Which Catalyst driver is the Best for Radeon 8500 LE

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I have a Sapphire Radeon 8500LE (64M DDR,core/mem=250/250)，my
CPU is AMD XP2400+ ,and my OS is Win2000+SP4.now which "Catalyst"
driver is the best one for this card. Thanks!
 
StarC said:
I have a Sapphire Radeon 8500LE (64M DDR,core/mem=250/250)，my
CPU is AMD XP2400+ ,and my OS is Win2000+SP4.now which "Catalyst"
driver is the best one for this card. Thanks!
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The latest one. There's a guide at www.ati.com, but you'll wind up with the
Cat 3.10 set.
 
I have a XP2400 and Sapphire Radeon 9100 (250/230) on W2KPro+SP4
and the Cat 3.7s are definitely the best for stability/compatibility.
I have CoD, Deus Ex:IW, KotOR, Dungeon Seige: LoA, BF1942
plus many others all running fine.
 
Some people said that the CAT 3.1 is the fastest drivers for 8500 series.
does it true?are there some big bugs in that version?
 
The 3.1s were good and Ive used them for certain games
e.g Halo was unstable with later drivers (not badly so with
3.7s) but very stable with 3.1s and 3.0s
but KotOR (which Im playing now) stutters very badly on the 3.1s for some
reason.
BF1942 has a problem with missing textures on 8500/9100's only when playing
multiplayer (go figure)which is definitely fixed by reverting to the 3.1s
but many ppl say using the 3.7s have sorted it for them.
Hidden & Dangerous 2 warned in the readme about poor performance with the
3.7s > and saying to use the 3.4s or earlier - it ran okay on the 3.1s for
me.
In short - dld both drivers and keep them available but I would use the 3.7s
for most newer games.
 
I am using the 3.10 drivers without any problems with this card and a CRT
monitor.
peter
 
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