10-01-2004, 02:40 AM
Quote:How can I tell which drivers I currently have installed? I checked in my Control Panel under Display > Settings > Advanced > Adapter > Proerties > Driver, and all it says is that I have an ATI driver dated 3/22/2004 with a version number of 6.14.10.6436. Since I am not having any trouble with my card (Radeon 9200 128MB), is there any reason why I might want to install these beta drivers?
I did a search with google and you have Catalyst version 4.4. This should work for when you want to know what driver you have in the future: on your desktop right click go to properties>settings>advanced and a little control panel for your video card should come up. On this control panel go to options and it should say what driver you have. Not sure if this works if you don't have catalyst control center though.
The new driver would most likely only increase performance for you, but then again thats one of the big reasons for getting new drivers besides bug fixes. As I stated previously this new driver is supposed to boost performance quite a bit. And from what I have read so far it does this quite well. I have been reading reports of 10-15FPS gains for games such as Doom 3 and Far Cry. Whether you get the new beta driver or not is up to you. If your happy with what your getting from your card right now then stick with your current drivers if you want. I might or might not have mentioned this earlier but a new version of this driver is supposed to be out in a couple of days thus renaming it to Catalyst 4.10. Whether this is an improved beta version or the official version I do not know as of yet. So if you decide you want the new driver wait about 2 days for the new version to come out, thats what I am doing.
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