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Gaming Performance So with 5.6 ATI are releasing updates which improve aspects of the install and usage of the drivers and CCC as well as adding various features and support for additional Operating Systems, but what’s in it for the gamer? Well, ATI have been working hard to optimise some of the more demanding games on the market to perform better on their hardware, two of the most notable we feel are Doom 3 and Chronicles of Riddick. Doom 3 now features more efficient memory usage and Riddick has more efficient storage of vertex data. Here’s the full list of optimisations
from ATI
Our Verdict Any performance increase is always welcome
so we ran some testing on our 3.6 P4, 1gb DDR2 /X800 256
system using Catalyst 5.5 and 5.6 and here’s the results
of the testing..
That near 4fps increase in performance is a 7% improvement between drivers.
Running the same system through Riddick we found that the game moved from being unplayable at 1280x1024 to being playable at the same settings using the latest Cats, the 4fps improvement is an 11% performance improvement on our test system.
Along with the information on Catalyst 5.6 ATI have provided us with information on Catalyst 5.7 and 5.8, we’re not going to go into too much detail on these though at this time…however here’s a taster of what you can expect: Cat 5.7 Multi GPU Catalyst Features
such as 8-14x Anti-Aliasing Cat 5.8 New CCC Wizard which walks
novice users through setting up CCC to their satisfaction.
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