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dattimr   01-28-2009 at 12:10:12 AM

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/1118 [...] index.html

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AMD/ATI might be looking to improve its increasingly awful driver support.
It seems they have started a beta program and would like people to sign up.

The link was sent to me by a friend who has become more and more unhappy with their ATI 4870 X2. With a slew of issues surrounding the 8-12 drivers he has been checking the AMD site for news of a fix.

If you are in the broke Cat driver boat and want to help AMD bail the rapidly rising water you might just want to head over and sign up.



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http://ati.amd.com/products/catalyst/betatester.html

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Beta Tester Program
The Catalyst Beta Testing program is available to qualified and willing beta testers. This program will give testers the opportunity to test all four componenets of ATI's Catalyst suite.

You should not participate if you are planning on beta testing on a system with mission critical data.

Not all applications will be accepted. Participation is based on ability to report accurate feedback to ATI about any problems you have encountered with the beta drivers. You may be also asked to beta test fixes or new functionality. The goal of the beta program is to give you, the end user, a great opportunity to help us identify bugs as well as help us test bug fixes. As a beta tester you will not be able to distribute publically the code that ATI provides you.

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kyeana   01-28-2009 at 12:18:07 AM
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hmm...this has potential to be a good thing. I really hope this will push them towards making better drives (personally i have had many a problems with the 8.12 drivers)

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jaydeejohn   01-28-2009 at 12:53:41 AM
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Better bad being on beta than bad being on official, thus reducing best bang for your buck

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Just_An_Engineer   01-28-2009 at 01:45:37 AM
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I wonder if this might be the reason why nobody has been able to find Cat 9.1 betas out in the wild yet. I'd sign up for their beta tester program if it weren't for the fact that you would probably need to buy every new game right when it came out. I'm just not willing to spend $60 every time a new fps game comes out.

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Bronze Graphics badge EXT64   01-28-2009 at 05:52:09 AM
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Yeah, half the games I play are so old that they have a whole slew of problems with my new card. I'm sure they don't want to hear about that though. Seems like this could also cause a lot more "leaks" of beta drivers. Oh well, I'm glad that they are trying. Nothing quite like going from 20 to 2000 testers for free.

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