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7.10 ATI DRIVERS, COME GET EM!!

i can confirm that the new 7.10 32bit XP driver works for the x1950pro agp.

been tested on my agp rig and also on mates agp rig so thats 2 out of 2 who work fine in agp.
im happy now.

still no luck on vista64 driver but i can wait...


UPDATE: the driver instaleld for the agp system but it doesn'r run any games, says itss failed to create d3d device or something. will fiddle a bit more but looks like its shafted. although my mates system works fine on his agp x1950pro. guess i got to do some fiddling.
 
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Cyber-Mav said:
only x1000 series stuff sorted is crossfire stuff, which is no good to me. as for the dx10 fixes, well performance was so shoddy to begin with that these fixes take the performance out of the fire and back into the frying pan.
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I have highlighted the improvements as you seem to be loosing your eye sight aswell as your mind.

New Features

Catalyst™ 7.10 introduces the following new features:

* Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products
* Software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series

Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products

This release of Catalyst™ introduces Adaptive Anti-Aliasing support for the ATI Radeon™ X1000 Series of products. Adaptive Anti-Aliasing substantially improves image quality by anti-aliasing transparent textures.
Software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series

This release of Catalyst™ introduces software CrossFire™ support for the ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 2400 Series. Software CrossFire™ is only available when two graphics accelerators from the same family (i.e. 2 ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 products) are plugged into a CrossFire™ compatible motherboard with no hardware interconnect between the two graphics accelerators.
Performance Improvements

The following performance improvements are noticed with Catalyst™ 7.10:

* Battlefield 2142: CrossFire™ performance improves 5-23% on ATI Radeon™ HD2600, HD2400 and ATI Radeon™ X1300/X1550
* BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
* Call of Duty 2: performance improves up to 6.7% on both single card and CrossFire™ ATI Radeon™ HD2600 and ATI Radeon™ HD2400 configurations
* Call of Juarez DX10: CrossFire™ performance improves up to 42% and single card performance improves up to 34% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
* Company of Heroes DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves up to 80% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products and single card performance improves as much as 31% on ATI Radeon™ HD2900 and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
* Enemy Territory: Quake Wars CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 23% on ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products and single card performance improves as much as 23% on both ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series of products
* FEAR CrossFire™ performance improves as much as 16% on ATI Radeon™ X1950XTX, X1650XT, HD2400 and X1300/X1550
* Lost Planet DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 20% or greater on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products
* Supreme Commander CrossFire™ performance improves up to 30% on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 and ATI Radeon™ X1x00 series products. ATI Radeon™ X1650 and X1300/X1550 see even greater improvements of 82% or more
* World In Conflict DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 14-67% or more and single card performance improves 20% or more on ATI Radeon™ HD2900XT and ATI Radeon™ HD2600 products
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Mav I dont exactly see the logic behind expecting performance improvements from 2 year old architechture. Anyway will try these out tommorow.
 
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Mav I dont exactly see the logic behind expecting performance improvements from 2 year old architechture. Anyway will try these out tommorow.
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want bugfixes man!!!!

still faffing around with the agp set now. dunno how mate got it to work, although i tried to do driver update over the old one where mate removed the old driver first then rebooted and installed the new one.
worth a shot i guess before i go back to driver 7.7
 
I can see cyber's point- if the 1950 AGP (which was only released recently, and still is) isn't supported fully. However I don't expect AGP support on older models. I don't have AGP 1950 so don't know if it has lack of support.

I certainly don't have any qualms with my X1900XT. At the time cheaper than 7800GTX which I believe was it's comeptitor at the time.
 
just installed 7.10's for AGP x1950pro. Lost few points on 3dmark06 but will leave them on to see how games run, its games that count! I think its probably only worth updating these days for 2*00 cards.

Any crashes and i'm going back to 7.7 !
 
no 3d at all with x1950pro agp for me. but 2d works this time which is much more better than what 7.9 and 7.8 did. going back to 7.7 driver now. since 7.10 is still borked for my agp use.
looks like i still can;t play stuff like bioshock and other newer games on the x1950pro with 7.7 driver since i get gfx corruption and glitches. not good at all.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
want bugfixes man!!!!

still faffing around with the agp set now. dunno how mate got it to work, although i tried to do driver update over the old one where mate removed the old driver first then rebooted and installed the new one.
worth a shot i guess before i go back to driver 7.7
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Ok sorry I thought you wanted performance increases which would be a bit unreasonable but bugfixes I can understand.
 
ok im back to 7.7 driver for xp for the x1950pro agp, i can live with it for a while since xp drivers even the old 7.7 ones are quite solid, just that i can;t use any of the hotfixes in the newer drivers, but maybe in 7.11 i may get lucky. 7.7 runs portal and episode 2 fine so i guess i can live with it.


right i got the 64bit vista driver installed for my x1900xt, iv noticed that adaptive AA has 2 additional option, super sampling and multisampling.
is it like nvidia if i enable multisampling mode it takes next to nothing of a performance hit compared to supersampling transparency AA, (the supersampling transparency AA takes a hit in performance for nvidia cards.)

is multisampling adaptive AA that ETAM feature thats finally been added?
 
Cyber you said you just install new over old drivers which i think means you didnt uninstall the old ones and do a fresh install of the new ones. You shouldnt do this as it boogers up the drivers big time. Try from now on uninstall old go to safe mode use driver cleaner pro (free from most sites) and then reboot to normal mode and install fresh new ones. Should be ok then.
 
yea i tried a clean install too and still no luck, iv been reading around and found some other users who have used an agp aperature size of 256mb and got their x1950pro cards to work with driver 7.9.
im using 128mb aperature size, dunno if 256mb will do anything for me but i guess its worth a try, gonna install 7.10 after i change the aperature size and see what happens.

update: still no luck with even with agp aperature size set to 256mb, these drivers are still borked for agp.
 
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not sure when I'm over my sisters next but she's got my old X1950 AGP, so when I'm there I'll give them a go.

Just installed them fine on Xp x64 and Vista x64 with a 2900, though the 1st install on Vista complained about a missing inf file and didn't load the display drivers, so had to run them again.
 
Well MOA Airbourne with x1950xtx crossfire now gets 56fps average and single card 36fps average and thats at Max everthing in game and 1920x1200 :D

I would say the drivers are now getting tailored more for the new cards and don't think they are as solid as say the 7.7 cats for anything older than x1950's

Good Job ATI
 
Cyber-Mav said:
ok im back to 7.7 driver for xp for the x1950pro agp, i can live with it for a while since xp drivers even the old 7.7 ones are quite solid, just that i can;t use any of the hotfixes in the newer drivers, but maybe in 7.11 i may get lucky. 7.7 runs portal and episode 2 fine so i guess i can live with it.


right i got the 64bit vista driver installed for my x1900xt, iv noticed that adaptive AA has 2 additional option, super sampling and multisampling.
is it like nvidia if i enable multisampling mode it takes next to nothing of a performance hit compared to supersampling transparency AA, (the supersampling transparency AA takes a hit in performance for nvidia cards.)

is multisampling adaptive AA that ETAM feature thats finally been added?
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AFAIK it's just normal Multisample. I was beta testing this back in August. EATM caused too any IQ issues.
 
Hey Guys quick question,

Which version of Microsoft.net are you using with the CAT drivers?

There seems to be three, v1.1, v.2.0 and now v3.0?
 
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