New official ATI openGL driver anyone?

digitalwanderer · May 31, 2002, 04:55 AM

ATI quietly released a "patch" for SoF2 that turns out to be a new openGL file.

I can't confirm or deny this one as I'm currently ATI-less, (Hey ATI! Please send me an 8500AIW to replace this GF2 with!), but I got it off a thread at Rage3D.

If you want to link to the file directly, get it here from ATI them ownselves.

Sorry if this is old news, but I haven't been keeping up with the ATI side of things and my little birdy has barely gotten his breath back.

HsuGotaQ · May 31, 2002, 05:56 PM

Considering these drivers are suppose to fix problems in SOF2, I could say that I wasn't hoping for a Holy grail of OGL drivers. Basically, this OGL driver is stable, but slows down games I play (GTA3, JK2) and are about 2% to 5% slower (than the 6071) in benchmarks that uses OGL (Vulpine, GL Excess, Dronez).

STUARTD572 · May 31, 2002, 07:30 PM

HI,

I got a lower score in GL excess (like warp2search) but my FPS were higher. So i consider these drivers better.

Stu

Rancho* · May 31, 2002, 08:50 PM

Well if you read my lines carefully we @ Warp2Search only got a lower score in scenes 10,11 & 12 ALTHOUGH the frame counts were actually higher. And the overall score was actually the best we ever achieved to date.

Just to clear things up...

STUARTD572 · May 31, 2002, 10:38 PM

maybe i need to go back to school and learn to read!

Stu

Jeff · May 31, 2002, 10:40 PM

LOL.

Yeti · May 31, 2002, 10:58 PM

I hope this isn't a repeat of the 'first' ati drivers... oooh boy... now way you can call that optimization.

May 31, 2002, 04:55 AM	#1
digitalwanderer Colour Commentator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Highland, IN USA Posts: 5,620 Rep Power: 0	New official ATI openGL driver anyone? ATI quietly released a "patch" for SoF2 that turns out to be a new openGL file. I can't confirm or deny this one as I'm currently ATI-less, (Hey ATI! Please send me an 8500AIW to replace this GF2 with!), but I got it off a thread at Rage3D. If you want to link to the file directly, get it here from ATI them ownselves. Sorry if this is old news, but I haven't been keeping up with the ATI side of things and my little birdy has barely gotten his breath back. __________________ WTF is up with the sigs?

May 31, 2002, 07:30 PM	#3
STUARTD572 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	glexcess HI, I got a lower score in GL excess (like warp2search) but my FPS were higher. So i consider these drivers better. Stu

May 31, 2002, 08:50 PM	#4
Rancho* Warp2Search Join Date: May 2002 Location: Germany Posts: 45 Rep Power: 0	Well if you read my lines carefully we @ Warp2Search only got a lower score in scenes 10,11 & 12 ALTHOUGH the frame counts were actually higher. And the overall score was actually the best we ever achieved to date. Just to clear things up... __________________ I have resigned from Warp2Search...

May 31, 2002, 10:40 PM	#6
Jeff Yarr... I be blind! Join Date: May 2002 Location: Calgary, Canada Posts: 3,190 Rep Power: 74	LOL. __________________

May 31, 2002, 10:58 PM	#7
Yeti DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 662 Rep Power: 0	I hope this isn't a repeat of the 'first' ati drivers... oooh boy... now way you can call that optimization. __________________ --Oh lord not again

May 31, 2002, 05:56 PM	#2
HsuGotaQ Hydrogenated Dumbass Join Date: May 2002 Location: Canuckland Posts: 755 Rep Power: 0	Considering these drivers are suppose to fix problems in SOF2, I could say that I wasn't hoping for a Holy grail of OGL drivers. Basically, this OGL driver is stable, but slows down games I play (GTA3, JK2) and are about 2% to 5% slower (than the 6071) in benchmarks that uses OGL (Vulpine, GL Excess, Dronez).

May 31, 2002, 10:38 PM	#5
STUARTD572 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	maybe i need to go back to school and learn to read! Stu