regardless of when it supposed to be released, it was released a week ago. everybody seems to expect ATI in this case to be the first company in history to release hardware with mature drivers. this is why we have something called driver updates, heard of it? No company can possibly foresee every single problem across every possible hardware/software combination BEFORE launch, again, this is what driver updates are for. of course you already know this, but it seems like common sense took a back seat in this case.