New Catalyst 4.7 Beta (Full)

[shady123]

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Download em here, orginally released by station-drivers, but guru has a mirror on the link above. Let me know how they turned out.

 

[Illissius]

@ anyone who's downloaded them: do they have the new control panel ATI's been promising for a while?

 

[CaiNaM]

We actually really shouldn't call this Catalyst 4.7, it's just a newer build released after the 4.6 release from ATI, station-drivers.com leaked them onto the web.

 

[futuristicmonkey]

The CP isnt too different, the layout seems changed around. But, most important IMO is it's got TAA!!!! 😀

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Is is worth installing beta drivers?

 

[n7]

I still have 4.5...

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Yes these are the first real improvement I have seen.

 

[dragonic]

those who downloaded these, try some opengl games...I want to know if they are faster in opengl games

 

[edmundoab]

Originally posted by: n7
I still have 4.5...

im still using that too coz the 4.6 drivers kinda sucked for me.
Not gonna risk Beta 4.7..
Maybe the full version

 

[Dman877]

Originally posted by: n7
I still have 4.5...

I'm still on 3.1 🙂.

 

[imported_Nacelle]

Everything seems ok with Battlefield Vietnam and UT2004

 

[Schadenfroh]

wernt they going to do a complete rewrite of their opengl drivers?

 

[LocutusX]

OpenGL *was* improved in 4.6, I don't know if that was considered a "full re-write" or not...

 

[BugsBunny1078]

Originally posted by: dragonic
those who downloaded these, try some opengl games...I want to know if they are faster in opengl games

They are faster but not as fast as the 3.9 so just use the 3.9 atioglxx.dll
It works just fine Im not sure why they rewrite it. Probably fixes for oddball games.

 

[AristoV300]

For all of the hype of the 4.6 drivers, I didn't really notice any new performance gain...

 

[GeneralGrievous]

The performance gains were mostly in the x800 cards.

 

[BFG10K]

OpenGL *was* improved in 4.6, I don't know if that was considered a "full re-write" or not...

Actually they *claimed* performance gains but in many cases they were actually slower than older drivers. Also the claims themselves were only very small percentages so no, 4.6 was definitely not a rewrite.

 

[LocutusX]

i disagree because i did see a significant improvement in NWN, which is probably the most nvidia-biased OGL
game out there. benchmarked, of course...

could have just been an improvement for that game in particular though. is it safe to strip the OGL from cat3.9 and stick it into the windows system directory to test it out?

 

[BFG10K]

i disagree because i did see a significant improvement in NWN, which is probably the most nvidia-biased OGL

I've seen a few other people claiming slower performance in NWN.

is it safe to strip the OGL from cat3.9 and stick it into the windows system directory to test it out?

Should be OK.