New ATI drivers (Newer than 10.3a's)

James J · 26 Mar 2010 at 02:14

http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/Catalyst-OpenGL-preview-driver.aspx

Reportedly massive boosts in metro 2033 but until I download and install them, its the usual pinch of salt time lol.

Full opengl 4.0 support included with these + a newer d3d driver

BETA's though so beware!

James J · 26 Mar 2010 at 02:57

Installed and booted up metro and there are indeed FPS increases with these compared to 10.3a beta's. Playing at dx11 very high with tesselation ON dof OFF at 1920x1080 with AAA instead of MSAA. DOF still kills the framerate though but the hit with tesselation seems vastly less with these. Did the rail car defence thing at the start of the game with a very smooth framerate

RichardH754 · 26 Mar 2010 at 08:12

Will give these a try!

RichardH754 · 26 Mar 2010 at 08:30

No, same problem for me, 3d display driver not working.
back to 10.2!

Disjunto · 26 Mar 2010 at 08:46

there any differences in Heaven? They might have done some serious tweaking to tessellation

straxusii · 26 Mar 2010 at 08:56

So this is the driver they slipped to all the reviewers ready for the fermi review

James J · 26 Mar 2010 at 13:22

Guys enough, keep the thread on topic

Leezy · 26 Mar 2010 at 13:29

RichardH754 said:
No, same problem for me, 3d display driver not working.
back to 10.2!

Why roll back and use old when its clearly something to do with your setup as no one else has problems.

I re installed windows after having problems with 10.2 and 10.3a now everythings running very smoothly. Your just wasting time on old drivers and not solving anything.

FrenchTart · 26 Mar 2010 at 13:30

RichardH754 said:
No, same problem for me, 3d display driver not working.
back to 10.2!

Try a windows reinstall. It seems likely that something is wrong with your setup.

@everyone else

Are these drivers meant to do anything for BFBC2?

edit: Ah..they're just opengl. Guess not then as bfbc2 is dx.

James J · 26 Mar 2010 at 13:32

FrenchTart said:
Try a windows reinstall. It seems likely that something is wrong with your setup.

@everyone else

Are these drivers meant to do anything for BFBC2?

edit: Ah..they're just opengl. Guess not then as bfbc2 is dx.

There is a newer d3d file with these as well as it was compiled a few days later then the 10.3a betas and over a week later then the 10.3 officials.

unp|dissy · 26 Mar 2010 at 13:39

Any benchmarks yet?

FrenchTart · 26 Mar 2010 at 13:57

James J said:
There is a newer d3d file with these as well as it was compiled a few days later then the 10.3a betas and over a week later then the 10.3 officials.

Oh, rocking. I'll try these out over the weekend then

ThundyCat · 26 Mar 2010 at 14:05

James J said:
Guys enough, keep the thread on topic

Agreed keep on topic or your post's will be removed and you will be suspended.

TC.

Orangey · 26 Mar 2010 at 14:08

I like the idea of getting more FPS... gonna have to try it out.

redeye_uk · 26 Mar 2010 at 14:17

I currently have a 4870 1GB prob running catalyst 9.8 or something. I tend to play quite a few old'ish games (Titan Quest, Rome TW, CS:S etc). Am I right in thinking that if i upgrade to latest drivers I might actually expereince worse performance in the games I do play? Im thinking along the lines of the latest drivers are optimised for the latest (and most popular) games and this sometimes comes at the cost of 'legacy' titles.....

{SAS}TB · 26 Mar 2010 at 14:37

Cant enable CF with these, here

James J · 26 Mar 2010 at 15:22

redeye_uk said:
I currently have a 4870 1GB prob running catalyst 9.8 or something. I tend to play quite a few old'ish games (Titan Quest, Rome TW, CS:S etc). Am I right in thinking that if i upgrade to latest drivers I might actually expereince worse performance in the games I do play? Im thinking along the lines of the latest drivers are optimised for the latest (and most popular) games and this sometimes comes at the cost of 'legacy' titles.....

Its worth upgrading the drivers even if you play older games due to shader performance improvements and changes to catalyst AI plus stability improvements over older drivers even for older hardware

FrenchTart · 26 Mar 2010 at 15:56

James J said:
Its worth upgrading the drivers even if you play older games due to shader performance improvements and changes to catalyst AI plus stability improvements over older drivers even for older hardware

Indeed. You can always uninstall and go back to your old drivers too.

redeye_uk · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:09

James J said:
Its worth upgrading the drivers even if you play older games due to shader performance improvements and changes to catalyst AI plus stability improvements over older drivers even for older hardware

FrenchTart said:
Indeed. You can always uninstall and go back to your old drivers too.

Cheers lads. Exactly what I wanted to hear

jakspyder · 26 Mar 2010 at 16:46

what does adding openGL support give us exactly?