AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.3 XP

AMD Inc - (Freeware)

AMD Catalyst Drivers is a smart choice for those that want to improve their PC performance while increasing overall stability.

AMD Catalyst Drivers includes the latest 32-bit AMD (ATI) for the graphics card and panel Catalyst Control Center.

The AMD driver provides a gain of performance in several 3D applications thus ensuring an optimal experience. The panel Catalyst Control Center provides quick access to all parameters relating to AMD hardware offering multimedia features, management and display game.

There are different versions of AMD drivers for each operating system.

Title:: AMD Catalyst Drivers ATI Catalyst Drivers 10.3 XP
File Size:: 45.4 MB
Requirements:: Windows XP
Language:: en-us
License:: Freeware
Date Added:: 25 Mar 2010
Publisher:: AMD Inc
Homepage:: http://www.amd.com/
MD5 Checksum:: BE9498F7EB896A12A640E4BEF6D14361

# New Features

* ATI Catalyst support for ATI Mobility Radeon Premium Graphics solutions
> This release of ATI Catalyst introduces support for the production version of Windows® 7 and Windows® Vista for notebooks featuring the ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000 Series, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4000 Series, and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 Series of products
> Supported by most major OEM and ODM notebook manufacturers

* ATI Catalyst Control Center - ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
> Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
- Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
> Display Bezel Compensation
- Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
> Per-Display Color Adjust
- Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
> Improved Display Configuration switching
- Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst Control Center profile manager
- Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes

* ATI Catalyst support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
> AMD has updated its Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)

# Performance Improvements

* The following performance gains are noticed with this release of Catalyst 10.3:
> 3DMark Vantage
- Overall scores increase by up to 8% with ATI Radeon HD 5000 graphics products
- Overall scores increase by up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> Aliens vs. Predator
- Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> Battleforge
- Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Call of Duty: World at War
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Company of Heroes
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Crysis and Crysis Warhead
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Devil May Cry 4
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> DiRT 2
- Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Far Cry 2
- Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat Benchmark
- Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear Sky
- Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
> Resident Evil 5
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Tom Clancys H.A.W.X.
- Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
- Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Unigine Tropics
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
> World in Conflict
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
- Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
- Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products
> Wolfenstein
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
- Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

# All Systems

* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows. These include:
> Canvas area no longer appears black for third display while creating a 3x1 or 1x3 Eyefinity group
> Catalyst Control Center: Avivo Video controls will now retain its value instead of changing to 0 upon being disabled
> Hotplugging a HDMI display while Catalyst Control Center is open no longer causes the HDTV Standard Modes box not to appear

# Windows XP

* This section provides information on resolved issues in this release of the ATI Catalyst Software Suite for Windows XP. These include:
> Switching resolution options in "AION" game settings no longer causes the display screen to flicker
> Forward and backward seeking while viewing Hulu video on dailymotion.com with FlashPlayer 10.1 no longer causes the browser to freeze
> Video cut scenes are now rendering properly in "The Saboteur" game
> Corruption no longer visible when performing forward/backward video seeking on Hulu with Adobe Flash Player
> Corruption no longer observed when viewing MPEG2 clips with Windows Media Player