Source: ATi Radeon 8500 Driver Performance Update! @ HotHardware

Specifically, in a conference call with ATi, we were told the following improvements have been made to their drivers:

• SmoothVision is now functional
• Image quality issues with Quake related to conflicts in texture resolutions have been resolved
• Greater control of image quality/performance trade-offs are now available to the user
• Performance under WinXP is now on par with Win2K and WinME
• Pixel Shader and Bump Mapper Performance enhancements
• Stability issues with certain AMD platform motherboards with KT266 chipsets and select AMD760 chipsets, have been resolved

有 Microsoft's Mid Town Madness 2 作為 SmoothVision 2x to 6x 的截圖比較...
及開啟 SmoothVision 的 fps 測試結果...

大家可以先看看在決定更新 driver 與否!!!