Catalyst 10.3/GeForce 197.13 Now WHQL Certified

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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

        * Up to 13% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with a single GPU.
        * Up to 30% performance increase in Crysis: Warhead with SLI technology.
        * Up to 13% performance increase in H.A.W.X. with single GPU.
        * Up to 15% performance increase in H.A.W.X. with SLI technology.
        * Up to 30% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with single GPU.
        * Up to 28% performance increase in Left 4 Dead with SLI technology.

Adds SLI and multi-GPU support for top new gaming titles including Assassin Creed II, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Command and Conquer 4: Tiberium Twilight, Grand Theft Auto IV: Episodes from Liberty City, Mass Effect 2, Napoleon: Total War, and Zombie Driver.
Enhanced SLI support for Metro 2033, Supreme Commander 2, Unigine, and World of Warcraft.
Adds override anti-aliasing support for Mass Effect 2.

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Marcus Yam served as Tom's Hardware News Director during 2008-2014. He entered tech media in the late 90s and fondly remembers the days when an overclocked Celeron 300A and Voodoo2 SLI comprised a gaming rig with the ultimate street cred.

35 Comments Comment from the forums

XD_dued

I'm glad nvidia improved performance on old games....

...hmmm they also look like common benchmark games...is nvidia trying to do something?

...nah :)
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HansVonOhain

Thanks nVidia. Now the older games play much much better. Cheers!
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duckmanx88

HansVonOhainThanks nVidia. Now the older games play much much better. Cheers!
O_o it says "UP TO". chances are you could get 1% which may be as little as 1/2 an fps.
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loud_sounds

I'm still looking forward to some 2D performance boost with ATI cards (based on the Tomshardware articles a month or two ago) as I'm a heavy CAD user.
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calmstateofmind

Yay! Now I won't have to be scared and press the "continue anyway" button!
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the_krasno

Why did you post all the good info on nVidia and for the ATI part just provided a link? Hmmm! This is suspicious!
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husker

How do they get these "up to" numbers? If you think of the possible distribution of increases as kind of the right half of a bell curve, then the very high end tail of the bell curve, which represents about 6 people, are getting these extreme performance gains.
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False_Dmitry_II

Perhaps because they already had that article? It just wasn't official.

And other than nvidia's thermonuclear explosions, they didn't report on this previously non-existant driver.
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ern88

I think NVIDIA might have some shares in Tom's. Hell, they showed box's of a video card called "FERMI". ATI's 5000 series never got this much attention. ANd ATI was the first card to support DX11. What gives Tom? You guys on the NVIDIA pay roll or what????
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JohnnyLucky

Time to download and see what happens.
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