The long awaited Catalyst 3.3 driver suite has been released earlier by a large OEM partner of ATI, which leaves the conclusion that the official generic drivers will see the light of day this week. The high anticipation results from ATI's unofficial announcement that the driver will include the R350 rendering path for R300 hardware, which should result in an overall performance increase of ~5%. Here is the low down on the release. OS: Windows XP Only Version: 6.14.10.6334; Control Panel included Supports: 9700TX/9700Pro/9800Pro Language: English WHQL Certificate: Yes Date stamp: 03/23/2003 Update: There was an error in our local mirror file. Please download again directly from Dell. The link is fixed and includes all driver files. Sorry for the inconvenience. Read more... [Version]
Signature="$Windows NT$"
Provider=%ATI%
ClassGUID={4D36E968-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Class=Display
DriverVer=03/23/2003, 6.14.10.6334
[ATI.Mfg] "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 Pro w/TV-Out" = ati2mtag_R300, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E44&SUBSYS_10021002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 Pro w/TV-Out Sec" = ati2mtag_R300, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E64&SUBSYS_10031002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX w/TV-Out" = ati2mtag_R300, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E45&SUBSYS_30021002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9700 TX w/TV-Out Sec" = ati2mtag_R300, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E65&SUBSYS_30031002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9800" = ati2mtag_R350, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E48&SUBSYS_30021002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro" = ati2mtag_R350, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E48&SUBSYS_10021002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Pro Sec" = ati2mtag_R350, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E68&SUBSYS_10031002 "128 DDR ATI Radeon 9800 Sec" = ati2mtag_R350, PCIVEN_1002&DEV_4E68&SUBSYS_30031002 Please note that we have not tested this driver on generic ATI hardware. We can not guarantee that you will be able to install this driver on your system. Furthermore this is no leak! It is an OEM release. There are no legal concerns about this software. Thanks to MikeMTH.de for setting up an exclusive W2S mirror. Download in Miscellaneous section