ATi just released the Cats 7.8

[wazzledoozle]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
God they should stop fixing serious sam 2.

ATI should worry about :

HL 2 , episode 1 and 2
BF2142
Quake War ET
Stalker
Oblivion
World in conflict
UT2007
Crysis
Bioshock

Fixing games that aren't even out yet?... Some games that may need 'fixes' are often like that because it is on the developer to fix the abnormalities rather than ATI, for instance stalker had quite a few issues at release and after a few patches I haven't encountered any problems with it.

On another note I will be sure to test these out when my 2900xt 1gb arrives later this week.

Okay they have World in conflict , Bioshock , Quake War ET game avaliable for tweaking. World in conflict dev released a beta and it was a total joke as the dev didn't even test the game on any ATI gpu. World in conflict has major bug/glichtes if you run the game on every ATI product form R420 to R520 to R600. Dev thoughts if it works on Nvidia card it would work on ATI card. also they were spoon fed for GPU tweak by Nvidia as they flew alot of engineers to tweak the engine to make the game run good on Nvidia card. Also the game went gold with all thoes bugs which was stupid since they are screwing over 30% of their customers. But dev team working for games like Bioshock , Crysis actually are making sure the game runs on ATI and Nvidia gpu. Like bioshock hold back the pc demo so they can give ATI and Nvidia enough time to tweak driver for their game.

The last World in Conflict beta ran excellent on my X850XT...

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: wazzledoozle

Originally posted by: tuteja1986

Originally posted by: Sylvanas

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
God they should stop fixing serious sam 2.

ATI should worry about :

HL 2 , episode 1 and 2
BF2142
Quake War ET
Stalker
Oblivion
World in conflict
UT2007
Crysis
Bioshock

Fixing games that aren't even out yet?... Some games that may need 'fixes' are often like that because it is on the developer to fix the abnormalities rather than ATI, for instance stalker had quite a few issues at release and after a few patches I haven't encountered any problems with it.

On another note I will be sure to test these out when my 2900xt 1gb arrives later this week.

Okay they have World in conflict , Bioshock , Quake War ET game avaliable for tweaking. World in conflict dev released a beta and it was a total joke as the dev didn't even test the game on any ATI gpu. World in conflict has major bug/glichtes if you run the game on every ATI product form R420 to R520 to R600. Dev thoughts if it works on Nvidia card it would work on ATI card. also they were spoon fed for GPU tweak by Nvidia as they flew alot of engineers to tweak the engine to make the game run good on Nvidia card. Also the game went gold with all thoes bugs which was stupid since they are screwing over 30% of their customers. But dev team working for games like Bioshock , Crysis actually are making sure the game runs on ATI and Nvidia gpu. Like bioshock hold back the pc demo so they can give ATI and Nvidia enough time to tweak driver for their game.

The last World in Conflict beta ran excellent on my X850XT...

mm.. World in conflict on system ran very disappointingly. It had crazy corruption for all in game text , texture render issue and bad frame rate on my 2900XT system. On my 8800GTX system it ran perfect without issue at 30FPS+ 1920x1200x32 4xAA 16xAF.

 

[evolucion8]

I have seen that many people with AGP based ATi cards are having issues with the new 7.8 driver set. Look http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=41729 and in the link inside of that article. Seems that ATi screwed up us this time, the happy AGP users. It seems that it tends to affect the cards that are using the RIALTO chip, but not sure of this ones, it's only rumours for now. Anyone with a Native AGP card like the X850XT can test this one? It will be really appreciated!!

 

[Sylvanas]

Installed these fine on my shiny new 1GB 2900XT, no issues so far

 

[Stumps]

I just tried these on my old A64 3000+@2.87GHZ and Sapphire X1950PRO 512mb AGP setup, they work fine, however I noticed absolutely no difference between them and the 7.7's in windows Vista.

Although they did give a tiny boost to my C2D rig with it's new Gigabyte HD2900XT 512mb...

next on the upgrade list....Q6600

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: Stumps
I just tried these on my old A64 3000+@2.87GHZ and Sapphire X1950PRO 512mb AGP setup, they work fine, however I noticed absolutely no difference between them and the 7.7's in windows Vista.

Although they did give a tiny boost to my C2D rig with it's new Gigabyte HD2900XT 512mb...

next on the upgrade list....Q6600

Seems that the issue happens only on Windows XP, Windows Vista doesn't use the Smartgart driver (That's why you can't find it as an option in the CCC). The issue is SmartGart related.

 

[manowar821]

If anyone can possibly see if there is any performance benefit in Supreme Commander for a 2900, just as a side thought, I would be very thankful...

 

[BFG10K]

I wish somebody would compare launch drivers to 7.8 in a range of games and using 4xAA and 8xAA. I want to see if the performance hit of the 2900 running AA has been improved compared to that of a GTS.

It sounds like a good request for Anandtech actually.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Any one else getting lag when trying to scroll web pages in firefox since this release ?

-x1950 pro AGP user

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
I wish somebody would compare launch drivers to 7.8 in a range of games and using 4xAA and 8xAA. I want to see if the performance hit of the 2900 running AA has been improved compared to that of a GTS.

It sounds like a good request for Anandtech actually.

you mean the drivers off the CD?

actually i think could do it if you like

i am doing 7.8 anyway and have already benched 7.6 at 14x9 and 12x16.

 

[SuinusLatinus]

Originally posted by: tuteja1986
God they should stop fixing serious sam 2.

ATI should worry about :

HL 2 , episode 1 and 2
BF2142
Quake War ET
Stalker
Oblivion
World in conflict
UT2007
Crysis
Bioshock

What they should do is FIX THE #$#%& PIXEL MAPPING / CORRECT ASPECT RATIO ON WIDE LCDs :|

 

[warpigeon]

Originally posted by: evolucion8
There's something wrong with the new drivers. When I install them, after the reboot the desktop have no icons but only the letters, the CCC Skin setting won't work properly, only the System Skin would work, the other ones just looked very abnormal and the SmartGart only has Fast Writes On, everything else is Off, I even forced them on and after a reboot, they would remain off.

I uninstalled the old ones like I usually do, normal uninstall, reboot in safe mode, driver cleaner, reboot, installed the new drivers and reboot. I tried them twice and the issue won't dissappear, I even reinstalled the Chipset drivers manually just to make sure everything was set, even I checked the registry for errors and no good. I also reinstalled the .Net Framework and no go. Something is fishy with those drivers, I just installed back the 7.7 version and now the issues are gone. Weird.

Me too. AGP here.

 

[FearoftheNight]

whoa glad to know its not my agp card fubaring