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Written by Chris Tom
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 23:54 |
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AMD has just released new Catalyst 8.7 drivers here. Here are the updates. Performance improvements
• 3DMark Vantage: Performance increases of up to 20% are seen in the Performance Preset on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 or ATI Radeon™ HD 3400 Series of products
• Company of Heroes DX10: Performance increases between 3% to 12% are seen in specific maps on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800, ATI Radeon ™ HD 3800, and ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 Series of products
• Lost Planet DX10: Performance increases between 4% to 15% are seen in specific maps on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800, ATI Radeon™ HD 3800, or ATI Radeon™ HD 3600 Series of products
• Call Of Duty 4 DX9: Performance increases of up to 4% in specific maps are seen on single card configured systems when using the ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series of products
• Lost Planet DX9: CrossFire™ scaling improves up to 1.7x and performance increases up to 80% across all ATI Radeon™ products when Anti-Aliasing and Anisotropic Filtering are enabled
New features
Catalyst Control Center: Information Center enhancements
• This release of Catalyst™ introduces an enhancement to the Catalyst Control Center Information Center. Full Hardware information will be shown for each physical graphics accelerator installed in the system.
Resolved Issue highlights
• Assassin's Creed: Attempting to launch the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system (32 bit version) no longer results in the game exiting to the desktop.
• Crysis: Edge detect is now working when playing the DX9 version of the game with UBM enabled.
• Frontlines Fuel of War: Setting the in-game option to 1152x864 and AA to N/A no longer results in corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product.
• Hellgate London: Setting the display resolution to 2560x1600 no longer results in the game failing to respond.
• Mahjongg Artifacts: Launching the game on a system running Windows Vista no longer results in the operating system failing to respond.
• Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Flickering is no longer noticed when switching between the game and the Windows desktop.
• Rainbow Six Vegas 2: Setting AA to 8x no longer results in AA failing to be applied.
• World In Conflict: Setting the video quality to high no longer results in corruption being noticed.
• World of Warcraft: The game's log-in background is no longer blank when using OpenGL mode. |
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Nvidia Pulls 175.19 Windows XP Drivers |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Sunday, 29 June 2008 19:37 |
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Nvidia has pulled their version 175.19 graphics drivers for Windows XP. We had performance issues with this driver on our gaming PCs at Tek Republik, and particularly Age of Conan and Call of Duty 4 seemed to be problems. For Vista they are still here. For Windows XP here are the 175.16 released in May. While we are on the subject I've had issues with the CUDA driver on our gaming boxes. I want to be able to game on them, and have them run the Folding at Home client for Team AMDZone, but they seem to be causing issues with some games as well. I hope Nvidia can unify the driver so that you can fold on your normal gaming driver as you can with the Radeons. |
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AMD Catalyst 8.6 Released |
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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 19 June 2008 00:15 |
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AMD has released Catalyst 8.6 drivers. These of course support the latest Radeon 4850. They also add new features and performance improvements. |
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0607 Crosshair II Formula BIOS Fixes Hybrid SLI |
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Written by Jeff_Tom
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Saturday, 24 May 2008 06:06 |
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After many attempts at getting Hybrid SLI to work with Asus' Crosshair II formula, a flash to the newest BIOS version 0607 resolves the error and it works now perfectly. Grab it here. It also resolves a few other issues including a LAN fail problem. |
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ATI 8.5 Catalyst Performance Review |
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Written by Jeff_Tom
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Thursday, 22 May 2008 14:00 |
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I've posted up my performance review of ATI's Catalyst 8.5 drivers putting the performance claims to test with a 3870 and 3650 graphics card. Check it out! |
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