ATI claims their drivers are Vista ready

ATI claims their drivers are Vista ready

AMD owned ATI Technologies has said in a statement that its Catalyst line of drivers is enabling almost all of its game-playing customers to use Vista problem-free.

Ben BarHaim, vice president of ATI’s software engineering division claimed: “We’re seeing less than a 5 percent gap on average.”

The company added that they have been working with Microsoft over the past four years on support for the Vista operating system.

ATI added that all of the company’s drivers are now certified by Microsoft’s Windows Hardware Quality Labs (WHQL) operation.

ATI further said that they are working on improvements to the Catalyst drivers so that the games made for the XP platform run as fast — or even faster — on Vista. BarHaim added: “There is nothing that says we couldn’t optimize a driver to run faster in Vista than XP.”