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Omegadrive has released a new set of game-optimized video drivers for ATI's Radeon family of cards. The new drivers are based on ATI's "Catalyst" drivers, version 4.3. Here's a quote from ATI about Cat 4.3:
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ATI said:As with most CATALYST™ releases performance has increased in various situations. The following performance gains are noticed:
* The Pixel Shader performance of our DX9-class products has improved considerably with Catalyst 4.3.
* Halo and Tomb Raider framerates are up 3-7%.
* Shader-specific technology tests such as ShaderMark show gains in the region of 10-20% or more.
* 3DMark03's Mother Nature scene runs 2-5% faster across the entire DX9 product line. Our 3DMark03 Pixel Shader 2.0 framerate improves 7-15%.
* Aquamark 3 performance has also improved slightly, at higher resolutions.
If you don't know anything about Omegadrive drivers, you can check out a brief interview here. You can snatch up these fantastic drivers for yourself over here.