CATALYST 3.4 now available

TheIceMan · May 16, 2003, 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Jamboguy
Softmod now found at : http://www.maxdownloads.com/%7Eian/w...2mtag.8946.zip

dose it works with a 9500 with only 4 pipelines ??

cause there is only 1 softmod

~~Crash Override~~ · May 16, 2003, 12:51 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by highwayman
First impressions are great guys... Man my 3DMark2003 went way up, i am now over the magical 5000 number..5089 on stock settings.

Gonna run all them games now...........thanks ATi

you have a 9700PRO and are only getting around 5100?

Zardon · May 16, 2003, 12:57 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Crash Override
you have a 9700PRO and are only getting around 5100?

5100 is a decent score for 3dmark2003 with a 9700 pro. also depends on your overclocked state and CPU/memory.

Datagg · May 16, 2003, 01:07 AM

Well 2001 went down 578 points. Sad thing is that the first run was ona 1.6 o clocked to 2.0 system...now with same board and more memory and a 2.4 cpu I get less with these new drivers... gonna check out 2003 soon and will have links to these results posted

dravicus · May 16, 2003, 01:15 AM

this is my problem: dayofdefeat.JPG

its done this ever since i got my connect3d 9800 pro, in both sets of drivers ive tried (cats3.2 and 3.4)
it happens as soon as the loading console goes away, sometimes the console doesnt even manage to close before it crashes, you can see a screwed up texture in the top left too, i have exactly the same system that i had when i used to play day of defeat 1.0 except now i got a 9800pro instead of gf3ti200. Im running the latest patches for DOD and half life, and i do not have this problem with counterstrike. I have reinstalled half life + mods a couple of times and even tried formatting my pc, i thought it was a problem with the 3.2 drivers but now that its also in 3.4 i dont know what to do :/
my spec: athlon xp2000+, a7n8x deluxe nforce2 with 1004 bios, 9800 pro 128mb, 768mb corsair xms PC3500, audigy2
any help/ideas please guys?

thx.

~~Crash Override~~ · May 16, 2003, 01:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zardon
5100 is a decent score for 3dmark2003 with a 9700 pro. also depends on your overclocked state and CPU/memory.

/me blushes

I didnt see the '03 part

Brain is dead today I guess

Datagg · May 16, 2003, 01:25 AM

Dravicus, this happened to me before also, wound up being my zone alarm....and the permissions not set right in it..... try disabling your firewall if you have one and try again

dravicus · May 16, 2003, 01:28 AM

Datagg: im not running any firewall of any sort, im behind a router, but DMZ is enabled, like i say the only thing ive changed that has made me gone from having no problems with it to having it crash on load is changing from gf3 to 9800pro

also seems very strange that it doesnt happen when i play counterstrike :/

1NS4N1TY · May 16, 2003, 01:34 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dravicus
Datagg: im not running any firewall of any sort, im behind a router, but DMZ is enabled, like i say the only thing ive changed that has made me gone from having no problems with it to having it crash on load is changing from gf3 to 9800pro also seems very strange that it doesnt happen when i play counterstrike :/

Buddy, obviousely something isn't right there.

You've either, don't have enough power to supply that 9800 hound-dog

Or you're overclocked.

Check your memory timings and see if they are configured correctly from ddr spec

-

I did have that problem once, and that was due to my ram not liking 2.6v @ 420mhz ddr...backed it down, problem went away...

dravicus · May 16, 2003, 01:35 AM

nothing is overclocked, and it cant be my psu, its 350W and has never crashed in 3dmark2k3, unreal tournament2k3, enter the matrix and a bunch of other things ive run recently, its only in day of defeat

*edit* memory also running at corsair recommended timings.

TEmp69 · May 16, 2003, 01:35 AM

3dmark03 - 4977 (vendor cat 3.2)
3dmark03 - 5136 (cat 3.4)

EpoX 8kha+, AMD 2GHz@1.7GHz, 2x256DDR, Audigy 2 Plat., Sapphire 9800 pro

All the latest games run smooth and fine and just great, great work Catalyst Maker!!!

BUT please please take a look at the Halflife engine (CounterStrike), ppl suggest moving slider down at troubleshooting
a notch (which does not matter), ppl suggest to enable vsync, what does help a bit BUT there must be a different
problem, when i compare the gameplay with my former Gforce 2 GTS it is better, smoother i dont know how to explain
it.
I just cant play that game anymore, it actually gives me headache after some time, never happend with the other card.
A sideeffect with the new drivers in the game, all the text writen seems to have a shadow now, i dont think
i experienced this before.

Dont misunderstand me, i appreciate your work but something is still whacky with OpenGL + Halflife(CS).

-TEmp

Datagg · May 16, 2003, 01:49 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by dravicus
Datagg: im not running any firewall of any sort, im behind a router, but DMZ is enabled, like i say the only thing ive changed that has made me gone from having no problems with it to having it crash on load is changing from gf3 to 9800pro also seems very strange that it doesnt happen when i play counterstrike :/

Most need to do a reformat before switching over to another companies card... Are you sure you uninstalled all remnannts of the old card ???

I also had major troubles till I did a reformat and reinstal... to me thats the only way to be sure, and being a fresh new start to trouble shoot by

dravicus · May 16, 2003, 01:52 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Datagg
Most need to do a reformat before switching over to another companies card... Are you sure you uninstalled all remnannts of the old card ???

I also had major troubles till I did a reformat and reinstal... to me thats the only way to be sure, and being a fresh new start to trouble shoot by

yep, i have formatted this comp twice since i changed the graphics card

Dem2k · May 16, 2003, 02:00 AM

the performance increase in raven shield is very significant and JO. even in the snowy maps the framerate feels high, though night vision still isnt fixed. hey no biggy probably be fixed in 3.5 ;o) -| good job catalyst crew!

operation flashpoint resistance does not start up now. though this is probably caused by my little virus problem (140 infected files!) that i cleansed last night with norton antivirus. Im going to try NWN tommorow, thought im not expecting much. as most of the fixes will come prior 3.5.

one last question. the 9800 softmod would be pointless on these new drivers correct?

tragic · May 16, 2003, 02:02 AM

Played with these babies some more and hit a massive 5228 on 3DMark2003

For me thats more than enough. The increase is really beautiful

Been running a few games and i am up on average about 5 fps. Gotta say "again" ATi, well done and thanks. One happy customer

Datagg · May 16, 2003, 02:11 AM

Yes im pleased also.... only weird quirk was it took 3 reinstales to get all to work right. i have no idea why, did all the proper technices for instal. Anyways, oddly im down almost 800 in 2001 and up 546 on 2003 benches..... The framerates are up, and hte entire color scheme to the games look to me to be sharper and cleaner. Good Job ATI, be proud, very proud....

d3athsh3ad · May 16, 2003, 02:12 AM

Device not created 2 ....

In case anyone else tries out this lousy console conversion; Cat3.4 is fine it's just the game that sucks...
You cannot use Rage 3D Tweak or Powerstrip AFIK to provide full screen on XP/Win2K, and modified Cat3.2 refresh rates get mucked up unless you do an uninstall & Driver Cleaner first.
All modes in this game have to find *clean* MS Reg entries otherwise it won't run, and despite the readme (max refresh 85MHz) when you can get it to run it defaults to 75MHz.

Other than that which turned out not to be anything to do with ATI
Grrrreat.
Vice City runs like hot sweetness : AA & Ansio much smother
All OpenGL AA working better

Hey but I'm only using an 8500 on a 2GHz AMD XP so what do I know ?

Hope this helps - about Enter The Matrix at least.

Zardon · May 16, 2003, 02:12 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by highwayman
Played with these babies some more and hit a massive 5228 on 3DMark2003 For me thats more than enough. The increase is really beautiful

Been running a few games and i am up on average about 5 fps. Gotta say "again" ATi, well done and thanks. One happy customer

and all done with no "driver cheats" like the rivals

Datagg · May 16, 2003, 02:14 AM

True and very good point indeed.... Makes the victory that much more sweet for ati....

Nice job guys...

dravicus · May 16, 2003, 02:16 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by d3athsh3ad
Device not created 2 ....

In case anyone else tries out this lousy console conversion; Cat3.4 is fine it's just the game that sucks...
You cannot use Rage 3D Tweak or Powerstrip AFIK to provide full screen on XP/Win2K, and modified Cat3.2 refresh rates get mucked up unless you do an uninstall & Driver Cleaner first.
All modes in this game have to find *clean* MS Reg entries otherwise it won't run, and despite the readme (max refresh 85MHz) when you can get it to run it defaults to 75MHz.

Other than that which turned out not to be anything to do with ATI
Grrrreat.
Vice City runs like hot sweetness : AA & Ansio much smother
All OpenGL AA working better

Hey but I'm only using an 8500 on a 2GHz AMD XP so what do I know ?

Hope this helps - about Enter The Matrix at least.

enter the matrix just got a patch, probably will help with your problem http://www.gamershell.com/download_2169.shtml
Also, if you edit the file C:\Program Files\Infogrames\Enter The Matrix\MatrixConfig
and change the value to FULLSCREEN=0 that will fix it for the time being, but you have to play with a border around the edge of the screen.
Apparantly this problem is caused by running a refresh fix tool, you could try uninstalling that if you are running one.

Datagg · May 16, 2003, 02:18 AM

Hey dravicus, thanks for info on the hotfix delete...comp cleared right up after that..

dbcalo · May 16, 2003, 02:25 AM

hope these are great!

Mwarhead · May 16, 2003, 02:34 AM

still no windows 2003 support

ViRuS2k · May 16, 2003, 02:36 AM

these drivers suck ......

my GTA VC worked perfectly with 3.2 cats.

but these new cats KILL the game. what more weird is its your main menu that get phucked and you cant get into the game.

REMBER the gta 3 menu bug ? well this one is 10x worse you cant make out enything.

check my thread out. Im not happy at all

==================================

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...threadid=15997

h0mer`- · May 16, 2003, 02:36 AM

3dmark01 with Catalyst 3.0 14600 pts.
3dmark01 with Catalyst 3.4 13500 pts.

wtf????

finally the esc bug in cs is fixed....but where are my 1100 3dmark pts. ?!?!?!?

megatron · May 16, 2003, 02:39 AM

When I tried to run the smartgart uninstaller, the files were already extracted in the directory which leads me to believe that it is included in the 3.4's.

I run ut2k3 with 4x AA and 16x AF @ 1024*768, and I really can't see any drop in framerate between that and none. I am going to leave those settings and configure my games resolution to keep the framerates high.

megatron · May 16, 2003, 02:41 AM

What about the DivX optimisations? Do we need the adware supported version/pay versions over the free & no ad version? Hmm.

dipstick · May 16, 2003, 02:57 AM

These drivers are excellent! Thanks for all the hard work, it's very much appreciated

express15_99 · May 16, 2003, 02:57 AM

You must have a P4 3.0 GHz comp to run UT2003 with 16x Anisotropic filtering.

Runner3001 · May 16, 2003, 03:10 AM

I can't for the life of me get AA to turn on...No amount of messing with registry settings, uninstalls and reinstalls(accompanied by manual leftover removal in both registry and windows dirs as well as trying Drivercleaner...), or fiddling with the control panel will get it to turn on, same goes for AF. The settings for them keep appearing in the Radeon 9700 Pro - Secondary registry key and when I add them to the non-secondary key it doesn't do sweet fuck all. Rebooting between changes also will not fix it...wtf is going on? I also had the same problem as someone else here mentioned, upon first install I had absolutely no hardware acceleration, D3D and OpenGL were both hosed, a reinstall cured it, but now the AA and AF problems...Sigh, I keep hearing FB runs like a baby's ass in perfect mode with these too. If I can't fix this its back to modded 9800 path 3.2's

May 16, 2003, 01:07 AM	#64
Datagg Back To ATI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mesa,AZ Posts: 287 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Well 2001 went down 578 points. Sad thing is that the first run was ona 1.6 o clocked to 2.0 system...now with same board and more memory and a 2.4 cpu I get less with these new drivers... gonna check out 2003 soon and will have links to these results posted __________________ --- i7-920 @3.8 CORSAIR XMS3 6GB(3 x 2GB) 2 4870 X2's CrossFireX VelociRaptor Asus P6T Deluxe Thermaltake toughpower 1200 Vista 64 Ultimate

May 16, 2003, 01:25 AM	#67
Datagg Back To ATI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mesa,AZ Posts: 287 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Dravicus, this happened to me before also, wound up being my zone alarm....and the permissions not set right in it..... try disabling your firewall if you have one and try again __________________ --- i7-920 @3.8 CORSAIR XMS3 6GB(3 x 2GB) 2 4870 X2's CrossFireX VelociRaptor Asus P6T Deluxe Thermaltake toughpower 1200 Vista 64 Ultimate

May 16, 2003, 02:00 AM	#74
Dem2k DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 27 Rep Power: 0	the performance increase in raven shield is very significant and JO. even in the snowy maps the framerate feels high, though night vision still isnt fixed. hey no biggy probably be fixed in 3.5 ;o) -\| good job catalyst crew! operation flashpoint resistance does not start up now. though this is probably caused by my little virus problem (140 infected files!) that i cleansed last night with norton antivirus. Im going to try NWN tommorow, thought im not expecting much. as most of the fixes will come prior 3.5. one last question. the 9800 softmod would be pointless on these new drivers correct? __________________ I disagree Sir! What use would a disinfected camel bring?

May 16, 2003, 02:11 AM	#76
Datagg Back To ATI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mesa,AZ Posts: 287 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Yes im pleased also.... only weird quirk was it took 3 reinstales to get all to work right. i have no idea why, did all the proper technices for instal. Anyways, oddly im down almost 800 in 2001 and up 546 on 2003 benches..... The framerates are up, and hte entire color scheme to the games look to me to be sharper and cleaner. Good Job ATI, be proud, very proud.... __________________ --- i7-920 @3.8 CORSAIR XMS3 6GB(3 x 2GB) 2 4870 X2's CrossFireX VelociRaptor Asus P6T Deluxe Thermaltake toughpower 1200 Vista 64 Ultimate

May 16, 2003, 02:12 AM	#77
d3athsh3ad DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Enter The Matrix Device not created 2 .... In case anyone else tries out this lousy console conversion; Cat3.4 is fine it's just the game that sucks... You cannot use Rage 3D Tweak or Powerstrip AFIK to provide full screen on XP/Win2K, and modified Cat3.2 refresh rates get mucked up unless you do an uninstall & Driver Cleaner first. All modes in this game have to find clean MS Reg entries otherwise it won't run, and despite the readme (max refresh 85MHz) when you can get it to run it defaults to 75MHz. Other than that which turned out not to be anything to do with ATI Grrrreat. Vice City runs like hot sweetness : AA & Ansio much smother All OpenGL AA working better Hey but I'm only using an 8500 on a 2GHz AMD XP so what do I know ? Hope this helps - about Enter The Matrix at least.

May 16, 2003, 01:15 AM	#65
dravicus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	this is my problem: dayofdefeat.JPG its done this ever since i got my connect3d 9800 pro, in both sets of drivers ive tried (cats3.2 and 3.4) it happens as soon as the loading console goes away, sometimes the console doesnt even manage to close before it crashes, you can see a screwed up texture in the top left too, i have exactly the same system that i had when i used to play day of defeat 1.0 except now i got a 9800pro instead of gf3ti200. Im running the latest patches for DOD and half life, and i do not have this problem with counterstrike. I have reinstalled half life + mods a couple of times and even tried formatting my pc, i thought it was a problem with the 3.2 drivers but now that its also in 3.4 i dont know what to do :/ my spec: athlon xp2000+, a7n8x deluxe nforce2 with 1004 bios, 9800 pro 128mb, 768mb corsair xms PC3500, audigy2 any help/ideas please guys? thx.

May 16, 2003, 01:28 AM	#68
dravicus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	Datagg: im not running any firewall of any sort, im behind a router, but DMZ is enabled, like i say the only thing ive changed that has made me gone from having no problems with it to having it crash on load is changing from gf3 to 9800pro also seems very strange that it doesnt happen when i play counterstrike :/

May 16, 2003, 01:35 AM	#70
dravicus DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: May 2003 Posts: 6 Rep Power: 0	nothing is overclocked, and it cant be my psu, its 350W and has never crashed in 3dmark2k3, unreal tournament2k3, enter the matrix and a bunch of other things ive run recently, its only in day of defeat edit memory also running at corsair recommended timings.

May 16, 2003, 01:35 AM	#71
TEmp69 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: .at Posts: 38 Rep Power: 0	3dmark03 - 4977 (vendor cat 3.2) 3dmark03 - 5136 (cat 3.4) EpoX 8kha+, AMD 2GHz@1.7GHz, 2x256DDR, Audigy 2 Plat., Sapphire 9800 pro All the latest games run smooth and fine and just great, great work Catalyst Maker!!! BUT please please take a look at the Halflife engine (CounterStrike), ppl suggest moving slider down at troubleshooting a notch (which does not matter), ppl suggest to enable vsync, what does help a bit BUT there must be a different problem, when i compare the gameplay with my former Gforce 2 GTS it is better, smoother i dont know how to explain it. I just cant play that game anymore, it actually gives me headache after some time, never happend with the other card. A sideeffect with the new drivers in the game, all the text writen seems to have a shadow now, i dont think i experienced this before. Dont misunderstand me, i appreciate your work but something is still whacky with OpenGL + Halflife(CS). -TEmp

May 16, 2003, 02:02 AM	#75
tragic Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: The Northern Hemi Posts: 0 Rep Power: 0	Played with these babies some more and hit a massive 5228 on 3DMark2003 For me thats more than enough. The increase is really beautiful Been running a few games and i am up on average about 5 fps. Gotta say "again" ATi, well done and thanks. One happy customer

May 16, 2003, 02:14 AM	#79
Datagg Back To ATI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mesa,AZ Posts: 287 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	True and very good point indeed.... Makes the victory that much more sweet for ati.... Nice job guys... __________________ --- i7-920 @3.8 CORSAIR XMS3 6GB(3 x 2GB) 2 4870 X2's CrossFireX VelociRaptor Asus P6T Deluxe Thermaltake toughpower 1200 Vista 64 Ultimate

May 16, 2003, 02:18 AM	#81
Datagg Back To ATI Join Date: May 2003 Location: Mesa,AZ Posts: 287 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Hey dravicus, thanks for info on the hotfix delete...comp cleared right up after that.. __________________ --- i7-920 @3.8 CORSAIR XMS3 6GB(3 x 2GB) 2 4870 X2's CrossFireX VelociRaptor Asus P6T Deluxe Thermaltake toughpower 1200 Vista 64 Ultimate

May 16, 2003, 02:25 AM	#82
dbcalo DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	hope these are great! __________________ Antec SX835II Case w/ 4 fans \|\|Soltek SL-75FRN2-RL nforce 2 ultra 400 \|\| AMD XP 2500+ @ 2.2Ghz \|\| 2x512mb Geil PC3200 dual channel \|\| Sapphire Radeon 9600 pro 128mb @ 500/351 and Catalyst 4.12B \|\| SB Audigy \|\| 2X Seagate Barracuda 120/200gb 7200rpm sata HDD's \|\| Antec Sl-350 watt psu \|\| Blindows xp, sp2, and dx9c --->Queens of the Stone Age kick some serious lyrical ass!!<---

May 16, 2003, 02:34 AM	#83
Mwarhead Nforce Remix driver creator Join Date: May 2002 Location: FL Posts: 22 Rep Power: 0	still no windows 2003 support

May 16, 2003, 02:36 AM	#84
ViRuS2k HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Uk Posts: 8,334 Rep Power: 72 System Specs	these drivers suck ...... my GTA VC worked perfectly with 3.2 cats. but these new cats KILL the game. what more weird is its your main menu that get phucked and you cant get into the game. REMBER the gta 3 menu bug ? well this one is 10x worse you cant make out enything. check my thread out. Im not happy at all ================================== http://www.hardwareheaven.com/showthre...threadid=15997

May 16, 2003, 02:36 AM	#85
h0mer`- DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 17 Rep Power: 0	3dmark01 with Catalyst 3.0 14600 pts. 3dmark01 with Catalyst 3.4 13500 pts. wtf???? finally the esc bug in cs is fixed....but where are my 1100 3dmark pts. ?!?!?!?

May 16, 2003, 02:39 AM	#86
megatron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 93 Rep Power: 0	When I tried to run the smartgart uninstaller, the files were already extracted in the directory which leads me to believe that it is included in the 3.4's. I run ut2k3 with 4x AA and 16x AF @ 1024*768, and I really can't see any drop in framerate between that and none. I am going to leave those settings and configure my games resolution to keep the framerates high. __________________ My system specs and 3dmark2001se score Rad8500 bioses, UT2k3, GTA3 pages & more. Also watercooling endeavours.

May 16, 2003, 02:41 AM	#87
megatron DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 93 Rep Power: 0	What about the DivX optimisations? Do we need the adware supported version/pay versions over the free & no ad version? Hmm. __________________ My system specs and 3dmark2001se score Rad8500 bioses, UT2k3, GTA3 pages & more. Also watercooling endeavours.

May 16, 2003, 02:57 AM	#88
dipstick HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: USA Posts: 3,609 Rep Power: 70 System Specs	These drivers are excellent! Thanks for all the hard work, it's very much appreciated

May 16, 2003, 02:57 AM	#89
express15_99 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago, IL Posts: 50 Rep Power: 0	You must have a P4 3.0 GHz comp to run UT2003 with 16x Anisotropic filtering. __________________ ((Xtreme LAN)) A New Breed of LAN Gaming www.XtremeLAN.cjb.net

May 16, 2003, 03:10 AM	#90
Runner3001 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 41 Rep Power: 0	I can't for the life of me get AA to turn on...No amount of messing with registry settings, uninstalls and reinstalls(accompanied by manual leftover removal in both registry and windows dirs as well as trying Drivercleaner...), or fiddling with the control panel will get it to turn on, same goes for AF. The settings for them keep appearing in the Radeon 9700 Pro - Secondary registry key and when I add them to the non-secondary key it doesn't do sweet fuck all. Rebooting between changes also will not fix it...wtf is going on? I also had the same problem as someone else here mentioned, upon first install I had absolutely no hardware acceleration, D3D and OpenGL were both hosed, a reinstall cured it, but now the AA and AF problems...Sigh, I keep hearing FB runs like a baby's ass in perfect mode with these too. If I can't fix this its back to modded 9800 path 3.2's