“In one day or so depending on where you are sitting, Microsoft is set to release all versions of their latest operating system into the consumer world. AMD’s ATI driver team in Canada has seemingly saved all for the last minute. They sent us their Catalyst 7.1 graphics card driver for Vista to check out last week and have promised not just DirectX 3D performance and stability increases over the previous release but also an improved Catalyst Control Center, HD-DVD and Blu-ray support through AVIVO, a new installer and Crossfire support for the full range of X1000 series Radeon cards.”Here are some more Graphics Card articles from around the web:
- Vista Drivers: ATI Catalyst 7.1 & Nvidia Forceware 100.54 @ DH
- HIS Radeon X1650XT and X1950PRO — Quiet Gaming @ Tweaktown
- Sapphire X1900 XT 512MB Video Card Review @ ThinkComputers
- ATI Radeon X1950 PRO Shootout (AGP) @ Hardware Zone
- ASUS X1950XTX Crossfire 512 MB DDR4 @ Bjorn3D
- GeCube X1950 Pro Champion Edition @ techPowerUp
- ATI Radeon X1950 GT @ Legion Hardware
- Sytrin VGA Cooler VF1 Plus Review @ Technic3D
- Nouveau: glxgears on NV4x @ Phoronix
- XFX 7600GT Fatality @ GamePyre
Just in time processing
Tweaktown has a review of the new Catalyst 7.1 that was released just in time for Vista. With support for Blu-ray, HD DVD and enabling Crossfire, it will let you take advantage of new features in Vista as well as let you do everything you could in XP. Read on to find out if it can overcome the performance hit that games take in Vista.