ATI Driver Update

Hi. I have a GF3 ti200
I play the same games you do.
I still have fun, even if the resolution is a tad lower.
I have $400+ more potential income than you for a future card that will blow your $$$ card away.

nyah nyah! ;)

so how sucky are ATI's drivers? are they getting better or staying the same? is all the hype about how crappy they are true? do you have to get a patch for practically every new game that comes out?

i need to get a new video card someday and radeon 9700 seems kickass, i just dont wanna have to wait 2-4 weeks after ever major release for driver patches

I have one simple question before i order a 9700 pro for my new system:

Does it run Warcraft 3 without ANY glitches?

If someone could answer that, i'd be very gratefull.

Do the new drivers (for 9700 Pro) include the control panel?

I have to say that I was a pretty skeptical of ATI but nontheless decided to bite the bullet and get a Radeon 9700 (why buy an inferior card on a brand new performance cpu?). I am very impressed however by the quality of these Catalyst drivers(I have no experience prior to the R9700 with ATI). They are improving quite substantially with every release. and ATI is clearly taking them very seriously. You can just see by the occasional posts of ATI engineers in rage3d.com that they are trying to really improve their reputation for quality.


I feel that ATI does deserve some credit for improving the quality of both their hardware and their software a lot. Considering that they are essentially using a new technology (agp 8x) I have had relatively few problems. Some people obviously haven't but I think that most people are quite satisfied

The one thing that Scary really should mention is that they released a new 9700 set of drivers in conjunction with these 8500 drivers and they really are kickass, they gave me an extra 5-10fps in ut2003 and cleared out that last bit of problems I was having with ut2k3.

Incidentally, this fixed a crash I was consistently getting in the very first cutscene too with my Radeon 8500. Happened with both the previous 2 drivers, totally fixed in the new set. /me happy.

omfg, urri up and get the hercules 9700pro into australia. i wan one.