ATI withdraw Catalyst 4.7 from Futuremark Certification

July 24, 2004 · by John Chen

First Crytek takes away patch 1.2 for Far Cry players, now ATI takes away Catalyst 4.7 from benchers. Why did they withdraw the Futuremark certification? Read on to find out.

“In CATALYST 4.7 there is a slight rendering bug found on game test 3 of 3DMark03. This has been documented in an InfoBase article found here. Due to the high standards we place on ourselves in regards to our driver quality we have decided to ask our users not to use CATALYST 4.7 with 3DMark03. In fact we request that Futuremark disqualify this driver set from the official approved driver list. CATALYST 4.8 will have the rendering bug fixed. This rendering bug does not impact 3DMark scores with CATALYST 4.7, but we prefer our users use a driver without the corruption for the best possible RADEON experience.”

Recovered from an Internet Archive snapshot of the InsaneTek front page.