Catalyst 7.3 released

AMD SAID version 7.3 of Catalyst for graphics cards is available from the ATI web site, with some improvements.

It says Dark Messiah Might and Magic has 12.5 per cent or more performance on Crossfire for both Windows XP and Vista.

New features include support for Open GL Crossfire on the entire ATI Radeon line for Vista.

There's also improvements on the Linux front - which includes a beta release of the Control Centre to replace the FireGL control panel.

Those of you who ended up with black screens if the X Server was terminated from the text console will be pleased to learn this won't happen any more. If you've just done that on the machine you're using you won't know about this because you can't read INQ stories on such a display.