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ATi Catalyst 9.5 Drivers tomorrow ?

Should have just stuck with the 9.3's, as the 9.4's and 5's are of no benefit, the 9.4's were only for the 4890's, and these 9.5's are going to be just for the 4770's by the sounds of it.
 
I noticed a 1.5fps increase in Crysis and extra 50 points in 3dmark06, going from the 9.3s to 9.4s. :o

That said, I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but Crysis performance has improved quite noticeably over the last couple of Catalyst releases. This is also reflected in the benchmarks that have come out recenetly, showing the 4870/4890 going head to head with their nvidia counterparts, whereas in the past they always lagged behind.
 
titaniumx3 said:
I noticed a 1.5fps increase in Crysis and extra 50 points in 3dmark06, going from the 9.3s to 9.4s. :o

That said, I'm not sure if anyone else noticed, but Crysis performance has improved quite noticeably over the last couple of Catalyst releases. This is also reflected in the benchmarks that have come out recenetly, showing the 4870/4890 going head to head with their nvidia counterparts, whereas in the past they always lagged behind.
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Not bothered about Crysis anymore. Not even sure why they are still improving the fps in this game and haven't even touched some recent releases. Really annoying.
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Not bothered about Crysis anymore. Not even sure why they are still improving the fps in this game and haven't even touched some recent releases. Really annoying.
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Your assuming that there are not improvements to other games because someone noticed improvements Crysis & priority to fps is based on a need and crysis needs all the help it can get.
There are plenty of people who will not buy or play it until it runs at a speed which people usually take for granted.
 
Crysis/warhead are also in most if not all benches of new cards so if they did not improve there fps in this game it would make there cards look bad compared with nv.
 
Crysis still has the most advanced 3D engine out there, with the most complex effects, hence while it may not be the most popular game, it's the type of engine you want to see the most improvement in, for the long term benefit of the GPU makers.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
Should have just stuck with the 9.3's, as the 9.4's and 5's are of no benefit, the 9.4's were only for the 4890's, and these 9.5's are going to be just for the 4770's by the sounds of it.
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adding support to a new card doesn't mean absolutely nothing else changes in a driver set. Infact support for a new card starts and stops and the devide id's being recognised by the new drivers in general.

There would have been other changes, not least obvious because people have reported improvements and new problems with new drivers, a new device id in the config list won't be causing any of that.

Won't know if they are worth it till people try, not sure why people are saying they are out early, 3 months ago being after the half way mark of the month meant they were late, now before half way(just) they are early. Shockingly, sometimes the improvements they add will take a day, or 2 months to make work, so new drivers will sometimes be ready after 2 weeks or 6 weeks, who the hell cares. Do we have to be so anal about calling a set of drivers late or early based on what day of the month they arrive on?


Do we have to draw massive conclusions based on what card is out that month as to who the drivers are for and if they will be worth it.

Its the same thing every single month, its hilarious, if its late ATi aren't as reliable as Nvidia, if they are "early" they have too many problems and need to many new drivers so also suck.

It really doesn't matter if they provide 1 set a year, or 5000, people will simply complain anyway.

WE probably need a ban on the discussion of new drivers, and only allow threads where people with specific problems are looking for help, also delete all posts of "nvidia/ati drivers are best, the other guys suck".
 
Well if there were improvements/fixes, then surely they would have been mentioned in the release notes like every other driver, but nope, absolutely nothing, nada, the release notes were about a paragraph.

Even a review that had them against the 9.3's said there was no improvement and pointless going to them, as ATi just released them early for the 4890's as they had no drivers, they just wanted to get a set out for them, and i remember people complaining that they had just got the 9.3's on lol.
 
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