New Radeon Drivers released

[Tates]

Thanks for the tip Daniel

 

[Sandan]

Anyone playing Dungeon Siege and notice any fps improvements. I have the 8500LE overclocked on an ECK7S5A and an Atholon TBird 1.4. I have 384 or PC133 ram. I'm getting 19 to 25FPS in this game running with partly complex shadows at 1024x768. This is frustrating because I upgradged from a 32 meg Radeon LE which was getting the same FPS. Other performance areas have increased. Getting 7400 on 3dmark 2001se and 125 or more fps on unreal tourney. Even if everything was turned on with the 8500 I should be getting more than 19fps on Dungeon Siege. Man what is that.

 

[FordFreak]

I tried the beta 9039's. Guess I'll have to try the final ones now. So far the best ones I have found are the r69x. Most be a lot of downloading going on at ati. Only getting ~25kb/sec on cable and I normally get 175+ at ati.

 

[scottrico]

ZimZum

Thanks for the link.

 

[FordFreak]

Tried these drivers and the score was about 600 points lower than the r69x drivers. Another thing I noticed is that all the tabs in the advanced properties of the settings tab went away.

 

[FalseChristian]

No, these drivers had a reworked Direct3D driver but not the OpenGL driver. Actually the OpenGL driver in these new Catalyst drivers are slower than the previous 4.13.9031 drivers. ATI says that there next set of Catalyst drivers will have reworked OpenGL drivers. I can't wait. Then maybe I can play Quake1 again and ditch my Voodoo5-5500.

 

[FordFreak]

Originally posted by: FalseChristian
No, these drivers had a reworked Direct3D driver but not the OpenGL driver. Actually the OpenGL driver in these new Catalyst drivers are slower than the previous 4.13.9031 drivers. ATI says that there next set of Catalyst drivers will have reworked OpenGL drivers. I can't wait. Then maybe I can play Quake1 again and ditch my Voodoo5-5500.

What kind of framerate do you get with quake 1?

 

[BFG10K]

The redesigned driver tabs are quite nice, especially the anisotropic setting for Direct3D.

Then maybe I can play Quake1 again and ditch my Voodoo5-5500.

I don't have any problems with GLQuake on my Radeon. Ironically it's my Ti4600 that can't run it at 1600 x 1200 because the drivers are incorrectly reporting what display modes are available to the game.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: vman
my 3d didn't change much, but wow my 2d got a lot faster!

I notice this too! Can someone explain it? I was running 1024x768 @100 before going to these drivers. Powerstrip agreed with this. I might bump up to 1280x1024 now.

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

I installed them and they work fine with my Radeon 7500 (Retail). However, when I ran "PC Check" in the configuration utility I got an error saying that I wasn't using DirectX 8.1 (which is installed with WinXP). Because of that, I'm stuck with the "Classic" interface instead of the the modern one, any ideas?

-Ice

 

[Vadatajs]

LOL at ZimZum's sig. That's priceless.