ATi Catalyst 7.4 Drivers

If you own an ATi video card, head on over to the AMD / ATi website and download the new Catalyst 7.4 drivers for Windows Vista, Windows XP and Linux platforms. Word is: "OpenGL performance in Windows Vista improves for the entire ATI Radeon X1000 series of products in both single card and hardware Crossfire configurations. Typical Improvements of 15% or more can be seen games such as Doom 3, Quake 4 and Prey with enthusiast class products seeing improvements of 30% any beyond"

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System:

• Battlefield 2: A momentary split screen is no longer seen when launching the game with AA enabled.
• City of Heroes: Changing the display resolution to 2560x1600 or higher no longer results in the game failing to run.
• Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Undrentide: Attempting to play the game under the Windows Vista operating system (64bit version) no longer results in the opening cinematic failing to play when using an LCD display device.
• Never Winter Nights->Shadows of Under tide: Attempting to play the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon X800/850 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in game failing to respond after playing the opening cinematic.
• Quake 4: game corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game under the Windows Vista operating system when using an ATI Radeon 9800 XT product.
• Romance of the Three Kingdoms XI: Texture corruption is no longer noticed in the terrain of the game.
• Unreal Tournament 2004: Playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1600 and running the Vista operating system no longer results in display corruption being noticed.

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

• 3DMark03-GT3: Display corruption is no longer noticed when running the application on a system using an ATI Radeon X1650 product.
• Call of Duty: Setting AA to either 2 or 4x no longer results in display corruption or the Vista operating system failing to respond when using an ATI Radeon X800/850 series of product. - Dungeon Lord: Minor and intermittent display corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire enabled.
• Prey: Using the mouse to maneuver around the game screen no longer results in corruption being noticed. Tribal Trouble: Launching the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon X1900/1950 product and running Windows XP no longer results in the game failing to load and the operating system failing to respond.