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ATI releases Vista Catalyst driver to manufacturing

ATI missed Vista RC2 driver but the new light green company jumped from RC1, Release Candidate 1 to RTM instantly.
The driver has a new feature. Catalyst 3.0 installer now has update option and the driver will figurate out what card do you have, will connect to a data base and check for a new drive and if there is one will suggest you to download it and install it. That way you will always be up to date with drivers.
It is kind of funny to know that the driver itself takes as much as 90MB while the Catalyst control center needs the whole 150MB. This makes 240MB for a driver.
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All this quick release without much work makes ATI drivers not very good in my opinion. NVidia makes amazing drivers coz they really work hard on making the driver and have got an amazing software dev team...

Just take the linux drivers for an example...and now also the Vista driver. Why is ATI in so much hurry to make an RTM Vista driver. They could have tweaked the perf a little more and then released the driver.
 
sunbiz_3000 said:
All this quick release without much work makes ATI drivers not very good in my opinion. NVidia makes amazing drivers coz they really work hard on making the driver and have got an amazing software dev team...

Just take the linux drivers for an example...and now also the Vista driver. Why is ATI in so much hurry to make an RTM Vista driver. They could have tweaked the perf a little more and then released the driver.
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You got that right on...NVIDIA's drivers are really amazing...The hardware advantage may have been with ATI with the X1000 series, but their drives totally suck... thanks to .net :P
 
I too agree about the drivers. Its the same since the days of my old Radeon 8500. What the heck are they thinking, 90MB for drivers and a control panel that requires .Net runtimes. In Vista they dont need the runtimes, but still the setup size is bloated to 240mb. Its takes 2~3 seconds to load the control panel on my machine. So now i am using ATi tools instead of messing around with that sluggish control panel. Drivers the area where ATi has never been able to match nVidia in the last 8 years.
 
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