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While ATI have been enjoying a string of successes at the expense of their rivals, NVidia, it seems that ATI's old Achilles' heel, driver issues, may be about to create new problems. According to various emails and to a variety of forums, the new Catalyst drivers, hailed by ATI as the single biggest software upgrade in its history, are causing some cards to overheat. The same messages also suggest that the OMEGA version of the drivers also create the same problem. The problem is not present acr…

ATI have not only denied that any rumours about their Catalyst 3.8 drivers causing problems are true but have even suggested that the way those rumours spread suggests that they may have been created by "unnamed" competitors. Terry Makedon, the man behind the Catalyst drivers, and Chris Hook from ATI also posted a, more thorough response, in the Driverheaven forums regarding recent complaints suggesting that Catalyst 3.8 may be responsible for some cards overheating and for some monitors being …