Rate Catalyst 5.7 (Driver only)

Zardon · Jul 14, 2005, 06:00 PM

You know the drill, vote!

terror_adagio · Jul 15, 2005, 01:04 AM

Very nice drivers!

9/10

Ðamage™ · Jul 15, 2005, 01:34 AM

They work excellent for me 9/10, along with the improved CCC. I didn't install CCC last time with the 5.6 due to the fact of unneeded bloating, but you guys (ATi) have done some great work with the Control Centre and things are running really smooth. I'd still like to see the OpenGL and Direct3D in different tabs but I think I can grin and bare it due to the stability and performance that you've added to every driver set, another s[color=red]AT[/color][color=red]i[/color]sfied customer.

Cheers

GeneralClaymore · Jul 15, 2005, 01:58 AM

they works great for me no problems so far.

bananaboi · Jul 15, 2005, 03:24 AM

On AquaMark3 the score dropped from 44,391 to 43,641. I get random artifacts in various games, and texture corruptions. These drivers just added problems to the 5.6's, and are absolutely terrible.

micron · Jul 15, 2005, 04:38 AM

They havent made my genital herpes act up yet

I havent seen anything quirky so far......so thats cool...

RedFalcon · Jul 15, 2005, 12:07 PM

8 - AA does less swaping when entering a map.

Matth · Jul 15, 2005, 03:48 PM

Install fouled up for me, setting an unusable mode for the TFT monitor - recovered that by forcing VGA mode to get a display.

Ubergrendle · Jul 15, 2005, 04:56 PM

I gave it 10/10.

3dmark05 score, Cat 5.3s - 2019
3dmark05 score, Cat 5.7s - 2260

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1028136

My qualitative analysis of BF2 gameplay suggest slightly better framerate. Hard to judge w/o an ingame demo like source though.

Very good.

JRosenfeld · Jul 15, 2005, 05:05 PM

10.

3Dmark5 up 5% compared to cat 5.6
Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

Raptor · Jul 15, 2005, 11:32 PM

Gave'm an 8 score. Stable, stable and stable, which is good but haven't noticed any appreciable speed bumps in games though but with the addition of my new 20" LCD with a native resolution of 16x12 I guess I'm close to being tapped out speed wise anyway. I like'm.

yoda133113 · Jul 16, 2005, 05:31 AM

Well i got an extra 100 3dmarks with 3dmark05 from 2500-2600, and slight improv in pcmark 04, no tests in gaming yet, and no improv in 3dmark03.

More importantly i get an extra 10 FPS with CS:S

, D3 has same quality

Sandok · Jul 16, 2005, 05:53 AM

Average... 6

thomasabarnes · Jul 16, 2005, 04:22 PM

Most excellent work on this driver Catalyst Team!! I can play Comanche 4 at 1024 by 768 resolution and 32 bit color, and it runs smooth (just as smooth as at 800 by 600 and 16 bit color depth. That's fantastic! There are no stops in frame rate as with older drivers. Before, trying to play at this resolution and color bit depth was ridiculous (like playing in slow motion), so I didnt try it for about a year til now. I always played at 800 by 600 and 16 bit color depth and D3D and Open GL at best performance. I still have D3D and OpenGl at best performance, but I'm pleased with the performance of this driver with C4 running at 1024 by 768 and 32bit color!

I read the release notes for this driver release and saw that there was suppose to be a performance increase for Comanche 4, so I tried it. This driver performs great, ATI!!

Thanks for remembering us Comanche 4 players! We are still playing C4 religiously. hehe Thanks to you (ATI), I only have to worry about Internet lagg, now, because you've done some great work on the last 2 driver releases, in my view.

I know it's not my place to say so, but you Catalyst Team folk are sure earning your pay over there!

I'm gonna try raising D3D and OpenGL for better quality.

Again, thanks for the great work!

Edit:

Of course, I rated this driver 10/10

oh yeah and all the C4 settings are at Max.

Edit 2:

This driver works great with D3D and OpenGL set at Balanced, 1024 by 768 resolution, and all C4 settings maxed! Great work Catalyst Team!

cswiger · Jul 16, 2005, 06:54 PM

Gave 'em a 9. Visual quality is very good as some minor Z-buffer effects (distant textures like signs on far-off objects) in 5.6 seem to be cleared up. I've seen about a 5% increase in benches (AquaMark: 39700, 3DMark '03: 8844, using standard settings).

Visual quality with "fancy water" like HL2/CS or "mother nature scenes" in 3DMark seems much better, also noticed that tracer marks from gunfire and sparks from explosions seem to be more clear and noticable rather than getting washed out or made too faint when behind fog (the first two games in 3DMark '03 show this clearly).

I've only run through some HL and CoD, yet, but I'm happy with those, and I want to hit Rome:TW and see how that is doing. I might even break out Thief 3 since the shadows seem improved, too.

One thing I noticed that the frame rate when doing multi-texture fill test varies with Cat 5.7 rather than being completely stable, there seems to be a bit of shuddering, although the actual performance seems to have gone up slightly compared with before. It almost seems as though the card gained an extra cache that it can use for a little while with higher performance than normal, but then runs out of extra juice and falls back to the same fill rate/performance it had before with the older driver revs.

Thumbs up and thanks, ATI, a good release!

Drakor · Jul 16, 2005, 07:43 PM

I gave them 9. It seems that Earth 2160 works a bit better now with Cats 5.7 and there are no texture errors on Radeon 9600Pro

toddsmack2k · Jul 16, 2005, 08:33 PM

9/10, good set Terry.

malvado · Jul 17, 2005, 08:14 PM

Good drivers.
Got an 9/10 from me.
Of course I wish Ati could dedicate a little more time, or maybe just release a good fix to a lot of games at a time, I would like to see Kotor 1 + 2 sorted out without having the user to resort to a bypass.

MrSMuRF · Jul 22, 2005, 02:24 AM

I gave them 8 /10.

Even though my 3dmark05 score increased by 100+ points I was disappointed this set didn't fix the BF2 texture corruption for my Asus X800XT.

redsolar · Jul 25, 2005, 06:19 PM

This is the first time I actually rated a driver at 10. Surprisingly enough, there are very few issues, mostly engine-related (GTA:SA is one). And stability is simply fabulous, even when GTA chokes, VPU recover takes good care of it, and nothing is lost. Love it.

Mikee[K-9] · Jul 27, 2005, 08:11 PM

Rated at 10. Best so far for HL2 & BF2 with my X800 XT PE

petri1 · Jul 28, 2005, 12:48 PM

gave it a 9 since i dunno if the crashes in TM Sunrise and BF2 has to do with drivers

but

is 64 FPS in DOOM3 Ultra settings a good result?

using Intel P4 3.0GHZ 1GB ram
P.C X800 Pci-E 256mb gddr3

NeoB!te · Jul 30, 2005, 12:21 PM

Battlefield 2 runs without a dout the best on these drivers. The omegas have too many issues, and alot of graphic corruption. 10/10

scoobnl · Aug 2, 2005, 09:40 AM

Keep getting ATI2MTAG errors (unknown codec) with these drivers (also with cat 5.6).
Using the old Cat 5.5 now without any problems.
Had same problem with the latest Omega drivers so I will stick to the old version for now.

Completly uninstalled the drivers (with tool) and deleted ATI files from windows/sys32/drivers, reinstalled them again, but same problem keeps comming up.

Jul 14, 2005, 06:00 PM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	Rate Catalyst 5.7 (Driver only) You know the drill, vote!

Jul 15, 2005, 01:04 AM	#2
terror_adagio DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Very nice drivers! 9/10 __________________ [color=navy][color=#000000]AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ DFI LANPARTY UT NF3 ULTRA-D Thermalright XP-90C & Panaflo 92mm ULTRA 2GB (2x1024) OCZ EL Platinum PC3200 ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum Edition 256MB Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS 2x Western Digital 250GB SE RAID-0 Windows XP Professional SP2[/color][/color]

Jul 15, 2005, 01:34 AM	#3
Ðamage™ DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 545 Rep Power: 0	They work excellent for me 9/10, along with the improved CCC. I didn't install CCC last time with the 5.6 due to the fact of unneeded bloating, but you guys (ATi) have done some great work with the Control Centre and things are running really smooth. I'd still like to see the OpenGL and Direct3D in different tabs but I think I can grin and bare it due to the stability and performance that you've added to every driver set, another s[color=red]AT[/color][color=red]i[/color]sfied customer. Cheers __________________ [COLOR=black][COLOR=red]ATi[/COLOR] Bios Flashing: The Proper Way.[/COLOR][COLOR=red][/COLOR] [COLOR=red]How to properly Install a VGA/CPU Cooler.[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]How to uninstall\install your ATi vga drivers properly[/COLOR] [COLOR=black]*It's not who we are, but what we do in life that defines us.*[/COLOR]

Jul 15, 2005, 01:58 AM	#4
GeneralClaymore HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: MI Posts: 434 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	they works great for me no problems so far. __________________ Source: x-fi titanium hd 2x LT1124ACN+ 2x LT1115 > Matrix M-Stage V2 /w 2x LME49710NA> DT880 pro 250ohm

Jul 15, 2005, 03:24 AM	#5
bananaboi DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 99 Rep Power: 0	On AquaMark3 the score dropped from 44,391 to 43,641. I get random artifacts in various games, and texture corruptions. These drivers just added problems to the 5.6's, and are absolutely terrible. __________________ Windows XP Professional SP2 AMD Athlon XP 2800+ Barton @ 2.3ghz(12.5x184) 1.7v Asus a7n8x-x xmod1010 Sapphire Radeon 9800 Pro flashed to XT (420/640) voltmodded PQI DDR PC3200 512mb + Spectek DDR PC2700 512mb @ 184 mhz 2.8v Western Digital 80gb + Samsung 20gb 7200rpm Creative SB Live! 24-bit 7.1 Thermaltake 480w Silent PurePower Aquamark3 = 44,695 (6592gfx, 6947cpu)

Jul 15, 2005, 04:38 AM	#6
micron DriverHeaven Lover Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: OKC Ok. Posts: 186 Rep Power: 0	They havent made my genital herpes act up yet I havent seen anything quirky so far......so thats cool... __________________ Athlon64 3000+ HIS X1900GT IceQ 3 3DMark05 - 10415

Jul 15, 2005, 12:07 PM	#7
RedFalcon DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Poland Posts: 14 Rep Power: 0	8 - AA does less swaping when entering a map.

Jul 15, 2005, 03:48 PM	#8
Matth Flash Banner Hater Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: UK Posts: 3,426 Rep Power: 93 System Specs	Install fouled up for me, setting an unusable mode for the TFT monitor - recovered that by forcing VGA mode to get a display.

Jul 15, 2005, 04:56 PM	#9
Ubergrendle Semper ubi sub ubi Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Toronto Posts: 702 Rep Power: 51	I gave it 10/10. 3dmark05 score, Cat 5.3s - 2019 3dmark05 score, Cat 5.7s - 2260 http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=1028136 My qualitative analysis of BF2 gameplay suggest slightly better framerate. Hard to judge w/o an ingame demo like source though. Very good. __________________ Veteran of the PC Microchannel / EISA wars of the late 1980s.

Jul 15, 2005, 05:05 PM	#10
JRosenfeld HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 104 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	10. 3Dmark5 up 5% compared to cat 5.6 Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb

Jul 15, 2005, 11:32 PM	#11
Raptor DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: California USA Posts: 464 Rep Power: 0	Gave'm an 8 score. Stable, stable and stable, which is good but haven't noticed any appreciable speed bumps in games though but with the addition of my new 20" LCD with a native resolution of 16x12 I guess I'm close to being tapped out speed wise anyway. I like'm. __________________ [COLOR=Green][COLOR=DarkOrange] P4C-800 DELUXE/P4 3.4 NORTHWOOD/2 GB CORSAIR PC3200/X850XTPE/2 300 GB MAXTOR HD'S/LOGITECH G5/LOGITECH Z-5500/CREATIVE XFI EXTREME MUSIC/MS 4000 KEYBOARD/Vizio VX37L HDTV/Toshiba HD-A2 HD DVD and Toshiba HD-XA1/Oppo HV970HD SACD/DVD-A universal player/Xbox 360/Sony PS3. [/COLOR][/COLOR]

Jul 16, 2005, 05:31 AM	#12
yoda133113 DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 309 Rep Power: 0	Well i got an extra 100 3dmarks with 3dmark05 from 2500-2600, and slight improv in pcmark 04, no tests in gaming yet, and no improv in 3dmark03. More importantly i get an extra 10 FPS with CS:S , D3 has same quality __________________ [color=Yellow]Guild Wars Character: Corrupted Bubbles[/color] "The muffin isn't picky, Timmy. Nor is it tasty! But it is powerful. All hail the muffin!" Cosmo, Fairly Odd Parents "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion. He is not entitled to his own facts." Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan [color=Sienna]Gateway M680X P-M 750 1.86 GHz Alviso Mobility Radeon X700 128 MB 1 GB 400 MHz DDR2 60 GB 5400 RPM Hitachi HD QSI DVD+-RW DL 17" Widescreen [/color] Last edited by yoda133113; Jul 16, 2005 at 05:47 AM.

Jul 16, 2005, 05:53 AM	#13
Sandok DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 9,472 Rep Power: 0	Average... 6

Jul 16, 2005, 04:22 PM	#14
thomasabarnes Long Time ***** Friend Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: USA Posts: 1,375 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	Most excellent work on this driver Catalyst Team!! I can play Comanche 4 at 1024 by 768 resolution and 32 bit color, and it runs smooth (just as smooth as at 800 by 600 and 16 bit color depth. That's fantastic! There are no stops in frame rate as with older drivers. Before, trying to play at this resolution and color bit depth was ridiculous (like playing in slow motion), so I didnt try it for about a year til now. I always played at 800 by 600 and 16 bit color depth and D3D and Open GL at best performance. I still have D3D and OpenGl at best performance, but I'm pleased with the performance of this driver with C4 running at 1024 by 768 and 32bit color! I read the release notes for this driver release and saw that there was suppose to be a performance increase for Comanche 4, so I tried it. This driver performs great, ATI!! Thanks for remembering us Comanche 4 players! We are still playing C4 religiously. hehe Thanks to you (ATI), I only have to worry about Internet lagg, now, because you've done some great work on the last 2 driver releases, in my view. I know it's not my place to say so, but you Catalyst Team folk are sure earning your pay over there! I'm gonna try raising D3D and OpenGL for better quality. Again, thanks for the great work! Edit: Of course, I rated this driver 10/10 oh yeah and all the C4 settings are at Max. Edit 2: This driver works great with D3D and OpenGL set at Balanced, 1024 by 768 resolution, and all C4 settings maxed! Great work Catalyst Team! __________________ May a song always touch you in a positive way. SONAR X1D Expanded, Windows 7 Pro 64Bit, MOTU UltraLite MK3, 150 GB HDD, 250 GB HDD, 1 TB x2 HDD 7200 rpm My Music Production: Top 40, Contemporary Christian, Pop/Rock, Decent Rap, Inspirationals, and Children Songs Last edited by thomasabarnes; Jul 16, 2005 at 11:30 PM.

Jul 16, 2005, 06:54 PM	#15
cswiger DriverHeaven Addict Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: NYC Posts: 233 Rep Power: 0	Gave 'em a 9. Visual quality is very good as some minor Z-buffer effects (distant textures like signs on far-off objects) in 5.6 seem to be cleared up. I've seen about a 5% increase in benches (AquaMark: 39700, 3DMark '03: 8844, using standard settings). Visual quality with "fancy water" like HL2/CS or "mother nature scenes" in 3DMark seems much better, also noticed that tracer marks from gunfire and sparks from explosions seem to be more clear and noticable rather than getting washed out or made too faint when behind fog (the first two games in 3DMark '03 show this clearly). I've only run through some HL and CoD, yet, but I'm happy with those, and I want to hit Rome:TW and see how that is doing. I might even break out Thief 3 since the shadows seem improved, too. One thing I noticed that the frame rate when doing multi-texture fill test varies with Cat 5.7 rather than being completely stable, there seems to be a bit of shuddering, although the actual performance seems to have gone up slightly compared with before. It almost seems as though the card gained an extra cache that it can use for a little while with higher performance than normal, but then runs out of extra juice and falls back to the same fill rate/performance it had before with the older driver revs. Thumbs up and thanks, ATI, a good release! __________________ 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

Jul 16, 2005, 08:33 PM	#17
toddsmack2k It Never..... Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Kentucky Posts: 3,173 Rep Power: 0	9/10, good set Terry. __________________ [color=blue]*Bleeding From the Inside Pouring Out, The* *DriverHeaven* Spiral, We Shall Never Let Go Of.[/color]

Jul 25, 2005, 06:19 PM	#20
redsolar Off duty Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Las Vegas, USA Posts: 1,242 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	This is the first time I actually rated a driver at 10. Surprisingly enough, there are very few issues, mostly engine-related (GTA:SA is one). And stability is simply fabulous, even when GTA chokes, VPU recover takes good care of it, and nothing is lost. Love it. __________________ Real_Men_Do_Not_Use_Space_Bar Main rig: Intel Core i7 930 @ 4.0 Ghz \| Corsair H50 Push/Pull \| 12GB OCZ DDR3 \| ASUS Radeon HD 5850 \| 3x 1TB Samsung F3 RAID5 on Dell PERC 5i SAS + 1TB Hitachi \| MSI X58 Pro-e \| 850W Antec Truepower Quattro \| RocketFish by Lian Li Full Tower Case \| Gateway XHD3000 30" LCD \| Dell 2408WFP 24" LCD \| Dell 2407WFP 24" LCD \| Logitech Z-5500 Speakers \| Windows 7 Ultimate x64 Laptop: Samsung x360-34P \| Core 2 Duo SU9400 1.4 GHz \| 4GB DDR3 \| 128GB Samsung SSD \| Intel 4500M w/ HDMI \| WiFi \| Bluetooth \| 13.3" WLED 1280x800 \| Windows 7 Professional x64

Jul 16, 2005, 07:43 PM	#16
Drakor DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Poland Posts: 33 Rep Power: 0	I gave them 9. It seems that Earth 2160 works a bit better now with Cats 5.7 and there are no texture errors on Radeon 9600Pro __________________

Jul 17, 2005, 08:14 PM	#18
malvado DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 22 Rep Power: 0	Good drivers. Got an 9/10 from me. Of course I wish Ati could dedicate a little more time, or maybe just release a good fix to a lot of games at a time, I would like to see Kotor 1 + 2 sorted out without having the user to resort to a bypass.

Jul 22, 2005, 02:24 AM	#19
MrSMuRF DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 11 Rep Power: 0	I gave them 8 /10. Even though my 3dmark05 score increased by 100+ points I was disappointed this set didn't fix the BF2 texture corruption for my Asus X800XT.

Jul 27, 2005, 08:11 PM	#21
Mikee[K-9] DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Rated at 10. Best so far for HL2 & BF2 with my X800 XT PE

Jul 28, 2005, 12:48 PM	#22
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	gave it a 9 since i dunno if the crashes in TM Sunrise and BF2 has to do with drivers but is 64 FPS in DOOM3 Ultra settings a good result? using Intel P4 3.0GHZ 1GB ram P.C X800 Pci-E 256mb gddr3 __________________ [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]

Jul 30, 2005, 12:21 PM	#23
NeoB!te DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 56 Rep Power: 0	Battlefield 2 runs without a dout the best on these drivers. The omegas have too many issues, and alot of graphic corruption. 10/10 __________________ P4 3.9GHZ 1041FSB x850XT 527/600 2GB OCZ PC 3200 @ CL 2-3-2-5 74 GB Raptor, 10,000 RPM, 8 MB Cache 19" Sync Master DF

Aug 2, 2005, 09:40 AM	#24
scoobnl DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 1 Rep Power: 0	Keep getting ATI2MTAG errors (unknown codec) with these drivers (also with cat 5.6). Using the old Cat 5.5 now without any problems. Had same problem with the latest Omega drivers so I will stick to the old version for now. Completly uninstalled the drivers (with tool) and deleted ATI files from windows/sys32/drivers, reinstalled them again, but same problem keeps comming up.