NEW ATI Catalyst Driver 5.4 Released
Spinner
Birmingham, UK
ATI has released a new set of Catalyst drivers for its Radeon line of graphics cards, supporting Windows 2000/XP/XPMCE and more notably XP64. Go grab 'em while they're hot!
Download: [link=http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-121-050322a-022141c.exe]ATI Catalyst 5.4 (2000/XP)[/link] (24.6MB) - ATI Catalyst 5.4 (XP64) (20.5MB) - ATI Catalyst 5.4 (XPMCE) (20.3MB)
View: [link=http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_54_release_notes.html]Release notes (2000/XP)[/link] - Release notes (XP64) - [link=http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=33630746]Cataylst removal guide[/link] - [link=http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=178]ATI Catalyst Uninstaller[/link]
Official Site: [link=www.ati.com]www.ati.com[/link]
Download: [link=http://www2.ati.com/drivers/wxp-w2k-catalyst-8-121-050322a-022141c.exe]ATI Catalyst 5.4 (2000/XP)[/link] (24.6MB) - ATI Catalyst 5.4 (XP64) (20.5MB) - ATI Catalyst 5.4 (XPMCE) (20.3MB)
View: [link=http://www2.ati.com/drivers/Catalyst_54_release_notes.html]Release notes (2000/XP)[/link] - Release notes (XP64) - [link=http://www.rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?threadid=33630746]Cataylst removal guide[/link] - [link=http://www.short-media.com/download.php?d=178]ATI Catalyst Uninstaller[/link]
Official Site: [link=www.ati.com]www.ati.com[/link]
Source: ATIFixed in this driver:
-3DMark2001: A black screen is no longer displayed when launching 3DMark2001 after launching Aquamark3 when the CATALYST™ CONTROL CENTER is installed
-Pacific Fighters: Playing the game after playing any track for a short period of time and having the landscape detail set to perfect no longer results in the clouds becoming blocking when flying
-Sail Simulator 4: Attempting to play the game under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 9800 XT installed no longer results in the operating system failing to respond and rebooting
-SolidWorks 2004: Display corruption is no longer noticed when setting the AA to 6X and AF to 16X
-Splinter Cell: Depth buffer corruption noticed on the ATI RADEON™ X800 PRO is now resolved
-Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic: Loading the Dantooine level of the game under Windows XP no longer results in slow game performance
-Using the ATI Problem Report Wizard under Windows XP SP2 with an ATI RADEON™ X850 XT installed no longer results in an error message appearing when clicking the Finish button for the problem report
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no mention of fixing over all frame rate drops in every game made. I got 20fps rolling back to 4x vs 5x.
Personally I think ATI's drivers are going backwards. They were doing so well then the release of the 5x series and their drivers suck again. I personally will be staying with 4x series until thus time I can afford to buy a 6600gt. Time to start tweaking this old 8500le.