Catalyst 7.8 beta

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:01

SS-89 said:
Sorry shadows are on high.

What res?

SS-89 · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:06

1280x1024

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:15

SS-89 said:
1280x1024

Tried it at the exact same settings:

Min, Max, Avg
23, 36, 29.041

:confused:

Same exact clocks aswell on the GPU.

I'm using a C2D E6600 @ 3.2, 2GB Crucial Ballistix.

SS-89 · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:18

willhub said:
Tried it at the exact same settings:

Min, Max, Avg
23, 36, 29.041

Same exact clocks aswell on the GPU.

What the same track? ive heard Dirt is a very cpu intensive game so the quad core may be helping :/.

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:21

SS-89 said:
What the same track? ive heard Dirt is a very cpu intensive game so the quad core may be helping :/.

Do you have the AA turned off in CCC? set to application?

fornowagain · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:22

SS-89 said:
What were your results for the timedemo?

Same settings as yours, all maxed 1280x1024. Its running on Vista 32bit, a bit slower than it was on XP. All that sky makes a lot of difference, lol.

SS-89 · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:25

Still a good 35 fps ahead of me

gnna have to overclock my card a bit more.

Will i have AA at 4x in game with it turned to application settings in CCC and AF is at 16x in CCC

Anyways im off to bed now so ill have to do the rest of my benching tommorow.

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 01:32

My 2900 is at 900/2.1 now lol.

wuyanxu · 30 Jul 2007 at 09:26

i want to know can the 2600XT do Dx10 with 15FPS+. if so, i'll buy it, turn stuff down for now, and upgrade to R700 or G92 when they come out.

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 09:40

wuyanxu said:
i want to know can the 2600XT do Dx10 with 15FPS+. if so, i'll buy it, turn stuff down for now, and upgrade to R700 or G92 when they come out.

DX10 Is broke at the moment on the 2900's.

**Edit** Oh, 2600, well it will be broke on those too.

jrodga2k5 · 30 Jul 2007 at 09:56

wuyanxu said:
i want to know can the 2600XT do Dx10 with 15FPS+. if so, i'll buy it, turn stuff down for now, and upgrade to R700 or G92 when they come out.

Il probably download the Call of Juarez benchmark after work for a gander

knowledge123 · 30 Jul 2007 at 10:43

willhub said:
DX10 Is broke at the moment on the 2900's.

How exactly is it broke? Seen as there are no proper, fully optimised games out that use DX10, this is being very pessimistic. DX10 is still very early in its life, and there are a lot of thing that both Microsoft and the GPU driver divisions can do to improve performance.

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 10:49

knowledge123 said:
How exactly is it broke? Seen as there are no proper, fully optimised games out that use DX10, this is being very pessimistic. DX10 is still very early in its life, and there are a lot of thing that both Microsoft and the GPU driver divisions can do to improve performance.

It is broke, there was a thread on it before, have you noticed the awfull DX10 performance on the 2900's compared to the 8800's and also the benchmark were the 8800GTS gets 100+ and the 2900XT gets around 3.2, DX10 for 2900's is broken at this moment in time, it does not work properly, thats basically what is happening at the moment.

knowledge123 · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:00

willhub said:
the benchmark were the 8800GTS gets 100+ and the 2900XT gets around 3.2

Which benchmark is this, please?

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:02

knowledge123 said:
Which benchmark is this, please?

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17758114

If you look, you'll see.

knowledge123 · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:09

willhub said:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17758114

If you look, you'll see.

Tom|Nbk said:
Ok according to the Beyond3D forums

There is a bug with catalyst drivers with the HD2900: It seems, the Rightmark3D 2.0 runs with 2D-clocks on HD 2900XT (500/500 vs 745/825).

http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lollt7.jpg

Does anyone want to confirm this and test?

Hardly broken, just a bug in the software. Benchmarks are not always indicative of real game performance.

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:11

knowledge123 said:
Hardly broken, just a bug in the software.

Yea exactly, its broken for the moment, it will be months untill it's fixed, thats broke as far as I'm concerned, DX10 is broke within the software, dont have to be hardware to be broke.

knowledge123 · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:14

willhub said:
Yea exactly, its broken for the moment, it will be months untill it's fixed, thats broke as far as I'm concerned, DX10 is broke within the software, dont have to be hardware to be broke.

So you're basing the entire of the performance of a card on one (obviously badly written) bit of benchmarking software?

willhub · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:16

knowledge123 said:
So you're basing the entire of the performance of a card on one (obviously badly written) bit of benchmarking software?

It's not badly writted, what makes you think that? DX10 games perform badly too, a lot worse than on the 8800's, DX10 just aint working atm.

knowledge123 · 30 Jul 2007 at 11:28

willhub said:
It's not badly writted, what makes you think that? DX10 games perform badly too, a lot worse than on the 8800's, DX10 just aint working atm.

The reason for saying it was badly coded was the bug in the software, which is obviously nothing to do with ATI, I think that it's bad that the coders of the software have not yet made a fix for it, searching for Rightmark brings up http://rightmark.org/ but there is nothing on their site for the DX10 version, and the latest news under their D3D section is from 2004.

I do understand your frustration with DX10 performance, it's a pitiful situation atm.