ATI Catalyst 10.3 Preview Edition
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From: Penang on 18 Mar 2010 05:10 I read a review on ATI Catalyst driver ( @ http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1253/1 ) and they mention that there is a new 10.3 Preview Edition available. According to the review, certain applications (mainly games) really speeds up using that new driver. The driver is supposed to be available from http://sites.amd.com/us/underground/tips/Pages/catalyst-10-3-preview.aspx But there is one thing that I do not understand. From the review: "The difference between the two is that Catalyst™ 10.3a Preview will contain future Eyefinty 6 updates and an Alien vs. Predator optimization which the Catalyst™ 10.3 WHQL posting does not have." What I do not understand is this --- how come the "preview version" has optimizations but the WHQL version, which is supposed to be the "official version", do not have those optimizations? Why??
From: Boris Badenov on 18 Mar 2010 16:30
Penang wrote: > What I do not understand is this --- how come the "preview version" > has optimizations but the WHQL version, which is supposed to be the > "official version", do not have those optimizations? > > Why?? Because those optimizations were too new to submit for WHQL testing and will be in the next version of WHQL drivers after this release. That's what I read at HardOCP anyway. |