ATI Catalyst 8.3, worth the wait?
Yesterday HotHardware shares lots of information of the long awaiting driver: Catalyst 8.3. This time ATI finally start to support CrossFireX. But the crossfireX is still in the early stage because it only supports DirectX9. In DirectX10 CrossFireX only supports Call of Juarez.
But in the AA part, ATI did a good job. Unreal3 engine games can now enjoys AA in DirectX9.
What’s more, someone here has already got the driver, using HD 3870 X2 Quad CrossfireX to get impressive 25k in 3Dmark06. It seems the new driver really worth the wait.
March 1st, 2008 at 3:15 am
Now this looks very nice indeed. Good job Amd.
March 1st, 2008 at 4:32 am
So what about the “4800″ series? People are assuming that hybrid xfire will work between a “4800″ and a 3800 but the future applicability has not been presented yet. It would be nice if we could keep mix matching cards together, old and new, to stack up a nice quad xfirex system. 3870×2 + 4870×2 support would be ideal since you could dive into an x2 now and reap the rewards when the 4870×2 comes out. That could be dreaming though…
March 1st, 2008 at 5:05 am
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March 4th, 2008 at 9:09 pm
Is this Vista exclusive ,f yes then i am lucky.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:01 pm
To hassan,yes. Vista exclusive and only supports DX9 games for now.
March 5th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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