14 DAY TRIAL // Now that AMD has a run for its money with NVIDIA's latest line of Fermi-based GeForce cards, the company is focusing on improving the performance of their current Radeon cards with updates of their graphics drivers. After the recent major releases of Catalyst 10.2 and 10.3, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker is ready to provide consumers with the next iteration of their display drivers, now at version 10.5. As with all new releases, this version adds a couple of fresh features and improves the performance of Radeon cards.
As the previous releases enabled AMD's graphics cards to be used with third-party 3D solutions, AMD is adding support for 120Hz displays on ATI Radeon HD 4000 and 3000 series of GPUs. The releases notes also detail an ATI Overdrive enhancement, which provides full support for overclocking a Radeon GPU connected to multiple display configurations. AMD has managed to solve a number of known issues, which you can find in the release notes of the new graphics driver version.
With the fresh release, AMD has also issued a hotfix for a “No compatible hardware found” error message that reportedly appeared when attempting to install the ATI Catalyst drivers directly from the AMD download home page for the company's Radeon HD 4000, 3000 and 2000 series of AGP graphics cards.
The problem appears to have been resolved and although there's no WHQL driver for the aforementioned products, the company outed a hotfix that is available for download here at Softpedia.
We will now provide you with the download links for AMD's latest Catalyst 10.5 series of drivers, as well as the hotfix for the abovementioned issue with AGP card drivers.
AMD Catalyst 10.5 graphics drivers for Windows XP 32-bit AMD Catalyst 10.5 graphics drivers for Windows XP 64-bit AMD Catalyst 10.5 graphics drivers for Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit AMD Catalyst 10.5 graphics drivers for Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit Catalyst 10.5 Hotfix for Windows XP 32-bit Catalyst 10.5 Hotfix for Windows XP 64-bit Catalyst 10.5 Hotfix for Windows Vista/Windows 7 32-bit Catalyst 10.5 Hotfix for Windows Vista/Windows 7 64-bit