Catalyst 7.7 Released

Tom|Nbk · 24 Jul 2007 at 15:28

I think the conclusion from this thread is we are all looking forward to 7.8's, No?

SS-89 · 24 Jul 2007 at 15:33

SS-89 said:
son of a ^^... looks like im gnna go straight to 7.6's when my rig arrives. Btw tom whats performance like on your new beta set?

Yes I am but you still havent answered my previous question Tom...

Cant even give us a hint?

willhub · 24 Jul 2007 at 17:28

I'm nuking my OS's soon, just gonna have 1 OS on now (Vista) Should I install the 7.7 drivers or stick with the 7.6 drivers for now you think?

psychas · 25 Jul 2007 at 11:04

were can i download catalist 7.6 again because 7.7 gives me some kind a twiching in cs:s

thecremeegg · 25 Jul 2007 at 11:58

On the ATI site theres a past driver list

heres the one for the x1900 series for example http://ati.amd.com/support/drivers/xp/radeonxprevious-xp.html

jrodga2k5 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:09

Gareth, when you going to Crossfire the 2600XT's?

Iv just ordered one of them to have a play about with since the DFI Infinity P965 Dark is just so damn cheap just now, so looks like I'll buy a second at the end of August just to sample them in Crossfire

Hamoodii · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:15

jrodga2k5 said:
Gareth, when you going to Crossfire the 2600XT's?

Iv just ordered one of them to have a play about with since the DFI Infinity P965 Dark is just so damn cheap just now, so looks like I'll buy a second at the end of August just to sample them in Crossfire

58 pounds

My thats cheap.

gareth170 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:27

jrodga2k5 said:
Gareth, when you going to Crossfire the 2600XT's?

Iv just ordered one of them to have a play about with since the DFI Infinity P965 Dark is just so damn cheap just now, so looks like I'll buy a second at the end of August just to sample them in Crossfire

im ordering the second card the end of next week. which one u bought 2600xt ddr3 or ddr4?

jrodga2k5 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:32

gareth170 said:
im ordering the second card the end of next week. which one u bought 2600xt ddr3 or ddr4?

I went for the DDR3 version to see how it stacks up itself. I feel as if the 128bit bus in the end would kinda destroy the benefits of having the DDR4's bandwidth. I looked at a few reviews and there was roughly 1fps between them anyways

jrodga2k5 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:33

Hamoodii said:
58 pounds

My thats cheap.

Indeed, was looking at the inifity 975 @ 83 then I stumbled across the 965p which is also a better clocker and thought, shall I just have a go with that

lay-z-boy · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:33

So after 15 pages, are these any good? (for x1900xtx)

From the first few it doesnt look great.

gareth170 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:36

jrodga2k5 said:
I went for the DDR3 version to see how it stacks up itself. I feel as if the 128bit bus in the end would kinda destroy the benefits of having the DDR4's bandwidth. I looked at a few reviews and there was roughly 1fps between them anyways

i was thinking of crossfireing with a ddr3 version but maybe isn't a good idea?

jrodga2k5 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:36

lay-z-boy said:
So after 15 pages, are these any good? (for x1900xtx)

From the first few it doesnt look great.

I think we can assume the 7.6's are the best, 7.7's offer the new AA settings, 7.8's we will now await as they SHOULD be the proper 7.7's

*dons the red tinted sunglasses*

gareth170 said:
i was thinking of crossfireing with a ddr3 version but maybe isn't a good idea?

Thought about stumping up the extra but I guess we'll see with the performance. As I said im fairly confident the mem bus will limit its benefits of DDR4.

Least you have someone to compare results with now

probably wont get it all installed until friday night

lay-z-boy · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:42

I think we can assume the 7.6's are the best, 7.7's offer the new AA settings, 7.8's we will now await as they SHOULD be the proper 7.7's

*dons the red tinted sunglasses*

Cheers for that

gareth170 · 25 Jul 2007 at 12:43

jrodga2k5 said:
I think we can assume the 7.6's are the best, 7.7's offer the new AA settings, 7.8's we will now await as they SHOULD be the proper 7.7's

*dons the red tinted sunglasses*

Thought about stumping up the extra but I guess we'll see with the performance. As I said im fairly confident the mem bus will limit its benefits of DDR4. Least you have someone to compare results with now probably wont get it all installed until friday night

i mean i have 2600xt ddr4 card now but i was thinking of crossfireing with a ddr3 version or have another ddr4?

jrodga2k5 · 25 Jul 2007 at 13:16

gareth170 said:
i mean i have 2600xt ddr4 card now but i was thinking of crossfireing with a ddr3 version or have another ddr4?

Ah right, well they need to match the clocks so I would assume the DD4 would clock the DDR3 to a too high clock and the DDR3 would downclock the DDR4. So best to stick with the same Mem types im thinking just incase

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:07

I must be having some majour hardware problems.

I've been playing some games, and I've found the following games to be a lot slower than my GTS:

TRA
CSS
HL2
Lost Planet
ET:QW
Oblivion
F.E.A.R. XP

I tried TRA, 16xAA/AF, around 35-60fps, on 8800 I got 100+.

6xAA/8XAF (CCC), around 35-75 (vsync enabled), 0AA/16xAF, 35-60.

ET:QW, around 30fps all the time

CSS, 16xAA/AF, 1280x1024, stress test I got around 75fps.

Lost Planet, 4xaa/af, all full with emdium on shadows, 15fps.

F.E.A.R XP, 20-60fps

Oblivion 30-70fps, 1280x1024 all maxed 8xAA/16xAF.

Any ideas if there is anything with the Asus P5N-E SLi that could be causing problems, does the black PCI-E slot work better?

CSS is slower than this guy's system with an X1900XT and a pentium D 3.4Ghz atm.

Last Kronin · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:31

For ET:QW have you uncapped the FPS if not then it will run at 30, the command is com_unlockfps 1

willhub · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:39

Last Kronin said:
For ET:QW have you uncapped the FPS if not then it will run at 30, the command is com_unlockfps 1

Seems like it wont run anymore

, just crashes all the time now.

With ATi drivers are frame rates supposed to be a lot lower in Vista than XP?

killer_uk · 25 Jul 2007 at 14:45

willhub said:
Seems like it wont run anymore , just crashes all the time now.

With ATi drivers are frame rates supposed to be a lot lower in Vista than XP?

No, about the same in my experience.