Catalyst 9.3 now available!

[ownage]

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

Release notes

ATI Catalyst™ 9.3 Folding@Home performance enhancements
Using ATI Stream™ technology, owners of the ATI Radeon™ HD 4000 Series, ATI
Radeon™ HD 3000 Series, and ATI Radeon™ HD 2000 Series of graphics
accelerators will see a performance boost in their Folding@Home scores when
running the latest Folding@Home client and upcoming cores in conjunction with
ATI Catalyst™ 9.3

Performance Improvements
Catalyst™ 9.3 brings performance benefits in several cases where framerates are CPUlimited.
Some measured examples are:

Lost Planet: Colonies gains up to 20% on 4800 series products, and up to 50% on
4600, 4500 and 4300 series products

Catalyst™ Crew Driver Feedback
This driver release incorporates suggestions received through the Catalyst™ CREW
Driver Feedback program. To provide us with your feedback, visit Catalyst™ Crew
Driver Feedback.

REVIEW!

Conclusion
The Catalyst 9.3 display driver isn't really faster than it fast predecessor, but didn't cause in trouble during our tests - so updating from 9.2 to 9.3 isn't really necessary. But if you just bought a Radeon card or reinstall your system you should use the Catalyst 9.3 of course.

Supports:
-Windows XP 32bit
-Windows XP 64bit
-Windows Vista 32bit
-Windows Vista 64bit
-Windows 7 32bit
-Windows 7 64bit

Most important is that these drivers are the first official Windows 7 drivers from AMD/ATI

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

DLing and installing now: I'll let you know if I have any problems installing

[ownage]

DLing and installing now: I'll let you know if I have any problems installing

Installing went wrong , how come I'm not surprised?
Thanks ATi for a 640x480 4bit desktop.

[SNiiPE_DoGG]

Holy driver installs batman! Everything installed fine here, games are playing great

[Mad1723]

Someone tested those speed improvements in F@H?

[Santi U]

in before the 'installation failed!' crew. ops nvm they best me yet again!

[clayton]

My little review:
Drakensang with 9.2: 72 FPS after character creation.

Drakensang with 9.3: 54 FPS after character creation.

[Eastcoasthandle]

in before the 'installation failed!' crew. ops nvm they best me yet again!

I didn't have any problems installing Cat 9.3

[SKYMTL]

So basically it can be sumarized like this:

8.11 to 9.1: No performance changes
9.1 to 9.2: No performance changes
9.2 to 9.3: No performance changes

......


8.11 to 9.3: No performance changes

[Jamesrt2004]

-downloads and installs-

-prays they dont mess up like 9.2-


OMG IT WORKED! windows 7 x86

[Loque]

the driver Gods can't squeeze more fps out of their clouds

[halo112358]

My little review:
Drakensang with 9.2: 72 FPS after character creation.

Drakensang with 9.3: 54 FPS after character creation.

Somehow this doesn't surprise me any more. I guess I'll wait to install this one until I'm done playing drakensang :p

[Dragy2k]

ran ok for me too ...seemed a quick install .....all i need do now is sort out my weird res in win7

[chew*]

So basically it can be sumarized like this:

8.11 to 9.1: No performance changes
9.1 to 9.2: No performance changes
9.2 to 9.3: No performance changes

......


8.11 to 9.3: No performance changes

could have fooled me........8.11 to 8.12 netted me performance, 8.12 to 9.1 netted me performance........9.2 never claimed performance gains just bug fixes......

[Pudi]

Application Install: install package failure!

[kemo]

could have fooled me........8.11 to 8.12 netted me performance, 8.12 to 9.1 netted me performance........9.2 never claimed performance gains just bug fixes......

8.12 + hotfix doesnt net much to 9.1

[Firestrider]

Getting about 2500 PPD with my 4850 @ 640/993. Still no where near Nvidia's cards.

[2DIFF]

Powerplay issue with 4870 X2 on Vista 64bit still not solved, GPU 2 runs @ 750 Mhz on bootup. This is just unbelievable. I could hit a hammer against my head for 2 hours. Dear ATI-guys: IS IT REALLY THAT DIFFICULT???

[Eastcoasthandle]

Hmm, I'm getting around 35-50 FPS at 500/450 (1920, max settings) in COD:WAW in breaking point. I don't recall the frame rates that high when I used 9.1 or 9.2. IE: I sometimes forget to use the 3D setting. Interesting...

[Final8ty]

Installed over the top of 9.2 without a hitch.

[ownage]

Another Catalyst 9.3 review, in german.

http://www.computerbase.de/artikel/h...catalyst_93/2/

[initialised]

Someone tested those speed improvements in F@H?

Tricky to measure as my clients are picking up so many different projects at the moment. However, I will be rolling this out to my ATi machines tomorrow so I'll try a side by side comparison.

[tool_462]

I'm showing a 34 PPD gain on the same WU on an OCed 4850

Exactly a 1% gain.

Probably some DLL file changes that I don't know about to get higher PPD with this core though.

[safan80]

can anyone play ETQW for a few hours with a 4870x2 and see if these problems have been fixed? I don't own a 4870x2 anymore.

[Nedjo]

Application Install: install package failure!

perhaps yours download package is corrupted?!