Catalyst 5.8 released (and on DH a day before ATI.com)!

petri1 · Aug 17, 2005, 10:41 PM

congrats M8

here are some bench results during battle over internet in BattleField 2

settings are high 1280x960 2AA/AF don´t reme ber wich one it is there is only one in game settings so results are 32players

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

11676, 279869, 0, 68, 41.720

Zardon · Aug 17, 2005, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petri1

congrats M8

here are some bench results during battle over internet in BattleField 2

settings are high 1280x960 2AA/AF don´t reme ber wich one it is there is only one in game settings so results are 32players

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

11676, 279869, 0, 68, 41.720

how does that compare to the last set?

petri1 · Aug 17, 2005, 11:41 PM

well i´m not sure but i think these outperform the 5.7´s

i think i did post some benches on the last thread but if ya want i coukd install 5.7´s to see the differnce

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

24872, 591854, 14, 77, 42.024

there you go 5.7´s same settingsd in CCC as in game settings not same map though shall do more tomorrow now i gotta go to sleep it is almost 02:00 here in SWeden

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 18, 2005, 02:26 AM

The best bang for my buck is to just switch on 2X AA, everythng in game on high,
dynamic light and shadows off.

petri1 what X800 do you have?

Talha · Aug 18, 2005, 06:24 AM

WOW ... :O
i think this the largest thread for any catalyst...

swatX · Aug 18, 2005, 07:00 AM

holy crap! 1024 replies? just wow

very nice ATI! never knew releasing @ DH a day early made such a diffrence!

petri1 · Aug 18, 2005, 07:30 AM

the simple PowerColor X800 Bravo Edition with GDDR3 1.6ns memory 256mb 12 pipes 391/350(700)
somethin like that i´ll try those dynamics off and see what 5.7 performs vs 5.8

FnF · Aug 18, 2005, 07:44 AM

Well, I got a performance increase, if you compare it to the 5.7s. But I have almost all Advanced Tweaks in ATT running, what can make some difference

666_peter_666 · Aug 18, 2005, 08:09 AM

[color=red]And what about COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol) ?[/color]
[color=red]I have infomation, that new Cats 5.8 has included support for this.[/color]
[color=red]It is a bad news for us. What do you say Mr. Catalyst maker?[/color]
[color=#ff0000]Still ATI rocks?[/color]

petri1 · Aug 18, 2005, 08:20 AM

well i joined the battle of some nuclear plant you start out on the sea as US forces

well they killed us all but this is what i got only thing i did was to go low on dynamic shadows and 104x768

the results with 5.7´s are

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

27739, 413505, 1, 100, 67.083

Update1:

Fushepass more intense battle still 5.7´s

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

28402, 655234, 0, 85, 43.346

i´ll be back

pretty good huh but remember this was a hard battle i never meade it to shore so no intense fighting shall seek another battle see what happens then i´ll update this post with 5.8´s

MiDri · Aug 18, 2005, 08:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 666_peter_666

[color=red]And what about COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol) ?[/color]
[color=red]I have infomation, that new Cats 5.8 has included support for this.[/color]
[color=red]It is a bad news for us. What do you say Mr. Catalyst maker?[/color]
[color=#ff0000]Still ATI rocks?[/color]

COPP is total crap, it requires that you run media on a spacific output device.

Meaning that a video author could require you buy a Sony 18" LCD to view his content or it will not display. (Not sure if the XP version is this spacific, but I know the vista one will be.)

FnF · Aug 18, 2005, 10:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petri1

well i joined the battle of some nuclear plant you start out on the sea as US forces

well they killed us all but this is what i got only thing i did was to go low on dynamic shadows and 104x768

the results with 5.7´s are

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

27739, 413505, 1, 100, 67.083

Update1:

Fushepass more intense battle still 5.7´s

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

28402, 655234, 0, 85, 43.346

i´ll be back

pretty good huh but remember this was a hard battle i never meade it to shore so no intense fighting shall seek another battle see what happens then i´ll update this post with 5.8´s

Why aren't you using timedemo's? They play every time the same things, so you can compare it for real

petri1 · Aug 18, 2005, 10:49 AM

dunno hot to make a time demo help me you can yes????

well another battle

using same prestes as with 5.7´s

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

24661, 434467, 27, 90, 56.762

RobertBruce · Aug 18, 2005, 11:33 AM

Ok. so the CCC works a bit faster. Good.

Bad...overall these drivers work worse. Its been a steep decline every 5.x version.

Cant wait til I can afford a 7800GTX!

Ifixit · Aug 18, 2005, 11:53 AM

FPS isn't everything. Graphically they have improved IMHO.

After reading the anadtech article i'm dieing to ask the question can or will there be a setting to turn off hypermemory in future releases freeing up GPU cycles for cards with higher memory ammounts?

petri1 · Aug 18, 2005, 12:00 PM

In BF2 timedemo don´t work like in D3?

one has to make a demo first? If so what kinda demo so it will be a fair comparison for those who want to try it or is there a teimdemo test made?

patje · Aug 18, 2005, 01:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CATALYST maker

And I say 3-0 for Greece!!!!

well we were both wrong, altough we won hehe! good game

FnF · Aug 18, 2005, 02:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petri1

In BF2 timedemo don´t work like in D3?

one has to make a demo first? If so what kinda demo so it will be a fair comparison for those who want to try it or is there a teimdemo test made?

Just for you:
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1104
This is a Battlefield 2 Timedemo, what will be the same sort as Doom ]I[, it is just starting the game/demo, and starts playing, at the end you will see the average fps etc

terror_adagio · Aug 18, 2005, 02:56 PM

Thus far, 5.8 are a bit quicker over 5.7 for me. Good stuff.

DH and ATI Rock

Rayder · Aug 18, 2005, 05:45 PM

5.8's seem to running fine here. Booted a few random games and experienced no problems.

Yep, CCC responds quicker now.

Seems all good to me.

DH & ATI ROCK!

petri1 · Aug 18, 2005, 06:56 PM

thx mate let ya know what i got

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 18, 2005, 09:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RobertBruce

Ok. so the CCC works a bit faster. Good.
Bad...overall these drivers work worse. Its been a steep decline every
5.x version.

Cant wait til I can afford a 7800GTX!

Says you!

The drivers and CCC have been getting better and better with each release
Try backing up just saying "worse" wich some actual grevances...

Quote:

Originally Posted by petri1

the simple PowerColor X800 Bravo Edition with GDDR3 1.6ns memory 256mb 12 pipes 391/350(700)
somethin like that i´ll try those dynamics off and see what 5.7 performs vs 5.8

good try everything on high, and both dynamic compleletly off.
There really isn't anything you'll ever miss plus your talking a 10FPS
boost in shadows alone... Also try moveing your CP performance slider all
the way left to performance. With the in game 2XAA the game looks and
plays good. Aso make sure you've got a big pagefile like at least 1024MB.

If you want to do demos there are some premade ones out there as
how to's to tell you how to make your own but I can't really serch for
you ATM to to by current ISP problems. I can barely get on long enough
to post.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 666_peter_666

And what about COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol) ?
I have infomation, that new Cats 5.8 has included support for this.
It is a bad news for us. What do you say Mr. Catalyst maker?
Still ATI rocks?

Quote:

Originally Posted by MiDri

COPP is total crap, it requires that you run media on a spacific output device.
Meaning that a video author could require you buy a Sony 18" LCD to view his content or it will not display. (Not sure if the XP version is this spacific, but I know the vista one will be.)

Would you rather thy not added supoort and COPP content being complelty
unplayable on all ATI cards? You'd be screeming were is our ATI COPP
support and that you going to but NV cards if they don't add COPP support

ATI didn't write COPP did they?
ATI didn't come up with the IDEA did they?

Just like if you don't like WMV DRM it sucks but wouldn't you be mad if you
count watch DRM content period becouse the grahic maker didn't add the
requred support? YES! especally if you hve the licene for the content you'd be
looking for gahics card with support in a heart beat...

petri1 · Aug 18, 2005, 10:40 PM

well i tryed dynamics off and no aa results is

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

42400, 792621, 0, 88, 53.493

with 5.8 dragon valley map 32

that nuclear plant map

well

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
49480, 847131, 0, 100, 58.409

this was with 4AA 8XAF in CCC and 2xAA in game settings and still how come huh???

edperks · Aug 18, 2005, 11:54 PM

This is sweet! they are working great!!

Smoke14 · Aug 19, 2005, 12:28 AM

They are working fine

DH & ATI ROCK!

The_Neon_Cowboy · Aug 19, 2005, 01:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by petri1

well i tryed dynamics off and no aa results is

Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg

42400, 792621, 0, 88, 53.493

with 5.8 dragon valley map 32

that nuclear plant map

well
Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg
49480, 847131, 0, 100, 58.409

this was with 4AA 8XAF in CCC and 2xAA in game settings and still how come huh???

Set the ATI CP slider to performance, that mean AA & AF wil be on application preferance
set you AA inside the game as it has it on AA control and forceing it don't work. It anything it just hoses your FPS...

I'm playing the demo @ 1024X768 , there is a Huge differeance between no AA and 2Xaa in ragards to jaggies. I mean there the useall IQ differeance but BF2 is ubber loaded with jaggies and just a little AA makes a world of differeance. I useally play with No AA/AF but BF2 "needs" the 2XAA. Or wise the jaggies drive me nuts!

4X and 6X aa like 16X AF in that game makes it look good but
then I have like 70FPS and it "feels strange" when in fast moveing
vehickles I assume the FPS has to be running low...

So I've came to useing 2X AA and no AF in BF2 and i'm useally the highest, or
among the higest scoreing player on the team if not highest on the sever the server.
Not that the has anything to do with my grahics but it doesn't hurt....

In this case I'd rather have the stable high FPS then the extra IQ AA/AF could give
me ...here is one time demo thingy I ran across if you want to go that way
http://downloads.guru3d.com/download.php?det=1104

petri1 · Aug 19, 2005, 09:29 AM

well took some screens after a 3dmark 03 and 05 run check these out OMG!!!

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
T I M E D E M O - R E P O R T
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Demo: mods/bf2/Demos/guru3d.bf2demo
Camera: mods/bf2/Demos/guru3d.bf2cam
Target Frame Rate: 30
Resolution: 1024x768
Field of View: 90
-
Total Frame Time: 134.209 seconds
Number of Frames: 13101
Average Frame Rate: 97.6163
Average Frame Time: 0.0102442
Shortest Frame Time: 0.00313568 (frame #2734)
Longest Frame Time: 0.535797 (frame #6006)
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

well i´d say Catalyst 5.8 are really fast i get about 100+ more in 3dmakr 03 05 tahn with 5.7 885703(5.7)4567 05(5.7)

so moded drivers will have a tough time to out perform catalyst drivers that is for sure

petri1 · Aug 19, 2005, 09:44 AM

here´s aquamark score just ran it

run on my rigg (SIGN)
P4 nortwood 3ghz
PowerColor X800Bravo edition PCI-E
1024mb RAM
WIN XP SP2 all updates
anymore???.....naah

MiDri · Aug 19, 2005, 04:25 PM

512mb of system ram, AMD athlond XP 2400 (~1.5ghz)

BWX · Aug 19, 2005, 05:20 PM

Well I am using the CCC... it seems to work very good- it is still a little slow, not near as fast when starting as the regular CP which is instant.

I wish I could turn off that video in the "video settings".
They finally let you turn off the other video in the 3D settings, but then make you look at and wait for the other video's.. What is it with ATI making you watch video's in the CCC??? ...control freaks... LOL..

The CCC takes about 5 seconds to start.. so that is better than before, and the memory usage seems to be much better.. at least the real mem usage.. the VM is still about 50MB when CCC is open, 21MB when closed.

I still wish you could adjust the size of the window the CCC uses.. scrolling through all those settings is kind of annoying wen you could just enlarge the window and see them all.

Overall much better than even a few months back.. now if only I could use more resolutions... that would be cool..

EDIT- woot woot..

Just got it- can't wait for it to be delivered.. Finally my PC is up to date once again.

[COLOR=Red]ATI RADEON X800 XL - Graphics adapter - RADEON X800 XL - AGP 8x - 256 MB GDDR3 SDRAM - TV out [/COLOR]
http://www.digitalhotbuy.com/dhbstor...?skuNo=1044067

Aug 17, 2005, 10:41 PM	#1021
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	congrats M8 here are some bench results during battle over internet in BattleField 2 settings are high 1280x960 2AA/AF don´t reme ber wich one it is there is only one in game settings so results are 32players Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 11676, 279869, 0, 68, 41.720 __________________ [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]

Aug 17, 2005, 11:41 PM	#1023
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	well i´m not sure but i think these outperform the 5.7´s i think i did post some benches on the last thread but if ya want i coukd install 5.7´s to see the differnce Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 24872, 591854, 14, 77, 42.024 there you go 5.7´s same settingsd in CCC as in game settings not same map though shall do more tomorrow now i gotta go to sleep it is almost 02:00 here in SWeden __________________ [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] Last edited by petri1; Aug 18, 2005 at 01:40 AM.

Aug 18, 2005, 02:26 AM	#1024
The_Neon_Cowboy HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 16,009 Rep Power: 90 System Specs	The best bang for my buck is to just switch on 2X AA, everythng in game on high, dynamic light and shadows off. petri1 what X800 do you have? __________________

Aug 18, 2005, 07:00 AM	#1026
swatX ba\|\\|\\|ed Join Date: May 2004 Posts: 618 Rep Power: 0	holy crap! 1024 replies? just wow very nice ATI! never knew releasing @ DH a day early made such a diffrence! __________________ thx stick for the sig

Aug 18, 2005, 07:30 AM	#1027
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	the simple PowerColor X800 Bravo Edition with GDDR3 1.6ns memory 256mb 12 pipes 391/350(700) somethin like that i´ll try those dynamics off and see what 5.7 performs vs 5.8 __________________ [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]

Aug 18, 2005, 06:24 AM	#1025
Talha -=[DHzer0point Team]=- Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 0 Rep Power: 0	WOW ... :O i think this the largest thread for any catalyst...

Aug 18, 2005, 07:44 AM	#1028
FnF DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 615 Rep Power: 0	Well, I got a performance increase, if you compare it to the 5.7s. But I have almost all Advanced Tweaks in ATT running, what can make some difference __________________ DH and ATI rock!!!!!!!!!!

Aug 18, 2005, 08:09 AM	#1029
666_peter_666 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 13 Rep Power: 0	Copp [color=red]And what about COPP (Certified Output Protection Protocol) ?[/color] [color=red]I have infomation, that new Cats 5.8 has included support for this.[/color] [color=red]It is a bad news for us. What do you say Mr. Catalyst maker?[/color] [color=#ff0000]Still ATI rocks?[/color] Last edited by 666_peter_666; Aug 18, 2005 at 08:14 AM.

Aug 18, 2005, 08:20 AM	#1030
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	well i joined the battle of some nuclear plant you start out on the sea as US forces well they killed us all but this is what i got only thing i did was to go low on dynamic shadows and 104x768 the results with 5.7´s are Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 27739, 413505, 1, 100, 67.083 Update1: Fushepass more intense battle still 5.7´s Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 28402, 655234, 0, 85, 43.346 i´ll be back pretty good huh but remember this was a hard battle i never meade it to shore so no intense fighting shall seek another battle see what happens then i´ll update this post with 5.8´s __________________ [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] Last edited by petri1; Aug 18, 2005 at 08:39 AM.

Aug 18, 2005, 10:49 AM	#1033
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	dunno hot to make a time demo help me you can yes???? well another battle using same prestes as with 5.7´s Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 24661, 434467, 27, 90, 56.762 __________________ [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]

Aug 18, 2005, 11:33 AM	#1034
RobertBruce HardwareHeaven Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 255 Rep Power: 44 System Specs	eh Ok. so the CCC works a bit faster. Good. Bad...overall these drivers work worse. Its been a steep decline every 5.x version. Cant wait til I can afford a 7800GTX!

Aug 18, 2005, 11:53 AM	#1035
Ifixit DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tokoroa NZ Posts: 20 Rep Power: 0	FPS isn't everything. Graphically they have improved IMHO. After reading the anadtech article i'm dieing to ask the question can or will there be a setting to turn off hypermemory in future releases freeing up GPU cycles for cards with higher memory ammounts? __________________ DH and ATI ROCK!!!!!

Aug 18, 2005, 12:00 PM	#1036
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	In BF2 timedemo don´t work like in D3? one has to make a demo first? If so what kinda demo so it will be a fair comparison for those who want to try it or is there a teimdemo test made? __________________ [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]

Aug 18, 2005, 02:56 PM	#1039
terror_adagio DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 42 Rep Power: 0	Thus far, 5.8 are a bit quicker over 5.7 for me. Good stuff. DH and ATI Rock __________________ [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]

Aug 18, 2005, 05:45 PM	#1040
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,160 Rep Power: 71	5.8's seem to running fine here. Booted a few random games and experienced no problems. Yep, CCC responds quicker now. Seems all good to me. DH & ATI ROCK!

Aug 18, 2005, 06:56 PM	#1041
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	thx mate let ya know what i got __________________ [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]

Aug 18, 2005, 10:40 PM	#1043
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	well i tryed dynamics off and no aa results is Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 42400, 792621, 0, 88, 53.493 with 5.8 dragon valley map 32 that nuclear plant map well Frames, Time (ms), Min, Max, Avg 49480, 847131, 0, 100, 58.409 this was with 4AA 8XAF in CCC and 2xAA in game settings and still how come huh??? __________________ [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] Last edited by petri1; Aug 19, 2005 at 12:29 AM.

Aug 18, 2005, 11:54 PM	#1044
edperks HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: Southern Illinois Posts: 780 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	This is sweet! they are working great!!

Aug 19, 2005, 12:28 AM	#1045
Smoke14 DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	They are working fine DH & ATI ROCK!

Aug 19, 2005, 09:29 AM	#1047
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	well took some screens after a 3dmark 03 and 05 run check these out OMG!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ T I M E D E M O - R E P O R T ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Demo: mods/bf2/Demos/guru3d.bf2demo Camera: mods/bf2/Demos/guru3d.bf2cam Target Frame Rate: 30 Resolution: 1024x768 Field of View: 90 - Total Frame Time: 134.209 seconds Number of Frames: 13101 Average Frame Rate: 97.6163 Average Frame Time: 0.0102442 Shortest Frame Time: 0.00313568 (frame #2734) Longest Frame Time: 0.535797 (frame #6006) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ well i´d say Catalyst 5.8 are really fast i get about 100+ more in 3dmakr 03 05 tahn with 5.7 885703(5.7)4567 05(5.7) so moded drivers will have a tough time to out perform catalyst drivers that is for sure __________________ [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]

Aug 19, 2005, 09:44 AM	#1048
petri1 DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 746 Rep Power: 0	here´s aquamark score just ran it run on my rigg (SIGN) P4 nortwood 3ghz PowerColor X800Bravo edition PCI-E 1024mb RAM WIN XP SP2 all updates anymore???.....naah __________________ [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]

Aug 19, 2005, 04:25 PM	#1049
MiDri DriverHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 930 Rep Power: 0	512mb of system ram, AMD athlond XP 2400 (~1.5ghz) __________________ [COLOR=Red] [COLOR=black]He is so happy, I just don't have the heart to tell him...[/COLOR][/COLOR]

Aug 19, 2005, 05:20 PM	#1050
BWX unplugged Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: USNY Posts: 19,665 Rep Power: 109 System Specs	Well I am using the CCC... it seems to work very good- it is still a little slow, not near as fast when starting as the regular CP which is instant. I wish I could turn off that video in the "video settings". They finally let you turn off the other video in the 3D settings, but then make you look at and wait for the other video's.. What is it with ATI making you watch video's in the CCC??? ...control freaks... LOL.. The CCC takes about 5 seconds to start.. so that is better than before, and the memory usage seems to be much better.. at least the real mem usage.. the VM is still about 50MB when CCC is open, 21MB when closed. I still wish you could adjust the size of the window the CCC uses.. scrolling through all those settings is kind of annoying wen you could just enlarge the window and see them all. Overall much better than even a few months back.. now if only I could use more resolutions... that would be cool.. EDIT- woot woot.. Just got it- can't wait for it to be delivered.. Finally my PC is up to date once again. [COLOR=Red]ATI RADEON X800 XL - Graphics adapter - RADEON X800 XL - AGP 8x - 256 MB GDDR3 SDRAM - TV out [/COLOR] http://www.digitalhotbuy.com/dhbstor...?skuNo=1044067 __________________ Last edited by BWX; Aug 19, 2005 at 08:14 PM.