Catalyst 5.4 Release

by Maarten Goldstein, Apr 07, 2005 12:30pm PDT

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By: Frank_Mackey x Show Full Post

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The Dantooine level in KotOR still runs like shit on my 9800 Pro with these drivers. Oh well, guess it's back to using the atioglxx.dll file from Catalyst 4.2.

Apr 07, 2005 10:54pm PDT

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The Dantooine level in KotOR still runs like shit on my 9800 Pro with these drivers. Oh well, guess it's... : Frank_Mackey
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- why not use Disable Vertex Buffer Objects=1 ? : MITHEK

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Kind of a cross post from FP.

You'll notice that ATI something called temporal AA which is really a nice driver hack that makes things look even more anti-aliased. However, what I didn't know until today is this will automagically turn on Vsync which can cause choppiness as it scales back and forth to specific rates. Just something you might want to be aware of.

I have an upper end ATI card, the x 800 xl, and turned OFF temporal AA and turned UP hardward AA by one x2 multiplier. With no vsync now on the quality is just as good and the performance is MUCH better, much less choppy in EQ2 for instance.

Apr 07, 2005 2:28pm PDT

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Kind of a cross post from FP. You'll notice that ATI something called temporal AA which is really a ni... : Visceral Monkey
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  Uh, how exactly does vsync "scale back and forth to specific rates"? You sound confused. : Sapiens
  - it turns vsync on and off (if you have it off I guess) so I imagine that's pretty wacky on the ol oculars : thebigbeefsandwhich
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  IIRC temporal antialiasing only works when > 60fps, so I don't see how that would make any difference in ... : MikkleThePickle
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    *shrug* Turning temporal AA off and by extension vsync gave much a much noticed improvement in framerate.... : Visceral Monkey
    - OK I see what you're saying... makes sense : MikkleThePickle

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I never thought I'd say this but I pine for the days of my ATI card and the nice stable Catalyst drivers. It seems Nvidia has forgotten how to make a good solid driver release

Apr 07, 2005 1:53pm PDT

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I never thought I'd say this but I pine for the days of my ATI card and the nice stable Catalyst drivers.... : humpx
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An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occurred in Unknown Module.

I'm guessing I need to uninstall and re-install. Wheee!

Apr 07, 2005 5:16pm PDT

An unhandled exception of type 'System.IO.FileLoadException' occurred in Unknown Module. I'm guessin... : thaperfectdrug

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Last months release had an audio capture update for the AIW cards that in theory was a good idea, but in practice didnt work at all. This seemed 100% beta to me and there was no note of how unstable this was at all. Reminds me of the days of the drivers for the AIW Rage 128. That was a good card that never had proper software support from ATi. This last batch of drivers has been really bad. The CCC is total bloat and the support for the AIW is next to none. The Guide plus software has not been updated in at lease 6 or 7 years. For software this is ancient. ATi really needs to 100% redo the Multimedia center and make it a decent product. The hardware is great, but the software gains they made over the last few years have really slowed down lately.

Apr 07, 2005 2:22pm PDT

Last months release had an audio capture update for the AIW cards that in theory was a good idea, but in ... : adachan

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Curious... last months update has the same filename as todays update.

Apr 07, 2005 2:16pm PDT

Curious... last months update has the same filename as todays update. : Renaak

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- About God damn time. I loaded up an earlier Catalyst driver just to pass that planet. They need to als... : K1Bond007

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Well fuck. The control center will NOT launch.

Apr 07, 2005 1:02pm PDT

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Well fuck. The control center will NOT launch. : Visceral Monkey
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- ATI tool trays seems to work though so I can change settings there. : Visceral Monkey
- Nope, my control center is totally boned now. i am uninstalling all that crap. Nice quality control... CO... : kristof13

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When they fix things like this:

Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Depth buffer corruption noticed on the ATI RADEONÃ¢Â„Â¢ X800 PRO is now resolved

Is that really a bug in the drivers and not in Spinter Cell? Do Splinter Cell use the Depth buffer like no other game or something

Apr 07, 2005 12:44pm PDT

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When they fix things like this: Splinter Cell Chaos Theory: Depth buffer corruption noticed on the ATI : shack_konto
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  is this the same as depth of field? Splinter cell 3 uses this extensivly. : ballystix
  - no, and yes. the app might be using the depth buffer a particular way to calculate it's depth of field : Toraz Chryx
- If the corruption is only on the X800, then I would expect that it's an ATI problem, just with one partic... : shassard

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Does the "game gamma" setting work for anyone in recent drivers? It doesnt for me and it's seriously pissing me off.

Apr 07, 2005 1:58pm PDT

Does the "game gamma" setting work for anyone in recent drivers? It doesnt for me and it's seriously piss... : thebigbeefsandwhich

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I can't believe how shitty their "new" control panel is. Good lord, it's HORRIBLE.

Apr 07, 2005 1:05pm PDT

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I can't believe how shitty their "new" control panel is. Good lord, it's HORRIBLE. : aggressor
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  That's why I always go for the other link, the one with the standard control panel, and not the stupid CA... : bording
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    Yea, I usually do myself, but today I decided to try the CCC. It's so bad\bloated...what the fuck are the... : aggressor
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      Cant you lock the refresh rate under the displays tab? : johnny skidmarks
      
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      yeah you can. I have it locked to 85Hz on my computer. : bording
      
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      Doesn't that only lock your desktop refresh? I need 100hz for desktop and 85hz\120hz for games : aggressor
      
      http://www.pagehosting.co.uk/rf/ : Sapiens
      
      There is an option to force a certain refresh rate, and there is an option to set the refresh rate to wha... : bording

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Has anyone had a chance to try these with World of Warcraft yet? The Catalyst 5 series of drivers has absoutely sucked with WoW, the last version I found that works well with the game are the 4.12's.

Apr 07, 2005 1:08pm PDT

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Has anyone had a chance to try these with World of Warcraft yet? The Catalyst 5 series of drivers has abs... : sonicstorm
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  How do they suck in WoW? I've always used the latest with the game and I've never had any issues : aggressor
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    Myself and a few of my friends have tried each subsequent version of the 5 series drivers, which seem to ... : sonicstorm
    - You say 'seems to'. Fact is there's no fundamental difference in the 5 series drivers, the version numbe... : Carnivac

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who's going first? :P

Apr 07, 2005 12:39pm PDT

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who's going first? :P : mrsnoogles
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- Installed them on my work PC, and all seems fine. I don't do any gaming here though, so I can't comment o... : shassard

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