General Gaming News
New ATi Catalyst Driver
By KNYTE
Nov 6, 2003, 09:43

ATi graphics card owners should stop by their Catalyst Driver Page and download the new version 3.9 which was recently released. The new driver fixes multiple issues both with the driver and with benchmarking, and here is a list of games that have been patched to fix support issues:

Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by playing Blade of Darkness with the game set to 1027x768 16bpp, and texture resolution set to max, no longer results in a flickering horizontal line of display corruption

Playing Morrowind under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ All-In-Wonder 9200 installed no longer results in parts of the boat image flashing and portions of the person's body being missing

The game Jedi Knight-Jedi Academy no longer fails to respond when enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x or 6x

Choppy game play is no longer noticed with attempting to play the game Home World 2

The demo game Panzers no longer fails to respond when Anti-Aliasing is enabled under Windows XP with an ATI RADEON™ 8500 series card installed

Setting the ATI 3D tab slider to Performance under Windows XP with a RADEON™ 9800 series card installed no longer results in display corruption when playing the game Grand Prix 4

Setting the game Flight Simulator 2004 to display at 1024x768 or 1280x1024 followed by starting a new flight no longer results in the menu being flipped just before the new flight is about to begin

Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp followed by setting the Indy Car demo display option to 1600x1200 32bpp and setting the detail to high no longer results in the fence and car's shadows flashing

Setting the display resolution to 1024x768 32bpp and enabling Anti-Aliasing to 4x followed by configuring the game Race Driver to 1600x1200 32bpp no longer results in some of the race cars not being drawn properly

Attempting to start a new game of Links 2003 no longer results in the system rebooting

Serious Sam 2 is now able to detect OpenGL TRUFORM when set to Application Preference