7.10 ATI DRIVERS, COME GET EM!!

RavenXXX2 · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:23

http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx

http://game.amd.com/us-en/default.aspx

Finally, a driver package to shout about.

Don't forget to post up your experiences with these drivers, good or bad.

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, Sweet

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

cuke2u · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:27

Hi, HTTP 404 page cannot be found. I guess the whole world is downloading them :-)

ChrisC

EDIT: Kept at it and eventually got a slow download

knowledge123 · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:40

Thanks Raven

BioShock DX10 CrossFire™ performance improves 70% or more on all ATI Radeon™ HD2x00 series of products

Lol! Just lol.

Clairvoyant · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:41

nope wont let me download.

Blackout · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:43

This looks encouraging if those reports are true!

I dont have an ATi card but its nice to see such big improvements for them from a driver release (the better the competition in the GPU & CPU market the more we all benefit!)

Rackerz · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:43

Looks like there has been a fair amount of DX10 updates.

decto · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:46

I'm getting 150k/s from my 2M NTL connection .. must just be luck.

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Tom|Nbk · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:47

Wow some awesome improvements there.

Tom|Nbk · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:48

Rackerz said:
Looks like there has been a fair amount of DX10 updates.

The DX10 base driver has been updated. So expect to see a lot of perf increase across the board in DX10 mode. I reckon Mav owes ATi an apology this is an awesome driver bringing improvement and new features to both x1000 and hd2000 series.

RavenXXX2 · 11 Oct 2007 at 20:49

Yeah, it looks like ATI are getting to grips with all this DX10 malarkey, some of the performance gains are just amazing,

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

OMG.

Who said the 2900 wouldn't see much performance increase through drivers.

cuke2u · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:01

Hi, they are massive claims, I, for one, hope there has been some improvments too, but, hey, lets wait until we seen some proper and objective testing...
ChrisC

Rackerz · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:04

Yep, hopefully these drivers can be tested by DX10 users to prove the claims.

gareth170 · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:08

this 7.10 drivers are mostly crossfire performance improves

...

they've forgot to say about added crossfire to Medal of Honor Airborne...

decto · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:14

........No change to DX9 performance in 3dmark06 for a single 2900Pro

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Deleted User 234324 · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:15

getting 404 error on vista 64 drivers.

gareth170 · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:18

MadMossy said:
getting 404 error on vista 64 drivers.

me too...
can't download the vista64 driver :confused:

.. xp driver downloaded fine at 2.30mb/s

Cyber-Mav · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:35

there is no caution message in the release notes about agp compatability, anyone tested these on a x1950pro agp?

also:

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.

whats this all about?

gareth170 · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:37

try this for vista64 driver https://a248.e.akamai.net/f/674/9206/0/www2.ati.com/gamesite/7-10_vista64_dd_ccc_wdm_enu_53254.exe

Cyber-Mav · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:47

Tom|Nbk said:
The DX10 base driver has been updated. So expect to see a lot of perf increase across the board in DX10 mode. I reckon Mav owes ATi an apology this is an awesome driver bringing improvement and new features to both x1000 and hd2000 series.

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.

however, im downloading the xp driver now and gonna test on agp x1950pro. if they got that sorted then that will shut me up for the rest of the month. :cool:

only doing 10k a sec though.

vista64 link on ati site seems to be dead. will wait till tomorrow i guess.

gareth170 · 11 Oct 2007 at 21:59

Cyber-Mav said:
vista64 link on ati site seems to be dead. will wait till tomorrow i guess.

i've downloaded it from here http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx?p=vista64/integrated-vista64