warning: these are preview drivers, the Catalyst 10.3, which is the monthly updated WHQL driver, will be posted on http://game.amd.com/ website on March 24th, 2010

adds several new stuff:

ATI Catalyst Control Center – ATI Eyefinity technology enhancements
Display Bezel Compensation
Easy-to-use wizard shows users how to adjust their display layout to remove the pixels occupied by their display bezels
Per-Display Color Adjust
Individual Color, Brightness and Contrast controls
Multiple ATI Eyefinity Groups
Create more than one ATI Eyefinity group from multiple displays
Improved Display Configuration switching
Support for ATI Eyefinity groups and the ATI Catalyst™ Control Center profile manager
Easy to toggle between cloned and extended desktop modes
ATI Catalyst™ support for 3D Stereoscopic glasses
AMD has updated it’s Direct3D (Quad buffer support) driver to enable 3rd party middleware vendors such as iZ3D to output stereo L/R images at 120 Hz (60 Hz per eye)

it also gives an increase of FPS in several games and benchmarks including
Resident Evil 5
Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.
3DMark Vantage
Unigine ‘Heaven’ DX11
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
as seen on http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1253/9this[/url] revieuw
more FPS increases are mentioned by ATI/AMD

Aliens vs. Predator

Overall performance increases 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Battleforge

Improves up to 8% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Call of Duty: World at War

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Company of Heroes

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Crysis and Crysis Warhead

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

DiRT 2

Improves up to 30% on ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Improves up to 10% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Far Cry 2

Improves up to 6% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 4% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Left 4 Dead & Left 4 Dead 2

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky

Improves up to 2% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 2% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Resident Evil 5

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Tom Clancy’s H.A.W.X.

Improves up to 15% with ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics products

Improves up to 20% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products and ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

World in Conflict

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series products

Improves up to 3% on ATI Radeon HD 5700 Series products

Improves up to 5% on ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series products

Note: This list is not exhaustive and more improvements are possible

driver can be downloaded here


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