Cat 4.4 drivers out

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 7:23 pm

Wow, ATI has been cranking out the drivers here lately. The 4.4's are out now.

tunis5000 · Post by **tunis5000** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:30 pm

Yeah new drivers every month it seems. Done and done.

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:42 pm

i think i'm still using the 3.6's... sure they dont' help out 8500's much anyways.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:15 pm

Improved support for new games like UT2004 and Farcry in these new ones.

dadx2mj · Post by **dadx2mj** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:13 pm

You guys know I always jump on new drivers. Have them installed and so far all is good

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 6:06 pm

Installed, done, wahhlaaa, yippide do dah, woohooo..... Not much real change though

Its not like they somehow magically give you a whole new video card when they release new drivers, although in the past it was something close to this. I dunno I just think its getting to the point of overkill about now.

But I do like my ATI, Im an ATI kid I dont want to go GeForce, da da da da da da da da da daaaaaaaa

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Mon Apr 12, 2004 7:38 am

I usually don't dive on new drivers, but I installed these since they include tweaks for Far Cry which I'm playing. Seem to be working fine for me.

mindlesscracker1 · Post by **mindlesscracker1** » Sat May 08, 2004 6:41 pm

well for a while there ati had a lull in making drivers....they where kinda stuck to the 4.2's

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Sat May 08, 2004 6:50 pm

There's absolutely no reason for a video card manufacturer to release a new driver on mature video cards EXCEPT to support newer games. There's been a lull in new games using new video features until UT2004 and FarCry (couple of others too). As more and more DX9 games come out there will be more driver tweaks.

You're not going to see any more base improvement in performance on Radeon cards in new drivers. They've squeezed out all they can.

Occasionally they come up with some new "gimmick" they want to add (usually as a marketing gimmick) and then they'll release a new driver for that.

mindlesscracker1 · Post by **mindlesscracker1** » Sat May 08, 2004 7:01 pm

true, you have a good point there