Driver update: ATi Catalyst 8.07 beta

By admin On Sep 29, 2004

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ATi has released the beta drivers of the Catalyst 4.11 drivers as version 8.07 beta. The update is available from this server can be downloaded and weighs less than 22 megabytes. ATi has released the beta driver in response to issues including the game ‘Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic’. In addition, the Canadian company ran out of time to optimize the Radeon X700 driver supplied on CD. Also, a bug has been squashed that allows graphics intensive applications (such as 3DMark05) to make better use of the video memory on video cards with 256MB RAM. For completeness, here are the release notes for Catalyst 8.07 beta:

The 8.07 beta driver fixes a random hang issue with Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic when loading / switching levels. We have received a significant number of bug reports for this issue and feel that it should be addressed as quickly as possible.

ATI wants to provide its RADEON X700 customers with the same level of performance and gaming experience as shown in the recent RADEON X700 reviews. Unfortunately due to the time requirements to ship RADEON X700s to retail shelves a now out-dated 8.04 driver had to be used for the software CD.

The 8.07 beta driver includes a memory allocation bug fix for all AGP RADEON products with 256 of MB of memory that significantly improves performance for applications that make intensive us of graphics memory.

The 8.07 beta driver has been submitted to FutureMark and will be approved for use with 3DMark05 shortly.

Version number	8.07 beta
Operating systems	Windows 2000, Windows XP
Website	ati
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file size	21.78MB
License type	Freeware