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Old 02-21-2007, 03:08 PM   #1 (permalink)
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New ATI Catalyst Drivers
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New ATI Catalyst Drivers [February 21, 2007, 2:44 pm ET] - 1 Comment

AMD/ATI's Drivers & Software Section now leads to new version 7.2 Catalyst reference drivers for Radeon accelerators. There are new drivers for Windows XP Professional/Home Edition, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, Windows XP Media Center Edition, Windows Vista (32 bit), and Windows Vista (64 bit). Word is: "OpenGL performance improves for all ATI Radeon X1000 series products under Windows Vista. Gains of up to 25% in Doom 3, 48% in Quake 4 and 21% in Prey can be seen on a variety of ATI Radeon X1000 cards." There are also new version 7.2 (8.34. drivers for Linux x86 and Linux x86_64.
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Old 02-21-2007, 03:49 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Drivers have more of the OpenGL rewrite. A must pick up for anyone with an ATi/AMD card.
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Old 02-21-2007, 05:25 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Got 'em! AND SO SORRY I DID, in Vista32! BSOD heaven! Quake 4 won't even start now in Vista, and, most other programs that don't crash to a BSOD show a 7 to 10% decrease in performance.

As for OpenGL, it still shows version 6.xxxx, not 7.xxx in Vista32.

Going to try the XP drivers and report back shortly, if I don't spend an hour rebooting like I did in Vista32.
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Another DL for friday
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Ok, I call Deja Vu BS!

It really feels like XP > Vista
is just like
Win98 > ME was!

Crappy drivers, no support for most items outside the PC that are 2 months to 1 year old...

Anybody else seeing this "Deja Vu" too?
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The only deja vu I get is that I am ignoring Vista just like ME !
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Odd, running fine for me. Nice boost in pretty much any Doom 3 based engine. Erad, you have some bad luck man...
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Odd, running fine for me. Nice boost in pretty much any Doom 3 based engine. Erad, you have some bad luck man...
Are you running Vista32 or XP32?

XP saw a jump up in performance for me, but Vista saw a decrease.
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Erad, too bad I didn't live closer, I could have that fixed in minutes. DejaVu that?
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The BSOD flashes so fast I can't read it. Might have to try and video tape it....
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