Update: 3dNature and Partners Declare ATI driver issues resolved

The_Neon_Cowboy · Jun 1, 2006, 07:41 PM

A few weeks ago they made headlines slamming Ati’s drivers as unsuitable for Professional
Visualization. Which was swiftly met by hot fix driver from ATI. They have now updated
the status of those issues after rigorous testing:

Quote:

May 31, 2006: Problems fixed! Tested hotfix available

ATI has made available a 'hotfix' driver update to solve these issues. The penSceneGraph developer group has completed testing on this hotfix and determined that it does solve the two critical issues reported below. These fixes are not in the current Catalyst 6.5 driver, according to the release notes, but may be in the next public release.

Due to the nature of ATI's support site structure, It is not possible for us to provide a direct link to download this hotfix driver. Instead, go to:http://support.ati.com and in the Search field, enter 22262. This will take you to a download page, with a link that says Click here to Download Now. Clicking that link should provide you with a driver update that fixes both issues, even though the description only mentions the VSYNC issue. If your systems administration policies do not permit you to install drivers of this sort, you will need to wait for the public release of the next Catalyst driver (presumably called 6.6) which should be officially WHQL-signed. It is unknown when an ATI FireGL driver update will incorporate these bugfixes, but we presume FireGL will receive the same treatment soon.

The hot fix driver and information can be found below
737-22262: High CPU Usage with VSYNC turned on in OpenSceneGraph
737-22263: Corruption when converting textures in OpenSceneGraph tool kit

Source:3D Nature

Judas · Jun 1, 2006, 10:22 PM

lol...

just find this somewhat ammusing.