New Beta Radeon 8500 Drivers

[Bingo13]

Discussion and download links here- Link

 

[aircooled]

Actually it's supposed to work on the original radeons too.

Anyone using it with the VIVO DDR 64???? I'm reluctant to upgrade to these new "6000" named drivers yet, so any feedback is appreciated. I have no problem using beta drivers if they work well, but like to hear from others before I dive in to these.

 

[anime]

thx

 

[Technonut]

Thanks for the info. The drivers seem to be working well. Here are the results from the default 3DMark2001 bench using the retail 8500: (Not-OC'ed)

RESULTS

3DMark Score 8645
Game 1 - Car Chase - Low Detail 135.4 fps
Game 1 - Car Chase - High Detail 50.4 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - Low Detail 133.4 fps
Game 2 - Dragothic - High Detail 78.7 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - Low Detail 131.4 fps
Game 3 - Lobby - High Detail 58.9 fps
Game 4 - Nature 44.1 fps
Fill Rate (Single-Texturing) 818.9 MTexels/s
Fill Rate (Multi-Texturing) 1807.5 MTexels/s
High Polygon Count (1 Light) 36.5 MTriangles/s
High Polygon Count (8 Lights) 9.7 MTriangles/s
Environment Bump Mapping 115.5 fps
DOT3 Bump Mapping 87.5 fps
Vertex Shader 87.5 fps
Pixel Shader 101.1 fps
Point Sprites 28.1 MSprites/s

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

These drivers do work with the old Radeon series. I am using them with my Radeon LE with no problems. Drivers look fine, I picked up approx 120 points in 3d mark, That could be from the drivers or the lunar cycle, 120 points isnt much

 

[bsobel]

Thank you! I had tried the latest 'beta' drivers from the ATI sight but they broke one application so I was still on the 'released' set. On the release set my XP system wouldn't unsuspend. With these new drivers not only is the app working, but I can finally suspend the system!

Thanks again!
Bill

 

[Garra]

Technonut did you gain a bit of performance?

 

[m1ke101]

any try out the 9008 drivers? see any performance increase?

 

[ctk1981]

Just finished doing a very brief test of the leaked drivers for windows XP. Not very impressed.

I uninstalled the drivers before hand like recommended. Put in the new drivers and start it up. Did a quick blast threw 3Dmark2001 and after it got done the text had like, a blue highlight over it. Started up Internet Explorer...this problem was present there also. My score had jumped 400 points (must have done a crappy install of the 3286 drivers, cuz now im within 100 points), but now this stupid highlighted problem. So I restarted and the problem was still present...weird.

Also, they have implemented some rotation settings under the ATI control panel...locked up the computer instantly, blue screen of death when I tried to rotate 90 degrees....dont ask me why I was doing this, just wanted to see what it did and I found out.

So I did a uninstall of the new drivers, went back to the 3286's and now im scoring 7840 regularly with a bunch of crap loaded up in the back ground. Im content for now, but as always would like to see drivers that release more features/improve speed.

 

[Jgtdragon]

Tried both. Don't see much of a difference.

In WinXP, I went back to the 3286 driver. It messed up my ATI Tv wonder. The channels are all screwd up.

 

[AA0]

Drivers work great, raised 3d mark by 300ish to 8600, and games actually look nicer. RCTW and a few others seem to look sharper then before.

 

[Auric]

I replaced the W2K 3293's with the 6011's for my Radeon LE and the performance increase is stunning on the one game I have had a chance to try out thoroughly, namely: Rally Masters. We're talking in excess of 50%. These 6000's are really something new. And no, there was nothing wrong with my setup before. Happy happy joy joy!

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Okay, not as thoroughly as I should have before getting carried away with my excitement. LOL. Actually it's more like 20%. Some tracks are significantly more demanding than others.