Rate Catalyst 5.2 (driver only)

Zardon · Feb 9, 2005, 08:52 PM

You know the drill, help ATI help you !

vote for the newest ATI offical drivers from 1 - 10 !

cballadp · Feb 9, 2005, 09:46 PM

The drivers work wonders on my x700 PRO. About 8% gain in FPS for HL2 over 5.1!

BattleAxe · Feb 9, 2005, 09:53 PM

wait for you guys to figure out if it's wise to get rid of omega's 4.12 for this...

petri1 · Feb 9, 2005, 10:56 PM

Ok here goes

cat 5.1
3dmark 03 8700
3dmark 05 4332
3dmark 01 18060
aquamark 3 54fps

cat 5.2
3dmark 03 8840
3dmark 05 4437
3dmark 01 18142
aquamark 3 54fps

so there it is some improvment huh

but still in the beginning of aquamrk test before the ship goes over the top it is very jerky
never had that with my 980PRO adn 3dmark 2001se i got more on 9800PRO than X800 PCI-E i wonder if i dare go and change any values in bios for the PCI-E port

but the cat 5.2´s seem to have some inprovment but not in FC why i get the same results i dpn´t know

well way to go ATI keep it up

Below 30 · Feb 9, 2005, 11:09 PM

First off, it's nice that ATI is continuing support for Win9x OS.

The problem with 5.2 under Win9x though is, that it doesn't seem to have the DVI HDTV info read, like the WinXP version. Unlike the WinXP version, 1280x720 for example is not available by default.

It would be nice to have this feature for Win9x.

Chaos · Feb 10, 2005, 12:37 AM

I see slight performance increases across the board with these

wiskerbizkit · Feb 10, 2005, 02:08 AM

increases from 5.1's or 4.12's? i think just about any other driver would increase from 5.1's

HoT-BR · Feb 10, 2005, 02:28 AM

These drivers only change the numbers for me (Oficial 4.12 / 5.1 / 5.2 / Omega 5.1) same scores in 3dmark 2003/2005 and FPS in games are the same the only one that increase something is Omega 4.12

Rosco[CoF] · Feb 10, 2005, 03:14 AM

In the past twelve months I have usually ended up voting either a 6 ot 7 due to lackluster OpenGL performance, D3D is always tight though. With the 5.2's I have bumped it up to a 9, as I have noticed a considerable improvement in OpenGL such as RtCW and WolfET, which has suffered stuttering issues for me since the 3.9's. Nice work. Even got quite a boost in the GL Excess benchmark.

ccfilms · Feb 10, 2005, 03:39 AM

These give me an equal/better score than Omega 4.12. GOOD JOB ATI!

bananaman · Feb 10, 2005, 09:30 AM

They improved my HL2 - it kept the FPS from having a few sections where it would drop down a bit, and for soem reason was getting loads of headshots on 5.2 in CS:S! lol

It feels a lot smoother now

~Good Job ATI

Judas · Feb 10, 2005, 09:53 AM

Freshly installed on my 9600XT AIW

flawless! (weres Remote Wonder 2.5.1?)

Buddahpest · Feb 10, 2005, 07:57 PM

I voted a "1" for one reason and one reason only. Ever since the 4.10 drivers were introduced, AGP Write has been forced off in Smartgart. For me, this greatly affects performance in some cases, and I've been stuck using the 4.9's seeing as that's the last driver set that works for me. Zardon had mentioned to me that he had talked to Catalyst Maker about this right before Christmas seeing as he had some other people mention the same thing to him. I'm hoping it's fixed in the next release.

~~HawK~~ · Feb 10, 2005, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddahpest

I voted a "1" for one reason and one reason only. Ever since the 4.10 drivers were introduced, AGP Write has been forced off in Smartgart. For me, this greatly affects performance in some cases, and I've been stuck using the 4.9's seeing as that's the last driver set that works for me. Zardon had mentioned to me that he had talked to Catalyst Maker about this right before Christmas seeing as he had some other people mention the same thing to him. I'm hoping it's fixed in the next release.

AGP write??
You mean Fastwrite maybe? Is Fastwrites set to enable in Bios ??
(You need to press CTRL + F1 in Giabyte bios to access the advance controls

I'll give these *and for the first-time* a 10 from me, best to date these ones

Buddahpest · Feb 10, 2005, 09:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HawK

AGP write??
You mean Fastwrite maybe? Is Fastwrites set to enable in Bios ??
(You need to press CTRL + F1 in Giabyte bios to access the advance controls

I'll give these *and for the first-time* a 10 from me, best to date these ones

Hi Hawk,

No I mean AGP Write. When I type in Smartgart at the run console I get the advanced Smartgart settings. It says AGP Write - Off. Unfortuantely I can't do a CTRL + F1 in the bios because the bios doesn't support it believe it or not. This board doesn't have any advanced controls. What you see is what you get.

~~HawK~~ · Feb 10, 2005, 09:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Buddahpest

Hi Hawk,

No I mean AGP Write. When I type in Smartgart at the run console I get the advanced Smartgart settings. It says AGP Write - Off. Unfortuantely I can't do a CTRL + F1 in the bios because the bios doesn't support it believe it or not. This board doesn't have any advanced controls. What you see is what you get.

Ah yes was reading about it awhile back.. latest bios didn't solve that?

Robert McClelland · Feb 10, 2005, 09:43 PM

I gave them a 4 I think because I still see no improvements over on 9600xt card I have. I score 11,795 on them I think. Omegas 5.1a drivers are much faster for me anyway.

please improve fps in 9600 and up brand

thanks.

junka · Feb 11, 2005, 04:48 PM

[color=darkred]Absolutely brilliant drivers, shame about the load of dog farty dollop they call CCC, what a waste of time, looks pretty but about as useful as underwater toilet paper.[/color]

terror_adagio · Feb 11, 2005, 05:01 PM

Rated 6.

Performance in CS Source is down. Performance in 3DMark03 has been going down since 4.12.

OK boost in 3DMark05 in 5.1 and 5.2. But that only is not worth it.

4.12 still the best.

CaptainAmerica · Feb 11, 2005, 06:15 PM

Large drop in performance for me and World of Warcraft. Very unusual, minimized game and re-started runtime. Seemed to make it ok but still very jerky compared to 5.1's which i thought ran very nice.

ChaosBlizzard · Feb 12, 2005, 04:09 AM

Okay, aside from Performance, how is stability with the 5.2s?

Several people had severe issues with the 5.1s. I was one of them, my screen would go black and stay that way until I forced a reboot. I would also get random screen corruption.

I am currently using 4.12 from Omega. I don't have any corruption issues with them.

Thanks

shadowcatcher · Feb 12, 2005, 11:16 AM

I had severe issues with 5.1 - whereas no problems with any other previous driver from 4.x series. On a fresh install - could not get 5.1 to pass 3dmarok01se - 4.12 worked ok. Stuttering in 3dmark03 etc. With these, fully stable again. Working very good in Far Cry, and Half Life 2. So I can recommend you these ... Not playing CS:S. But will rate them a 9. After 5.1, for me, anything that works is good.

junka · Feb 12, 2005, 11:47 AM

Nar, changed my mind, I tested 5.2 and 4.12 and the 4.12 look better and I gain 50 points on 3d mark. So back to the good old 4.12 for me.

DarkFoss · Feb 13, 2005, 02:49 AM

Gave'em a 9. Very nice drivers no issues so far and a nice OGL performance bump in Planeshift.

cswiger · Feb 13, 2005, 11:10 PM

I gave them an 8. CCC on 5.2 failed to start after installing over 5.1, but a trip down the old "do the full uninstall, reboot into safe mode, driverclean, reboot, reinstall" path and 5.2 has been working well since.

The drivers seem to be very smooth and IQ is good in general. However, I found out that there is a catastrophic drop in frame rate when playing Rome: Total War when your archers fire flaming arrows. I normally have 2xAA/8x forced aniso, options set to high (but not highest), get 30-40 fps normally, but see a drop down to ~1-2 when flaming arrows are fired.

[ 256MB Radeon x800 pro, AMD 2400+, 512 MB PC2700. ]

MNDS · Feb 14, 2005, 03:24 AM

Performance is up substantially in FarCry for me, making me quite a happy customer

FarCry was one of the games the x700 trailed the 6600GT in throughout reviews, but appears to no longer be an issue. Im pretty excited about the performance improvements ATi continues to deliver in their drivers.

Alistair · Feb 14, 2005, 05:44 PM

I am extremely disappointed with these drivers. With CAT 5.1 I did not crash nearly as much in EverQuest 2 as I am now. It seems I can't go more than an hour without crashing out of the game now... Time to go back to 5.1 I suppose.

cypher_138 · Feb 20, 2005, 06:20 PM

This is a solid release. I'm seeing an improvement in IQ and performance with these across the board as well.

Great work ATI.

Feb 9, 2005, 08:52 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 177	Rate Catalyst 5.2 (driver only) You know the drill, help ATI help you ! vote for the newest ATI offical drivers from 1 - 10 !

Feb 9, 2005, 10:56 PM	#4
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	Ok here goes cat 5.1 3dmark 03 8700 3dmark 05 4332 3dmark 01 18060 aquamark 3 54fps cat 5.2 3dmark 03 8840 3dmark 05 4437 3dmark 01 18142 aquamark 3 54fps so there it is some improvment huh but still in the beginning of aquamrk test before the ship goes over the top it is very jerky never had that with my 980PRO adn 3dmark 2001se i got more on 9800PRO than X800 PCI-E i wonder if i dare go and change any values in bios for the PCI-E port but the cat 5.2´s seem to have some inprovment but not in FC why i get the same results i dpn´t know well way to go ATI keep it up __________________ [COLOR=#232d35] [COLOR=Red]Intel Core 2 Quad 9450@2,66GHZ PowerColor Ati Radeon HD4870 512mb Gigabyte GaE-X38 4GB Kingston Hyper X [/COLOR] [/COLOR]

Feb 9, 2005, 11:09 PM	#5
Below 30 Video Games Fo Life Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Region of Peel, Ontario, Canada Posts: 109 Rep Power: 0	First off, it's nice that ATI is continuing support for Win9x OS. The problem with 5.2 under Win9x though is, that it doesn't seem to have the DVI HDTV info read, like the WinXP version. Unlike the WinXP version, 1280x720 for example is not available by default. It would be nice to have this feature for Win9x. __________________ [color=yellow][color=#ff1493]When Skills Ruled [/color][/color]

Feb 10, 2005, 12:37 AM	#6
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,269 Rep Power: 165 System Specs	I see slight performance increases across the board with these __________________

Feb 10, 2005, 03:39 AM	#10
ccfilms DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South East Michigan Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	These give me an equal/better score than Omega 4.12. GOOD JOB ATI! __________________ Jeremy Krakowski [color=red]www.CCFilms.com[/color][color=red] [/color] Windows XP Home Edition w/ SP2 \|\|\| Black Thermaltake Xaser III w/ 420W Power Supply Motherboard: Micro-ATX ASUS P4B-LX \|\|\| Intel Pentium4 1.8Ghz (O/c'd to 2.0Ghz) \|\|\| 512MB PC133 SDRAM (2-3-2-6 - 144MHz) 120GB Western Digital 7,200RPM w/ 8mb cache \|\|\| 60GB Western Digital 7,200RPM \|\|\| 80GB 5,400RPM for MandrakeLinux 10.1 ATI Radeon 9800 Pro 128MB (430/780 O/c'd) w/ Catalyst 5.2

Feb 9, 2005, 09:46 PM	#2
cballadp DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	The drivers work wonders on my x700 PRO. About 8% gain in FPS for HL2 over 5.1!

Feb 9, 2005, 09:53 PM	#3
BattleAxe DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 60 Rep Power: 0	wait for you guys to figure out if it's wise to get rid of omega's 4.12 for this...

Feb 10, 2005, 02:08 AM	#7
wiskerbizkit DH ***** hobo Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Columbia SC Posts: 467 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	increases from 5.1's or 4.12's? i think just about any other driver would increase from 5.1's

Feb 10, 2005, 02:28 AM	#8
HoT-BR DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	These drivers only change the numbers for me (Oficial 4.12 / 5.1 / 5.2 / Omega 5.1) same scores in 3dmark 2003/2005 and FPS in games are the same the only one that increase something is Omega 4.12

Feb 10, 2005, 03:14 AM	#9
Rosco[CoF] HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Traverse City, MI Posts: 158 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	In the past twelve months I have usually ended up voting either a 6 ot 7 due to lackluster OpenGL performance, D3D is always tight though. With the 5.2's I have bumped it up to a 9, as I have noticed a considerable improvement in OpenGL such as RtCW and WolfET, which has suffered stuttering issues for me since the 3.9's. Nice work. Even got quite a boost in the GL Excess benchmark.

Feb 10, 2005, 09:30 AM	#11
bananaman banana muncher Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: London Posts: 1,254 Rep Power: 59	They improved my HL2 - it kept the FPS from having a few sections where it would drop down a bit, and for soem reason was getting loads of headshots on 5.2 in CS:S! lol It feels a lot smoother now ~Good Job ATI __________________

Feb 10, 2005, 07:57 PM	#13
Buddahpest DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 218 Rep Power: 0	I voted a "1" for one reason and one reason only. Ever since the 4.10 drivers were introduced, AGP Write has been forced off in Smartgart. For me, this greatly affects performance in some cases, and I've been stuck using the 4.9's seeing as that's the last driver set that works for me. Zardon had mentioned to me that he had talked to Catalyst Maker about this right before Christmas seeing as he had some other people mention the same thing to him. I'm hoping it's fixed in the next release. __________________ Intel Core2 Quad Q9650 @ 4GHz / Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3R / 8 GB (2GB x 4) G.Skill PC2 8500 / eVGA GTX 280 / Soundblaster Audigy 2 / 2x74GB Western Digital Raptor 10000 rpm in Raid 0 / 250GB Western Digital 7200 rpm / Plextor PX-716A DVD-RW / 1100W BFG PSU / Klipsch 4.1 Promedia / HP w2408h LCD / Windows Vista Ultimate x64

Feb 10, 2005, 09:43 PM	#17
Robert McClelland PAX Tweaker, PAX Expert. Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Somewhere in Wood County Ohio Same Town :) Posts: 10,252 Rep Power: 193 System Specs	I gave them a 4 I think because I still see no improvements over on 9600xt card I have. I score 11,795 on them I think. Omegas 5.1a drivers are much faster for me anyway. please improve fps in 9600 and up brand thanks. __________________ "XTREME AUDIO IS CRAP!" "There no support for it. It's crapist card on face of the earth it should be throw into the sun" http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2242746

Feb 11, 2005, 04:48 PM	#18
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 199 Rep Power: 0	[color=darkred]Absolutely brilliant drivers, shame about the load of dog farty dollop they call CCC, what a waste of time, looks pretty but about as useful as underwater toilet paper.[/color] __________________

Feb 11, 2005, 05:01 PM	#19
terror_adagio DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Rated 6. Performance in CS Source is down. Performance in 3DMark03 has been going down since 4.12. OK boost in 3DMark05 in 5.1 and 5.2. But that only is not worth it. 4.12 still the best.

Feb 11, 2005, 06:15 PM	#20
CaptainAmerica DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Charlottesville, Virginia Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Large drop in performance for me and World of Warcraft. Very unusual, minimized game and re-started runtime. Seemed to make it ok but still very jerky compared to 5.1's which i thought ran very nice.

Feb 12, 2005, 04:09 AM	#21
ChaosBlizzard DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 8 Rep Power: 0	Okay, aside from Performance, how is stability with the 5.2s? Several people had severe issues with the 5.1s. I was one of them, my screen would go black and stay that way until I forced a reboot. I would also get random screen corruption. I am currently using 4.12 from Omega. I don't have any corruption issues with them. Thanks

Feb 12, 2005, 11:16 AM	#22
shadowcatcher DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2004 Posts: 40 Rep Power: 0	I had severe issues with 5.1 - whereas no problems with any other previous driver from 4.x series. On a fresh install - could not get 5.1 to pass 3dmarok01se - 4.12 worked ok. Stuttering in 3dmark03 etc. With these, fully stable again. Working very good in Far Cry, and Half Life 2. So I can recommend you these ... Not playing CS:S. But will rate them a 9. After 5.1, for me, anything that works is good.

Feb 12, 2005, 11:47 AM	#23
junka Zex Machine Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 199 Rep Power: 0	Nar, changed my mind, I tested 5.2 and 4.12 and the 4.12 look better and I gain 50 points on 3d mark. So back to the good old 4.12 for me. __________________

Feb 13, 2005, 02:49 AM	#24
DarkFoss HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Downers Grove IL Posts: 688 Rep Power: 0	Gave'em a 9. Very nice drivers no issues so far and a nice OGL performance bump in Planeshift. __________________ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety,deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. Ben Franklin, 1755

Feb 13, 2005, 11:10 PM	#25
cswiger DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: NYC Posts: 233 Rep Power: 0	I gave them an 8. CCC on 5.2 failed to start after installing over 5.1, but a trip down the old "do the full uninstall, reboot into safe mode, driverclean, reboot, reinstall" path and 5.2 has been working well since. The drivers seem to be very smooth and IQ is good in general. However, I found out that there is a catastrophic drop in frame rate when playing Rome: Total War when your archers fire flaming arrows. I normally have 2xAA/8x forced aniso, options set to high (but not highest), get 30-40 fps normally, but see a drop down to ~1-2 when flaming arrows are fired. [ 256MB Radeon x800 pro, AMD 2400+, 512 MB PC2700. ] __________________ Do you remember Shalebridge Cradle? Beware! The Cradle doesn't forget.... AMD Opteron 185 @ 2.6GHz/200HTT \| 2GB G.Skill DDR3200 @ 2-3-2-5/1T \| 512MB eVGA 8800GT @ 600/1800 \| SB Audigy 2ZS eX, Outlaw 1050 6.1ch amp, Paradigm speakers \| MSI K8N Diamond Plus mainboard \| black Lian-Li USB68 case + Foxconn FX600-GLN 600W PSU \| 2xWDC3200AAKS (RAID1) \| Sony GDM-F500R CRT, BENQ G2400W LCD

Feb 14, 2005, 03:24 AM	#26
MNDS DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: NY Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Performance is up substantially in FarCry for me, making me quite a happy customer FarCry was one of the games the x700 trailed the 6600GT in throughout reviews, but appears to no longer be an issue. Im pretty excited about the performance improvements ATi continues to deliver in their drivers. __________________ Pentium D 830 2 x 512 Megs PC5400 Corsair XMS2 DDR2 Ram Biostar 945P Mobo eVGA PCI-Express 6800GT w/ NV5Silencer PCI SB X-Fi Xtreme Music

Feb 14, 2005, 05:44 PM	#27
Alistair Spoos Join Date: May 2002 Location: State College, PA, USA Posts: 435 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	I am extremely disappointed with these drivers. With CAT 5.1 I did not crash nearly as much in EverQuest 2 as I am now. It seems I can't go more than an hour without crashing out of the game now... Time to go back to 5.1 I suppose. __________________ - Alistair

Feb 20, 2005, 06:20 PM	#28
cypher_138 Watching 1984 unfold Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Locked in a cage in some warehouse called NJ Posts: 235 Rep Power: 0	This is a solid release. I'm seeing an improvement in IQ and performance with these across the board as well. Great work ATI. __________________ This is my "sig". There are many like them but this one is mine.