Driver update: ATi Radeon 8500/9700 6193/9068

Unofficial Radeon drivers for the 8500 and 9700 series of ATi’s video boards have appeared on Rage3D. The drivers come from ATi, but are not WHQL certified and do not come in a package but in different downloads. The version numbers for Windows 9x/ME and 2k/XP are 9068 and 6193 respectively. Here’s what the site tells us:

These aren’t official ATI drivers from ATI more like beta drivers from them. They are not WHQL certified and aren’t a unified package. The drivers were released to fix some more urgent bugs NOLF2 in the case of the 8500 series and NHL 2003 in the 9700 line. Plus they’ll be other small bug fixes and optimizations. Force v-sync on isn’t an option yet but hopefully in the next official catalyt release it’ll be there.[break]The different drivers are available for Windows 9x/ME and Windows 2k/XP. 8500 owners must here for the 9x and here for the 2k/XP variants, the lucky owners of a Radeon 9700 can here right for 9x/Me drivers and here for the 2k/XP version of the driver.