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Hey, It’s The World’s Fastest Graphics Card
12:30AM Luke Plunkett | Meet the ATI Radeon HD 5970. Why are we bothering to introduce you? Because the ATI Radeon HD 5970 is now the world’s fastest graphics card, that’s why. More »
Rumours
Here Come The First DirectX 11 Cards
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Pity those who only just got on top of Crysis’ recommended specs. Because if word on the street is to be believed, the next next generation of PC hardware is only a few months away. More »
Culture
How To Buy A PC Graphics Card
5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Some of you may know exactly what you’re after in a graphics card, and that’s great. Good for you. But for most people, the market is a confusing one, so why not let the experts give you a hand? More »
News
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | PC gamers may want to have some extra cash on-hand in a few month’s time, because both AMD and Nvidia are expected to release the “next generation” of graphics chips later this year. More »
Get Ready For The Next Generation Of PC Graphics
10:30PM Luke Plunkett | PC gamers may want to have some extra cash on-hand in a few month’s time, because both AMD and Nvidia are expected to release the “next generation” of graphics chips later this year. More »
News
First Physics, Now AI Is Being Moved To Your Graphics Card
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Once was a time a graphics card handled just that. Graphics. But these days? Nvidia cards already handle physics processing, and by next year both Nvidia and ATI cards might handling AI as well. More »
AMD Cutting Jobs, Slashing Survivors’ Pay
2:00AM Owen Good | Processor and graphics-card manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices is cutting 1,000 jobs and reducing pay for everyone else to get through terrible times for computer sales. More »
AMD Say PC Market AOK
2:20AM Luke Plunkett | A hot topic this year amongst nay-sayers has been the impending “death” of the PC gaming market. Let’s hear what AMD’s senior vice president Rick Bergman has to say on the subject. More »
AMD Holding Up Their End Of The PC Gaming Bargain
8:30PM Luke Plunkett | When the PC industry’s big guns high-fived as they broke from a warm, gushy group hug, they high-fived with a pledge: that they’d do what they could to help give traditional PC gaming a kick in the pants. We’ve seen what Nvidia are doing, so what about AMD? They’re…well, they’re going to start putting little badges on their PCs. If a computer’s got a badge that says “AMD Game”, it’ll play more than just Freespace. If it says “AMD Game Ultra”, it’ll even manage something like Crysis. You can see an example of the badges to your left. I don’t know. It’s not that its necessarily a bad idea, just…we were kinda hoping for a little more than just (likely ineffectual) badges, you know? AMD launches “Good Housekeeping” stamp of approval for gaming computers [VentureBeat] More »
ATI Catalyst 8.2 Drivers, You Know You Want Them
11:30AM Logan Booker | Just because AMD’s busy with its Phenom processors doesn’t mean the company’s gone slack with driver releases for its Radeon brand of graphics cards. Hence, AMD’s just brought out version 8.2 of its Catalyst software/driver bundle.
Hardware-wise, there are a bunch of fixes for CrossFire and HDMI. On the software side, AMD’s improved the functionality and usability of the OverDrive overclocking feature.
Under known issues, Lost Planet, Quake Wars, and STALKER all received attention, with a particularly nasty one for Unreal Tournament 3 and maximum texture settings. You can learn more about this particular revision by reading the rest of the release notes.
I’ve included links to the Vista 32-bit and Windows XP versions of the drivers below. If you need anything else, best to visit AMD’s ATI site.
ATI Catalyst 8.2 for Vista 32-bit
ATI Catalyst 8.2 for Windows XP
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