ATI Catalyst 8.10 driver released

Thursday 16th October 2008, 07:17:00 AM, written by Rys

ATI have released new Catalyst drivers for their Radeon graphics products, bringing fan speed control where possible, and fixing a number of niggling bugs, especially on Windows Vista.

Game.AMD.com has the full list of available installers for the supported operating systems, and the release notes show that this month's release has focused less on game performance and bug fixes and more on the removal of some problematic issues.
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Latest Thread Comments (19 total)
Posted by Miksu on Monday, 27-Oct-08 17:49:14 UTC
Anyone else having a really slow 2D performance with these drivers? I just received a HD4850 and did a clean installation of Vista x64 and + Cat 8.10 and even moving a folder window over the Firefox is too much for this combination :razz: Games seem to be fine, it's just the 2D which is giving problems.

Posted by Albuquerque on Monday, 27-Oct-08 21:19:23 UTC
No 2D issues here, but now I'm wondering if it's a FireFox issue given somebody above you having hibernation issues in concert with FireFox...

Posted by hoom on Wednesday, 29-Oct-08 07:04:34 UTC
I think it must have actually been a Noscript issue.
After an update to Noscript I stopped having that problem.

Posted by Philbo on Friday, 31-Oct-08 11:40:57 UTC
Quoting Miksu
Anyone else having a really slow 2D performance with these drivers? I just received a HD4850 and did a clean installation of Vista x64 and + Cat 8.10 and even moving a folder window over the Firefox is too much for this combination :razz: Games seem to be fine, it's just the 2D which is giving problems.
Yes. I have it with XP. I even wiped and did a fresh install to be sure. 3D is fine and games play great. Simple things like window dragging are slow as snails. It's really bad dragging over Firefox, but it's very evident when dragging a window over Excel or Word as well. Rocketdock began to crawl as well.

I'm bummed as my computer was working perfectly with an 8800GT and now it's like stepping back in time.

Posted by V3 on Sunday, 09-Nov-08 00:10:35 UTC
Catalyst crashed randomly (about 6 times since I got it) at startup. Is that a bad sign of something ? Or is that normal for CCC to crash once in awhile at startup ?

Posted by Kaotik on Sunday, 09-Nov-08 00:49:00 UTC
Quoting V3
Catalyst crashed randomly (about 6 times since I got it) at startup. Is that a bad sign of something ? Or is that normal for CCC to crash once in awhile at startup ?
Everytime I've seen that happen, everything else has loaded slowly too, I got a feeling it's related to some other module, part of CCC or not, not loading properly which causes it to crash (and since everything lese loads slow too, I think it's not part CCC itself)

Posted by digitalwanderer on Sunday, 09-Nov-08 00:58:05 UTC
Quoting V3
Catalyst crashed randomly (about 6 times since I got it) at startup. Is that a bad sign of something ? Or is that normal for CCC to crash once in awhile at startup ?
When that happens to me I reinstall, seems to fix it.

Posted by nutball on Tuesday, 11-Nov-08 17:13:59 UTC
Hmmm. Just installed my new 4870, with the attendant reinstall of Vista 64 that seemed to be required. I seem to be having trouble forcing AA in CCC. I configure it to override the game settings and I get ... no anti-aliasing at all (in WoW, haven't tried any other games yet). With some combo of settings I managed to set AA in WoW itself, but the results aren't great (worse than the 8800GTS it replaced).

Posted by Arnold Beckenbauer on Tuesday, 11-Nov-08 17:29:30 UTC
Quoting nutball
Hmmm. Just installed my new 4870, with the attendant reinstall of Vista 64 that seemed to be required. I seem to be having trouble forcing AA in CCC. I configure it to override the game settings and I get ... no anti-aliasing at all (in WoW, haven't tried any other games yet). With some combo of settings I managed to set AA in WoW itself, but the results aren't great (worse than the 8800GTS it replaced).
Is AI on?

Posted by OpenGL guy on Tuesday, 11-Nov-08 17:35:25 UTC
Quoting nutball
Hmmm. Just installed my new 4870, with the attendant reinstall of Vista 64 that seemed to be required. I seem to be having trouble forcing AA in CCC. I configure it to override the game settings and I get ... no anti-aliasing at all (in WoW, haven't tried any other games yet). With some combo of settings I managed to set AA in WoW itself, but the results aren't great (worse than the 8800GTS it replaced).
You can't force AA in WoW, use app AA instead.


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