Driver-update: ATI Catalyst 8.6

De tweaker tCC was er als de kippen bij om ons te wijzen op een set nieuwe Catalysts. ATI heeft namelijk woensdagavond onder de noemer Catalyst 8.6 nieuwe drivers voor zijn Radeon-videokaarten uitgebracht. De nieuwe stuurprogramma's zijn vanaf deze pagina voor Windows XP en Windows Vista te downloaden en zijn voorzien van een flinke waslijst aan veranderingen en verbeteringen. De grootste verbetering is dat het volgens ATI niet meer nodig is om de computer te rebooten nadat Catalyst 8.6 geïnstalleerd is. Verder zijn de nodige prestatieverbeteringen voor onder meer 3dMark Vantage, Lost Planet, Call Of Duty 4, Crysis en Bioshock doorgevoerd. Daarnaast geeft ATI een lijst met bekende problemen die nog verholpen moeten worden. Hieronder zijn de release notes van Catalyst 8.6 gepost. We zijn overigens niet verantwoordelijk voor een versleten muiswiel

Performance Improvements

• 3DMark Vantage:10 to 15% gains across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with larger gains in specific cases.
• Call of Duty 4: Performance increases across all Radeon™ HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with gains as large as 35% in specific maps.
• Call of Juarez DX10: Performance increases between 2 and 9% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
• Company of Heroes (DX10 version): Performance increases between 4 and 10% across HD 36xx and HD 34xx products.
• Lost Planet (DX10 version): Performance increases by 1 or 2 fps across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, creating in some cases up to 20% increase.
• Lost Planet (DX9 version): Performance increases between 2 and 20% across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products
• Prey OpenGL: 3-5% gains across HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
• Quake 4 OpenGL: Up to 8% increase across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.
• Shadermark 2.1: Minor improvements across all HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products, with the largest gains appearing on HD 3650 (up to 9%)
• ViewPerf 10: Substantial performance improvements across several of the sub-tests, with the largest gains in ugnx (up to 55%), catia (up to 17%) and tcvis (up to 10%) across all of the HD 3xxx and HD 2xxx products.

Resolved Issues for the Windows Vista Operating System

• Bioshock: Corruption is no longer noticed in the water's reflection. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35077
• Call of Duty 4: Enabling AA no longer results in intermittent corruption being noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista with an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35072
• Crysis: Momentary corruption is no longer noticed in the body of water when a soldier pierces through the clouds. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32599
• Crysis: Playing a DX10 version of the game no longer results in flickering being noticed within the bushes and on the trees when the in-game advanced setting are set to low. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35074
• Frontlines: Fuel of War: Flickering and corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3800 series of product when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35067
• Guitar Hero III: Shadows are no longer seen in the middle-bottom portion of the display where the music score is located. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35071
• Lost Planet: Running the cave test on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product no longer results in low FPS values. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35073M
• Sins of a Solar Empire: Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the game on a system running Windows Vista and containing either an ATI Radeon™ X1xx0 or 9700 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35068
• Stalker: Enabling CrossFire™ no longer results in the clear sky failing to scale properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35070
• Unreal Tournament 3: Scaling is now functioning when using 24 or more bots when CrossFire™ is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35069
• Rebooting the operating system after changing the skin to any available option other than system skin no longer results in the Catalyst™ Control Center menu options no longer being visible. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30569
• The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
• Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
• Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
• Inconsistent behavior is no longer noticed in the Catalyst™ Control Center when clearing the Shared application from one virtual desktop to another. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32610
• Shared applications are no longer removed after selecting Restore desktop when virtual desktop mode is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows XP and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32611
• Certain benchmark applications no longer report lower benchmark scores with CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33464
• Hot-plugging an HDTV to an HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst™ Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34323
• The OverDrive™ option is no longer missing in the Catalyst™ Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34123
• Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34150
• Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34151
• Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center reporting the connector type as component. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35026
• Connecting an HDTV using the Component Video connector no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center (Basic View) failing to respond when switching to HDTV only mode. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35029
• Catalyst Control Center: Selecting the User Windows Display Language setting no longer results in the incorrect language being selected in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35030
• A Catalyst Control Center Host Application error message is no longer displayed when performing a fast user switch. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35031
• Changing the saturation value found in the Catalyst Control Center->TV-Avivo page no longer results in the new values failing to take effect. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35036
• Catalyst Control Center: Connecting a secondary display device and enabling extended desktop mode no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to respond when disabling the primary display device and attempting to set the secondary display device as the primary. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35039
• The Catalyst Control Center no longer fails to respond when modifying or assigning any hotkey in Hotkeys Manager. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34416
• Enabling and disabling GPU Scaling no longer results in some of the supported display resolutions no longer being available. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35047
• Hot-plugging an HDTV using the HDMI port no longer results in flickering being noticed around the text of the Catalyst Control Center when setting the display resolution to either 1776x1000 or 1920x1000. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35048
• Using the hot-key function to switch between various display scenarios no longer results in the HDMI display device displaying a blank screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31145
• Hot-plugging an HDTV to the HDMI port no longer results in the LCD failing to display an image when hot-unplugging the HDTV. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35052
• Playing a Blu-Ray DVD title using WinDVD 8.1 no longer results in corruption being noticed on the menu page. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35064
• Connecting an HDMI display device no longer results in the display device being detected as a DVI display device resolving the audio out issue. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35065
• The OverDrive™ option is no longer missing in the Catalyst Control Center after the installation of the graphics driver on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2900 series of product and running the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35066
• Enabling CrossFire™ on a system containing an ATI Radeon™ X1900 CrossFire™ Edition product no longer results in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) intermittently failing. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31163
• The Catalyst Control Center version number no longer fails to be updated after the installation of a newer Catalyst Control Center 737-28493
• Performing a custom install of the ATI graphics driver under the Windows Vista operating system no longer results in a message indicating that the current version is not installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35075
• Hot-plugging and hot-unplugging an HDMI display device no longer results in the Catalyst Control Center failing to detect the correct setting of the display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35076
• The Windows Vista operating system no longer fails to respond when running the Auto-tune utility found in the Catalyst Control Center OverDrive™ option 737-30584
• Connecting a TV as the secondary display device and enabling either clone mode or extended desktop mode no longer results in the TV failing to display an image when resuming from an S3 state. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33466
• Hot swapping a display device to the second DVI connector no longer results in the display device failing to be detected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35078
• Attempting to hot plug an HDMI display device from one port to another no longer results in the display failing to display an image. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35079
• Corruption may be noticed when resuming a second time during the playback of a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35080
• Seeking several times when playing an MPEG4 files using WinDVD no longer results in the video become 4 small videos windows within the playback screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35081
• Enabling Closed Captioning no longer results in a green line at left side and bottom of the text being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35082

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Operating System

• Call of Duty 4: Intermittent flickering is no longer noticed when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled on a systems running Windows XP and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35092
• Lost Planet: Switching from the game to the Windows XP desktop and then back to the game no longer results in corruption being noticed within the game. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35091
• The Catalyst™ Control Center menu option no longer fails to function when changing the skin from system skin to any other available skin. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30570
• Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
• The ATI OpenGL driver no longer fails to be applied on systems containing an ATI Radeon™ 3600/3650 AGP series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33467
• Moving the Realplayer to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback windows appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34116
• The Rotation option is now available for the primary display device when two or more display devices are connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34113
• Moving the WinDVD player to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback window appearing blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34120
• Connecting an HDMI display device to a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 3100/3200 series of product no longer results in the display failing to be detected as a DTV(HDMI) in the Catalyst Control Center. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35083
• The scaling option no longer changes from Full Screen to Centered after setting Extended desktop mode using the Quick Launch Buttons or FN+F4. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35084
• Intermittent flashing is no longer noticed in the right portion of the display when playing a 720p or 1080i media file when using the Windows Media Player v10. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32666
• Audio no longer fails when dragging the InterWinDVD or the Windows Media Player window to the extended desktop display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35085
• The Windows XP operating system no longer fails to respond after completing the installation of the display driver for a second ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product inserted into the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35086
• CrossFire™ can no longer be enabled/disabled when running full screen D3D applications. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35087
• A warning message no longer fails to be displayed when reaching the maximum number of modes in the Predefined and Custom HDTV modes section of the Catalyst Control Center. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista and XP Professional x64 Edition operating systems. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33468
• Adjusting the flicker removal in the TV properties of the Catalyst Control Center no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35088
• The Rotation option is now available for the primary display device when two or more display devices are connected to the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35089
• Corruption is no longer noticed when playing the Asian game WOW when using certain in game options. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35090
• Installing two ATI Radeon™ HD 38x0 series of product into a system running Windows XP no longer results in the operating system failing to respond when attempting to enable CrossFire™ support. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35093
• Installing the Catalyst Control Center on a previously installed version no longer results in a warning message that the setup is installing over an earlier version, and that the previous version needs to be uninstalled before installing a more current version, resulting in the Catalyst Control Center failing to be installed 737-28513
• Anti-Aliasing no longer becomes disabled after minimizing and restoring any OpenGL window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35094
• The CrossFire™ tab is no longer missing when using two ATI Radeon™ X19x0 series of products in a system running Windows XP. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35095
• The display mode of 1776x1000 is now listed in both the Catalyst Control Center and the operating system's display properties. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35096
• Connecting a 1080p display device followed by playing h.264 interlaced content no longer results in a slight jitter and frame drops being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35097
• Playing an interlaced MPEG2 file no longer results in a grey hue being noticed on the bottom of the playback window. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35098
• Moving the WinDVD player to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback window appearing blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35099
• Moving the Realplayer to the secondary display device no longer results in the playback windows appearing black. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35100

Resolved Issues for the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition Operating System

• Unreal Tournament 3: Changing the in-game display resolution no longer results in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-33470
• The Windows XP Professional x64 Edition operating system no longer fails to resume from VPU Recover. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35101
• The CrossFire™ option is no longer greyed out after closing OpenGL applications. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35102

Known Issues Under the Windows Vista Operating System

• Call of Duty: Corruption may be noticed when having Quad CrossFire™ enable and an HDMI 1080p display device connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35112
• Call of Duty 4 or Crysis: Color corruption may be noticed when running the games in full screen mode with Quad CrossFire™ enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35115
• Company of Heroes: Setting the in-game options to maximum levels may result in the game exiting to the desktop after the game has completed loading. Further details can be found in topic number 737-32600
• Crysis: Playing the game at a display resolution lower than the native display resolution of a connected 30" display device may result in corruption being noticed when CrossFire™ is enabled and having the Catalyst Control Center scaling the image to full screen. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35111
• Linage II: Switching between the game and the Windows desktop may result in the desktop appearing brighter than its original setting. Exiting the game and restarting the operating system may also result in the desktop brightness failing to be restored to its original setting. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35108
• Unreal Tournament 3: The game may intermittently fail to launch when a map has texture detail set to maximum. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31189
• ZT: Attempting to play the Asian game in a windowed mode or at a display resolution of 1280x1024 may result in the game failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34152
• The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31146
• Setting the desktop resolution to 1600x1200 or greater may result in green pixel corruption being noticed when playing certain games. This issue maybe noticed when using a system running Windows Vista and containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 or HD 2400 series of product. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31150
• Attempting to play the HD-DVD title Harsh Times, School for Scoundrels using the Cyberlink player may result in block corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31155
• An error message may appear when installing the display driver package through setup.exe. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31577
• Installing an ATI Radeon™ X1600 series of product into a system containing an ATI Radeon™ HD 2600 series of product with the display driver already installed may result in the operating system entering a continuous reboot. This issue may be averted by removing the ATI graphics driver prior to the installation of the ATI Radeon™ X1600 series of product. This issue may also be experienced with the ATI Radeon™ X1300 and 1550 series of products. Further information may be found in topic number 737-33471
• Enabling clone mode followed by switching to extended desktop mode may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34125
• A black window may be displayed when attempting to play a DVD title using WinDVD 7 when Overlay Theater Mode and clone mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34133
• The secondary HDMI Display may turn off when resuming from an S1 hibernation with an HDMI display connected. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31146
• Connecting an HDMI display device to the DVI port using an HDMI to DVI dongle may result in the display mode of 720x480 failing to be in the display mode list after hot-unplugging the HDMI display device and hot-plugging a DVI display device. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35105
• Enabling clone mode followed by switching to extended desktop mode may result in the Windows Vista (64 bit version) failing to respond. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34125
• Performing an express install of the Catalyst Control Center may result in an error message being displayed when rebooting the system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29532
• A black window may be displayed when attempting to play a DVD title using WinDVD 7 when Overlay Theater Mode and clone mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34133
• Enabling extended desktop mode and setting the color depth below 16bpp may result in the secondary display device failing to redraw properly. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35114
• A green or black screen may be displayed when configuring MCE to ATSC mode. Further information may be found in topic number 737-27622

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Operating System

• Age of Conan: The inventory icons may show corruption when playing the game with CrossFire™ enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system as well. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34825
• Enemy Territory: Quake Wars may have corruption on the water and sky after increasing the game resolution. Restarting the game at that higher resolution or issuing reloadImages command in the game console corrects the corruption. This issue only impacts graphics cards up to the ATI Radeon™ X850. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29947
• Using the WinDVD player (versions 14.x, 11.10x, or 9.xx) to play VC1 video content may result in corruption being noticed when hardware acceleration is enabled. This issue may also be experienced under the Windows Vista operating system. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35293
• Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587
• Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result in clone mode becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display device remaining blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31166
• Setting the display resolution to 1440x900 or lower may result in corruption being noticed when playing a DVD title. Further details can be found in topic number 737-31168
• Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-30587
• Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-34121
• The display may be come corrupted with 4 bit color depth after hot unplugging the rotated primary HDMI/DFP display. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35116
• Connecting a Dual Link Panel to the on-board DVI port, followed by hot plugging a DVI display to the add-on DVI card may result clone mode becoming disabled when rebooting the machine and the secondary display device remaining blank. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35117
• Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts: Enabling CrossFire™ may result in the displays flashing corruption when setting the in game graphics options to off or their lowest settings. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35118
• Installing the HDMI audio driver and the VIA audio chipset driver may results in a compatibility issue being noticed and a yellow exclamation mark showing up in the Sound, Video and Game Controllers. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35119
• Installing the display driver from an installation CD may result in a warning message indicating that the Catalyst Control Center is not supported by the driver version installed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35120
• Catalyst Control Center: Configuring a system with multi-adapters may result in an error message being displayed when running the Test Custom Clocks 737-29953
• Enabling pull down detection in the Catalyst Control Center may result in flickering being noticed when playing a video clip using the Cyberlink PowerDVD player. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35121
• Connecting a CRT display device as the secondary display and playing a Blu-ray DVD using a Cyberlink player may result in no video playback if extended desktop mode is enabled. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35122

Known Issues Under the Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

• Gears of War: Enabling CrossFire™ and AA may result in white flickering corruption being noticed when playing the game under Windows XP Professional x64 Edition. Further details can be found in topic number 737-35123
• Running an OpenGL application and attempting to rotate the desktop may result in corruption being noticed. Further details can be found in topic number 737-29556

Versienummer	8.6
Releasestatus	Final
Besturingssystemen	Windows XP, Windows XP x64, Windows XP Media Center 2005, Windows Vista, Windows Vista x64
Website	ATI
Download	http://game.amd.com/us-en/drivers_catalyst.aspx
Licentietype	Freeware

Reacties (62)

[Havocnl]

En daar is ie weer!! de man met de Catalyst 8.6 Mobile link:
http://ati.amd.com/online/mobilecatalyst/
alstublieft

[ToFast]

Krijgen we natuurlijk weer een hotfix voor agp...Maar waar ik ook op zit te wachten is dat ze (vanaf 7.11 en hoger) die OPENGL32 eens verbeteren..Er zit vanaf die versies namelijk een soort muis input lag in! Op geen enkele manier weg te krijgen (heeft o.a wel te maken met vsync enzo heb ik gemerkt..)

[Klaus_1250]

Hotfix is er al, staat op de 8.5 hotfix pagina (ze zijn vergeten 8.5 in de tekst en link aan te passen naar 8.6).

http://support.ati.com/ic...nowledge&questionID=31542 .

[Anoniem: 185441]

staat bij dat het over direct X gaat op agp graphics cards...
weet je zeker dat het de juiste link is?

ik herken het probleem wat ToFast beschrijft precies uit homeworld2 en op die link word het niet beschreven...

[Reactie gewijzigd door Anoniem: 185441 op 23 juli 2024 07:57]

[Klaus_1250]

Ja, is de juiste link, weet het zeker :-) De tekst die erbij staat is inderdaad nogal vreemd, e.g. het is niet mijn probleem, maar zo bieden ze de AGP-Hotfix versie aan. Dat ie zo lastig en vreemd te vinden is, is vooral denk ik omdat ze willen dat mensen de hotfix bij hun fabrikant downloaden, omdat ATi zelf geen support/ondersteuning geeft voor de AGP-versies van de HD2xxx/HD3xxx (modellen zijn niet gecertificeerd door ATi).

As for OpenGL. De details weet ik er niet van, maar ATi heeft na 7.11 OpenGL nogal op de schop genomen, maar in negatieve zin. Vooral kaalgeplukt en zaken eruit gehaald. Als je wat Googled vind je ook wel een aantal word-arounds om OpenGL uit 7.11 te halen en die op de 8.x install te zetten.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Klaus_1250 op 23 juli 2024 07:57]

[Anoniem: 185441]

bij mij is het probleem weg in 8.6 in homeworld2

[Mizitras]

Die hotfixes enzo, zit dat dan niet gewoon mee ingebakken in de AMD ATI Catalyst 8.6 drivers???

[Anoniem: 47000]

Er blijven kennelijk nog genoeg problemen over bij ATI om een heel jaar fixes te blijven rondsturen. Ben trouwens van de week terug gegaan van 8.5 naar 8.4 in verband met wat vreemde coruptieproblemen. Ik vind het opmerkelijk dat ik iedere maand een ATI driver zie en tegenwoordig zelden Nvidia drivers gaat het wel helemaal goed in Canada vraag ik me daarom af.

[Avalaxy]

Wat een onzin, drivers zijn JUIST goed. Het is echt niet dat er zoveel bugs in de drivers zitten dat er zo vaak updates zijn.

Het gaat juist om optimalisaties voor nieuwe games (of games die nog uit moeten komen), waarbij je moet denken aan optimalisaties aan de shaders en het toevoegen van Crossfire profielen voor de verschillende applicaties. Daarnaast natuurlijk om de renderbugs zoals artifacts en pixellation weg te werken.

Het is juist goed als een bedrijf vaak drivers uit brengt (tenzij het allemaal kleine beta's zijn). ATi komt elke maand netjes met een driver met een hele waslijst aan fixes, dat is wel anders bij bedrijven zoals Creative (zie de X-Fi series).

[marcieking]

Het releaseschema van ATI is zo gebouwd dat er elke maand een nieuwe driver moet zijn. Als er geen fixes zijn gaan ze wel performanceverbeteringen aanbrengen. Ik vind dat persoonlijk beter dan het naar mijn idee vrij willekeurige schema van NVIDIA.

[Fuzzillogic]

Wat ik me nou altijd afvraag: die improvements en fixes die ze doen, zijn die echt allemaal game specifiek? Of zijn het bugs in de drivers zelf die ze fixen? Je zou toch verwachten dat als de DX-specs goed zijn, de drivers voldoen aan de specs, dat er dan eigenlijk 'geen' (visuele) bugs meer zichtbaar moeten zijn in spellen. Iemand een idee?

[Fiander]

Het lijkt mij dat het om shader aanpassingen gaan, en dus wel game specifiek.
vandaar dat ze ook soms zulke grote performance verbeteringen kunnen doen en tegelijk een bug oplossen in het game.

om deze reden zullen gra-ka bakkers ook geld neer leggen zodat ze eerder toegang hebben tot de shader code.

[SithWarrior]

De grootste verbetering is dat het volgens ATI niet meer nodig is om de computer te rebooten nadat Catalyst 8.6 geïnstalleerd is.

Dat heb ik gemerkt ja, CCC start niet meer, en mijn dual setup was door de war. Lekker altijd die ati driver updates.

Ik weet niet wat dat is, bij Nvidia gaat dat altijd smooth, maar bij ati heb ik 9 van de 10 keer gezeik met updaten (dat ie iconen herschikt, of dat resolutie ineens veranderd is)

[Astennu]

Doe je toch iets fout heb nooit probs met de ATi drivers. En die nVidia drivers vooral controll pannel laten te wensen over. Dat is ook de rede dat de 8800 GT die ik had al snel weer weg was.

[DJT88]

de iconen waren bij mij inderdaad ook allemaal naar linksboven verplaatst, en mijn dreamscene moest ik herstarten. Plus dat hij bij mij wel vroeg om te herstarten.
Daarnaast is een performance increase natuurlijk altijd welkom.

[GravGunner]

Dat mijn Dual setup door de war is heb ik bij mijn 7900 ook gehad hoor dat is denk ik eerder windows die denkt dat er een andere kaart in zit dan nieuwe drivers


anyways, kan niet wachten to vanavond, hopelijk doet mijn 4850 het nu ook wat beter, de performance was nu soms lichtelijk onder de maat van mijn 7900GT

[Zenix]

Ze zijn daar lekker aan het werk bij ATi netjes

[Anoniem: 58485]

Ja, als er een is die ondersteuning geeft bij hun producten is het Ati/AMD wel

[prutser001]

Denk dat ik maar even wacht totdat de driver bij windows update te krijgen is, ik hoop ook dat ze misschien wel 'mijn specifieke' probleem opgelost hebben.

Sinds dat ik een 3870 heb kan ik geen games spelen op 1ste scherm en een 'video' op het 2de scherm zonder dat mijn pc genadeloos reset. Het irritante is ook dat ik geen enkele vorm van een foutmelding kan vinden/krijgen of te zien krijg maakt niet uit of dat met of zonder CCC is 8.4/8.5 hebben dit probleem met de 3870 maar op mijn oudere 1900xt en 1950xtx is het weer geen probleem in dezelfde computer.

Ook mis ik de optie om VPU recover uit te zetten al een tijdje, dit deed ik via Rivatuner of Atitools laatste keer toch dit lost ook dat probleem niet op dit heeft weer wel het crashen in een aantal andere games opgelost met 8.4, 8.5 had dit probleem weer niet.

[Dutch2007]

Deze driver zul je alleen krijgen bij vista, en zelfs DIE wordt NIET elke maand zoals deze aangeleverd.

[Anoniem: 136863]

Waarom wachten op een 3e partij, gewoon downloaden en knallen met die hap deste eerder is je probleem mogelijk de wereld uit. En VPU recover kan ik aan/uit zetten met mijn Asus EAH3650 dus moet volgens mij voor jou ook gewoon werken als je misschien niet de Windows Update versie hebt want die komt volgens mij zonder Catalyst Control Center.

[bonus]

Helaas staat mijn HD2400XT in me laptop er nog steeds niet bij in de ATI Catalyst™ Mobility 8.6. En dat terwijl het toch niet echt lekker werkt
Lijkt wel of dat van ondergeschikt belang is de laptop markt want de hele 2x00 serie staat er niet bij, alleen oude(ere) kaarten. Jammer...

[Countess]

er is op internet wel te vinden hoe je je ini file kan aanpassen zodat het wel werkt.
bij mobile's is het eigenlijk de bedoeling dat je de drivers bij je laptop fabricant vandaan haalt. dus kijk anders daar eerst eens.

[bonus]

Ja weet ik, heb ik ook gedaan, helaas nog niet alles opgelost

[oeLangOetan]

Dat is een beslissing van de laptopfabrikant en niet van AMD/ATi.

[Astennu]

Ach gewoon Handmatig als HD2400 Installeren doe ik ook altijd bij de HD2600 in de laptop van me vriendin. Werkt tot nu toe altijd.

[MaZeS]

Dan heb je normaalgesproken geen powerplay, wat er op neer komt dat je gpu zich niet terugklokt en de laptop meer stroom verbruikt/warmer wordt.

[DJT88]

Mijn 3DmarkVantage gaat inderdaad een stuk omhoog. Ik ga van 4900 naar 5305 punten. Dat is dus 8.2 procent ongeveer, niet 10-15%, maar toch wel een verbetering.

goed werk Ati

[freaq]

kan ook dat je cpu (of iets anders) de bottleneck is,
dan kloppen hun gegevens wel.

[Reactie gewijzigd door freaq op 23 juli 2024 07:57]

[Countess]

kijk eens bij de gpu scores en niet de totaal score.

[Dynamix]

Indrukwekkende lijst met fixes!

Ik ben enorm benieuwd naar de fixes voor CoD4. Heb al een tijdje last van grafische lag in enkele custom maps namelijk... en dan vooral in spawnpoints.

Maar goed, we zullen zien vanavond