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Catalyst 8.12 Beta

you can get them from guru3d here,very fast download speeds aswell
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=280709

ATI Stream support:

With the release of ATI Catalyst 8.12 users can unlock the potential of accelerated applications enabling ATI Stream technology for millions of ATI Radeon™ graphics processors worldwide
ATI Stream harnesses the tremendous processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU) for high-performance, data-intensive computations over a wide range of scientific, business and consumer applications.
ATI Stream enables the hundreds of parallel cores inside AMD graphics processors to accelerate general purpose applications. These capabilities will allow ATI Stream-enabled programs, for a variety of different tasks and from a growing number of software vendors, to operate with optimized performance or with new functionality.
The CAL (Compute Abstraction Layer) is now include in the Catalyst driver package. CAL is the enabling component for ATI Stream


ATI Stream application: ATI Avivo Video Converter

Using ATI Stream technology, owners of ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 Series and ATI Radeon™ HD 4600 Series of graphics cards can take advantage of this video conversion tool (found in Catalyst Control Center Basic View) to achieve incredible performance levels in video transcoding.
ATI Catalyst Control Center – Noise reduction for progressive video content:



This release of Catalyst™ introduces a new advanced video quality control: Noise Reduction for progressive video content, which removes ghosting artifacts while preserving details of the original video. The slider control can be found in the All Settings page of the Avivo Video tab found in the Catalyst Control Center.


Performance improvements:



Catalyst 8.12 Preliminary Performance Notes



Crysis + 2-7%



Crysis Warhead + 2-3%



Devil May Cry 4 + 1-6%



Far Cry 2

+ noAA scores are fixed for Crossfire configs; this is worth +20% on slower cards, and as much as 70% on faster ones

+ 5-10% gains when AA is enabled



FEAR + 2-6%



Left 4 Dead + 2-4%



Lost Planet Colonies + 3-10%, mostly in Area 2



Prey + 2-5%



STALKER Clear Sky + 5-10%, primarily on Crossfire configurations



NOTE – if you’re benchmarking Fallout 3, please be sure to disable VSYNC, as follows:



Edit the Fallout_default.ini file in the installation directory.

Change iPresentinterval=1 to iPresentinterval=0



For more information on ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 (for Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Linux versions), including all of the resolved issues in this release, please see the ATI Catalyst™ 8.12 release notes.
 
I just wonder given the dev time, how many people are going to use this stream technology. Perhaps it is good but I'm wondering if the dev time could have been used making the drivers better for the mainstream, or even getting sideport working.
 
Snakedoctor said:
Not tried them yet, but reports say this gives GTA a little boost.
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Needs all the help it can get from what I've heard!

Im rather interested if these drivers will finally fix the major problem people are having with the HD series of ATI cards. The one where the display driver stops responding and can BSOD the machine. Everyone is pointing the finger at everyone else but there must be some kind of work around :(
 
Gaijin said:
I just wonder given the dev time, how many people are going to use this stream technology. Perhaps it is good but I'm wondering if the dev time could have been used making the drivers better for the mainstream, or even getting sideport working.
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Waaat what are you talking about, I've been waiting forever for them to enable stream processing!!!

here i come videos! :D
 
These drivers are excellent with my 4870 1Gb :) Fixed random green sparklies on FC2, in fact, FC2 is flawless now (got an extra 3fps with benchmark that`s posted in here somewhere, 58.45 ave). Played for 2½ hrs non stop without a hitch, Fallout 3 and COD5 working fine too but I haven`t had the time for extended play.

Bout time though, I was unimpressed with 4870 over 4850 until this moment. Like a new card now, has to be said :)
 
auraindigo said:
These drivers are excellent with my 4870 1Gb :) Fixed random green sparklies on FC2, in fact, FC2 is flawless now (got an extra 3fps with benchmark that`s posted in here somewhere, 58.45 ave). Played for 2½ hrs non stop without a hitch, Fallout 3 and COD5 working fine too but I haven`t had the time for extended play.

Bout time though, I was unimpressed with 4870 over 4850 until this moment. Like a new card now, has to be said :)
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Glad you're pleased, think I will wait for the finals though before I install.
 
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