CATALYST 8.9 shows up with early OpenGL 3.0 support

Wednesday 17th September 2008, 08:56:00 PM, written by Rys

ATI have released new drivers for their Radeon products, bringing the first shot at OpenGL 3.0 support since the Khronos Group took the lid off the new standard at SIGGRAPH recently.

From the release notes:

"This release of Catalyst™ introduces OpenGL™ 3.0 extension support. In upcoming Catalyst™ releases AMD will continue to expand its support for OpenGL 3.0 extensions."

There are a number of extensions supported, and they're in all the releases for all supported OSes, including XP and Vista in both bitnesses.  It's a word.

Support for the rest of the spec is being worked on as we speak, and there's the usual raft of game fixes, perf improvements, and product support improvements that you'd expect.

Game.AMD.com has the goodies for Windows.

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ati ± radeon, catalyst, 8.9, opengl, 3.0


Latest Thread Comments (15 total)
Posted by Humus on Thursday, 18-Sep-08 18:30:12 UTC
Log file in C:? Have the drivers ever done that? I've most certainly never seen one. Unless you've managed to enable some fancy debug setting through a tweaker I don't think there should be any log.

Posted by Richard on Thursday, 18-Sep-08 22:55:02 UTC
Quoting Humus
Log file in C:? Have the drivers ever done that? I've most certainly never seen one. Unless you've managed to enable some fancy debug setting through a tweaker I don't think there should be any log.
The file is called "moduleName.txt". It's not hidden or anything. I don't remember when I first noticed it was there but back then I googled for it and sure enough ATI users were reporting that after Cat 7.5 it started adding this file. Any time you run an OpenGL program it adds a bunch of lines to it and removing the file doesn't causes any error but it will be created again once you run another app. Here's a sample from its contents:

Quoting moduleName.txt
ETQW - etqw_ati.exe
ETQW - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
#32770 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
Afx:2CA20000:0:00010011:00000006:00000000 - etqw_ati.exe
tooltips_class32 - paint shop pro x.exe
- blender.exe
tooltips_class32 - paint shop pro x.exe
tooltips_class32 - paint shop pro x.exe
tooltips_class32 - paint shop pro x.exe
tooltips_class32 - paint shop pro x.exe
- blender.exe
- blender.exe
- blender.exe
- etqw_ati.exe
D3, Q4, Prey, Paint Shop Pro, Blender, etc. all trigger it.

Posted by hoom on Friday, 19-Sep-08 20:38:25 UTC
Why does the above link still have the 4870/50 Hotfix driver link at the top?

I thought official support was in the Cats from 8.7?

Posted by The549 on Friday, 19-Sep-08 22:13:59 UTC
Forcing Spore Anti Aliasing works now.

Posted by Randell on Friday, 19-Sep-08 22:49:51 UTC
Dx10 renderer on STALKER:CS works properly now on 3870X2

Posted by Dooby on Friday, 19-Sep-08 22:57:57 UTC
how do you update without a reboot? just install over the old drivers?

Posted by Wesker on Saturday, 20-Sep-08 00:36:57 UTC
That's odd.I had to force CCC to detect my HD4870 after I booted up my PC this morning.Everything is back to normal though.

Posted by BRiT on Saturday, 20-Sep-08 01:08:52 UTC
Quoting Dooby
how do you update without a reboot? just install over the old drivers?
This is a Vista feature. I merely ran the executable and let it install, right over the old drivers.

Posted by Kaotik on Saturday, 20-Sep-08 01:32:48 UTC
Quoting Dooby
how do you update without a reboot? just install over the old drivers?
Vista allows updating drivers, including display drivers, without reboot
the actual "feature" is installing CCC without reboot

Posted by Wesker on Sunday, 21-Sep-08 04:35:14 UTC
I had to force detect my display/card after booting up my PC this morning, again.Is anyone else experiencing this issue?


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