loading it, it would restart, again and again.

So, safe mode & uninstall fixed the problem.

Oh well, 4 series always worked fine for me.

Post by **DRuM** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:17 pm

5.4

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def ... olderID=27

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-cat ... 22141c.exe

Post by **SOAPboy** » Sun Apr 17, 2005 8:41 pm

bwhahah i almsot downloaded em.. then i realized i have a 6800gt now.. fucking rofl