Catalyst 7.7 Released

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:46

killer_uk said:
No, about the same in my experience.

I dunno, seems like the 2900 dont like low res, but some games run fine, but others need 4xAA to work fine.

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 11:52

Got my stuff in yesterday

Pleasantly surprised with the HD2600xt DDR3 for £65 tho

Just thought, Oblivion Ultra High, Max Tree Fas + Grass, Canopy Shadows, Full Shadows Ext and Int, Max everything else on HDR, 16xAF but no AA. Ran pretty damn smoothly

Seems like the high shader clock helps pretty well here, but not actually taken any frame rate recordings as of yet. Very impressed though I must say so far.

Will run 3D Mark 06 later on no doubt.

willhub · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:12

jrodga2k5 said:
Got my stuff in yesterday

Pleasantly surprised with the HD2600xt DDR3 for £65 tho Just thought, Oblivion Ultra High, Max Tree Fas + Grass, Canopy Shadows, Full Shadows Ext and Int, Max everything else on HDR, 16xAF but no AA. Ran pretty damn smoothly Seems like the high shader clock helps pretty well here, but not actually taken any frame rate recordings as of yet. Very impressed though I must say so far.

Will run 3D Mark 06 later on no doubt.

What res was that at?

gareth170 · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:18

jrodga2k5 said:
Got my stuff in yesterday

Pleasantly surprised with the HD2600xt DDR3 for £65 tho Just thought, Oblivion Ultra High, Max Tree Fas + Grass, Canopy Shadows, Full Shadows Ext and Int, Max everything else on HDR, 16xAF but no AA. Ran pretty damn smoothly Seems like the high shader clock helps pretty well here, but not actually taken any frame rate recordings as of yet. Very impressed though I must say so far.

Will run 3D Mark 06 later on no doubt.

see, the 2600xt is good.

people put it down even tho they haven't tryed it for themselves.. that really ****** me off.

RavenUK · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:25

willhub said:
What res was that at?

800x600 - 15fps average..

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:25

RavenUK said:
800x600 - 15fps average..

1280x1024 infact

Very impressed so far as I have said, I'll try and run up a few benchies later on tonyte since I have nowt to do!

Question what size is the DDR4 version of the card?
The DDR3 is positively tiny lol

gareth170 · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:29

jrodga2k5 said:
Question what size is the DDR4 version of the card?
The DDR3 is positively tiny lol

the ddr4 version is much longer.

just about the same length as my MB

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:31

Il xfire them when I come back from Florida on Friday the 30th of August!

I take it you need to buy crossfire link cables seperate, never got any with my new mobo

and do you need 1 or 2 cos iv seen a few reviews using 2

gareth170 · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:33

jrodga2k5 said:
Il xfire them when I come back from Florida on Friday the 30th of August!

I take it you need to buy crossfire link cables seperate, never got any with my new mobo and do you need 1 or 2 cos iv seen a few reviews using 2

mmmm i got 1 with my ddr4 version..

u need 2

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 12:40

gareth170 said:
mmmm i got 1 with my ddr4 version..

u need 2

must be the difference of payin the premium then

willhub · 27 Jul 2007 at 13:37

gareth170 said:
the ddr4 version is much longer.

just about the same length as my MB

So they are as long as a HD2900XT? :eek:

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 13:52

willhub said:
So they are as long as a HD2900XT?

I think 9inches, so just a tad shorter than the GTS lol

Tom|Nbk · 27 Jul 2007 at 13:59

gareth170 said:
see, the 2600xt is good.

people put it down even tho they haven't tryed it for themselves.. that really ****** me off.

Same story with the 2900 really

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 14:14

Tom|Nbk said:
Same story with the 2900 really

im surprised the 2600xt seems quite good so far lol!

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 18:28

Just ran 05 and 06 there with my CPU @ 2.8Ghz and the HD2600xt @ 830core and 800mem! Remember this is the DDR3 Version but I have taken over at Rank #1 vs a Quad core on 06 lol!

3DMark Score 4883 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 1663 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2113 Marks
CPU Score 2430 Marks

Sound about right then I guess? Using 7.7's btw

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2567438

gareth170 · 27 Jul 2007 at 19:04

jrodga2k5 said:
Just ran 05 and 06 there with my CPU @ 2.8Ghz and the HD2600xt @ 830core and 800mem! Remember this is the DDR3 Version but I have taken over at Rank #1 vs a Quad core on 06 lol!

3DMark Score 4883 3DMarks
SM 2.0 Score 1663 Marks
SM 3.0 Score 2113 Marks
CPU Score 2430 Marks

Sound about right then I guess? Using 7.7's btw

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=2567438

i will benchmark my ddr4 version after eastenders lol...

jrodga2k5 · 27 Jul 2007 at 19:10

gareth170 said:
i will benchmark my ddr4 version after eastenders lol...

lol....il go clock my cpu to 3.0ghz just now methinks

LoadsaMoney · 27 Jul 2007 at 20:21

gareth170 said:
i will benchmark my ddr4 version after eastenders lol...

That Roxy's well fit. :cool:

gareth170 · 27 Jul 2007 at 23:25

ive just installed 3DMark06 in xp, it installs ok but it won't run. it just freezes then the screen goes multi colour then goes off..

any ideas?

it works in vista64 ok but the score is abit low that why i wanna try in xp..

RavenUK · 27 Jul 2007 at 23:29

gareth170 said:
ive just installed 3DMark06 in xp, it installs ok but it won't run. it just freezes then the screen goes multi colour then goes off..

any ideas?

it works in vista64 ok but the score is abit low that why i wanna try in xp..

Could be the same issue the 2900 has with 3D06, try the fix below.

This is a known issue and we have been able to reproduce it in our test lab. The problem lays in an DLL which we use to detect the graphics cards' core and memory speeds. We are working on an update to correct this issue after which all Futuremark benchmarks should run fine with the latest offerings from all IHV's. Until then you can work around this issue either by renaming the "Direcpll.dll" file (found in %WINDIR%\system32\Futuremark\MSC\) to something else