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Catalyst 4.8 beta's out!

These drivers will apparently enable SM2.0b and Geometry Instancing on X800 cards and just Geometry Instancing on R300+ cards. I'm waiting for a final driver and a fixed 1.2 Far Cry patch before I jump on these though.
 
Originally posted by: PrayForDeath
And what about the new OpenGL drivers? Any OGL speed boost?
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I dunno, ATi typically sucks at OpenGL. The rumoured "rewrite" of the GL drivers is supposedly going to be finished around the time when the Xbox2 comes out. So, in other words, it will be a LONG time before ATi does this. By the time they get around to it I will probably not even have the same graphics card I do now. I will probably end up with nVidia for the professional GL performance.
 
Originally posted by: faye
is this driver made for Doom3?
for OGL boost?
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I'm pretty sure it's the driver they used for the benchmarks posted at HardOCP (Cat 4.8), so if they are indeed optimized for DoomIII it's pretty sad.

It'll probably be awhile before ATi can figure out how to make DoomIII run fast on their hardware. It's not just a simple driver matter either; NV40 is capable of things that R420 simply cannot do. The biggest issue is that NV40 can run in a 32x0 pipeline configuration because of the way Carmack programmed DoomIII. ATi is stuck in a 16x1 configuration no matter what.
 
The rumoured "rewrite" of the GL drivers is supposedly going to be finished around the time when the Xbox2 comes out.
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It wouldn't surprise me. The new control panel has been promised for at least six months now but it's nowhere to be seen.
 
well, teh control pannel is not different at all, the ogl performace does seem a bit better in KotOR but it still crashed on me, a consistant problem in all the cats after 4.2.
 
I installed these and gained 60 points in 3DMark03 but that was with a 3MHz increase in FSB (207 to 210) bus too so I doubt there is any improvement whatsoever...

Old Score was 6222
New Score is 6280
 
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