ATI Catalyst 10.3 Driver Suite Released

AMD released the ATI Catalyst 10.3 WHQL driver suite. Catalyst provides drivers and related system software for ATI Radeon, ATI FirePro, graphics processors, AMD 7-series and 8-series integrated graphics, AMD chipset system software, and drivers for ATI multimedia products. Version 10.3, like 10.2 promises to bring a series of significant additions to the feature-set, along with a long list of application-specific performance improvements.

Catalyst 10.3 introduces a set of additions to the ATI Eyefinity technology, such as display bezel compensation, per-display colour adjustments, multiple Eyefinity groups (which allows multiple Eyefinity display heads over available graphics cards and displays), and improvements to the display configuration switching. ATI hardware now supports stereoscopic 3D display over third-party middleware from the likes of iZ3D, DDD, etc., for output of stereoscopic L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye). A number of bugs were also fixed. For more details refer to the Release Notes document.

DOWNLOAD: ATI Catalyst 10.3 for Windows 7/Vista 64-bit, Windows 7/Vista 32-bit, Windows XP 32-bit, Windows XP 64-bit

Game-specific performance increment figures follow.

Aliens vs. Predator

• Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Battleforge

• Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Call of Duty: World at War

• Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
• Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Company of Heroes

• Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Crysis and Crysis Warhead

• Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Devil May Cry 4

• Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

DiRT 2

• Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
• Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
• Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Enemy Territory: Quake Wars

• Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Far Cry 2

• Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2

• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Call of Pripyat Benchmark

• Improves up to 10% with Anti-Aliasing enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. - Clear Sky

• Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
• Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Resident Evil 5

• Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X.

• Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products
• Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Unigine Tropics

• Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

World in Conflict

• Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products
• Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products
• Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Wolfenstein

• Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products
• Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products