ATI Catalyst™ 10.5 out today.....

[Scali]

Doesn't seem to say anything about the two things I've been waiting for:
OpenGL 3.3/4.0 support
OpenCL support

 

[Gikaseixas]

Nope, I knew they shot there load with the 10.3's


Now we have to watch Nvidia move farther ahead in performance with there new 256 drivers which are great even in beta form.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/.a/6a00d834515fca69e20134818119df970c-pi

Oh no you again?

Every ATI thread with a positive or good news has one or more posts of you saying how great Nv is doing and bla bla bla.

This is about 10.5, not about 256. How do you know for sure that they shot their load with the 10.3's??? Do you work for them? Got inside info? Links? Bet not so shut it

 

[Gikaseixas]

To get back on target. I'm using the 10.4's with no issues, but have read a few quirks among other message boards with users running the 10.5's.

Anyone upgraded from 10.3's or .4's with positive results? I think i'm going to stick with the 10.4's for now.

I had no problems going from 10.3 to 10.4, i might skip 10.5 and wait for the next release hoping there's enough going on to make wanna install the new one

 

[MagickMan]

Oh no you again?

Every ATI thread with a positive or good news has one or more posts of you saying how great Nv is doing and bla bla bla.

This is about 10.5, not about 256. How do you know for sure that they shot their load with the 10.3's??? Do you work for them? Got inside info? Links? Bet not so shut it

No kidding, it's getting really old. I do wish he'd stop cheerleading for NV in every ATI thread, it's bad enough that he feels the need to start almost every Green discussion on the forum.

 

[Mem]

Nope, I knew they shot there load with the 10.3's


Now we have to watch Nvidia move farther ahead in performance with there new 256 drivers which are great even in beta form.

http://blogs.nvidia.com/.a/6a00d834515fca69e20134818119df970c-pi

I for one am very happy with 10.5s,mind you I don't normally get problems with ATi drivers so these very stable drivers are the norm for me .

As for drivers in general ,you can always find a few unhappy people on both sides,even Nvidia fans have had their moans and groans with Nvidia drivers,you can't please everybody.

 

[*kjm]

That was fixed in 10.3 so it's not news any more.

It was fixed with the 10.4 beta drivers this is the first non beta fix for Bc2.

http://badcompanytwo.com/news-tidbits/ati-catalyst-10-4-preview-fixes-slow-load-times/

 

[solofly]

Wasn't this thread supposed to be about the ATI 10.5 drivers?...Not how much you think the nV 256 drivers rock...?

Trolling to the highest degree...(he's a joke)


I'm about to install this tho I dont have any problems currently...lol

 

[v8envy]

I don't see how that is possible considering that the "most important bit" to any gamer is DirectX, which is not even present on a Linux box.

I can run most DirectX games on Linux at roughly the same speed as Windows. The only troublesome ones are with wacky copy protection, but directx 9 (and some of 10) is not a problem.

DirectX is indeed present on Linux. Both as a cloned library *or* running Microsoft's own DLLs. The compatibility layer is called Wine, and it's been around for ages. It works and performs well with nvidia drivers.

 

[Martimus]

Who do I message to ask that Happy Medium gets a vacation?

I am tired of him coming in to every AMD thread and derailing it, and even though I have him set to ignore (which is a pretty exclusive group mind you), it doesn't matter, because as soon as I see that "This message is hidden because happy medium is on your ignore list. " message, the rest of the thread is about something completely different than the original post.

 

[Scali]

I can run most DirectX games on Linux at roughly the same speed as Windows.

Not that surprising, considering that things like SM3.0 and AA aren't supported yet:
http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectX-ToDo

 

[scooterlibby]

That was fixed in 10.3 so it's not news any more.

It definitely was not fixed whatsoever for me with 10.3 or 10.4 and I have emailed their driver team. My GTX260 in my light gaming/HTPC rig with a 5400rpm hard drive load the BC2 maps substantially faster than the 10,000 rpm Velociraptor and 5970 I have for my main setup.

 

[cloudzero]

I didn't really notice BC2 load time changes when I installed these, but I'm not sitting there with a timer. I forgot to turn on my 2nd monitor to test out the other fix, but since you guys say it's working, then I guess it's working.

 

[Kenmitch]

Weird....But my desktop defaults to 400 core 1300 memory? Oh well guess I'll run the windows performance thing and see if it'll bump it up to 7.9's instead of 7.8's

Strange as I look'd at the bios and highest default was 400/1200 wtf?

 

[MagickMan]

Who do I message to ask that Happy Medium gets a vacation?

I am tired of him coming in to every AMD thread and derailing it, and even though I have him set to ignore (which is a pretty exclusive group mind you), it doesn't matter, because as soon as I see that "This message is hidden because happy medium is on your ignore list. " message, the rest of the thread is about something completely different than the original post.

Just use the "report post" button under his name.

 

[Scali]

OpenGL 3.3/4.0 support

Scratch that, just installed them, and according to GPU Caps Viewer, they support the 4.0 profile.
I just didn't see any mention of it in the release notes.

 

[kalrith]

Came to read thread about ATI Catalyst 10.5 drivers.

Left disappointed .

 

[MrK6]

It's OK, the NV Fan Club gets a free pass to troll, that's Anandtech for you.

Going to install these when I get home tonight, I love new drivers .

 

[GaiaHunter]

It definitely was not fixed whatsoever for me with 10.3 or 10.4 and I have emailed their driver team. My GTX260 in my light gaming/HTPC rig with a 5400rpm hard drive load the BC2 maps substantially faster than the 10,000 rpm Velociraptor and 5970 I have for my main setup.

It is a DX11 thing.

 

[konakona]

With a fresh install of 10.4, flash videos started crashing the driver while everything else is rock stable. Did some googling and found very few posts that suspected powerplay to be responsible for this. Only happens when the core/memory is overclocked, even ever-so-slightly. Was hoping 10.5 would address this but I still have that problem.

 

[thescreensavers]

10.6 is suppose to increase performance in 4x and 5x cards.

 

[happy medium]

10.6 is suppose to increase performance in 4x and 5x cards.

SInce the 10.3's, I no longer have any dual monitor flickers or driver not responding errors or bad power saving clocks.
I curently have the 10.4 's installed and feel no need for the 10.5's.
I usually don't change drivers unless there is a problem or a nice performance increase.

Any links to the supposed 10.6 performance increase?

@ fanboys
P.S, you guys want some cheese with that troll? or mabe some tissues.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

With a fresh install of 10.4, flash videos started crashing the driver while everything else is rock stable. Did some googling and found very few posts that suspected powerplay to be responsible for this. Only happens when the core/memory is overclocked, even ever-so-slightly. Was hoping 10.5 would address this but I still have that problem.

Try downloading the latest version of flash. That cleared up the stuttering and freezing issues for me.

 

[happy medium]

It seems the new 10.5's might cause your clocks to run higher 400/1200 instead of my usual 157/300 at idle, when using the overdrive function.

I think this is the way they fixed the flickering problem for some people with dual monitor setups.
It seems they kept the 400/1200 clocks for single monitor setups as well? More power draw = more heat and noise.
If you don't have a problem with the 10.4's, I suggest not upgrading unless you have to.

http://forums.amd.com/game/messageview.cfm?catid=279&threadid=134073&enterthread=y

 

[MagickMan]

@ fanboys
P.S, you guys want some cheese with that troll? or mabe some tissues.

No, I think we just want you to keep your NV propaganda out of every ATI thread. You got it now? Is that simple enough, or do you need someone to draw you a picture?

 

[happy medium]

No, I think we just want you to keep your NV propaganda out of every ATI thread. You got it now? Is that simple enough, or do you need someone to draw you a picture?

See above usefull post and take a look at yours.
Who is derailing the thread?
YOU!

I post what I want ,when I want, in the guidelines of this forum.
Good day.