New ATI Catalyst Release

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• agreed, I lurked the rage3d.com boards for a while when I was getting a 9800pro, but they are just so dam... : Arjun Thakur
• agreed, it should just be whichever card is better. ATi DID have the better stuff for the last year, but... : PUPSTAHS
• I'm afraid I don't understand. Having recently purchased a 9700 Pro myself, I don't consider myself in s... : unemployed
• It's not really a suprise if you have people from ATI posting there, on a regular basis. Most of the mod... : Durandal07

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• Why wouldan't they be? : Durandal07

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• Don't you mean, no driver? : kingdepork
• What problem? : aggressor
• Nvidia cars have the same problem, it is an xp/2000 bug, not an ATI bug : Svperstar
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  yea, just use refreshforce like the rest of us and stop blaming anyone but MS for this heinous affront to... : r1cola
  • i do, but im still pissed at whoever's responsible. completely fucking retarded. >:| : the_doctor

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  the day they fire everyone in marketing? : Juicemann
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    or maybe the day they hire competent (honest?) engineers... : Juicemann
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      Funny you mention Honesty....I recently had a 9700pro and while it was great for some games with my 3.06g... : SnatchBlaster
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        You would have a point, except this has nothing to do with honesty. You have no way to know whether or no... : Juicemann
        • You also have a point. I just dont know how there could be so many of us out there with the prob and the... : SnatchBlaster
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        Half-life mods and CS all work fine on my end, 99 fps almost all the time, Radeon 9700 Pro, 3.1 Cats *shr... : Svperstar
        • i didnt say everyone has the problem i have...just a lot of us...*shrug* : SnatchBlaster
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      It's just funny how Nvidia took the brunt of the scandal and was accused way more than ATI. ATI's slight... : kingdepork
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        NVidia cut out entire parts of the sky in one test and shut off the back buffer refresh on another test. ... : the archvile
        • Understood, you'd think that NVIDIA would be the ones tossing them out of the drivers first. Instead the... : kingdepork

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  Yeah, but that is somewhat surprising since on the notes it says they removed a 3dmark optimization. : Speedy8
  • remove one, replace it with another..... : r1cola

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• IMHO try the stock 3.5's. I have the omega 3.4's installed now and they don't really seem any better tha... : jahulio2
• i think ima wait for omega's 3.5 set. : r1cola

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• and the ATI 9800 pro doesn't just work? mine does and 2d & 3d looks way better than the geforce 4400ti i ... : junkstyle
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  Really? I am moving to ATI because my G4400 keeps fucking up. It doesn't like XP/AMD. I have been reading... : slackor
  • aah, that usually doesnt mean much... all you see in forums are people bitching, the ones who have no pro... : Juicemann
• You know I am getting so sick of posts like this, if at this stage in the game you still won't use ATI yo... : Svperstar

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  I hate to say it, but that sounds like a heat problem to me. I get that all the time in UT2003, unless I... : Dynotaku
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    No it's not :P Setting the display resolution to 1027x768 and running the Unreal Tournament 2003 bench : MarksmanX
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      according to that, that is just the benchmark not playing the actual game : SERIOUSly the SAMe
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        Maybe that's what he's doing? I benchmark with Quake III and UT 2003 myself :P : MarksmanX
        • my guess is hes complaining about crashes while playing the games not benchmarking =) : SERIOUSly the SAMe
    • You have to be flipping kidding me. I thought ati had some sense of quality. But noooooooo. I see all ... : Cpt. Baseballbat
• i have that problem with UT :( : veggie
• I had the exact same problem. I was so mad at ATI but it turned out it was my Ram-sticks that got overhea... : Boyd

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• Apart from issues with antialiasing being switched on in a couple of games (Tribes 2 and Homeworld) I've ... : Toraz Chryx
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  Well better hurry soon, 9700 is being phased out for the 9600 and 9800 versions. : Speedy8
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    better yet, get a 9500pro as it outperforms the new 9600pro and costs less :) : RakE
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      A few best buys have the 9500 Pro still and the number of online etailers that have them in stock is dwin... : kevp
      • Get it used then online or locally. Used you can find them nearing ~$110 which is a great deal. : indeego
    • 9600pro overclocks pretty darn well tho : tigeN

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• Ya I think its a fuckin joke that both nvidia and ATI have all these 3rd party utilities like detonator d... : SERIOUSly the SAMe

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• and they are win as far as performance, too! : ventro
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  Have they fixed the bug with ATI cards with the ESC and smoke bug in Counter-Strike? : MarksmanX
  • yes, that was fixed in Catalyst 3.3 (and was only introduced in 3.2 IIRC?) : Toraz Chryx
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  good go test these for us : ghost in my shell
  • I run OMEGA now. now stock. : ventro
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  Name the last time Nvidia released drivers that fixed in-game bugs. waiting waiting waiting 200 : indeego
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    Plus they had to release a patch for MGS II to have support for the Radeon series :P : MarksmanX
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      Umm, that was obviously becuase they only programed the game for Geforce cards. It had nothing to do with... : SirX
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        Oh sooo the gaming market is optimized for Nvidia videochipsets. I see what you're getting at. : MarksmanX
        • Nah, only sub-par console ports. : Juicemann
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          Sorry to get you all riled up there guy, but I am just talking about this specific game.... : SirX
          • You mean there are more!?!?! :P : MarksmanX
  • Name the last time nvidia told you what they fixed in their driver release..... : sharkII

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• already listed under the fileshack header on the shack frontpage :) : Maarten Goldstein

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• No shit I thought it was a new videocard :P Marrten needs to add drive to that sentence :P : MarksmanX