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ATI RADEON ROM Update

for most Radeon cards

Version: Aug 2005

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I will wait for Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update

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Contributed by: webmotiva.com Thursday, August 11 2005 @ 03:14 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

I am not sure about performance improvements so I prefer Apple's official releases.

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I will wait for Mac OS X 10.4.3 Update - a2daj

The retail Radeon ROM updates won't affect OEM cards. These aren't driver updates. They're firmware updates. Apple rarely ever releases firmware updates for their OEM video cards. Most of the time, they're provided by Apple via a ROM in RAM method. The files are installed in /System/Library/Extensions/AppleNDRV as ATIDriver.bundle and ATIRuntimeDriver.bundle. The firmware on the video card gets loaded into RAM at runtime and then the bundles (for OEM cards) get loaded into RAM overriding whatever they can of the video card's firmware. For retail cards, the bundle equivalent is ATIROMXtender.

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