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@ brutusmaximus
Yes they are better than the 6.4's IMO. Which games were you having an issue with? May as well get the 6.5's with oblivion chuck fix at the same time as you will need the CCC from the official release.
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![]() I really don't know what ATI is trying to achieve with this strategy: They're obviously focussing so extremely on PCIe card producing and chip shipping that they must have fallen asleep and don't see which Nvidia is overtaking the whole AGP market with their 7800GS - and thanks to Gainward the BLISS-version is the best AGP card, at all. Before people are going to ask me: No, I don't need another AGP card, I'm happy with my current one. But taking a closer look onto my chip manufacturer who is supposed to invent new technologies, to provide technical support and to do more for its own benefits I must say that none of those have been accomplished for me: The Catalyst driver came delayed - and more than that: no crucial fix has been integrated, CCC is as slow as always (another reason why I'll stick to Omegas with CPs) and moreover ATI forgot about us AGP users ... Disappointment isn't even strong enough to describe my mood now.
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There are always other speed improvements but changes below any huge amount are not usually reported on the release notes, so AGP and older card users shouldn't be writing these drivers off as nothing for them. Plus ATI don't test every possible game.
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@ Ib Al-Musaheb - So. You're happy with the CP in the omega drivers, you're generally happy with your card as a whole and ATi have already spent over a year working on performance and bug fixes for your card when it was current gen. What is the problem? Do you expect them to magically pull out some kind of huge performance increase for a card they've already spent many months and millions of dollars optimizing for? Would you be happy if the release notes said "0.01% performance gain on <Ib Al-Musaheb's card> for some games in some situations"? If you want more performance buy a new card.
When did people start expecting drivers to work magic? Even when there is a speed boost its almost always just a frame or two
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Question about chuck fix, what's for? Just for Oblivion?
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yup it's just the 6.5 with the Oblivion stuff added
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Oooh I c thnx for answear ^_^
Havent try this Update yet, was thinking maybe I should wait for Omega or I should give it a try and compare if it will be any improve for my X800xt pe |
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The 6.5's x64 version don't install. Period. I keep getting a missing file message, and I've tried redownloading. Twice. Back to 6.4...
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Running a Xtasy X800XT AGP with the new 6.5's. So far as cool as the other side of the pillow. For those with a x8xx series why wouldn't you want these? Adaptive AA now is enabled.... I'd say ATI has been thinking of the older cards as well as the new ones
. As for the CCC its deal or no deal . Personally I see no reason not to use it, after I take the 5 minutes to setup the profiles after fresh install I barely ever use it again. So far these have corrected some minor graphical errors in EQ2 for me, will wait to see how they do on the long run, haven't tried CS Source yet.
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Catalyst 6.4
Doom3 - 80.5FPS HalfLife 2 - 107.65FPS Fear - 0% Below 25FPS, 13% Between 25 and 40FPS, 87% Above 40FPS Catalsyt 6.5 Doom3 - 77.2FPS HalfLife 2 - 95.64FPS Fear - 22% Below 25FPS, 78% Between 25 and 40FPS, 0 % Above 40FPS Tested on: AMD Athlon64 3700+ Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe Bios 1016 4GB DDR PC3200 5,2,2,2 ATI Radeon X850XT PE Soundblaster Audigy 2ZS Segated 7200.9 160GB SATA RAID 0 Windows XP X64 Edition I had to run the Fear benchmarks a few times just to be sure, that is the average out of 4 runs. Not very good since they state there are performance improvements. All the benchmarks were run without AAA. With AAA on the games are all below 30FPS. I don't know why ATI would consider enabling AAA for anything below an X1800XT. Its clearly unplayable on an X850XTPE. Too many spikes in FPS with it enabled on quality or performance. |
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I have a AGP X1600 i gave these a five because 480P mode out to HDTV via component cable is still screwed up (overscan) scince 6.4,But one good thing video seems better.
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awsome, gatta wait for softmod version though
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But however, I still keep behaving like a 10 year old waiting for his birthday presents when a driver set is on the verge of being released. ![]() Quote:
And as I've said before: I wonder why ATI doesn't come up with another bunch of cards for the old interface - don't they have the time or the interest to do so? They seem to rest on their X850XT PE-versions still considering them as the spearhead of all AGP cards which isn't true anymore, though. As you've mentioned: my card's times have passed a long while ago. And it seems even the next Catalyst drivers won't bring back those great times ... Besides, I can understand ATI and the new graphic card-market with this PCIe-thing: They just want to be up-to-date to successfully compete with Nvidia. Nevertheless, especially to me they seem to forget about the whole of the graphics market: pure performance gains would be cool for "older" cards but I also need some overall bugfixing. For instance, I still keep waiting for that shadow bug-fix for several games like Bf2 - Nvidia money or not, this has to be fixed! Quote:
As for me, I don't believe in gains which give me 12 more fps in every game ... it's just not realistic. But concerning the manner you're asking: What would be another point to wait for the next drivers. People typically only want their games to be faster and their programs to be bugfixed. No one is going to say "Hey, another Catalyst ... I wonder how the new CCC interface looks like". The essential part of a new driver is just bringing up improvements in games, system and integrate new card types and therefore enhancing their functionality. Quote:
I might check them out soon.
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Very wierd. I used to have reduced performance in fear with the 6.4s. Itīs now all fixed, performance is as good as it can be. Also, for people complaining about long startup and CCC using too much resources... just read the guide over at tweakguides.com. I have no delay in startup/memory usage from the CCC at all. If you donīt want to read the guide, for whatever reason, then blame yourself. I find the drivers perfect. I have one ONE issue though (wich is a confirmed game issue anyways). The Hitman4 demo isnīt performing as it should. I get very low fps (~24) on both highest (1280X1024 4xAA 16xAF) and lowest (800X600) settings. Edios are working on a patch though, wich they want to be released, with the game, on friday. I also think itīs great of ATi to release the chuck patch for these drivers. Iīm not using it (always been afraid of beta stuff), but i think many others that cant wait for it to become official will love this. |
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Listen up guys!
"ATi Catalyst [color=red]6.5 BETA[/color]" from Station-Drivers.com say: "DriverVer=05/08/2006, 8.253.0.0" These "ATi Catalyst [color=red]6.5[/color]" say: "DriverVer=05/03/2006, 8.252.0.0" The "ATi Catalyst [color=red]6.5 Chuck Patch[/color]" say: "DriverVer=05/03/2006, 8.252.0.0" I think the "ATi Catalyst [color=red]6.5 BETA[/color]" are actually "ATi Catalyst [color=red]6.6 BETA[/color]", I keep using these BETA's in combo with Ray Adams' "ATI Tray Tools 1.0.5.880" because these are the real latest ones from ATi and they work great for me, better than "ATi Catalyst 6.5" and even better than "Omega 6.3" and "ExtremeATi 1.6.3", I don't wanna talk about the "ATi Catalyst 6.4" because those were just complete JUNK! C U L8R!!!
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i agree with MEABeemer ....
6.5 beta are amazing . they are newer copmaring 6.5 release . they are the best i seen so far from ATI . try them ... |
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Well they have some very nice new features and some serious improvements\fixes at last
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Maybe ATI change it again in near future and make it more like to Nvidia New C panel Last edited by Alien1; May 25, 2006 at 12:36 PM. |
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You guys claim that 6.5 BETA is better than the final 6.5 release?
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Im just still puzzled about this HDR+AA thing. I mean this was the "big deal" with the X1000 series cards and yet its still a "beta Chuck Patch" to do it? Are these cards now not almost a year old? Im planning a new build next month and making the jump to PCI-E and HL2 Episode 1 will be out next week I would hope by THEN(Cat 6.6's) it will be the standard feature it was supposed to be....
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Okay! Well then, I'm going to try them out now ...
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I mean, the funniest thing is what happend with Splintercell 3. In the demo, I CAN enable BOTH HDR and AA. Ive tried, both HDR and AA is working 100%. But when i got the full game, i suddenly cannot apply AA when HDR is on. I see that as a gamebugg, nothing that ATi has control it. I would say Ubisoft cant make games, not that ATi cant make good drivers. Somewhere, people need to understand that what ATi is doing for oblivion, is what Bethsheda should have done for us ATi users. Why donīt everyone go to the official oblivion forum and demand AA+HDR in oblivion for ATi users? Itīs their fault, not ATi drivers. |
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on my x800xt-pe card, i've been using the AAA option since the first catalyst version that supported it and i can't complain. FEAR runs great with 4xAAA and 8xAF (100% above 40 fps in the benchmark). -andy- |
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